Perth Wildcats @ Melbourne United

MEL wins series 2-1

Perth WildcatsWildcatsPER

18-11

112

18-11

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Wildcats PER	37	25	22	28	112
United MEL	26	32	29	26	113

Melbourne UnitedUnitedMEL

19-10

113

19-10

Perth Wildcats

starters
Dylan WindlerD. Windler #3
Kristian DoolittleK. Doolittle #5
Ben HenshallB. Henshall #10
Keanu PinderK. Pinder #25
Bryce CottonB. Cotton #11
bench
Izan AlmansaI. Almansa #8
David OkweraD. Okwera #35
Hyrum HarrisH. Harris #13
Jesse WagstaffJ. Wagstaff #24
Elijah PepperE. Pepper #40
Dontae Russo-NanceD. Russo-Nance #1
Michael HarrisM. Harris #17
Tai WebsterT. Webster #0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
39	13	5-10	2-6	1-2	7	1	0	0	1	2	5	2	0
34	37	13-21	4-7	7-7	10	5	1	2	0	2	8	0	+8
28	9	4-12	1-4	0-0	5	4	3	0	0	1	4	3	+4
20	15	7-11	1-2	0-0	5	0	2	1	0	1	4	2	-10
40	33	9-19	3-7	12-13	5	6	1	3	0	2	3	3	-1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
--	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
21	3	1-3	1-3	0-0	4	0	0	1	0	1	3	2	-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
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	2	0-2	0-2	2-2	1	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	-5
	112	39-78	12-31	22-24	37	21	7	9	1	10	27	13
		50%	39%	92%

Melbourne United

starters
Rob LoeR. Loe #2
Jack WhiteJ. White #14
Matthew DellavedovaM. Dellavedova #8
Shea IliS. Ili #51
Chris GouldingC. Goulding #43
bench
Marcus LeeM. Lee #24
Akech AllirAliir #7
Tom KoppensT. Koppens #30
Tanner KrebsT. Krebs #13
Kyle BowenK. Bowen #15
Flynn CameronF. Cameron #11
Ian ClarkI. Clark #21
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
25	2	1-5	0-3	0-0	2	2	1	1	0	0	2	3	-3
21	15	5-10	4-7	1-1	9	1	2	1	0	3	6	2	-13
27	10	5-12	0-2	0-0	4	11	3	1	0	0	4	2	+9
24	5	2-6	0-0	1-2	1	2	3	1	0	1	0	2	-15
28	30	9-13	9-12	3-4	4	1	1	1	1	0	4	2	+3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
15	4	1-1	0-0	2-6	7	0	0	0	2	1	6	4	+4
--	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
12	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	-1
15	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	1	3	1	0	1	0	1	1	+10
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3
30	38	14-19	6-9	4-6	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	2	+8
	113	41-73	20-37	11-19	33	24	12	5	4	8	25	18
		56%	54%	58%

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

Matchups

PER

MEL wins series

2-1

MEL

Game 1•@ MEL

Final

105

Game 2•@ PER

Final

112

Game 3•@ MEL

Final

113

Game Information

Melbourne, VIC

	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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