Cairns Taipans vs NZ Breakers, 2025–26 Round 10
2025–26 · Round 10 · Sat 22 November 2025
Cairns Convention Centre
Breakers beat Taipans 102–96
NZ Breakers beat Cairns Taipans 102–96 at Cairns Convention Centre in Round 10 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Sat 22 November 2025.
Jack McVeigh led all scorers with 35 points for the Taipans on 12-of-21 shooting, including 5 threes; Sam Mennenga had 22 for the Breakers.
Breakers won the rebounding battle 36–25, and Taipans made 14 threes to 7.
Breakers led by as many as 14.
Leaders
Points
- McVeighCNS35
- AndrewsCNS23
- BrockingtonNZL22
Rebounds
- BrockingtonNZL11
- MennengaNZL8
- McVeighCNS7
Assists
- AndrewsCNS9
- Jackson-CartwrightNZL6
- McVeighCNS4
Threes
Team stats
- Field goals 35/6554%
- Threes 7/2528%
- Free throws 25/3474%
The game
- Rebounds 36
- Assists 21
- Turnovers 11
- Steals 4
- Bench points 13
- Biggest lead 14
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. McVeigh | 35 | 7 | 4 | 40:00 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 12-21 | 5-12 | 6-6 | -6 | |
| A. Andrews | 23 | 2 | 9 | 37:08 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8-16 | 1-3 | 6-6 | -1 | |
| K. Galloway | 8 | 5 | 1 | 33:26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2-6 | 1-4 | 3-3 | -8 | |
| M. King | 9 | 4 | 2 | 23:38 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-2 | +1 | |
| M. Lee | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15:35 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-3 | -8 | |
| A. Schofield | 6 | 2 | 3 | 23:50 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2-6 | 1-3 | 1-2 | +8 | |
| L. Barker | 9 | 3 | 2 | 18:08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 1-3 | -12 | |
| M. Mag | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8:21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | -4 | |
| Team | 96 | 25 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 32-66 | 14-33 | 18-25 | |||
| Shooting | 48.5% | 42.4% | 72.0% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. Jackson-Cartwright | 20 | 1 | 6 | 33:00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7-15 | 2-7 | 4-6 | +3 | |
| S. Mennenga | 22 | 8 | 2 | 30:20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7-15 | 1-4 | 7-13 | +6 | |
| I. Brockington | 22 | 11 | 4 | 26:23 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6-9 | 0-2 | 10-11 | +21 | |
| R. Baker II | 10 | 6 | 3 | 23:26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3-6 | 2-5 | 2-2 | +17 | |
| K. Lopez | 15 | 3 | 1 | 20:17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6-8 | 1-2 | 2-2 | +3 | |
| R. Te Rangi | 5 | 2 | 0 | 20:50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | -10 | |
| C. Davison | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19:26 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -2 | |
| I. Le'Afa | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12:20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -7 | |
| R. Loe | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7:08 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | -4 | |
| T. Britt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6:56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +3 | |
| Team | 102 | 36 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 35-65 | 7-25 | 25-34 | |||
| Shooting | 53.8% | 28.0% | 73.5% |
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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.