Cairns Taipans @ Illawarra Hawks

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

108

8-21

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Taipans CNS	19	26	40	23	108
Hawks HWK	24	32	21	28	105

Illawarra HawksHawksHWK

20-9

105

20-9

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
Dillon StithD. Stith #3
Kyle AdnamK. Adnam #4
Jackson MakoiJ. Makoi #9
Kody StattmannK. Stattmann #20
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	17	6-9	2-3	3-4	9	3	2	1	0	4	5	5	+5
30	12	3-8	1-4	5-5	9	0	0	2	0	2	7	1	+22
33	2	1-7	0-2	0-0	4	1	0	1	2	2	2	2	+13
38	28	9-26	3-11	7-8	4	3	2	2	0	0	4	4	+5
32	28	8-16	2-5	10-11	6	3	1	2	0	0	6	2	-7
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	14	5-8	1-2	3-3	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	5	-10
6	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	-9
14	7	2-2	2-2	1-2	2	2	1	0	0	0	2	1	+7
--	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
4	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	-11
	108	34-80	11-33	29-33	36	14	7	8	3	9	27	24
		43%	33%	88%

Illawarra Hawks

starters
Sam FrolingS. Froling #13
Wani Swaka Lo BulukW. Swaka Lo Buluk #9
Mason PeatlingM. Peatling #22
Trey KellT. Kell #3
Tyler HarveyT. Harvey #1
bench
Lachlan OlbrichL. Olbrich #30
Darius DaysD. Days #0
Luca YatesL. Yates #19
Daniel GridaD. Grida #11
Todd BlanchfieldT. Blanchfield #21
Zac TriplettZ. Triplett #7
William HickeyW. Hickey #6
Hyunjung LeeH. Lee #2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
17	5	1-7	0-0	3-4	8	0	1	0	1	4	4	3	-5
17	4	2-4	0-1	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	-19
9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	-13
34	22	5-13	2-4	10-10	9	6	2	0	1	1	8	1	-10
33	23	9-22	2-12	3-5	1	1	3	0	0	0	1	3	-1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
20	15	7-8	0-0	1-1	5	2	0	2	0	2	3	4	-1
24	15	6-8	2-3	1-2	5	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	+13
--	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
8	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	6	3-5	0-0	0-2	8	6	3	2	2	1	7	3	+21
15	13	4-7	1-4	4-5	6	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	0
	105	38-76	7-25	22-29	47	17	9	4	4	13	34	25
		50%	28%	76%

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

Matchups

CNS

HWK leads season

2-1

HWK

Game 1@ CNS

Final

102

Game 2@ CNS

Final

108

Game 3@ HWK

Final

105

100

Game 4@ CNS

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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