Melbourne United @ New Zealand Breakers

Melbourne UnitedUnitedMEL

20-8

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
United MEL	17	22	23	20	82
Breakers NZL	22	22	18	19	81

New Zealand BreakersBreakersNZL

13-15

Melbourne United

starters
Ariel HukportiA. Hukporti #15
Kyle BowenK. Bowen #14
Ian ClarkI. Clark #21
Matthew DellavedovaM. Dellavedova #8
Chris GouldingC. Goulding #43
bench
Tom KoppensT. Koppens #30
Tanner KrebsT. Krebs #13
Brad NewleyB. Newley #4
Flynn CameronF. Cameron #11
Campbell BloggC. Blogg #3
Zac TriplettZ. Triplett #1
Luke TraversL. Travers #23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
32	12	6-11	0-0	0-0	5	1	2	1	2	0	5	3	-4
20	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	4	0	3	1	0	1	3	3	-3
27	9	4-8	1-3	0-0	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	3	-10
34	14	5-11	1-4	3-4	1	10	1	1	0	0	1	3	0
36	24	9-18	3-9	3-4	5	3	2	3	0	0	5	1	-3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	6	2-6	1-2	1-1	5	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	+11
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	+2
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	13	5-8	0-0	3-4	11	2	2	0	2	4	7	1	+9
	82	33-64	6-18	10-13	32	21	12	8	4	7	25	15
		52%	33%	77%

New Zealand Breakers

starters
Zylan CheathamZ. Cheatham #45
Anthony LambA. Lamb #44
Mantas RubstaviciusM. Rubstavicius #17
Mangok MathiangM. Mathiang #8
Parker Jackson-CartwrightP. Jackson-Cartwright #6
bench
Dane PineauD. Pineau #22
Carlin DavisonC. Davison #21
Dominique Kelman-PotoD. Kelman-Poto #25
Daniel FotuD. Fotu #42
Tom AbercrombieT. Abercrombie #10
Izayah Le'AfaI. Le'Afa #2
Will McDowell-WhiteMcdowell-White #7
Cameron GliddonC. Gliddon #3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
34	11	5-10	1-2	0-1	10	2	3	1	0	3	7	2	-6
34	22	8-17	5-9	1-1	8	3	3	2	0	2	6	4	+5
28	11	4-8	1-3	2-2	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	-3
29	13	5-5	0-0	3-6	3	1	1	1	3	1	2	2	+5
31	21	7-17	2-6	5-6	4	5	3	1	0	0	4	2	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	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
--	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
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	+1
19	0	0-5	0-5	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	-6
22	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	2	3	2	0	0	1	1	1	-1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	81	30-65	10-27	11-16	32	15	13	5	3	9	23	14
		46%	37%	69%

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

Matchups

MEL

MEL leads season

2-0

NZL

Game 1@ MEL

Final

Game 2@ NZL

Final

Game 3@ MEL

Final

Game Information

Wellington, New Zealand

	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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