Cairns Taipans vs Adelaide 36ers, 2025–26 Round 3
2025–26 · Round 3 · Thu 2 October 2025
Cairns Convention Centre
36ers rout Taipans by 31
Adelaide 36ers beat Cairns Taipans 110–79 at Cairns Convention Centre in Round 3 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Thu 2 October 2025.
Bryce Cotton led all scorers with 28 points for the 36ers on 11-of-18 shooting, including 4 threes, plus 7 assists and 5 steals; Admiral Schofield had 19 for the Taipans.
36ers made 12 threes to 7, and Taipans turned it over 15 times to 6.
36ers led by as many as 36.
Leaders
Team stats
- Field goals 39/7949%
- Threes 12/3238%
- Free throws 20/2580%
The game
- Rebounds 37
- Assists 25
- Turnovers 6
- Steals 12
- Bench points 20
- Biggest lead 36
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Andrews | 10 | 2 | 7 | 31:08 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4-12 | 0-4 | 2-2 | -25 | |
| A. Schofield | 19 | 4 | 0 | 29:32 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8-14 | 3-8 | 0-0 | -24 | |
| J. McVeigh | 9 | 8 | 5 | 29:23 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 | -24 | |
| M. Lee | 18 | 7 | 1 | 23:14 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8-10 | 0-0 | 2-5 | -10 | |
| R. Smith | 8 | 1 | 3 | 21:53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3-8 | 2-6 | 0-0 | -8 | |
| K. Galloway | 2 | 7 | 2 | 19:20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 | -22 | |
| A. Higgins-Titsha | 4 | 7 | 1 | 15:20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -15 | |
| M. Mag | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13:44 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | -14 | |
| K. Adnam | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7:47 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| K. Stattmann | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5:32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -16 | |
| L. McVeigh | – | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3:14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +2 |
| Team | 79 | 40 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 34-75 | 7-27 | 4-7 | |||
| Shooting | 45.3% | 25.9% | 57.1% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. Cotton | 28 | 3 | 7 | 35:11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11-18 | 4-8 | 2-2 | +34 | |
| D. Vasiljevic | 19 | 0 | 0 | 28:44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6-13 | 4-9 | 3-3 | +29 | |
| Z. Cheatham | 4 | 10 | 4 | 27:02 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +22 | |
| F. Cameron | 20 | 4 | 4 | 25:41 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5-10 | 4-8 | 6-7 | +16 | |
| I. Humphries | 19 | 6 | 1 | 19:08 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7-12 | 0-0 | 5-8 | +20 | |
| N. Rakocevic | 8 | 8 | 1 | 16:23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2-6 | 0-1 | 4-5 | +4 | |
| I. White | 6 | 3 | 4 | 16:17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +12 | |
| M. Kenyon | 6 | 2 | 1 | 15:21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +22 | |
| M. Harris | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11:11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | +2 | |
| K. Rasmussen | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3:41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -1 |
| B. Jones | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1:30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -5 |
| Team | 110 | 37 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 39-79 | 12-32 | 20-25 | |||
| Shooting | 49.4% | 37.5% | 80.0% |
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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.