Cairns Taipans vs Adelaide 36ers, 2025–26 Round 5
2025–26 · Round 5 · Sat 18 October 2025
Cairns Convention Centre
Recap
36ers beat Taipans 91–86
Adelaide 36ers beat Cairns Taipans 91–86 at Cairns Convention Centre in Round 5 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Sat 18 October 2025.
Bryce Cotton led all scorers with 53 points for the 36ers on 16-of-29 shooting, including 5 threes; Andrew Andrews had 23 for the Taipans.
36ers led by as many as 14.
Leaders
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Threes
Team stats
CNSShootingADL
- Field goals 30/7043%
- Threes 10/3231%
- Free throws 21/2488%
45%33/73
36%13/36
50%7/14
The game
- Rebounds 35
- Assists 14
- Turnovers 4
- Steals 6
- Bench points 10
- Biggest lead 14
35
20
7
2
14
3
Box score
Cairns Taipans86
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Andrews | 23 | 2 | 7 | 36:41 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9-23 | 2-8 | 3-3 | -6 | |
| A. Higgins-Titsha | 7 | 6 | 0 | 32:39 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 1-3 | +1 | |
| A. Schofield | 18 | 9 | 5 | 32:38 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6-15 | 5-12 | 1-2 | -8 | |
| R. Smith | 17 | 0 | 2 | 26:29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6-11 | 4-8 | 1-1 | -14 | |
| K. Galloway | 7 | 9 | 0 | 26:08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2-6 | 2-5 | 1-2 | 0 | |
| M. Lee | 14 | 6 | 1 | 25:05 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-3 | +1 | |
| K. Adnam | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11:12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +7 | |
| K. Stattmann | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6:26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| L. McVeigh | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2:50 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -7 |
| Team | 86 | 35 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 33-73 | 13-36 | 7-14 | |||
| Shooting | 45.2% | 36.1% | 50.0% |
Adelaide 36ers91
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. Cotton | 53 | 2 | 5 | 38:23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-29 | 5-13 | 16-16 | +9 | |
| F. Cameron | 14 | 8 | 1 | 36:02 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5-13 | 4-10 | 0-0 | +8 | |
| Z. Cheatham | 3 | 8 | 1 | 32:24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 3-4 | +11 | |
| D. Vasiljevic | 3 | 6 | 1 | 29:20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1-7 | 1-5 | 0-0 | +9 | |
| I. Humphries | 8 | 3 | 3 | 28:20 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | +2 | |
| N. Rakocevic | 6 | 3 | 2 | 12:17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2-5 | 0-2 | 2-3 | +1 | |
| I. White | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10:56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +2 | |
| M. Kenyon | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8:14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -12 | |
| K. Rasmussen | – | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4:11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -5 |
| Team | 91 | 35 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 30-70 | 10-32 | 21-24 | |||
| Shooting | 42.9% | 31.3% | 87.5% |
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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.