Perth Wildcats @ Cairns Taipans

Perth WildcatsWildcatsPER

18-11

128

18-11

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Wildcats PER	22	32	39	35	128
Taipans CNS	28	29	18	17	92

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

Perth Wildcats

starters
Dylan WindlerD. Windler #3
Izan AlmansaI. Almansa #8
Ben HenshallB. Henshall #10
David OkweraD. Okwera #35
Bryce CottonB. Cotton #11
bench
Keanu PinderK. Pinder #25
Todd WithersT. Withers #33
Hyrum HarrisH. Harris #13
Jesse WagstaffJ. Wagstaff #24
Elijah PepperE. Pepper #40
Dontae Russo-NanceD. Russo-Nance #1
Michael HarrisM. Harris #17
Tai WebsterT. Webster #0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
32	18	6-11	5-9	1-1	4	5	0	4	0	2	2	3	+31
15	9	4-5	1-1	0-0	4	1	0	0	0	2	2	4	-1
22	7	3-6	1-1	0-0	3	4	1	3	1	0	3	0	+21
6	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	3	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	-3
35	44	17-27	3-6	7-8	3	6	1	1	2	0	3	2	+32
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
23	13	4-10	1-2	4-9	10	1	2	1	1	2	8	3	+32
17	6	2-4	2-4	0-0	5	1	0	0	0	1	4	2	+22
14	8	4-4	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	1	0	0	4	1	+14
15	7	3-5	1-2	0-0	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	+22
12	10	4-5	2-3	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	+11
3	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	+3
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3
5	3	1-1	0-0	1-2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	-7
	128	49-83	17-31	13-20	38	24	7	10	5	7	31	18
		59%	55%	65%

Cairns Taipans

starters
Tanner GrovesT. Groves #22
Pedro BradshawP. Bradshaw #32
Kyrin GallowayK. Galloway #14
Rob EdwardsR. Edwards #2
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #1
bench
Alex Higgins-TitshaA. Higgins-Titsha #11
Kyle AdnamK. Adnam #4
Jackson MakoiJ. Makoi #9
Kody StattmannK. Stattmann #20
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
Tad Dufelmeier Jr.Dufelmeier #5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
33	23	8-13	3-8	4-4	2	0	2	0	2	0	2	4	-26
34	13	4-8	2-4	3-4	5	1	3	1	0	2	3	3	-21
31	12	4-8	3-5	1-2	3	1	0	0	1	2	1	3	-20
35	20	6-20	2-10	6-8	6	3	1	1	0	0	6	3	-29
31	24	9-14	4-4	2-3	5	8	4	1	0	0	5	0	-15
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
12	0	0-4	0-1	0-0	3	0	3	0	1	0	3	4	-18
9	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	-21
--	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
15	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-30
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	92	31-72	14-35	16-21	26	13	14	4	4	5	21	17
		43%	40%	76%

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

Matchups

PER

PER leads season

2-0

CNS

Game 1@ CNS

Final

128

Game 2@ CNS

Final

116

Game 3@ PER

Final/2OT

125

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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