1999 Houston Comets Statistics

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Team Record: 26-6
Finishing 1st in the WNBA's Western Conference
Postseason: 4-2 Won Championship

Conference Finals - Defeated Los Angeles Sparks 2-1
Finals - Defeated New York Liberty 2-1
Coach: Van Chancellor (26-6)
Location: Houston, Texas
Attendance: 190,503, Avg. 11,906 in 16 home dates

1999 Houston Comets Roster

The Houston Comets of the Women's National Basketball Association ended the 1999 season with a record of 26 wins and 6 losses, finishing first in the WNBA's Western Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 4-2.

The Comets allowed 2,070 points, least in the league. Houston racked up 2,367 points. Cynthia Cooper tossed in a team-leading 686 points for the squad, while Sheryl Swoopes and Tina Thompson scored 12 or more per game, too. Tina Thompson contributed 206 boards. Cynthia Cooper dished out 162 assists for the team.

On the defensive side of the ball, Sheryl Swoopes added 76 steals.

Van Chancellor coached the team. The 1999 Houston Comets won the Championship of the playoffs.

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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
Cynthia Cooper	G	31	31	1101	458	212	173	58	229	204	17	70	87	162	43	11	104	61	686
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	32	32	1100	489	226	98	33	122	100	48	154	202	127	76	46	83	57	585
Tina Thompson	F	32	32	1074	339	142	111	39	87	68	67	139	206	28	31	31	72	95	391
Polina Tzekova	C	32	32	778	177	76	44	11	40	31	54	109	163	32	13	19	52	118	194
Janeth Arcain	G	32	1	735	164	71	44	11	41	34	32	59	91	38	30	2	39	63	187
Sonja Henning	G	32	32	798	117	52	41	13	18	11	22	58	80	74	34	7	29	60	128
Tammy Jackson	F-C	28	0	382	58	24	1	1	35	25	45	46	91	7	15	20	26	75	74
Jennifer Rizzotti	G	25	0	242	40	14	26	7	12	7	2	25	27	19	18	1	16	21	42
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga	F	17	0	92	35	13	5	2	16	12	4	9	13	9	11	0	12	16	40
Kara Wolters	C	10	0	41	13	3	0	0	12	10	5	7	12	2	1	0	3	11	16
Monica Lamb	C	3	0	36	10	4	0	0	6	5	3	3	6	0	0	2	1	6	13
Mila Nikolich	F	7	0	29	11	4	4	1	2	1	3	2	5	1	0	0	3	3	10
Nyree Roberts	C	4	0	17	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	1
Totals		285	160	6425	1912	841	547	176	622	509	303	682	985	499	272	139	441	586	2367

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Cynthia Cooper	G	31	31	35.5	46.3	33.5	89.1	0.5	2.3	2.8	5.2	1.4	0.4	3.4	2.0	22.1
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	32	32	34.4	46.2	33.7	82.0	1.5	4.8	6.3	4.0	2.4	1.4	2.6	1.8	18.3
Tina Thompson	F	32	32	33.6	41.9	35.1	78.2	2.1	4.3	6.4	0.9	1.0	1.0	2.3	3.0	12.2
Polina Tzekova	C	32	32	24.3	42.9	25.0	77.5	1.7	3.4	5.1	1.0	0.4	0.6	1.6	3.7	6.1
Janeth Arcain	G	32	1	23.0	43.3	25.0	82.9	1.0	1.8	2.8	1.2	0.9	0.1	1.2	2.0	5.8
Sonja Henning	G	32	32	24.9	44.4	31.7	61.1	0.7	1.8	2.5	2.3	1.1	0.2	0.9	1.9	4.0
Tammy Jackson	F-C	28	0	13.6	41.4	100.0	71.4	1.6	1.6	3.3	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.9	2.7	2.6
Jennifer Rizzotti	G	25	0	9.7	35.0	26.9	58.3	0.1	1.0	1.1	0.8	0.7	0.0	0.6	0.8	1.7
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga	F	17	0	5.4	37.1	40.0	75.0	0.2	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.0	0.7	0.9	2.4
Kara Wolters	C	10	0	4.1	23.1		83.3	0.5	0.7	1.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.3	1.1	1.6
Monica Lamb	C	3	0	12.0	40.0		83.3	1.0	1.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.3	2.0	4.3
Mila Nikolich	F	7	0	4.1	36.4	25.0	50.0	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.4	1.4
Nyree Roberts	C	4	0	4.3	0.0		50.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.3
Averages		285	160	22.5	44.0	32.2	81.8	1.1	2.4	3.5	1.8	1.0	0.5	1.5	2.1	8.3

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Cynthia Cooper	G	6	6	220	85	33	34	11	52	45	5	21	26	41	9	6	20	14	122
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	6	6	216	81	29	13	4	28	26	7	15	22	7	14	3	12	9	88
Tina Thompson	F	6	6	208	57	21	24	9	21	16	6	24	30	4	5	7	13	25	67
Janeth Arcain	G	6	0	156	29	13	9	2	16	10	4	14	18	6	6	1	2	7	38
Tammy Jackson	F-C	6	0	115	24	13	0	0	16	11	18	24	42	1	7	7	7	15	37
Polina Tzekova	C	6	6	130	25	10	3	2	12	10	7	16	23	2	4	3	5	17	32
Sonja Henning	G	6	6	136	23	8	9	1	6	2	7	11	18	11	7	1	7	5	19
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga	F	2	0	4	1	1	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	5
Kara Wolters	C	2	0	5	1	1	0	0	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4
Mila Nikolich	F	2	0	5	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
Jennifer Rizzotti	G	2	0	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		50	30	1200	327	129	94	30	157	126	55	127	182	73	52	28	69	93	414

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Cynthia Cooper	G	6	6	36.7	38.8	32.4	86.5	0.8	3.5	4.3	6.8	1.5	1.0	3.3	2.3	20.3
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	6	6	36.0	35.8	30.8	92.9	1.2	2.5	3.7	1.2	2.3	0.5	2.0	1.5	14.7
Tina Thompson	F	6	6	34.7	36.8	37.5	76.2	1.0	4.0	5.0	0.7	0.8	1.2	2.2	4.2	11.2
Janeth Arcain	G	6	0	26.0	44.8	22.2	62.5	0.7	2.3	3.0	1.0	1.0	0.2	0.3	1.2	6.3
Tammy Jackson	F-C	6	0	19.2	54.2		68.8	3.0	4.0	7.0	0.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	2.5	6.2
Polina Tzekova	C	6	6	21.7	40.0	66.7	83.3	1.2	2.7	3.8	0.3	0.7	0.5	0.8	2.8	5.3
Sonja Henning	G	6	6	22.7	34.8	11.1	33.3	1.2	1.8	3.0	1.8	1.2	0.2	1.2	0.8	3.2
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga	F	2	0	2.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.5	2.5
Kara Wolters	C	2	0	2.5	100.0		100.0	0.5	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	2.0
Mila Nikolich	F	2	0	2.5			100.0	0.0	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	1.0
Jennifer Rizzotti	G	2	0	2.5	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		285	30	24.0	39.4	31.9	80.3	1.1	2.5	3.6	1.5	1.0	0.6	1.4	1.9	8.3