Illawarra Hawks @ Melbourne United

MEL leads series 1-0

Illawarra HawksHawksHWK

14-14

106

14-14

Final/OT

	1	2	3	4	OT	T
Hawks HWK	29	28	27	16	6	106
United MEL	25	31	18	26	15	115

Melbourne UnitedUnitedMEL

20-8

115

20-8

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	+/-
38	22	8-19	4-9	2-2	12	3	5	1	0	4	8	2	-9
34	26	11-16	1-1	3-5	5	2	2	1	1	2	3	3	-10
26	10	4-11	2-6	0-0	3	3	1	0	0	1	2	1	-8
21	6	3-6	0-0	0-0	6	3	0	1	0	2	4	3	-3
33	15	5-11	3-6	2-2	2	3	1	2	0	1	1	1	-7
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
18	6	3-5	0-1	0-0	4	3	0	4	0	0	4	2	+4
10	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	-4
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	9	3-13	0-3	3-3	4	7	3	1	0	1	3	4	-16
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	12	4-9	3-7	1-1	4	2	0	1	0	3	1	0	+7
	106	41-92	13-34	11-13	41	27	13	11	1	15	26	18
		45%	38%	85%

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
Campbell BloggC. Blogg #3
Zac TriplettZ. Triplett #1
Ian ClarkI. Clark #21
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
30	9	4-7	0-0	1-4	9	2	1	0	4	3	6	4	+13
36	30	10-18	6-10	4-6	7	10	2	4	0	4	3	3	+2
36	24	10-16	2-5	2-4	8	1	4	2	3	2	6	2	+10
32	13	4-8	1-3	4-5	2	5	2	1	0	1	1	1	+10
41	18	7-13	4-9	0-0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	+10
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
15	5	1-4	0-0	3-5	6	2	2	0	1	2	4	1	-4
3	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	6	1	0	0	0	2	4	1	-1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	-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
23	14	6-12	1-4	1-1	2	2	1	0	1	0	2	4	+8
	115	43-81	14-32	15-25	43	25	13	7	9	14	29	17
		53%	44%	60%

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

Matchups

HWK

MEL leads series

1-0

MEL

106

Game 1@ MEL

Final/OT

115

113

Game 2@ HWK

Final/OT

108

Game 3@ MEL

Final

100

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

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