Cairns Taipans @ Sydney Kings

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Taipans CNS	19	19	24	25	87
Kings SYD	17	22	25	27	91

Sydney KingsKingsSYD

16-13

Cairns Taipans

starters
Tanner GrovesT. Groves #22
Pedro BradshawP. Bradshaw #32
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Rob EdwardsR. Edwards #2
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #1
bench
Akoldah GakA. Gak #13
Dillon StithD. Stith #3
Kyrin GallowayK. Galloway #14
Kyle AdnamK. Adnam #4
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
26	2	1-4	0-1	0-0	6	1	1	1	0	3	3	1	-12
22	10	3-7	1-3	3-3	6	1	1	0	1	1	5	2	-6
33	6	2-5	1-4	1-1	5	4	4	2	2	0	5	3	-1
33	25	9-21	3-11	4-5	7	1	4	1	0	0	7	3	0
34	22	6-14	2-7	8-9	1	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	-7
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	4	1-3	0-0	2-2	5	2	0	0	1	2	3	2	+5
-	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	12	5-8	2-4	0-0	4	1	0	1	0	1	3	1	+2
10	6	2-5	2-5	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	+4
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-5
	87	29-67	11-35	18-20	35	13	11	6	4	7	28	14
		43%	31%	90%

Sydney Kings

starters
Alex TooheyA. Toohey #22
Xavier CooksX. Cooks #10
Bul KuolB. Kuol #0
Izayah Le'AfaI. Le'Afa #4
Jaylen AdamsJ. Adams #2
bench
Jason SpurginJ. Spurgin #14
Henry LauH. Lau #8
Cameron OliverC. Oliver #1
Makuach MaluachM. Maluach #15
Kouat NoiK. Noi #12
Tyler RobertsonT. Robertson #3
Klairus AmirK. Amir #11
Shaun BruceS. Bruce #7
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	5	2-8	1-4	0-0	5	0	2	1	0	3	2	1	+17
31	19	7-11	0-0	5-7	8	2	0	2	2	4	4	4	+11
22	5	2-5	1-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	-10
15	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	-11
39	18	6-17	2-8	4-5	3	5	4	0	3	0	3	2	+3
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
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	15	6-13	1-3	2-2	17	2	1	2	1	1	16	2	+11
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+1
23	27	10-17	4-8	3-4	5	0	0	1	0	3	2	1	-13
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	+10
	91	34-75	9-28	14-18	40	13	8	7	6	12	28	16
		45%	32%	78%

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

Matchups

CNS

SYD wins season

4-0

SYD

Game 1@ CNS

Final

Game 2@ SYD

Final

Game 3@ CNS

Final

Game 4@ SYD

Final

Game Information

Sydney, 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

NBL News

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17h

Adelaide holds on to force Game 5

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19h

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20h

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