Taipans 97-88 United (16 Feb, 2024) Box Score

Melbourne United

20-8

	1	2	3	4	T
MEL	15	20	19	34	88
CNS	28	29	20	20	97

Cairns Taipans

12-16

Melbourne United

starters
Lual-Acuil Jr C
M. Dellavedova G
L. Travers G
S. Ili G
C. Goulding G
bench
A. Hukporti C
T. Krebs F
K. Bowen F
B. Newley F
F. Cameron G
Z. Triplett G
I. Clark G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
15	4-7	0-0	0-4	1	1	2	1	0	0	2	5	-11	8
24	6-11	2-5	2-2	0	5	5	5	0	0	1	4	+4	16
23	5-10	0-3	0-1	2	11	13	2	0	3	1	1	-3	10
17	2-4	0-1	3-4	0	3	3	2	0	0	1	0	-5	7
24	2-11	1-7	0-0	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	3	-2	5
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
25	7-8	0-0	1-2	6	1	7	0	2	3	2	3	+2	15
15	0-5	0-2	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	4	-18	0
17	2-5	0-1	1-1	0	4	4	0	1	2	0	3	-6	5
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	1-6	0-3	0-0	2	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	-2	2
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	8-16	1-4	3-3	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	5	-4	20
	37-83	4-26	10-17	11	33	44	12	3	9	8	28		88
	44.6%	15.4%	58.8%

Cairns Taipans

starters
B. Klintman F
S. Waardenburg F
P. Miller G
T. Armstrong G
T. McCall G
bench
S. Mennenga C
L. Mayen F
L. Anderson F
J. Roberts G
A. Mudronja G
K. Dennis G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
19	3-5	1-2	2-3	0	4	4	0	0	0	1	4	+3	9
27	3-8	1-6	2-3	0	4	4	4	0	3	0	1	+1	9
34	7-16	2-3	4-4	0	8	8	4	0	0	2	4	+13	20
30	4-11	1-3	3-4	1	3	4	1	1	0	1	2	+8	12
34	8-17	0-4	7-9	2	7	9	10	3	0	4	1	+2	23
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
17	3-8	2-4	1-2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	+11	9
18	1-5	1-2	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	-1	3
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	4-6	0-0	4-4	3	5	8	2	0	0	0	1	+8	12
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
	33-76	8-24	23-29	7	33	40	22	4	3	8	16		97
	43.4%	33.3%	79.3%

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

Regular Season Series

CNS wins 3-0

Taipans
115
United
103

Game 1

3/12

United
78
Taipans
95

Game 2

31/12

United
88
Taipans
97

Game 3

16/2

Cairns Convention Centre

8:30 AM, 16 February 2024

Cairns, QLD

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Melbourne	3	0	1.000	-	W3
Perth	1	0	1.000	1	W1
Adelaide	3	1	.750	0.5	L1
Brisbane	2	1	.667	1	W1
Sydney	1	1	.500	1.5	W1
South East Melbourne	2	3	.400	2	W2
Illawarra	1	2	.333	2	L2
Cairns	0	1	.000	2	L1
New Zealand	0	2	.000	2.5	L2
Tasmania	0	2	.000	2.5	L2

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