Melbourne United @ Cairns Taipans

Melbourne UnitedUnitedMEL

20-8

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
United MEL	15	20	19	34	88
Taipans CNS	28	29	20	20	97

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

12-16

Melbourne United

starters
Jo Lual-Acuil Jr.Lual-Acuil Jr #0
Matthew DellavedovaM. Dellavedova #8
Luke TraversL. Travers #23
Shea IliS. Ili #51
Chris GouldingC. Goulding #43
bench
Ariel HukportiA. Hukporti #15
Tanner KrebsT. Krebs #13
Kyle BowenK. Bowen #14
Brad NewleyB. Newley #4
Flynn CameronF. Cameron #11
Zac TriplettZ. Triplett #1
Ian ClarkI. Clark #21
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
15	8	4-7	0-0	0-4	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	5	-11
24	16	6-11	2-5	2-2	5	5	1	0	0	0	5	4	+4
23	10	5-10	0-3	0-1	13	2	1	0	3	2	11	1	-3
17	7	2-4	0-1	3-4	3	2	1	0	0	0	3	0	-5
24	5	2-11	1-7	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	3	-2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
25	15	7-8	0-0	1-2	7	0	2	2	3	6	1	3	+2
15	0	0-5	0-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	-18
17	5	2-5	0-1	1-1	4	0	0	1	2	0	4	3	-6
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	2	1-6	0-3	0-0	3	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	-2
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	20	8-16	1-4	3-3	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	5	-4
	88	37-83	4-26	10-17	44	12	8	3	9	11	33	28
		45%	15%	59%

Cairns Taipans

starters
Bobi KlintmanB. Klintman #34
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Patrick MillerP. Miller #1
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #2
Tahjere McCallT. McCall #0
bench
Sam MennengaS. Mennenga #3
Lat MayenL. Mayen #11
Lachlan AndersonL. Anderson #24
Josh RobertsJ. Roberts #23
Alex MudronjaA. Mudronja #15
Kian DennisK. Dennis #7
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	9	3-5	1-2	2-3	4	0	1	0	0	0	4	4	+3
27	9	3-8	1-6	2-3	4	4	0	0	3	0	4	1	+1
34	20	7-16	2-3	4-4	8	4	2	0	0	0	8	4	+13
30	12	4-11	1-3	3-4	4	1	1	1	0	1	3	2	+8
34	23	8-17	0-4	7-9	9	10	4	3	0	2	7	1	+2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
17	9	3-8	2-4	1-2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	+11
18	3	1-5	1-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	-1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	12	4-6	0-0	4-4	8	2	0	0	0	3	5	1	+8
--	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
	97	33-76	8-24	23-29	40	22	8	4	3	7	33	16
		43%	33%	79%

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

Matchups

MEL

CNS wins season

3-0

CNS

103

Game 1@ MEL

Final

115

Game 2@ CNS

Final

Game 3@ CNS

Final

Game Information

Cairns, QLD

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

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