Melbourne United vs NZ Breakers, 2017–18 Round 3
2017–18 · Round 3 · Sun 22 October 2017
Melbourne Arena
Breakers beat United by 12
NZ Breakers beat Melbourne United 88–76 at Melbourne Arena in Round 3 of the 2017–18 NBL season, on Sun 22 October 2017.
Josh Boone led all scorers with 22 points for the United on 8-of-11 shooting, plus 14 rebounds and 3 blocks in a double-double; Tom Abercrombie had 21 for the Breakers.
United turned it over 17 times to 9.
Breakers led by as many as 14.
Leaders
Points
- BooneMEL22
- AbercrombieNZL21
- PratherMEL20
Rebounds
Assists
Threes
- AbercrombieNZL3
- PratherMEL2
- NewbillNZL2
Team stats
- Field goals 31/6945%
- Threes 8/2433%
- Free throws 18/3060%
The game
- Rebounds 33
- Assists 17
- Turnovers 9
- Steals 7
- Bench points 21
- Biggest lead 14
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Goulding | 7 | 4 | 2 | 33:20 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2-9 | 2-7 | 1-2 | -14 | |
| C. Ware | 6 | 2 | 5 | 33:14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2-10 | 2-8 | 0-0 | -12 | |
| J. Boone | 22 | 14 | 0 | 31:05 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8-11 | 0-0 | 6-8 | -13 | |
| C. Prather | 20 | 6 | 5 | 29:53 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7-10 | 2-3 | 4-4 | +1 | |
| T. Wesley | 9 | 3 | 2 | 25:02 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4-14 | 0-4 | 1-3 | -12 | |
| D. Andersen | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14:12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -1 | |
| K. Adnam | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10:44 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1-5 | 0-3 | 2-2 | -1 | |
| M. Majok | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8:56 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| C. Moller | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8:04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -3 | |
| D. Barlow | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4:02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -8 |
| T. Smith-Milner | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +1 |
| S. Short | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +1 |
| Team | 76 | 38 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 26 | 28-66 | 6-25 | 14-19 | |||
| Shooting | 42.4% | 24.0% | 73.7% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. Newbill | 15 | 7 | 3 | 35:35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5-16 | 2-5 | 3-4 | +15 | |
| E. Sosa | 17 | 3 | 5 | 31:09 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5-13 | 1-7 | 6-8 | +7 | |
| T. Abercrombie | 21 | 3 | 1 | 31:02 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7-14 | 3-7 | 4-5 | +18 | |
| M. Vukona | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18:47 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | +18 | |
| A. Pledger | 8 | 4 | 1 | 18:32 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | +15 | |
| S. Ili | 9 | 2 | 4 | 23:38 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | +4 | |
| R. Loe | 3 | 4 | 0 | 18:39 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | -6 | |
| F. Delany | 9 | 5 | 0 | 18:05 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 1-3 | -7 | |
| J. Ngatai | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3:47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 | -2 |
| J. Hunter | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0:47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -2 |
| Team | 88 | 33 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 31-69 | 8-24 | 18-30 | |||
| Shooting | 44.9% | 33.3% | 60.0% |
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.