Adelaide 36ers vs Cairns Taipans, 2025–26 Round 9
2025–26 · Round 9 · Sun 16 November 2025
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
36ers beat Taipans 105–101
Adelaide 36ers beat Cairns Taipans 105–101 at Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Round 9 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Sun 16 November 2025.
Bryce Cotton led all scorers with 41 points for the 36ers on 11-of-27 shooting, including 7 threes, plus 8 assists and 4 steals; Jack McVeigh had 39 for the Taipans.
36ers won the rebounding battle 44–31, and Taipans turned it over 15 times to 8.
36ers led by as many as 12.
Leaders
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Threes
Team stats
- Field goals 38/7551%
- Threes 12/2744%
- Free throws 13/1872%
The game
- Rebounds 31
- Assists 26
- Turnovers 15
- Steals 1
- Bench points 17
- Biggest lead 4
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. Cotton | 41 | 1 | 8 | 42:35 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11-27 | 7-19 | 12-13 | +2 | |
| Z. Cheatham | 16 | 8 | 4 | 38:30 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4-7 | 0-2 | 8-11 | +2 | |
| I. Humphries | 18 | 13 | 1 | 29:00 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8-16 | 0-0 | 2-3 | +2 | |
| M. Kenyon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 23:32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 2-2 | +6 | |
| F. Cameron | 3 | 3 | 0 | 17:50 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 3-4 | -11 | |
| T. Brown Jnr | 9 | 7 | 4 | 23:14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3-10 | 0-3 | 3-5 | +13 | |
| D. Vasiljevic | 3 | 1 | 1 | 17:29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 | +5 | |
| I. White | 5 | 3 | 1 | 17:05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | -1 | |
| N. Rakocevic | 8 | 7 | 1 | 15:53 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +2 | |
| Team | 105 | 44 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 33-83 | 9-35 | 30-38 | |||
| Shooting | 39.8% | 25.7% | 78.9% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. McVeigh | 39 | 8 | 7 | 43:32 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 15-25 | 4-10 | 5-7 | -2 | |
| M. King | 21 | 3 | 2 | 42:05 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8-14 | 3-8 | 2-2 | -3 | |
| A. Andrews | 7 | 2 | 8 | 39:56 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2-14 | 1-3 | 2-2 | -3 | |
| K. Galloway | 14 | 2 | 1 | 34:41 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5-6 | 3-4 | 1-2 | -4 | |
| A. Schofield | 3 | 6 | 3 | 20:29 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | -6 | |
| M. Lee | 15 | 9 | 3 | 27:38 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6-11 | 0-0 | 3-5 | +1 | |
| L. Barker | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16:44 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -3 | |
| Team | 101 | 31 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 23 | 38-75 | 12-27 | 13-18 | |||
| Shooting | 50.7% | 44.4% | 72.2% |
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How the FanCrew rating works
FanCrew rating: the whole box-score line (scoring and shooting, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers and fouls) plus the margin while on court, on a 0–10 scale against every NBL game since 2005–06. 6.5 is a typical game, 8.5 and up a standout. Players need five minutes to be rated.