Cairns Taipans @ Brisbane Bullets

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

104

8-21

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Taipans CNS	30	24	26	24	104
Bullets BRI	29	27	25	26	107

Brisbane BulletsBulletsBRI

12-17

107

12-17

Cairns Taipans

starters
Tanner GrovesT. Groves #22
Alex Higgins-TitshaA. Higgins-Titsha #11
Pedro BradshawP. Bradshaw #32
Rob EdwardsR. Edwards #2
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #1
bench
Kyrin GallowayK. Galloway #14
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	+/-
26	12	4-5	1-2	3-5	10	4	4	1	0	3	7	5	-2
25	12	4-9	3-6	1-2	6	0	1	0	1	2	4	5	-3
38	22	8-13	4-7	2-3	5	2	2	0	1	0	5	2	-2
38	27	10-21	4-10	3-3	5	2	3	0	0	1	4	4	0
32	16	5-7	2-3	4-7	2	5	4	2	0	0	2	3	-2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	5	2-3	1-1	0-0	3	0	2	0	1	1	2	2	0
8	7	1-2	1-2	4-4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-1
--	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
10	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	-5
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	104	35-61	17-32	17-24	31	13	17	4	4	7	24	21
		57%	53%	71%

Brisbane Bullets

starters
Tyrell HarrisonT. Harrison #24
Casey PratherC. Prather #23
James BatemonJ. Batemon #5
Keandre CookK. Cook #1
Mitchell NortonM. Norton #8
bench
Rocco ZikarskyR. Zikarsky #11
Josh BannanJ. Bannan #13
Tohi Smith-MilnerT. Smith-Milner #18
Kye SavageK. Savage #3
Tristan DeversT. Devers #6
Isaac WhiteI. White #2
Emmett NaarE. Naar #41
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
20	12	5-9	0-0	2-6	5	0	4	1	0	2	3	4	-12
33	35	13-21	6-9	3-4	2	0	1	3	0	0	2	1	-1
27	9	3-7	0-2	3-4	3	7	3	4	0	0	3	1	-4
36	30	11-22	4-12	4-4	6	2	1	1	1	3	3	1	-4
16	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	5	+1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
10	6	2-3	0-0	2-2	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	+8
23	5	2-8	0-0	1-2	6	2	0	0	1	3	3	4	+11
12	6	2-3	2-3	0-0	4	0	1	0	0	1	3	3	+3
--	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	4	1-2	1-1	1-2	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	+2
17	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	+11
	107	39-77	13-27	16-24	32	18	11	10	3	12	20	24
		51%	48%	67%

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

Matchups

CNS

BRI leads season

2-0

BRI

Game 1@ CNS

Final

104

Game 2@ BRI

Final

107

111

Game 3@ BRI

Final

100

Game 4@ CNS

Final

Game Information

	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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