New Zealand Breakers @ Cairns Taipans

New Zealand BreakersBreakersNZL

10-19

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Breakers NZL	28	24	11	14	77
Taipans CNS	23	19	17	10	69

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

New Zealand Breakers

starters
Sam MennengaS. Mennenga #3
Karim LopezK. Lopez #1
Grant AnticevichG. Anticevich #11
Matthew MooneyM. Mooney #13
Parker Jackson-CartwrightP. Jackson-Cartwright #6
bench
Freddie GillespieF. Gillespie #33
Dane PineauD. Pineau #22
Sean BairstowS. Bairstow #2
Carlin DavisonC. Davison #21
Kaia IsaacK. Isaac #5
Alex McNaughtA. McNaught #0
Mitch McCarronM. McCarron #8
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
25	12	5-11	2-6	0-0	3	2	1	0	1	0	3	1	+2
27	9	4-6	0-0	1-2	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	+5
25	8	3-6	2-5	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	3	+1
28	15	5-16	2-8	3-3	2	3	3	3	0	2	0	2	+5
31	11	3-11	0-1	5-5	7	5	3	1	0	4	3	0	+12
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	8	4-6	0-0	0-2	8	0	4	0	0	4	4	3	+10
5	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	+5
23	8	3-9	2-4	0-0	3	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	+3
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2
--	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	-2
12	4	2-3	0-1	0-0	2	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	+1
	77	30-70	8-25	9-12	33	14	13	5	2	15	18	12
		43%	32%	75%

Cairns Taipans

starters
Tanner GrovesT. Groves #22
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Rob EdwardsR. Edwards #2
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #1
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
bench
Alex Higgins-TitshaA. Higgins-Titsha #11
Akoldah GakA. Gak #13
Dillon StithD. Stith #3
Kyrin GallowayK. Galloway #14
Kyle AdnamK. Adnam #4
Jackson MakoiJ. Makoi #9
Kody StattmannK. Stattmann #20
Deshon TaylorD. Taylor #23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
17	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	1	1	1	2	2	1	0	5	-7
29	5	2-5	0-2	1-2	4	4	4	0	1	1	3	3	-3
33	33	13-23	4-11	3-4	5	1	4	0	0	2	3	5	+3
29	5	1-9	1-7	2-2	5	7	5	2	0	1	4	1	-12
27	9	3-9	3-9	0-0	4	2	0	1	1	0	4	0	-13
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
26	11	5-7	0-0	1-2	8	0	2	1	1	4	4	2	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-7
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-7
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	0	0-3	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	+5
	69	27-62	8-31	7-10	30	15	16	6	5	10	20	19
		44%	26%	70%

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

Matchups

NZL

NZL leads season

1-0

CNS

Game 1@ CNS

Final

Game 2@ CNS

Final

Game 3@ NZL

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

NBL News

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15h

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36ers captain's contract release after NBL finals loss

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