Cairns Taipans vs NZ Breakers, 2025–26 Round 13
2025–26 · Round 13 · Fri 19 December 2025
Cairns Convention Centre
Taipans beat Breakers 99–95
Cairns Taipans beat NZ Breakers 99–95 at Cairns Convention Centre in Round 13 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Fri 19 December 2025.
Jack McVeigh led all scorers with 47 points for the Taipans on 16-of-21 shooting, including 6 threes, plus 8 rebounds; Sam Mennenga had 24 for the Breakers.
Taipans turned it over 14 times to 7.
Taipans led by as many as 11.
Leaders
Points
- McVeighCNS47
- MennengaNZL24
- BrockingtonNZL17
Rebounds
- WaardenburgCNS10
- McVeighCNS8
- MennengaNZL8
Assists
- Jackson-CartwrightNZL11
- AndrewsCNS9
- WaardenburgCNS8
Threes
- McVeighCNS6
- BrockingtonNZL2
- DavisonNZL2
Team stats
- Field goals 37/7549%
- Threes 8/2730%
- Free throws 13/2162%
The game
- Rebounds 31
- Assists 21
- Turnovers 7
- Steals 6
- Bench points 24
- Biggest lead 9
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. McVeigh | 47 | 8 | 3 | 36:53 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 16-21 | 6-8 | 9-9 | 0 | |
| A. Andrews | 4 | 2 | 9 | 32:41 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2-7 | 0-4 | 0-0 | +15 | |
| S. Waardenburg | 16 | 10 | 8 | 29:59 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5-8 | 1-2 | 5-7 | 0 | |
| M. King | 7 | 2 | 2 | 26:12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3-8 | 0-4 | 1-2 | -7 | |
| K. Galloway | 0 | 3 | 1 | 13:56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0-5 | 0-4 | 0-0 | -9 | |
| M. Lee | 15 | 4 | 1 | 22:53 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 | +12 | |
| M. Mag | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | +13 | |
| A. Schofield | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13:57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-5 | 1-4 | 1-2 | +4 | |
| L. Barker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7:41 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -4 | |
| K. Adnam | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1:53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -4 |
| Team | 99 | 37 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 17 | 37-67 | 8-26 | 17-22 | |||
| Shooting | 55.2% | 30.8% | 77.3% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Mennenga | 24 | 8 | 5 | 33:18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9-17 | 0-2 | 6-9 | +7 | |
| P. Jackson-Cartwright | 12 | 2 | 11 | 32:32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4-12 | 1-6 | 3-6 | -2 | |
| I. Brockington | 17 | 3 | 3 | 30:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7-10 | 2-3 | 1-1 | +1 | |
| K. Lopez | 7 | 3 | 0 | 25:57 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 3-3 | -4 | |
| R. Baker II | 11 | 2 | 0 | 21:12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5-10 | 1-4 | 0-0 | -4 | |
| R. Te Rangi | 7 | 7 | 1 | 22:23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3-8 | 1-5 | 0-0 | -7 | |
| T. Webster | 7 | 3 | 1 | 17:24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | -4 | |
| C. Davison | 10 | 3 | 0 | 17:14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4-7 | 2-3 | 0-2 | -7 | |
| Team | 95 | 31 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 37-75 | 8-27 | 13-21 | |||
| Shooting | 49.3% | 29.6% | 61.9% |
Tap a column heading to sort. RTG is the FanCrew rating.
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.
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