Cairns Taipans @ South East Melbourne Phoenix

Cairns TaipansTaipansCNS

8-21

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Taipans CNS	20	20	15	19	74
Phoenix PNX	34	15	17	31	97

South East Melbourne PhoenixPhoenixPNX

16-13

Cairns Taipans

starters
Alex Higgins-TitshaA. Higgins-Titsha #11
Sam WaardenburgS. Waardenburg #21
Akoldah GakA. Gak #13
Taran ArmstrongT. Armstrong #1
Jonah AntonioJ. Antonio #6
bench
Tanner GrovesT. Groves #22
Dillon StithD. Stith #3
Kyrin GallowayK. Galloway #14
Kyle AdnamK. Adnam #4
Jackson MakoiJ. Makoi #9
Deshon TaylorD. Taylor #23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
15	2	0-3	0-1	2-2	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	-8
23	16	6-12	3-6	1-1	3	2	2	0	0	0	3	1	-17
27	6	2-3	1-2	1-2	7	2	2	0	1	1	6	2	-23
23	11	3-9	2-5	3-4	7	3	5	0	0	3	4	0	-26
26	6	2-10	2-10	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	-18
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
9	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	4	0	1	0	1	0	4	3	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	14	6-7	2-2	0-0	2	1	1	0	3	1	1	4	-8
10	1	0-2	0-2	1-2	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	-2
19	9	2-4	0-0	5-6	5	7	3	3	0	0	5	3	+2
26	9	2-8	1-4	4-6	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	-16
	74	23-60	11-32	17-23	35	17	17	5	7	6	29	17
		38%	34%	74%

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
Derrick Walton JrD. Walton Jr #11
Owen FoxwellO. Foxwell #30
Ben AyreB. Ayre #10
Matt KenyonM. Kenyon #2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
22	14	6-9	0-0	2-2	7	0	2	0	0	2	5	4	+18
24	15	5-12	3-5	2-2	7	1	2	0	0	2	5	0	+28
22	7	3-5	1-3	0-0	4	2	1	2	0	0	4	1	+26
24	22	9-14	4-7	0-0	1	3	0	2	0	0	1	2	+33
26	14	2-13	2-7	8-10	5	9	2	2	1	1	4	1	+23
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
14	0	0-3	0-3	0-2	3	1	1	0	0	1	2	3	-5
17	6	2-7	2-5	0-0	5	0	0	1	0	1	4	2	-2
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	5	2-2	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	+4
18	8	3-5	2-3	0-0	1	3	2	0	0	0	1	3	-2
14	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	1	0	1	1	1	1	-4
3	6	2-3	2-3	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+1
14	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	-5
	97	34-77	17-37	12-16	36	24	11	9	2	9	27	18
		44%	46%	75%

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

Matchups

CNS

PNX leads season

1-0

PNX

Game 1@ PNX

Final

Game 2@ PNX

Final

102

Game 3@ CNS

Final

113

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

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