South East Melbourne Phoenix vs Cairns Taipans, 2025–26 Round 18
2025–26 · Round 18 · Sat 24 January 2026
State Basketball Centre
Phoenix rout Taipans by 27
South East Melbourne Phoenix beat Cairns Taipans 118–91 at State Basketball Centre in Round 18 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Sat 24 January 2026.
Angus Glover led all scorers with 22 points for the Phoenix on 7-of-10 shooting, including 5 threes; Jack McVeigh had 21 for the Taipans.
Phoenix made 21 threes to 13, and Taipans turned it over 18 times to 11.
Phoenix led by as many as 28.
- 22
- PTS
- 0
- REB
- 5
- AST
- +19
- +/-
7/10 FG · 5/8 3PT · 3/3 FT
Leaders
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Threes
Team stats
- Field goals 33/6551%
- Threes 13/3339%
- Free throws 12/1771%
The game
- Rebounds 27
- Assists 19
- Turnovers 18
- Steals 6
- Bench points 12
- Biggest lead 14
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. Brown III | 10 | 8 | 2 | 30:08 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 4-4 | +13 | |
| W. Iwundu | 21 | 4 | 3 | 26:53 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7-16 | 5-9 | 2-2 | +14 | |
| O. Foxwell | 13 | 5 | 8 | 23:20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4-8 | 2-4 | 3-4 | +7 | |
| N. Sobey | 9 | 2 | 8 | 20:32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2-6 | 1-3 | 4-7 | +12 | |
| J. Hunter | 7 | 6 | 0 | 20:02 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 3-4 | +12 | |
| I. Clark | 19 | 1 | 4 | 23:26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7-11 | 5-8 | 0-0 | +27 | |
| M. Lewis | 6 | 4 | 1 | 20:35 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 0-0 | +16 | |
| A. Glover | 22 | 0 | 5 | 20:17 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7-10 | 5-8 | 3-3 | +19 | |
| D. Mitchell | 9 | 1 | 0 | 9:53 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4-8 | 1-4 | 0-0 | +12 | |
| L. Rosendale | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1:41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | +1 |
| P. Ryan | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1:41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +1 |
| D. Foster | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1:41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | +1 |
| Team | 118 | 32 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 38-73 | 21-41 | 21-28 | |||
| Shooting | 52.1% | 51.2% | 75.0% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Andrews | 20 | 1 | 11 | 36:32 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8-12 | 2-2 | 2-3 | -21 | |
| J. McVeigh | 21 | 6 | 1 | 34:23 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8-13 | 2-6 | 3-3 | -20 | |
| M. King | 10 | 8 | 1 | 30:38 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3-8 | 3-7 | 1-2 | -10 | |
| L. Barker | 11 | 2 | 3 | 25:47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3-8 | 1-4 | 4-4 | -10 | |
| K. Galloway | 17 | 4 | 2 | 25:05 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6-9 | 3-6 | 2-2 | -5 | |
| K. Adnam | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17:24 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | -22 | |
| A. Schofield | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17:23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3-9 | 1-5 | 0-1 | -22 | |
| M. Lee | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12:53 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-2 | -25 | |
| Team | 91 | 27 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 33-65 | 13-33 | 12-17 | |||
| Shooting | 50.8% | 39.4% | 70.6% |
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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