2000 New York Liberty Stats

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Record: 20-12, 1st in WNBA Eastern Conference

Coach: Richie Adubato (20-12)

Executive: Carol Blazejowski

PTS/G: 67.1 (14th of 16) Opp PTS/G: 63.6 (2nd of 16)

Pace: 67.5 (14th of 16)

Off Rtg: 99.1 (6th of 16) Def Rtg: 93.9 (3rd of 16) Net Rtg: +5.2 (5th of 16)

Expected W-L: 20-12

Arena: Madison Square Garden (IV)

Playoffs:
Won WNBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (2-0) over Washington Mystics
Won WNBA Eastern Conference Finals (2-1) over Cleveland Rockers
Lost WNBA Finals (2-0) to Houston Comets

WNBA Runners-up
Eastern Conference Champions

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Exp	College
22	Jessica Bibby	G	5-7	139	August 23, 1979	R
13	Marina Ferragut	F	6-3	190	February 11, 1972	R
0	Olga Firsova	C	6-8	215	April 23, 1976	R	Kansas State
42	Desiree Francis	F	5-10	193	August 24, 1975	R	Iowa State
25	Becky Hammon	G	5-6	136	March 11, 1977	1	Colorado State
55	Vickie Johnson	G-F	5-9	150	April 15, 1972	3	Louisiana Tech
5	Venus Lacy	C	6-3	234	February 9, 1967	1	Louisiana Tech
30	Shea Mahoney	F	6-4		July 3, 1977	R	Western Kentucky
24	Tari Phillips	F-C	6-2	200	March 6, 1970	1	Georgia, Central Florida
3	Crystal Robinson	F	5-11	155	January 22, 1974	1	Southeastern Oklahoma State University
11	Teresa Weatherspoon	G	5-8	161	December 8, 1965	3	Louisiana Tech
44	Tamika Whitmore	F	6-2	215	June 5, 1977	1	Memphis
23	Sue Wicks	F	6-3	174	November 26, 1966	3	Rutgers University

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team and Opponent Stats Table
Type	G	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Team	32	6425	792	1815	.436	135	396	.341	657	1419	.463	429	567	.757	288	652	940	477	246	102	474	617	2148
Team/G		200.8	24.8	56.7	.436	4.2	12.4	.341	20.5	44.3	.463	13.4	17.7	.757	9.0	20.4	29.4	14.9	7.7	3.2	14.8	19.3	67.1
Lg Rank		12	12	12	9	9	9	6	11	10	9	12	14	6	11	4	8	12	12	8	5	5	14
Year/Year		-1.5%	-0.8%	-5.2%	+1.8	-23.6%	-16.2%	-2.9	+5.1%	-1.6%	+2.9	+8.9%	+7.3%	+1.2	-10.0%	+4.6%	-0.3%	-8.6%	-17.2%	+14.3%	-2.0%	-11.9%	-1.0%
Opponent	32	6425	741	1822	.407	116	420	.276	625	1402	.446	437	590	.741	320	647	967	462	223	94	479	645	2035
Opp/G		200.8	23.2	56.9	.407	3.6	13.1	.276	19.5	43.8	.446	13.7	18.4	.741	10.0	20.2	30.2	14.4	7.0	2.9	15.0	20.2	63.6
Lg Rank		12	2	5	3	2	10	1	3	5	5	6	7	9	11	9	9	3	1	4	6	7	2
Year/Year			+3.1%	+4.2%	-0.5	+5.9%	+3.1%	+0.7	+2.1%	+4.5%	-0.9	-18.9%	-18.6%	-0.6	+7.5%	-5.2%	-1.6%	+2.1%	-11.4%	+3.6%	-13.8%	+10.4%	-2.6%

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Per Game

Regular Season

Playoffs

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Teresa Weatherspoon	34	32	32	33.7	2.1	4.8	.438	0.3	1.4	.250	1.8	3.4	.514	1.9	2.5	.741	0.5	2.9	3.4	6.4	2.0	0.2	2.7	2.7	6.4
2	Vickie Johnson	28	31	31	33.0	4.6	10.5	.441	0.9	2.3	.380	3.7	8.2	.458	2.2	2.5	.882	1.3	3.1	4.4	2.5	0.7	0.2	1.8	1.5	12.3
3	Tari Phillips	30	31	30	31.5	5.5	11.7	.467	0.1	0.3	.250	5.4	11.5	.472	2.7	4.2	.654	2.8	5.2	8.0	0.9	1.9	0.7	2.7	3.5	13.8
4	Crystal Robinson	26	27	14	26.7	3.2	7.4	.428	1.3	3.8	.353	1.9	3.7	.505	1.1	1.2	.909	1.0	1.6	2.5	1.8	0.9	0.4	1.2	2.7	8.8
5	Becky Hammon	23	32	16	26.1	3.7	7.9	.472	1.6	4.4	.369	2.1	3.5	.604	1.9	2.2	.884	0.6	1.4	2.0	1.8	0.9	0.0	1.9	1.7	11.0
6	Tamika Whitmore	23	32	16	21.5	3.4	7.9	.431	0.0	0.1	.000	3.4	7.8	.436	1.8	2.6	.702	1.1	2.2	3.3	0.6	0.5	0.5	1.7	3.2	8.7
7	Sue Wicks	33	32	12	21.3	1.7	4.5	.385	0.0	0.2	.200	1.7	4.3	.391	1.4	1.9	.726	1.5	3.1	4.7	0.7	0.8	1.2	1.6	2.4	4.9
8	Shea Mahoney	22	15	3	10.5	0.7	2.5	.289	0.1	0.3	.200	0.7	2.2	.303	0.3	0.5	.500	0.7	1.3	2.0	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.9	1.8
9	Venus Lacy	33	2	2	9.0	1.0	2.5	.400	0.0	0.0		1.0	2.5	.400	1.0	2.0	.500	0.5	2.0	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	3.0
10	Marina Ferragut	28	23	4	6.7	1.0	2.3	.434	0.1	0.4	.300	0.9	1.9	.465	0.0	0.1	.500	0.2	0.6	0.7	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.5	1.5	2.2
11	Jessica Bibby	20	17	0	4.1	0.2	1.1	.167	0.1	0.4	.333	0.1	0.7	.083	0.6	0.8	.846	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.6	0.2	0.0	0.7	0.5	1.1
12	Olga Firsova	24	9	0	2.1	0.4	1.1	.400	0.0	0.1	.000	0.4	1.0	.444	0.4	0.6	.800	0.0	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.9	1.3
13	Desiree Francis	24	1	0	2.0	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Teresa Weatherspoon	34	7	7	36.1	1.7	4.9	.353	0.1	0.7	.200	1.6	4.1	.379	1.0	1.6	.636	0.3	2.4	2.7	7.0	2.7	0.0	2.9	2.9	4.6
2	Vickie Johnson	28	7	7	33.9	3.9	10.1	.380	0.9	3.1	.273	3.0	7.0	.429	1.7	2.0	.857	1.4	3.6	5.0	3.4	1.1	0.0	1.9	2.0	10.3
3	Tari Phillips	30	7	7	31.7	6.9	13.6	.505	0.0	0.1	.000	6.9	13.4	.511	2.6	3.3	.783	2.3	5.3	7.6	1.1	1.7	0.9	2.3	3.7	16.3
4	Becky Hammon	23	7	7	29.4	3.0	7.0	.429	1.0	3.3	.304	2.0	3.7	.538	2.4	2.7	.895	0.7	0.7	1.4	2.1	1.3	0.0	2.4	1.4	9.4
5	Tamika Whitmore	23	7	7	28.0	4.4	9.3	.477	0.1	0.3	.500	4.3	9.0	.476	2.6	3.4	.750	1.3	2.6	3.9	0.9	0.4	1.3	2.1	3.1	11.6
6	Crystal Robinson	26	7	0	21.4	2.3	5.6	.410	1.3	2.7	.474	1.0	2.9	.350	0.7	0.7	1.000	1.0	1.9	2.9	0.7	1.3	0.1	1.4	1.7	6.6
7	Sue Wicks	33	7	0	18.7	1.3	3.7	.346	0.1	0.1	1.000	1.1	3.6	.320	0.6	0.6	1.000	1.6	2.3	3.9	0.4	1.0	1.3	0.7	3.0	3.3
8	Marina Ferragut	28	3	0	4.0	0.7	1.0	.667	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.0	0.3	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	1.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	1.3	2.0
9	Jessica Bibby	20	3	0	2.7	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.0	0.0		0.7	0.7	1.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	1.3
10	Olga Firsova	24	3	0	2.0	1.0	1.3	.750	0.0	0.0		1.0	1.3	.750	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	2.0
11	Desiree Francis	24	2	0	2.0	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.0		0.5	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Totals

Regular Season

Playoffs

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Teresa Weatherspoon	34	32	32	1078	67	153	.438	11	44	.250	56	109	.514	60	81	.741	16	93	109	204	65	5	86	85	205
2	Vickie Johnson	28	31	31	1023	143	324	.441	27	71	.380	116	253	.458	67	76	.882	40	97	137	77	22	5	57	48	380
3	Tari Phillips	30	31	30	978	170	364	.467	2	8	.250	168	356	.472	85	130	.654	86	161	247	28	59	21	85	110	427
4	Becky Hammon	23	32	16	835	119	252	.472	52	141	.369	67	111	.604	61	69	.884	19	45	64	58	29	1	62	55	351
5	Crystal Robinson	26	27	14	722	86	201	.428	36	102	.353	50	99	.505	30	33	.909	26	42	68	48	23	10	33	74	238
6	Tamika Whitmore	23	32	16	689	109	253	.431	0	3	.000	109	250	.436	59	84	.702	34	71	105	20	17	17	53	102	277
7	Sue Wicks	33	32	12	680	55	143	.385	1	5	.200	54	138	.391	45	62	.726	49	100	149	21	26	39	50	78	156
8	Shea Mahoney	22	15	3	158	11	38	.289	1	5	.200	10	33	.303	4	8	.500	10	20	30	4	2	1	5	14	27
9	Marina Ferragut	28	23	4	154	23	53	.434	3	10	.300	20	43	.465	1	2	.500	4	13	17	4	0	2	11	34	50
10	Jessica Bibby	20	17	0	69	3	18	.167	2	6	.333	1	12	.083	11	13	.846	3	2	5	11	3	0	12	9	19
11	Olga Firsova	24	9	0	19	4	10	.400	0	1	.000	4	9	.444	4	5	.800	0	4	4	1	0	1	2	8	12
12	Venus Lacy	33	2	2	18	2	5	.400	0	0		2	5	.400	2	4	.500	1	4	5	0	0	0	2	0	6
13	Desiree Francis	24	1	0	2	0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	.000	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
			32		6425	792	1815	.436	135	396	.341	657	1419	.463	429	567	.757	288	652	940	477	246	102	474	617	2148

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Teresa Weatherspoon	34	7	7	253	12	34	.353	1	5	.200	11	29	.379	7	11	.636	2	17	19	49	19	0	20	20	32
2	Vickie Johnson	28	7	7	237	27	71	.380	6	22	.273	21	49	.429	12	14	.857	10	25	35	24	8	0	13	14	72
3	Tari Phillips	30	7	7	222	48	95	.505	0	1	.000	48	94	.511	18	23	.783	16	37	53	8	12	6	16	26	114
4	Becky Hammon	23	7	7	206	21	49	.429	7	23	.304	14	26	.538	17	19	.895	5	5	10	15	9	0	17	10	66
5	Tamika Whitmore	23	7	7	196	31	65	.477	1	2	.500	30	63	.476	18	24	.750	9	18	27	6	3	9	15	22	81
6	Crystal Robinson	26	7	0	150	16	39	.410	9	19	.474	7	20	.350	5	5	1.000	7	13	20	5	9	1	10	12	46
7	Sue Wicks	33	7	0	131	9	26	.346	1	1	1.000	8	25	.320	4	4	1.000	11	16	27	3	7	9	5	21	23
8	Marina Ferragut	28	3	0	12	2	3	.667	2	2	1.000	0	1	.000	0	0		0	3	3	1	1	0	0	4	6
9	Jessica Bibby	20	3	0	8	2	2	1.000	0	0		2	2	1.000	0	0		0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	4
10	Olga Firsova	24	3	0	6	3	4	.750	0	0		3	4	.750	0	0		1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	6
11	Desiree Francis	24	2	0	4	0	2	.000	0	1	.000	0	1	.000	0	0		1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0

Advanced

Regular Season

Playoffs

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Teresa Weatherspoon	34	32	1078	15.0	.543	.474	.288	.529	2.0	11.4	6.8	34.1	3.6	0.4	31.3	12.9	102	93	1.5	2.2	3.7	.138
2	Vickie Johnson	28	31	1023	17.2	.532	.483	.219	.235	5.4	12.5	9.0	15.8	1.3	0.4	13.8	20.5	106	98	2.6	1.4	4.0	.156
3	Tari Phillips	30	31	978	20.1	.507	.470	.022	.357	12.1	21.8	17.0	6.5	3.6	2.0	16.8	26.2	95	88	1.0	2.8	3.8	.155
4	Becky Hammon	23	32	835	18.4	.622	.575	.560	.274	3.1	7.1	5.2	14.7	2.1	0.1	18.0	20.9	111	98	2.7	1.0	3.7	.179
5	Crystal Robinson	26	27	722	15.1	.552	.517	.507	.164	4.9	7.7	6.3	13.4	1.9	1.3	13.3	17.4	110	98	1.9	1.0	2.8	.157
6	Tamika Whitmore	23	32	689	12.9	.478	.431	.012	.332	6.8	13.6	10.3	6.3	1.5	2.3	15.5	25.2	91	95	0.1	1.2	1.2	.072
7	Sue Wicks	33	32	680	12.1	.458	.388	.035	.434	9.9	19.4	14.8	5.8	2.3	5.3	22.7	16.4	87	90	-0.3	1.7	1.4	.082
8	Shea Mahoney	22	15	158	5.3	.325	.303	.132	.211	8.7	16.7	12.8	4.6	0.8	0.6	10.7	14.9	78	97	-0.2	0.2	0.0	.001
9	Marina Ferragut	28	23	154	5.1	.464	.462	.189	.038	3.6	11.2	7.4	5.6	0.0	1.2	17.0	21.3	83	100	-0.2	0.2	0.0	-0.006
10	Jessica Bibby	20	17	69	4.9	.401	.222	.333	.722	6.0	3.8	4.9	27.8	2.6	0.0	33.6	26.2	74	98	-0.3	0.1	-0.2	-0.096
11	Olga Firsova	24	9	19	14.5	.492	.400	.100	.500	0.0	27.8	14.2	13.0	0.0	4.8	14.1	37.8	93	91	0.0	0.0	0.1	.128
12	Venus Lacy	33	2	18	9.1	.444	.400	.000	.800	7.6	29.4	18.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	22.8	24.6	75	94	-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.038
13	Desiree Francis	24	1	2	-21.1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	25.3	0	106	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.564

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Teresa Weatherspoon	34	7	253	11.1	.412	.368	.147	.324	1.1	9.0	5.2	34.7	4.7	0.0	34.0	12.3	87	94	-0.2	0.6	0.4	.065
2	Vickie Johnson	28	7	237	14.4	.467	.423	.310	.197	6.0	14.2	10.2	20.6	2.1	0.0	14.4	20.2	99	97	0.3	0.4	0.7	.112
3	Tari Phillips	30	7	222	23.7	.542	.505	.011	.242	10.2	22.4	16.5	9.3	3.4	2.6	13.2	28.9	104	90	0.5	0.7	1.2	.212
4	Becky Hammon	23	7	206	13.1	.575	.500	.469	.388	3.4	3.3	3.4	14.5	2.7	0.0	22.9	19.1	100	101	0.2	0.2	0.5	.091
5	Tamika Whitmore	23	7	196	15.2	.536	.485	.031	.369	6.5	12.3	9.5	6.9	1.0	4.4	16.6	24.5	98	98	0.2	0.3	0.5	.102
6	Crystal Robinson	26	7	150	14.1	.558	.526	.487	.128	6.6	11.7	9.2	6.7	3.7	0.6	19.5	18.1	99	95	0.1	0.3	0.4	.119
7	Sue Wicks	33	7	131	11.6	.414	.365	.038	.154	11.9	16.4	14.2	4.3	3.3	6.6	15.3	13.3	92	90	0.0	0.4	0.4	.111
8	Marina Ferragut	28	3	12	32.1	1.000	1.000	.667	.000	0.0	33.6	17.3	19.0	5.2	0.0	0.0	13.3	194	81	0.1	0.1	0.2	.509
9	Jessica Bibby	20	3	8	21.5	1.000	1.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	70.4	0.0	0.0	50.0	26.5	99	108	0.0	0.0	0.0	.062
10	Olga Firsova	24	3	6	49.5	.750	.750	.000	.000	23.7	0.0	11.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	35.3	151	108	0.1	0.0	0.1	.505
11	Desiree Francis	24	2	4	-10.8	.000	.000	.500	.000	35.5	0.0	17.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	26.5	32	108	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.456

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