Cairns Taipans vs Brisbane Bullets, 2025–26 Round 2
2025–26 · Round 2 · Fri 26 September 2025
Cairns Convention Centre
Recap
Taipans edge Bullets 83–82
Cairns Taipans beat Brisbane Bullets 83–82 at Cairns Convention Centre in Round 2 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Fri 26 September 2025.
Tyrell Harrison led all scorers with 22 points for the Bullets on 9-of-11 shooting; Jack McVeigh had 19 for the Taipans.
Taipans made 9 threes to 2.
Taipans led by as many as 12.
Leaders
Points
- HarrisonBRI22
- Freeman-LibertyBRI21
- McVeighCNS19
Rebounds
- McVeighCNS9
- Higgins-TitshaCNS8
- Freeman-LibertyBRI7
Assists
- McVeighCNS9
- AdamsBRI6
- Freeman-LibertyBRI5
Threes
Team stats
CNSShootingBRI
- Field goals 32/7642%
- Threes 2/1911%
- Free throws 16/2467%
38%30/78
25%9/36
70%14/20
The game
- Rebounds 40
- Assists 17
- Turnovers 9
- Steals 7
- Bench points 4
- Biggest lead 4
43
21
10
6
18
12
Box score
Cairns Taipans83
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. McVeigh | 19 | 9 | 9 | 38:53 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6-14 | 2-6 | 5-5 | -1 | |
| A. Schofield | 19 | 6 | 3 | 31:17 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7-16 | 3-9 | 2-2 | -10 | |
| R. Smith | 7 | 5 | 0 | 29:59 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2-9 | 0-4 | 3-3 | -18 | |
| A. Andrews | 8 | 1 | 4 | 26:57 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3-13 | 2-8 | 0-2 | -1 | |
| M. Lee | 12 | 3 | 2 | 19:20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | |
| K. Galloway | 5 | 5 | 1 | 22:38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 | -3 | |
| A. Higgins-Titsha | 4 | 8 | 2 | 15:35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-2 | +20 | |
| K. Stattmann | 9 | 6 | 0 | 15:30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-6 | 1-3 | 4-6 | +18 | |
| Team | 83 | 43 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 30-78 | 9-36 | 14-20 | |||
| Shooting | 38.5% | 25.0% | 70.0% |
Brisbane Bullets82
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. Adams | 12 | 4 | 6 | 35:41 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3-13 | 0-4 | 6-7 | +9 | |
| C. Prather | 18 | 4 | 4 | 31:35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8-19 | 1-7 | 1-2 | +7 | |
| J. Freeman-Liberty | 21 | 7 | 5 | 30:47 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9-19 | 0-1 | 3-4 | +2 | |
| T. Harrison | 22 | 7 | 2 | 30:11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9-11 | 0-0 | 4-7 | +16 | |
| S. McDaniel | – | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3:41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | +4 |
| A. Ducas | 0 | 4 | 0 | 25:44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0-5 | 0-5 | 0-0 | -6 | |
| T. Murray | 1 | 6 | 0 | 24:11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | -12 | |
| T. Smith-Milner | 3 | 6 | 0 | 12:56 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 1-2 | -18 | |
| J. Purchase | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5:21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -7 | |
| Team | 82 | 40 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 32-76 | 2-19 | 16-24 | |||
| Shooting | 42.1% | 10.5% | 66.7% |
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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.