Melbourne United vs Cairns Taipans, 2017–18 Round 5
2017–18 · Round 5 · Thu 2 November 2017
Melbourne Arena
United rout Taipans by 22
Melbourne United beat Cairns Taipans 87–65 at Melbourne Arena in Round 5 of the 2017–18 NBL season, on Thu 2 November 2017.
Casper Ware led all scorers with 26 points for the United on 10-of-17 shooting, including 5 threes; Michael Carrera had 19 for the Taipans.
United won the rebounding battle 39–28, and United made 15 threes to 9.
United led by as many as 25.
Leaders
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Threes
Team stats
- Field goals 22/6335%
- Threes 9/2733%
- Free throws 12/1580%
The game
- Rebounds 28
- Assists 11
- Turnovers 18
- Steals 6
- Bench points 19
- Biggest lead 1
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Ware | 26 | 5 | 3 | 31:27 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10-17 | 5-10 | 1-2 | +15 | |
| C. Goulding | 20 | 4 | 1 | 31:17 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6-12 | 6-11 | 2-3 | +15 | |
| C. Prather | 16 | 4 | 2 | 27:05 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5-14 | 1-5 | 5-5 | +21 | |
| J. Boone | 8 | 2 | 2 | 15:06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +7 | |
| D. Barlow | 0 | 4 | 1 | 14:08 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| M. Majok | 2 | 9 | 1 | 22:54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 | +15 | |
| K. Adnam | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18:12 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2-6 | 0-3 | 2-2 | +14 | |
| D. Andersen | 3 | 3 | 2 | 17:54 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | +5 | |
| C. Moller | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| T. Wesley | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7:59 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +16 | |
| T. Smith-Milner | – | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 |
| P. Hooley | – | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Team | 87 | 39 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 30-73 | 15-38 | 12-14 | |||
| Shooting | 41.1% | 39.5% | 85.7% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. Egwu | 4 | 4 | 2 | 29:20 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -17 | |
| S. Weigh | 8 | 3 | 0 | 24:07 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3-10 | 2-5 | 0-0 | -17 | |
| D. Smith | 7 | 4 | 2 | 23:32 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | -12 | |
| C. Gliddon | 8 | 6 | 0 | 23:05 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2-6 | 2-4 | 2-2 | -17 | |
| M. Carrera | 19 | 3 | 0 | 22:27 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6-13 | 2-5 | 5-8 | -17 | |
| A. Loughton | 2 | 3 | 1 | 23:17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -10 | |
| M. McCarron | 5 | 3 | 2 | 22:53 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2-7 | 1-5 | 0-0 | -13 | |
| J. Weeks | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14:47 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 2-2 | -11 | |
| D. Heuir | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11:21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 3-3 | +6 | |
| C. Patton | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3:14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| K. Kuany | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -2 |
| Team | 65 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 22-63 | 9-27 | 12-15 | |||
| Shooting | 34.9% | 33.3% | 80.0% |
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.