Cairns Taipans @ New Zealand Breakers

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Taipans CNS	28	21	15	28	92
Breakers NZL	26	28	25	20	99

New Zealand BreakersBreakersNZL

10-19

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
Dillon StithD. Stith #3
Kyrin GallowayK. Galloway #14
Kyle AdnamK. Adnam #4
Kody StattmannK. Stattmann #20
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
-	11	4-13	1-5	2-2	4	0	0	0	1	1	3	2	-14
37	16	5-9	5-8	1-3	4	1	0	3	0	3	1	1	-7
33	16	7-13	1-3	1-2	6	5	1	1	1	4	2	2	-3
26	14	5-14	2-7	2-4	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	3	-11
28	10	4-8	0-3	2-4	3	8	3	1	0	0	3	0	+8
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
7	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	-9
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	+3
17	11	4-7	1-3	2-3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	-2
12	4	0-2	0-2	4-4	1	5	1	1	0	0	1	2	-13
8	8	3-4	1-1	1-2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	+13
	92	33-71	11-32	15-24	23	20	6	8	3	10	13	16
		46%	34%	63%

New Zealand Breakers

starters
Tacko FallT. Fall #99
Karim LopezK. Lopez #1
Jonah BoldenJ. Bolden #43
Matthew MooneyM. Mooney #13
Mojave KingM. King #7
bench
Sam MennengaS. Mennenga #3
Dane PineauD. Pineau #22
Sean BairstowS. Bairstow #2
Carlin DavisonC. Davison #21
Grant AnticevichG. Anticevich #11
Kaia IsaacK. Isaac #5
Alex McNaughtA. McNaught #0
Mitch McCarronM. McCarron #8
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
16	14	7-9	0-0	0-0	9	2	2	0	0	2	7	2	-2
22	11	3-8	2-5	3-5	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	+4
24	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	9	2	4	0	0	1	8	4	-8
1	24	7-11	3-5	7-8	2	8	3	3	0	0	2	3	+1
26	16	6-11	2-4	2-2	4	0	3	0	2	1	3	2	-11
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	10	5-7	0-0	0-0	8	3	2	0	0	2	6	2	+9
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	6	2-3	1-2	1-2	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	+17
16	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	3	0
14	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	3	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	+19
6	4	2-2	0-0	0-1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+9
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-3
	99	38-62	10-21	13-18	39	22	16	6	2	8	31	20
		61%	48%	72%

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

Matchups

CNS

NZL wins season

3-0

NZL

Game 1@ CNS

Final

Game 2@ CNS

Final

Game 3@ NZL

Final

Game Information

Auckland, New Zealand

	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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