Cairns Taipans @ Perth Wildcats

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

12-16

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Taipans CNS	20	23	13	24	80
Wildcats PER	25	22	19	22	88

Perth WildcatsWildcatsPER

17-11

Cairns Taipans

starters
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Bul KuolB. Kuol #42
Patrick MillerP. Miller #1
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #2
Tahjere McCallT. McCall #0
bench
Sam MennengaS. Mennenga #3
Bobi KlintmanB. Klintman #34
Lat MayenL. Mayen #11
Akoldah GakA. Gak #13
Lachlan AndersonL. Anderson #24
Josh RobertsJ. Roberts #23
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	9	2-7	1-5	4-4	5	2	1	0	0	1	4	2	-12
29	10	3-9	3-6	1-2	4	1	2	0	1	0	4	3	-13
34	12	5-15	0-1	2-2	5	6	2	1	0	2	3	4	-16
15	5	1-3	0-0	3-5	6	4	3	1	0	1	5	2	+1
35	19	6-12	0-2	7-12	4	3	3	1	0	2	2	4	-11
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
13	3	1-4	1-2	0-0	5	1	1	1	0	1	4	2	+8
6	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	3	+1
25	15	5-10	5-7	0-0	4	0	4	1	0	1	3	3	+2
21	7	2-4	0-0	3-4	5	1	1	1	0	3	2	4	-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
2	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	+6
	80	25-68	10-26	20-29	39	20	18	6	3	11	28	27
		37%	38%	69%

Perth Wildcats

starters
Kristian DoolittleK. Doolittle #5
Keanu PinderK. Pinder #25
Hyrum HarrisH. Harris #13
Tai WebsterT. Webster #0
Bryce CottonB. Cotton #11
bench
Jordan UsherJ. Usher #8
Alex SarrA. Sarr #20
Ben HenshallB. Henshall #10
David OkweraD. Okwera #35
Jesse WagstaffJ. Wagstaff #24
Michael HarrisM. Harris #17
Kyle ZunicK. Zunic #22
Corey WebsterC. Webster #9
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
28	10	4-8	1-3	1-1	8	2	1	1	0	2	6	2	+15
23	4	2-6	0-2	0-0	3	1	4	2	1	0	3	4	+18
15	6	2-3	0-0	2-2	5	1	2	2	0	1	4	4	+7
25	12	3-8	0-1	6-11	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	3	+17
37	25	6-18	2-9	11-11	4	4	2	1	0	0	4	1	+17
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	10	4-9	0-2	2-2	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	-7
18	12	4-6	1-2	3-3	3	1	3	2	2	1	2	0	-11
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-5
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-5
19	7	2-3	1-2	2-2	4	1	1	1	0	1	3	4	+10
12	2	0-4	0-3	2-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	-10
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-6
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	88	27-66	5-24	29-34	33	14	13	9	3	5	28	20
		41%	21%	85%

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

Matchups

CNS

PER leads season

1-0

PER

Game 1@ PER

Final

102

Game 2@ CNS

Final

105

Game 3@ PER

Final

117

Game Information

Perth, WA

	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

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