Melbourne United @ Illawarra Hawks

Series tied 1-1

Melbourne UnitedUnitedMEL

20-8

108

20-8

Final/OT

	1	2	3	4	OT	T
United MEL	25	24	26	22	11	108
Hawks HWK	19	31	23	24	16	113

Illawarra HawksHawksHWK

14-14

113

14-14

Melbourne United

starters
Jo Lual-Acuil Jr.Lual-Acuil Jr #0
Matthew DellavedovaM. Dellavedova #8
Luke TraversL. Travers #23
Shea IliS. Ili #51
Chris GouldingC. Goulding #43
bench
Ariel HukportiA. Hukporti #15
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	+/-
30	18	7-13	0-0	4-9	7	1	3	0	1	3	4	3	-4
32	20	7-16	1-5	5-5	3	8	5	2	0	1	2	3	-10
35	11	5-10	0-3	1-2	7	3	1	4	2	1	6	3	-15
27	12	5-8	2-2	0-0	3	4	1	1	0	1	2	0	+1
34	15	5-14	2-10	3-5	4	1	2	0	0	0	4	1	-2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
15	6	3-6	0-0	0-1	5	0	1	0	2	2	3	3	+1
13	2	1-4	0-1	0-0	3	1	0	1	0	2	1	2	-9
10	7	2-3	1-2	2-2	3	3	0	1	0	2	1	4	+10
--	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
30	17	7-12	3-7	0-0	3	2	0	0	0	1	2	2	+3
	108	42-86	9-30	15-24	38	23	13	9	5	13	25	21
		49%	30%	63%

Illawarra Hawks

starters
Gary ClarkG. Clark #8
Sam FrolingS. Froling #13
Wani Swaka Lo BulukW. Swaka Lo Buluk #9
William HickeyW. Hickey #6
Tyler HarveyT. Harvey #1
bench
Lachlan OlbrichL. Olbrich #30
Mason PeatlingM. Peatling #22
Todd BlanchfieldT. Blanchfield #21
Kyle AdnamK. Adnam #10
AJ JohnsonA. Johnson #7
Justin RobinsonJ. Robinson #3
Biwali BaylesB. Bayles #14
Hyunjung LeeH. Lee #2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
42	31	10-21	3-6	8-11	16	3	3	0	0	2	14	4	+4
36	19	9-13	0-0	1-1	13	4	3	0	0	4	9	4	+4
25	8	4-8	0-3	0-0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	-6
34	18	7-11	0-0	4-4	5	3	2	3	0	1	4	3	+4
34	23	11-18	1-5	0-0	2	0	1	2	0	1	1	4	+7
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
4	4	1-2	0-0	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-1
7	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
3	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	0	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
22	4	1-4	0-1	2-2	1	3	3	1	0	0	1	0	+8
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	3	1	0	0	2	0	3	3	+4
	113	45-82	4-17	19-22	42	16	12	9	2	9	33	21
		55%	24%	86%

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

Matchups

MEL

Series tied

1-1

HWK

115

Game 1@ MEL

Final/OT

106

108

Game 2@ HWK

Final/OT

113

100

Game 3@ MEL

Final

Game Information

Wollongong, NSW

	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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