1996-97 Detroit Pistons Statistics

National Basketball Association (NBA)
Team Record: 54-28
Finishing 3rd in the NBA's Central Division of the Eastern Conference
Postseason: 2-3 Lost conference first round
Conference First Round - Lost to Atlanta Hawks 3-2
Coach: Doug Collins (54-28)
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Attendance: 820,585, Avg. 20,014 in 41 home dates

1996-97 Detroit Pistons Roster
1996-97 Detroit Pistons Results

The Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association ended the 1996-97 season with a record of 54 wins and 28 losses, finishing third in the NBA's Central Division of the Eastern Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 2-3.

The Pistons scored 7,723 points and surrendered 7,293. Grant Hill tossed in a team-best 1,710 points for Detroit and contributed 721 rebounds. Grant Hill dished out 583 assists for the squad.

On the defensive side of the ball, Grant Hill added 144 steals.

Doug Collins coached the team. The 1996-97 Detroit Pistons lost in the conference first round.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Grant Hill	F	80	80	3147	1259	625	33	10	633	450	123	598	721	583	144	48	259	186	1710
Lindsey Hunter	G	82	76	3023	1042	421	468	166	203	158	59	174	233	154	129	24	96	206	1166
Joe Dumars	G	79	79	2923	875	385	384	166	256	222	38	153	191	318	57	1	128	97	1158
Otis Thorpe	F-C	79	79	2661	787	419	2	0	303	198	226	396	622	133	59	17	145	298	1036
Terry Mills	F	79	5	1997	702	312	415	175	70	58	68	309	377	99	35	27	85	161	857
Theo Ratliff	F-C	76	38	1292	337	179	0	0	116	81	109	147	256	13	29	111	56	181	439
Grant Long	F	65	24	1166	275	123	47	17	84	63	88	134	222	39	43	6	48	106	326
Michael Curry	F-G	81	2	1217	221	99	77	23	108	97	23	96	119	43	31	12	28	128	318
Aaron McKie	G	42	3	850	209	97	48	18	61	51	27	101	128	77	43	7	42	69	263
Don Reid	F	47	14	462	112	54	1	0	32	24	36	65	101	14	16	15	23	105	132
Stacey Augmon	G-F	20	3	292	77	31	0	0	41	28	14	35	49	15	10	10	37	29	90
Litterial Green	G	45	0	311	64	30	10	0	47	30	6	16	22	41	16	1	15	27	90
Rick Mahorn	C-F	22	7	218	54	20	1	0	22	16	19	34	53	6	4	3	10	34	56
Jerome Williams	F	33	0	177	51	20	0	0	17	9	22	28	50	7	13	1	13	18	49
Kenny Smith	G	9	0	64	20	8	10	5	2	2	0	5	5	10	1	0	3	2	23
Randolph Childress	G	4	0	30	10	4	3	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	0	5	5	10
Totals		843	410	19830	6095	2827	1499	582	1995	1487	858	2292	3150	1554	632	283	993	1652	7723

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Grant Hill	F	80	80	39.3	49.6	30.3	71.1	1.5	7.5	9.0	7.3	1.8	0.6	3.2	2.3	21.4
Lindsey Hunter	G	82	76	36.9	40.4	35.5	77.8	0.7	2.1	2.8	1.9	1.6	0.3	1.2	2.5	14.2
Joe Dumars	G	79	79	37.0	44.0	43.2	86.7	0.5	1.9	2.4	4.0	0.7	0.0	1.6	1.2	14.7
Otis Thorpe	F-C	79	79	33.7	53.2	0.0	65.3	2.9	5.0	7.9	1.7	0.7	0.2	1.8	3.8	13.1
Terry Mills	F	79	5	25.3	44.4	42.2	82.9	0.9	3.9	4.8	1.3	0.4	0.3	1.1	2.0	10.8
Theo Ratliff	F-C	76	38	17.0	53.1		69.8	1.4	1.9	3.4	0.2	0.4	1.5	0.7	2.4	5.8
Grant Long	F	65	24	17.9	44.7	36.2	75.0	1.4	2.1	3.4	0.6	0.7	0.1	0.7	1.6	5.0
Michael Curry	F-G	81	2	15.0	44.8	29.9	89.8	0.3	1.2	1.5	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.3	1.6	3.9
Aaron McKie	G	42	3	20.2	46.4	37.5	83.6	0.6	2.4	3.0	1.8	1.0	0.2	1.0	1.6	6.3
Don Reid	F	47	14	9.8	48.2	0.0	75.0	0.8	1.4	2.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	2.2	2.8
Stacey Augmon	G-F	20	3	14.6	40.3		68.3	0.7	1.8	2.5	0.8	0.5	0.5	1.9	1.5	4.5
Litterial Green	G	45	0	6.9	46.9	0.0	63.8	0.1	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.4	0.0	0.3	0.6	2.0
Rick Mahorn	C-F	22	7	9.9	37.0	0.0	72.7	0.9	1.5	2.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.5	1.5	2.5
Jerome Williams	F	33	0	5.4	39.2		52.9	0.7	0.8	1.5	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.4	0.5	1.5
Kenny Smith	G	9	0	7.1	40.0	50.0	100.0	0.0	0.6	0.6	1.1	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.2	2.6
Randolph Childress	G	4	0	7.5	40.0	66.7		0.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.0	1.3	1.3	2.5
Averages		843	410	23.5	46.4	38.8	74.5	1.0	2.7	3.7	1.8	0.7	0.3	1.2	2.0	9.2

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Grant Hill	F	5	203	103	45	0	0	39	28	13	21	34	27	4	5	19	14	118
Lindsey Hunter	G	5	201	66	29	29	12	7	5	4	14	18	6	6	1	1	9	75
Joe Dumars	G	5	214	61	22	23	6	20	19	2	7	9	10	5	0	6	9	69
Terry Mills	F	5	196	55	24	26	9	4	2	4	31	35	7	6	0	4	14	59
Otis Thorpe	F-C	5	152	41	21	0	0	9	7	12	20	32	4	2	0	9	21	49
Grant Long	F	5	86	18	8	2	0	11	9	4	7	11	3	4	0	0	11	25
Aaron McKie	G	5	97	20	7	5	1	0	0	1	9	10	10	6	2	3	12	15
Theo Ratliff	F-C	3	18	4	3	0	0	4	2	2	2	4	1	1	4	3	5	8
Jerome Williams	F	1	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	4
Don Reid	F	1	3	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Michael Curry	F-G	2	7	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
Rick Mahorn	C-F	2	18	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	0
Totals		44	1200	374	162	85	28	99	76	43	116	159	68	35	12	46	101	428

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Grant Hill	F	5	40.6	43.7		71.8	2.6	4.2	6.8	5.4	0.8	1.0	3.8	2.8	23.6
Lindsey Hunter	G	5	40.2	43.9	41.4	71.4	0.8	2.8	3.6	1.2	1.2	0.2	0.2	1.8	15.0
Joe Dumars	G	5	42.8	36.1	26.1	95.0	0.4	1.4	1.8	2.0	1.0	0.0	1.2	1.8	13.8
Terry Mills	F	5	39.2	43.6	34.6	50.0	0.8	6.2	7.0	1.4	1.2	0.0	0.8	2.8	11.8
Otis Thorpe	F-C	5	30.4	51.2		77.8	2.4	4.0	6.4	0.8	0.4	0.0	1.8	4.2	9.8
Grant Long	F	5	17.2	44.4	0.0	81.8	0.8	1.4	2.2	0.6	0.8	0.0	0.0	2.2	5.0
Aaron McKie	G	5	19.4	35.0	20.0		0.2	1.8	2.0	2.0	1.2	0.4	0.6	2.4	3.0
Theo Ratliff	F-C	3	6.0	75.0		50.0	0.7	0.7	1.3	0.3	0.3	1.3	1.0	1.7	2.7
Jerome Williams	F	1	5.0	100.0			0.0	3.0	3.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	4.0
Don Reid	F	1	3.0			100.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.0
Michael Curry	F-G	2	3.5	50.0		0.0	0.0	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.0
Rick Mahorn	C-F	2	9.0	0.0			0.5	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.5	0.0
Averages		843	27.3	43.3	32.9	76.8	1.0	2.6	3.6	1.5	0.8	0.3	1.0	2.3	9.7

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