New Zealand Breakers @ Melbourne United

New Zealand BreakersBreakersNZL

13-15

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Breakers NZL	22	17	16	26	81
United MEL	27	28	23	16	94

Melbourne UnitedUnitedMEL

20-8

New Zealand Breakers

starters
Zylan CheathamZ. Cheatham #45
Mantas RubstaviciusM. Rubstavicius #17
Mangok MathiangM. Mathiang #8
Parker Jackson-CartwrightP. Jackson-Cartwright #6
Will McDowell-WhiteMcdowell-White #7
bench
Dane PineauD. Pineau #22
Dominique Kelman-PotoD. Kelman-Poto #25
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	13	5-11	1-1	2-4	12	2	2	1	0	2	10	2	-11
19	0	0-5	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	-15
25	17	8-9	0-0	1-4	5	0	2	2	0	2	3	3	-3
37	24	10-20	1-4	3-6	2	5	2	3	0	1	1	5	-7
23	19	8-12	3-5	0-0	5	3	0	1	1	1	4	5	+9
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
--	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
21	0	0-5	0-3	0-0	6	2	2	1	0	0	6	3	-14
9	2	1-1	0-0	0-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-13
32	6	2-8	2-8	0-1	2	1	3	1	2	0	2	2	-12
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1
	81	34-71	7-23	6-17	32	13	11	9	3	6	26	25
		48%	30%	35%

Melbourne United

starters
Jo Lual-Acuil Jr.Lual-Acuil Jr #0
Matthew DellavedovaM. Dellavedova #8
Luke TraversL. Travers #61
Shea IliS. Ili #51
Chris GouldingC. Goulding #43
bench
Ariel HukportiA. Hukporti #15
Tom KoppensT. Koppens #30
Tanner KrebsT. Krebs #13
Kyle BowenK. Bowen #14
Brad NewleyB. Newley #4
Flynn CameronF. Cameron #11
Zac TriplettZ. Triplett #1
Ian ClarkI. Clark #21
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
27	19	8-14	0-1	3-3	11	2	0	0	1	2	9	3	+15
25	12	5-9	0-0	2-5	2	4	2	1	0	0	2	2	-10
23	6	3-6	0-0	0-2	7	1	2	0	0	2	5	2	-7
28	12	4-7	1-1	3-6	2	5	3	0	0	0	2	3	+16
29	10	4-10	2-6	0-0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	-4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
12	4	1-4	0-0	2-2	2	1	2	0	1	0	2	2	-2
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	9	1-3	1-3	6-6	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	+17
18	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	5	1	1	1	0	1	4	2	+20
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	+8
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	18	7-12	4-8	0-2	4	1	3	0	0	0	4	0	+12
	94	35-68	8-20	16-26	39	15	15	3	2	10	29	17
		51%	40%	62%

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

Matchups

NZL

MEL wins season

3-0

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

Adelaide holds on to force Game 5

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12h

Bryce Cotton's handles leave defenders spinning

Bryce Cotton faked out the defence and cruised past Jaylin Galloway before a smooth layup.

13h

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