Cairns Taipans vs Sydney Kings, 2020–21 Round 8
2020–21 · Round 8 · Thu 4 March 2021
State Basketball Centre
Taipans beat Kings 96–92
Cairns Taipans beat Sydney Kings 96–92 at State Basketball Centre in Round 8 of the 2020–21 NBL season, on Thu 4 March 2021.
Dejan Vasiljevic led all scorers with 32 points for the Kings on 13-of-17 shooting, including 5 threes; Scott Machado had 24 for the Taipans.
Taipans won the rebounding battle 36–27, and Taipans had 29 bench points to 13.
Taipans led by as many as 12.
Leaders
Team stats
- Field goals 34/6453%
- Threes 12/2450%
- Free throws 12/1675%
The game
- Rebounds 27
- Assists 15
- Turnovers 11
- Steals 3
- Bench points 13
- Biggest lead 9
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F. Krslovic | 15 | 10 | 1 | 33:20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6-6 | 1-1 | 2-2 | -2 | |
| M. Djeric | 12 | 2 | 0 | 33:07 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4-9 | 4-8 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| S. Machado | 24 | 2 | 5 | 29:35 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9-17 | 3-6 | 3-4 | +1 | |
| C. Oliver | 12 | 5 | 0 | 24:12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6-13 | 0-3 | 0-0 | -17 | |
| K. Noi | 4 | 5 | 0 | 18:46 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 4-4 | +3 | |
| J. Ngatai | 6 | 3 | 0 | 21:29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2-6 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0 | |
| J. Kenny | 0 | 2 | 4 | 17:20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +6 | |
| N. Jawai | 22 | 6 | 3 | 15:35 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10-12 | 0-0 | 2-2 | +22 | |
| G. Blagojevic | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6:41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | +6 | |
| Team | 96 | 36 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 18 | 37-69 | 10-27 | 12-14 | |||
| Shooting | 53.6% | 37.0% | 85.7% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. Vasiljevic | 32 | 3 | 3 | 39:05 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13-17 | 5-5 | 1-1 | -3 | |
| C. Ware | 28 | 4 | 4 | 32:41 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9-16 | 3-7 | 7-7 | +1 | |
| J. Hunter | 11 | 6 | 1 | 27:19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 1-4 | -5 | |
| C. Moller | 5 | 4 | 4 | 26:37 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | +3 | |
| S. Bruce | 3 | 1 | 2 | 21:23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | +2 | |
| D. Louzada | 8 | 4 | 1 | 27:53 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3-8 | 1-5 | 1-2 | -10 | |
| T. Vodanovich | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11:34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | -6 | |
| D. Kickert | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8:36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 2-2 | +1 | |
| B. Newley | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4:57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -3 |
| Team | 92 | 27 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 20 | 34-64 | 12-24 | 12-16 | |||
| Shooting | 53.1% | 50.0% | 75.0% |
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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