New Zealand Breakers @ Melbourne United

New Zealand BreakersBreakersNZL

13-15

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Breakers NZL	13	30	20	25	88
United MEL	23	19	22	33	97

Melbourne UnitedUnitedMEL

20-8

New Zealand Breakers

starters
Zylan CheathamZ. Cheatham #45
Anthony LambA. Lamb #44
Mangok MathiangM. Mathiang #8
Parker Jackson-CartwrightP. Jackson-Cartwright #6
Will McDowell-WhiteMcdowell-White #7
bench
Dane PineauD. Pineau #22
Mantas RubstaviciusM. Rubstavicius #17
Daniel FotuD. Fotu #42
Finn DelaneyDelany #70
Tom AbercrombieT. Abercrombie #10
Izayah Le'AfaI. Le'Afa #2
Cameron GliddonC. Gliddon #3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
34	30	9-17	3-3	9-10	5	4	2	1	1	3	2	0	-9
27	15	5-9	1-3	4-4	5	1	2	0	0	1	4	2	-16
8	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	2	0	2	0	1	0	2	5	-3
30	18	6-14	0-1	6-6	2	5	0	5	0	0	2	5	-4
33	2	1-8	0-2	0-0	7	9	6	0	0	2	5	3	-10
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	5	2-4	0-0	1-2	4	0	1	0	2	3	1	4	+13
6	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	+4
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	7	2-4	1-2	2-2	4	0	0	0	0	2	2	5	-11
5	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	+3
20	7	2-6	1-4	2-5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	-9
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-3
	88	28-65	6-16	26-31	32	21	14	6	4	11	21	26
		43%	38%	84%

Melbourne United

starters
Ariel HukportiA. Hukporti #15
Ian ClarkI. Clark #21
Luke TraversL. Travers #23
Shea IliS. Ili #51
Chris GouldingC. Goulding #43
bench
Jo Lual-Acuil Jr.Lual-Acuil Jr #0
Rob LoeR. Loe #2
Tom KoppensT. Koppens #30
Tanner KrebsT. Krebs #13
Kyle BowenK. Bowen #14
Brad NewleyB. Newley #4
Flynn CameronF. Cameron #11
Zac TriplettZ. Triplett #1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	8	3-6	0-0	2-4	6	1	2	1	0	1	5	4	+15
31	18	6-10	4-5	2-2	2	2	1	2	0	0	2	3	+10
28	16	5-7	1-2	5-7	4	2	3	3	0	1	3	2	-2
30	16	5-10	1-4	5-8	2	4	3	2	0	1	1	3	+10
32	16	5-8	4-5	2-2	3	2	1	0	0	0	3	2	+5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	16	5-8	0-0	6-6	4	3	2	0	3	1	3	2	-6
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	3	1-5	0-2	1-2	2	0	1	2	0	0	2	1	-10
12	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	+11
2	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-3
7	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	+15
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	97	32-58	10-19	23-31	27	15	13	10	3	5	22	21
		55%	53%	74%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

NZL

MEL leads season

1-0

MEL

Game 1@ MEL

Final

Game 2@ NZL

Final

Game 3@ MEL

Final

Game Information

Melbourne, VIC

	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Sydney	24	9	.727	-	W11
Adelaide	23	10	.697	1	L1
South East Melbourne	22	11	.667	2	L1
Perth	21	12	.636	3	W1
Melbourne	20	13	.606	4	W1
Tasmania	14	19	.424	10	L2
New Zealand	13	20	.394	11	W1
Illawarra	13	20	.394	11	W2
Cairns	9	24	.273	15	L2
Brisbane	6	27	.182	18	L13

NBL News

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10h

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11h

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