Cairns Taipans @ Adelaide 36ers

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

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Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Taipans CNS	25	13	15	18	71
36ers ADL	28	25	22	13	88

Adelaide 36ers36ersADL

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Cairns Taipans

starters
Akoldah GakA. Gak #13
Bul KuolB. Kuol #42
Patrick MillerP. Miller #1
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #2
Tahjere McCallT. McCall #0
bench
Bobi KlintmanB. Klintman #34
Lat MayenL. Mayen #11
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Lachlan AndersonL. Anderson #24
Josh RobertsJ. Roberts #23
Alex MudronjaA. Mudronja #15
Kian DennisK. Dennis #7
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
20	4	1-2	0-1	2-2	6	0	1	0	0	1	5	5	-1
30	13	5-15	3-9	0-0	2	0	3	0	0	0	2	2	-24
25	8	2-15	0-0	4-5	5	6	3	1	0	3	2	0	-16
22	10	3-6	1-3	3-4	4	0	1	2	0	1	3	0	-9
24	6	2-8	1-3	1-2	4	7	3	1	0	0	4	2	-20
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
24	15	5-11	2-5	3-4	9	0	3	1	0	2	7	3	-6
24	8	1-7	0-5	6-7	6	1	3	0	1	1	5	1	-13
1	1	0-3	0-3	1-2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	+5
14	6	3-5	0-0	0-0	6	0	1	0	1	4	2	5	-9
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	+4
4	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+4
	71	22-73	7-29	20-26	43	15	18	7	2	13	30	18
		30%	24%	77%

Adelaide 36ers

starters
Issac HumphriesI. Humphries #8
Nick MarshallN. Marshall #9
Kyrin GallowayK. Galloway #14
Dejan VasiljevicD. Vasiljevic #34
Trey KellT. Kell #3
bench
Alex StarlingA. Starling #32
Tohi Smith-MilnerT. Smith-Milner #18
Jacob WileyJ. Wiley #24
Keanu RasmussenK. Rasmussen #22
Trentyn FlowersT. Flowers #1
Sunday DechS. Dech #44
Jason CadeeJ. Cadee #7
Mitch McCarronM. McCarron #10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
22	10	5-10	0-0	0-0	6	0	3	0	2	3	3	0	+7
16	9	2-5	0-0	5-6	6	3	3	2	0	3	3	2	+10
24	3	1-2	0-1	1-3	8	0	0	1	1	1	7	3	+15
32	28	10-25	5-14	3-4	4	0	3	2	0	0	4	0	+15
21	11	5-12	0-2	1-2	5	3	1	5	0	1	4	3	+17
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
14	7	2-4	0-1	3-4	4	2	0	2	1	2	2	2	+15
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	-5
16	5	2-4	1-2	0-0	6	3	3	2	1	1	5	3	+2
2	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2
2	3	1-1	0-0	1-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	-2
16	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	+7
18	6	2-6	2-5	0-0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	3	-2
13	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	2	2	0	1	2	0	2	1	+8
	88	33-79	8-28	14-21	46	16	15	15	7	11	35	20
		42%	29%	67%

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

Matchups

CNS

CNS wins season

2-1

ADL

116

Game 1@ ADL

Final

101

111

Game 2@ CNS

Final/OT

101

Game 3@ ADL

Final

Game Information

Adelaide, SA

	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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