South East Melbourne Phoenix @ Cairns Taipans

South East Melbourne PhoenixPhoenixPNX

16-13

113

16-13

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Phoenix PNX	33	25	24	31	113
Taipans CNS	28	31	19	24	102

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

102

8-21

South East Melbourne Phoenix

starters
Jordan HunterJ. Hunter #1
Matt HurtM. Hurt #22
Malique LewisM. Lewis #33
Angus GloverA. Glover #5
Nathan SobeyN. Sobey #20
bench
Joe WieskampJ. Wieskamp #21
Thomas VodanovichT. Vodanovich #15
Majok MajokM. Majok #24
Luke RosendaleL. Rosendale #13
Owen FoxwellO. Foxwell #30
Ben AyreB. Ayre #10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	8	4-14	0-1	0-0	18	1	1	0	0	12	6	2	+1
32	33	14-18	0-1	5-6	7	1	2	0	0	2	5	2	+13
13	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	+5
31	11	3-10	2-5	3-4	4	4	1	1	2	1	3	3	+3
31	26	10-19	3-7	3-4	7	1	4	0	0	0	7	1	+18
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	11	3-11	3-6	2-2	9	1	1	1	0	2	7	2	+6
19	6	2-6	0-3	2-2	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	4	+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	-2
11	7	3-3	0-0	1-2	1	5	0	1	0	0	1	1	+4
18	9	3-4	2-3	1-2	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	+4
	113	43-88	10-26	17-22	51	15	9	4	3	19	32	17
		49%	38%	77%

Cairns Taipans

starters
Tanner GrovesT. Groves #22
Pedro BradshawP. Bradshaw #32
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Rob EdwardsR. Edwards #2
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #1
bench
Alex Higgins-TitshaA. Higgins-Titsha #11
Akoldah GakA. Gak #13
Dillon StithD. Stith #3
Kyrin GallowayK. Galloway #14
Kyle AdnamK. Adnam #4
Kody StattmannK. Stattmann #20
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	10	4-7	1-3	1-1	7	3	1	0	2	3	4	0	-16
29	16	7-14	2-5	0-0	5	1	0	3	0	1	4	2	+1
32	22	7-15	3-8	5-6	5	5	0	2	1	1	4	2	-13
28	13	5-13	3-8	0-0	3	4	3	1	1	1	2	5	+3
28	20	7-13	2-4	4-7	4	6	2	0	0	0	4	3	-15
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
5	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-8
16	8	4-5	0-1	0-0	3	1	1	0	0	1	2	4	+3
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	5	1-3	1-3	2-2	2	3	1	0	2	0	2	3	-2
14	3	1-4	1-3	0-0	2	3	1	1	0	0	2	1	+4
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	-12
	102	37-76	14-37	14-18	31	26	9	9	6	7	24	23
		49%	38%	78%

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

Matchups

PNX

PNX wins season

3-0

CNS

Game 1@ PNX

Final

Game 2@ PNX

Final

113

Game 3@ CNS

Final

102

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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