Perth Wildcats @ Cairns Taipans

Perth WildcatsWildcatsPER

17-11

105

17-11

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Wildcats PER	26	28	22	29	105
Taipans CNS	17	26	24	35	102

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

12-16

102

12-16

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
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	17	7-14	1-3	2-2	16	3	4	2	1	3	13	2	+3
23	14	5-8	0-0	4-6	9	4	4	3	0	1	8	3	+7
11	7	2-2	0-0	3-3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	+11
26	2	1-4	0-1	0-0	2	4	2	1	1	1	1	5	+1
38	33	8-21	3-7	14-14	3	3	3	2	0	1	2	3	+2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
25	12	3-8	1-3	5-6	1	0	4	2	0	0	1	4	-4
15	11	4-8	0-2	3-3	7	3	0	0	1	2	5	2	+2
1	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1
4	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	-3
18	6	1-1	0-0	4-4	3	2	0	1	0	0	3	3	-3
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-2
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
	105	32-68	5-16	36-40	44	19	17	11	3	10	34	27
		47%	31%	90%

Cairns Taipans

starters
Sam MennengaS. Mennenga #3
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Bul KuolB. Kuol #42
Patrick MillerP. Miller #1
Tahjere McCallT. McCall #0
bench
Bobi KlintmanB. Klintman #34
Lat MayenL. Mayen #11
Akoldah GakA. Gak #13
Lachlan AndersonL. Anderson #24
Josh RobertsJ. Roberts #23
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #2
Alex MudronjaA. Mudronja #15
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
18	9	3-7	1-2	2-2	10	1	0	1	0	5	5	4	-2
28	11	1-6	1-4	8-8	4	0	0	1	1	0	4	4	-6
35	13	4-13	4-9	1-2	4	1	2	0	1	0	4	3	-3
35	18	5-12	0-1	8-8	1	7	5	2	0	0	1	4	0
30	17	7-18	0-1	3-5	4	3	2	3	0	2	2	5	-10
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
25	24	6-8	3-4	9-10	7	1	3	3	1	1	6	4	+17
4	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-8
4	4	0-2	0-0	4-4	1	0	0	0	0	1	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
23	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	3	3	1	1	0	0	3	4	-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
	102	29-72	9-22	35-39	34	17	13	11	3	9	25	28
		40%	41%	90%

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

Matchups

PER

PER leads season

2-0

CNS

Game 1@ PER

Final

105

Game 2@ CNS

Final

102

117

Game 3@ PER

Final

Game Information

Cairns, QLD

	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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