Cairns Taipans vs Melbourne United, 2024–25 Round 14
2024–25 · Round 14 · Thu 26 December 2024
Cairns Convention Centre
United beat Taipans by 10
Melbourne United beat Cairns Taipans 76–66 at Cairns Convention Centre in Round 14 of the 2024–25 NBL season, on Thu 26 December 2024.
Tanner Groves led all scorers with 20 points for the Taipans on 7-of-10 shooting, including 3 threes; Chris Goulding had 19 for the United.
United won the rebounding battle 53–28.
United led by as many as 20.
Leaders
Team stats
- Field goals 29/7539%
- Threes 7/3818%
- Free throws 11/1573%
The game
- Rebounds 53
- Assists 16
- Turnovers 16
- Steals 5
- Bench points 24
- Biggest lead 20
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. Armstrong | 4 | 5 | 4 | 32:54 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1-9 | 1-6 | 1-5 | -5 | |
| T. Groves | 20 | 6 | 4 | 32:17 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7-10 | 3-3 | 3-4 | +2 | |
| R. Edwards | 6 | 3 | 2 | 27:46 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2-12 | 0-5 | 2-2 | -13 | |
| S. Waardenburg | 7 | 6 | 1 | 25:22 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 5-6 | -11 | |
| P. Bradshaw | 4 | 3 | 0 | 16:57 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1-5 | 1-3 | 1-2 | -7 | |
| K. Galloway | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20:01 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2-7 | 1-5 | 0-0 | -11 | |
| A. Higgins-Titsha | 2 | 2 | 0 | 17:26 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| K. Adnam | 12 | 0 | 1 | 15:05 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5-10 | 1-5 | 1-2 | +5 | |
| J. Antonio | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12:17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | -11 | |
| Team | 66 | 28 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 22-63 | 9-32 | 13-21 | |||
| Shooting | 34.9% | 28.1% | 61.9% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. Dellavedova | 7 | 2 | 6 | 28:18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2-8 | 1-5 | 2-2 | +2 | |
| J. White | 14 | 8 | 1 | 27:11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5-8 | 1-4 | 3-4 | -2 | |
| C. Goulding | 19 | 5 | 1 | 24:59 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6-17 | 4-13 | 3-5 | +13 | |
| M. Lee | 8 | 10 | 1 | 20:14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | |
| S. Ili | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16:02 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 2-2 | +4 | |
| I. Clark | 12 | 1 | 0 | 23:17 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -6 | |
| R. Loe | 4 | 8 | 2 | 19:47 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2-8 | 0-5 | 0-0 | +10 | |
| F. Cameron | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16:31 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 1-2 | +17 | |
| K. Bowen | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12:50 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | +12 | |
| T. Krebs | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10:56 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3-7 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0 | |
| Team | 76 | 53 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 17 | 29-75 | 7-38 | 11-15 | |||
| Shooting | 38.7% | 18.4% | 73.3% |
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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.