2000 Houston Comets Statistics

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Team Record: 27-5
Finishing 2nd in the WNBA's Western Conference
Postseason: 6-0 Won Championship

First Round - Defeated Sacramento Monarchs 2-0
Conference Finals - Defeated Los Angeles Sparks 2-0
Finals - Defeated New York Liberty 2-0
Coach: Van Chancellor (27-5)
Location: Houston, Texas
Attendance: 181,115, Avg. 11,320 in 16 home dates

2000 Houston Comets Roster

The Houston Comets of the Women's National Basketball Association ended the 2000 season with a record of 27 wins and 5 losses, finishing second in the WNBA's Western Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 6-0.

Houston scored 2,475 points, most in the league. The team yielded 2,066 points. Sheryl Swoopes tossed in a team-leading 643 points for the Comets, while Cynthia Cooper and Tina Thompson netted 12 or more per game, too. Tina Thompson contributed 245 boards. Cynthia Cooper dished out 156 assists for the squad.

On defense, Sheryl Swoopes added 87 steals.

Van Chancellor coached the team. The 2000 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
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	31	31	1090	484	245	91	34	145	119	40	155	195	119	87	33	82	67	643
Cynthia Cooper	G	31	31	1085	392	180	121	43	168	147	17	68	85	156	39	6	99	61	550
Tina Thompson	F	32	32	1087	407	191	132	55	123	103	68	177	245	48	47	25	84	88	540
Janeth Arcain	G	32	32	977	233	109	45	9	49	41	36	83	119	60	42	3	53	66	268
Tiffani Johnson	C	31	29	687	100	48	0	0	50	35	59	88	147	10	10	16	17	86	131
Tammy Jackson	F-C	29	1	339	61	35	0	0	11	6	18	43	61	11	12	9	24	62	76
Jennifer Rizzotti	G	32	2	437	55	21	39	12	9	6	6	30	36	44	15	2	26	38	60
Elena Shakirova	F-C	14	0	150	30	13	12	2	33	29	14	17	31	4	5	2	7	12	57
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga	F	22	0	171	60	20	29	11	6	6	3	18	21	13	8	4	13	21	57
Coquese Washington	G	25	0	236	33	12	15	3	20	16	3	16	19	24	16	0	19	19	43
Monica Lamb	C	13	2	140	20	10	0	0	12	6	5	21	26	3	2	4	4	23	26
Kelley Gibson	F-G	17	0	76	19	7	7	3	8	7	4	8	12	2	1	0	4	11	24
Totals		309	160	6475	1894	891	491	172	634	521	273	724	997	494	284	104	432	554	2475

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	31	31	35.2	50.6	37.4	82.1	1.3	5.0	6.3	3.8	2.8	1.1	2.6	2.2	20.7
Cynthia Cooper	G	31	31	35.0	45.9	35.5	87.5	0.5	2.2	2.7	5.0	1.3	0.2	3.2	2.0	17.7
Tina Thompson	F	32	32	34.0	46.9	41.7	83.7	2.1	5.5	7.7	1.5	1.5	0.8	2.6	2.8	16.9
Janeth Arcain	G	32	32	30.5	46.8	20.0	83.7	1.1	2.6	3.7	1.9	1.3	0.1	1.7	2.1	8.4
Tiffani Johnson	C	31	29	22.2	48.0		70.0	1.9	2.8	4.7	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.5	2.8	4.2
Tammy Jackson	F-C	29	1	11.7	57.4		54.5	0.6	1.5	2.1	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.8	2.1	2.6
Jennifer Rizzotti	G	32	2	13.7	38.2	30.8	66.7	0.2	0.9	1.1	1.4	0.5	0.1	0.8	1.2	1.9
Elena Shakirova	F-C	14	0	10.7	43.3	16.7	87.9	1.0	1.2	2.2	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.9	4.1
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga	F	22	0	7.8	33.3	37.9	100.0	0.1	0.8	1.0	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.6	1.0	2.6
Coquese Washington	G	25	0	9.4	36.4	20.0	80.0	0.1	0.6	0.8	1.0	0.6	0.0	0.8	0.8	1.7
Monica Lamb	C	13	2	10.8	50.0		50.0	0.4	1.6	2.0	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	1.8	2.0
Kelley Gibson	F-G	17	0	4.5	36.8	42.9	87.5	0.2	0.5	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.6	1.4
Averages		309	160	21.0	47.0	35.0	82.2	0.9	2.3	3.2	1.6	0.9	0.3	1.4	1.8	8.0

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	228	119	45	32	11	39	35	5	10	15	22	9	1	18	11	136
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	6	6	220	87	41	17	8	29	23	9	25	34	19	17	0	12	11	113
Tina Thompson	F	6	6	233	62	25	23	9	18	17	17	31	48	10	5	5	10	19	76
Janeth Arcain	G	6	6	201	47	21	7	2	7	6	6	21	27	12	10	0	16	14	50
Tiffani Johnson	C	6	6	135	20	10	0	0	2	2	12	17	29	1	3	2	7	15	22
Tammy Jackson	F-C	6	0	94	14	8	0	0	0	0	9	8	17	0	4	4	2	9	16
Coquese Washington	G	6	0	92	9	3	7	3	6	5	4	7	11	6	5	1	8	4	14
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga	F	3	0	16	5	2	3	1	4	4	1	3	4	0	1	0	0	0	9
Jennifer Rizzotti	G	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kelley Gibson	F-G	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		47	30	1225	365	155	90	34	105	92	63	122	185	70	54	13	73	83	436

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	38.0	37.8	34.4	89.7	0.8	1.7	2.5	3.7	1.5	0.2	3.0	1.8	22.7
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	6	6	36.7	47.1	47.1	79.3	1.5	4.2	5.7	3.2	2.8	0.0	2.0	1.8	18.8
Tina Thompson	F	6	6	38.8	40.3	39.1	94.4	2.8	5.2	8.0	1.7	0.8	0.8	1.7	3.2	12.7
Janeth Arcain	G	6	6	33.5	44.7	28.6	85.7	1.0	3.5	4.5	2.0	1.7	0.0	2.7	2.3	8.3
Tiffani Johnson	C	6	6	22.5	50.0		100.0	2.0	2.8	4.8	0.2	0.5	0.3	1.2	2.5	3.7
Tammy Jackson	F-C	6	0	15.7	57.1			1.5	1.3	2.8	0.0	0.7	0.7	0.3	1.5	2.7
Coquese Washington	G	6	0	15.3	33.3	42.9	83.3	0.7	1.2	1.8	1.0	0.8	0.2	1.3	0.7	2.3
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga	F	3	0	5.3	40.0	33.3	100.0	0.3	1.0	1.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0
Jennifer Rizzotti	G	1	0	3.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kelley Gibson	F-G	1	0	3.0	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		309	30	26.1	42.5	37.8	87.6	1.3	2.6	3.9	1.5	1.1	0.3	1.6	1.8	9.3

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