P14 :Cairns Taipans vs Adelaide 36ers

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The stats

- The Taipans have beaten the Sixers in four of their last five meetings, but the Snakes have lost eight of their previous nine matches in #NBL21. The only win in that stretch was three weeks ago at home to Adelaide.

- Daniel Johnson sure enjoys playing in Cairns and overall coming up against the Taipans. Last season he scored his career high of 38 points against the Snakes while in the two games this season he is averaging 25.5 points. That makes it the best average of his career against the Taipans with five of his highest eight scoring games coming against them.

- DJ also arrives in Cairns in impressive form having averaged 23.5 points over the last four games while shooting the three ball at 45 per cent in that stretch and having hit 20 consecutive free-throws.

- Opposed to that, Cam Oliver also enjoys playing for the Taipans against the 36ers. His career-high of 31 points came against the Sixers in Round 19 of last season while he's also coming off 27 points, 12 rebounds and a new career-high five assists on Sunday in Wollongong against the Illawarra Hawks.

 

The key men

Cam Oliver – He is coming off his best all-round performance of the season in Wollongong against the Hawks and he had that look in his eye all game that he wasn’t going to accept another loss for the Taipans. Now ultimately they did lose by two points, but he couldn’t have done much more and he is going to have to come out with the same mindset on Wednesday night for the Snakes to get over the line especially if Scott Machado doesn’t get up to play. Keanu Pinder will throw good energy against him and there'll be times he'll be matched up with Daniel Johnson, but he just needs to be aggressive and attack the basket, and then let his outside game come to him naturally, and provided he is in a positive mindset, there's every chance he can lead the Taipans to the win.

Josh Giddey – That elusive triple-double is seemingly on the verge of happening and as he prepares to play in Cairns for the first time and with the chance the Taipans will be missing Scott Machado, the stars might be aligning. Over his past five games, the Next Star who has been rated as high as No. 9 in NBA Draft projections has been averaging 14.8 points, 10.6 assists and 8.4 rebounds. His shooting is on the rise to and he's shooting the three ball at 46 per cent over that period. While Taipans guard Machado leads the league in assists at 7.4 a game, Giddey is averaging double his number over the past five rounds and he'll look to put on a show in Cairns on Wednesday night.