Sydney Kings @ Cairns Taipans

Sydney KingsKingsSYD

16-13

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Kings SYD	20	21	18	22	81
Taipans CNS	26	16	13	20	75

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

Sydney Kings

starters
Cameron OliverC. Oliver #1
Xavier CooksX. Cooks #10
Bul KuolB. Kuol #0
Jaylen AdamsJ. Adams #2
Shaun BruceS. Bruce #7
bench
Jason SpurginJ. Spurgin #14
Keli LeaupepeK. Leaupepe #34
Alex TooheyA. Toohey #22
Makuach MaluachM. Maluach #15
Kouat NoiK. Noi #12
Tyler RobertsonT. Robertson #3
Izayah Le'AfaI. Le'Afa #4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
29	26	10-16	1-5	5-6	9	2	2	0	3	2	7	2	+15
32	11	3-7	0-1	5-10	8	6	0	0	3	2	6	2	+14
28	7	3-6	1-4	0-0	5	3	1	1	0	1	4	4	+16
35	22	6-15	2-7	8-10	7	6	5	1	0	1	6	3	+15
22	0	0-5	0-4	0-0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	4	-6
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
13	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	-7
7	6	1-2	0-0	4-6	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	-10
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	5	1-3	1-2	2-4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	+4
7	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	-5
17	2	0-1	0-1	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	-6
	81	24-57	5-25	28-40	36	19	10	4	8	8	28	23
		42%	20%	70%

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
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	+/-
25	6	1-9	1-5	3-4	6	1	1	2	1	2	4	4	-17
29	15	4-15	1-9	6-7	10	2	0	0	0	5	5	2	-16
33	10	4-19	1-9	1-1	5	2	2	1	0	0	5	5	-7
33	28	8-18	3-7	9-12	3	1	2	2	0	0	3	3	-9
21	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	4	-19
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
22	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	8	1	2	0	1	4	4	4	+6
13	4	1-6	0-1	2-2	4	0	0	2	1	3	1	2	+15
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	9	3-5	1-2	2-2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	+6
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	0	0-4	0-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	+11
	75	22-78	8-37	23-28	40	7	9	8	3	17	23	25
		28%	22%	82%

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

Matchups

SYD

SYD leads season

3-0

CNS

Game 1@ CNS

Final

Game 2@ SYD

Final

Game 3@ CNS

Final

Game 4@ SYD

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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