Cairns Taipans @ Melbourne United

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

17-10

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Taipans CNS	15	22	26	18	81
United MEL	19	24	16	18	77

Melbourne UnitedUnitedMEL

15-13

Cairns Taipans

starters
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Dj HoggD. Hogg #1
Keanu PinderK. Pinder #25
Bul KuolB. Kuol #42
Shannon ScottS. Scott #3
bench
Lat MayenL. Mayen #11
Josh DaveyJ. Davey #44
Majok DengM. Deng #13
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
Mirko DjericM. Djeric #5
Ben AyreB. Ayre #10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	8	3-6	1-1	1-2	5	0	0	0	2	1	4	1	-8
38	13	3-12	2-9	5-5	5	1	3	1	1	0	5	2	+8
30	26	10-20	0-2	6-7	10	3	4	3	0	5	5	3	+16
22	0	0-8	0-4	0-0	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	1	-18
31	19	8-13	3-6	0-0	5	9	2	1	0	3	2	3	+11
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
16	4	1-5	1-3	1-1	4	0	1	0	0	0	4	1	+17
6	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-8
23	11	3-3	2-2	3-3	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	+12
11	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	-10
	81	28-70	9-29	16-18	34	15	13	6	3	10	24	14
		40%	31%	89%

Melbourne United

starters
Issac HumphriesI. Humphries #7
David BarlowD. Barlow #20
Rayjon TuckerR. Tucker #59
Xavier Rathan-MayesX. Rathan-Mayes #11
Chris GouldingC. Goulding #43
bench
Callum DaltonC. Dalton #12
Jordan CarolineJ. Caroline #24
David OkweraD. Okwera #35
Makuach MaluachM. Maluach #13
Brad NewleyB. Newley #4
Zac TriplettZ. Triplett #1
Malith MacharM. Machar #9
Joshua DuachJ. Duach #5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	6	2-5	0-0	2-3	4	2	1	1	2	0	4	3	-17
27	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	3	2	1	1	0	0	3	1	+3
33	19	8-15	1-7	2-5	10	3	3	0	1	3	7	3	+14
33	21	9-18	3-6	0-0	6	2	2	3	0	1	5	2	+3
34	16	6-12	4-8	0-1	2	3	3	0	0	1	1	3	-7
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
21	3	1-5	0-2	1-2	5	0	3	1	2	2	3	3	+8
11	5	2-5	1-3	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	-2
1	5	1-1	1-1	2-2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	+1
13	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	1	-23
--	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
	77	30-66	10-30	7-13	33	13	16	7	5	8	25	19
		45%	33%	54%

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

Matchups

CNS

CNS leads season

1-0

MEL

Game 1@ MEL

Final

Game 2@ CNS

Final

Game 3@ MEL

Final

Game Information

Melbourne, VIC

Team	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

'Tons of opportunities': Melbourne United's new majority owner in it for the long NBL haul

Travis Knipe initially bought into Melbourne United in March with a 30% stake. It didn't take long for that investment to turn into something much bigger. With the franchise now valued at $50 million, Knipe has big plans for its future.

DeMarcus Cousins talks NBA House, Bogut, Giddey, and the NBL

DeMarcus Cousins talks NBA House in Australia, his battles with Andrew Bogut, Josh Giddey's career, and the NBL.

Sources: Keanu Pinder signs with Cairns Taipans

Australian forward Keanu Pinder has signed a one-year deal with the Cairns Taipans, sources told ESPN.

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