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{{{NBLyear}}} 2020–21 Cairns Taipans season season
Head coachUnited States Mike Kelly
CaptainBrazil Scott Machado
ArenaCairns Pop-Up Arena, Cairns
Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns
NBL results
Record1–5 (16.7%)
LadderTemplate:NBL Ladder 2020–21 - Team's Page
Finals finishTemplate:NBL Finals 2020–21 - Team's Page
Biggest win1 point
87-86 (vs Kings)
Biggest defeat20 points
70-90 (vs Hawks)
Stats at NBL.com.au
Home Attendance
Highest attendance1,930 (16 January 2021)
Lowest attendance1,808 (18 January 2021)
Average attendance1,880
Player records
PointsUnited States Cameron Oliver
18.8
ReboundsUnited States Cameron Oliver
10.5
AssistsBrazil Scott Machado
8.8
EfficiencyUnited States Cameron Oliver
53%
All statistics correct as of 30 January 2021.

The 2020–21 Cairns Taipans season is the 22nd season for the Cairns Taipans in the NBL, and their third season under the guidance of Head Coach Mike Kelly.

Season summary

After a successful campaign the season prior, the Taipans faced an early setback when it was announced that the redevelopment of the Cairns Convention Centre had been delayed and was unavailable for use until early February of 2020, two months after the NBL announced the delayed season would start.[1] After meeting with the Queensland Minister for Housing, Public Works and Sports Mick de Brenni, it was announced that the redevelopment timeline would not be adjusted for the Taipans.[2] Following more discussions between the club and the state government, it was announced that the government would redevelop an old warehouse capable to host games across the two month period between the start of the season and when the Convention Centre becomes available, with the temporary stadium able to hold 2,000 seats.[3]

Squad

Signings

Main article: List of 2020–21 NBL season transactions
  • The Taipans only retained one of their players over the off-season, Majok Deng, who had signed a multiple season contract before the 2019–20 season.[4] Head Coach Mike Kelly had also already signed for the 2020–21 season.[5]
  • On 13 March 2020, Mojave King was signed as a Next Star player.[6] King signed with the Taipans on a three-year deal as part of the Next Stars program, which "contracts Draft eligible players in order to prepare and fast-track them to the NBA, providing an alternative option to attending college."[6]
  • On 7 March 2020, the Taipans announced that they'd taken the club option on the contracts of Mirko Djeric, Fabijan Krslovic and Kouat Noi, who would all return to Cairns on a one-year deal.[7]
  • On 3 August 2020, the Taipans re-signed co-captain Nathan Jawai on an two-year deal, extending his stint at the club to at least seven years.[8]
  • On 6 August 2020, Jarrod Kenny joined the list of returning Taipans and signed a one-season deal with the club.[9]
  • On 14 August 2020, the Taipans signed Jordan Ngatai to a two-year deal.[10]
  • On 3 September 2020, George Blagojevic re-signed with the club on a two-year deal (with the second year being a club option).[11]
  • On 16 November 2020, Cameron Oliver re-signed with the Snakes on a two-year deal, signing as the team's first import for the 2020–21 season,[12]
  • On 22 November 2020, Scott Machado completed the Taipans' roster by also signing a two-year deal.[13]
  • On 22 December 2020, Jordan Hunt was announced as the Taipans only development player for the season. Tad Dufelmeier and Koen Sapwell were also announced as the training players for the club.[14]

Roster

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2020–21 Cairns Taipans roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age
F 0 United States Oliver, Cameron (I) 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 102 kg (225 lb) 27 – (1996-07-11)11 July 1996
G 1 New Zealand King, Mojave (NS) 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 22 – (2002-06-11)11 June 2002
G 3 Brazil Machado, Scott (I & C) 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 34 – (1990-06-08)8 June 1990
G 5 Australia Đerić, Mirko 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 29 – (1995-04-17)17 April 1995
G 6 New Zealand Kenny, Jarrod 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 38 – (1985-09-17)17 September 1985
F 9 Australia Blagojevic, George 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 27 – (1996-10-18)18 October 1996
C 10 New Zealand Hunt, Jordan (DP) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 108 kg (238 lb) 26 – (1997-09-12)12 September 1997
F 11 New Zealand Ngatai, Jordan 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 31 – (1993-03-07)7 March 1993
F 12 Australia Noi, Kouat 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 26 – (1997-10-29)29 October 1997
F 13 South Sudan Deng, Majok 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 31 – (1993-03-01)1 March 1993
C 15 Australia Jawai, Nathan 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) 140 kg (309 lb) 37 – (1986-10-10)10 October 1986
F 20 Australia Krslovic, Fabijan 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 108 kg (238 lb) 28 – (1995-06-23)23 June 1995
G 33 Australia Dufelmeier, Tad (TP) 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 79 kg (174 lb) 28 – (1996-02-09)9 February 1996
G Australia Sapwell, Koen (TP) 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 83 kg (183 lb)
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Team manager
  • Australia Brett Havercroft
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (DP) Development player
  • (IN) Inactive
  • (I) Import player
  • (TP) Training player
  • (NS) Next Star player
  • Injured Injured
Updated: 22 December 2020


Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2 Development
C Cameron Oliver Nathan Jawai Jordan Hunt
PF Majok Deng Fabijan Krslovic
SF Kouat Noi Jordan Ngatai George Blagojevic
SG Mirko Djeric Mojave King
PG Scott Machado Jarrod Kenny

Pre-season

Ladder

2020–21 NBL pre-season ladder
Ladder Information
Pos. Nat. Name Pld. W. L. Last 5 Streak Home Away For Against Pts % Win %
1 Australia Melbourne 1 1 0 1–0 W1 0–0 1–0 97 81 119.75% 100.00%
2 Australia Sydney 1 1 0 1–0 W1 1–0 0–0 98 89 110.11% 100.00%
3 Australia Adelaide 3 2 1 2–1 L1 2–0 0–1 276 225 122.67% 66.67%
4 Australia Perth (RC) 2 1 1 1–1 L1 1–1 0–0 165 165 100.00% 50.00%
5 Australia Cairns 2 1 1 1–1 W1 1–1 0–0 177 185 95.68% 50.00%
6 Australia Brisbane 4 2 2 2–2 W2 2–0 0–2 347 378 91.80% 50.00%
7 Australia Illawarra 3 1 2 1–2 L1 0–0 1–2 254 263 96.58% 33.33%
8 Australia S.E. Melbourne 2 0 2 0–2 L2 0–0 0–2 198 210 94.29% 0.00%

Total Rounds
5 weeks

Total Games
11 games

Legend
  • (RC) Reigning Champion
  • Updated: 9 January 2021

Game log

December

31 December 2020
18:00
Cairns Taipans 81, Melbourne United 97
Scoring by quarter: 24–18, 13–22, 20–31, 24–26
Pts: King 21
Rebs: Krslovic 7
Asts: Machado 6		 Pts: Goulding 17
Rebs: Landale 8
Asts: McCarron 5
Cairns Pop-Up Arena, Cairns
Referees: Vaughan Mayberry, Alex McEwan, Jacqui Dover

January

9 January 2021
18:00
Cairns Taipans 96, Adelaide 36ers 88
Scoring by quarter: 26–22, 15–18, 27–26, 28–22
Pts: Noi 22
Rebs: Oliver 11
Asts: Machado 8		 Pts: Sloan 24
Rebs: Johnson 10
Asts: Dillon 3
Cairns Pop-Up Arena, Cairns
Attendance: 1,000
Referees: Marc Mill, Alex McEwan, Jacqui Dover

Regular season

Ladder

Pos 2020–21 NBL season
Team Pld W L PCT Last 5 Streak Home Away PF PA PP
1 Melbourne United 36 28 8 77.78% 4–1 W3 14–4 14–4 3189 2956 107.88%
2 Perth Wildcats 36 25 11 69.44% 3–2 L2 13–5 12–6 3133 2900 108.03%
3 Illawarra Hawks 36 20 16 55.56% 4–1 L1 11–7 9–9 2962 2954 100.27%
4 S.E. Melbourne Phoenix 36 19 17 52.78% 2–3 L1 9–9 10–8 3217 3124 102.98%
5 Sydney Kings 36 19 17 52.78% 4–1 W3 11–7 8–10 3112 3087 100.81%
6 Brisbane Bullets 36 18 18 50.00% 4–1 W1 9–9 9–9 3204 3274 97.86%
7 Adelaide 36ers 36 13 23 36.11% 0–5 L7 10–8 3–15 2985 3156 94.58%
8 New Zealand Breakers 36 12 24 33.33% 2–3 L1 8–10 4–14 2937 3021 97.22%
9 Cairns Taipans 36 8 28 22.22% 1–4 L2 6–12 2–16 2940 3207 91.67%

Updated to match(es) played on 9 June 2021. Source: NBL.com.au

Ladder progression

  • Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top four.
  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
  • Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.
2020–21 NBL season
Team 1 2 3 4 5 NBL Cup 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
6 7 8 9
Adelaide 36ers 3 5 3 3 3 4 6 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Brisbane Bullets 6 9 5 6 6 7 5 4 5 5 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Cairns Taipans 4 7 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Illawarra Hawks 2 3 1 2 2 2 4 3 3 4 3 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 3 3
Melbourne United 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
New Zealand Breakers – 8 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
Perth Wildcats – 2 4 7 7 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
S.E. Melbourne Phoenix 7 6 6 4 4 5 3 7 4 3 4 3 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 4
Sydney Kings 5 4 7 5 5 6 7 6 6 6 5 4 6 4 3 3 3 5 5 5 5

Game log

Round 1

16 January 2021
19:00
Cairns Taipans 87–86 Sydney Kings
Scoring by quarter: 24–30, 26–21, 14–19, 23–16
Pts: Machado 17
Rebs: Oliver 11
Asts: Machado 8		 Pts: Ware 18
Rebs: Martin 8
Asts: Bruce 4
Cairns Pop-Up Arena, Cairns
Attendance: 1,919
Referees: Chris Reid, Nathan Durant, Daniel Battye
18 January 2021
18:30
Cairns Taipans 76–92 The Hawks
Scoring by quarter: 19–31, 22–19, 19–19, 16–23
Pts: Deng 20
Rebs: Oliver 12
Asts: Machado 11		 Pts: Harvey 25
Rebs: Simon 12
Asts: Harvey 7
Cairns Pop-Up Arena, Cairns
Attendance: 1,808
Referees: Chris Reid, Daniel Battye, Mitch Hare

Round 2

23 January 2021
19:00
Cairns Taipans 91–99 Sydney Kings
Scoring by quarter: 22–23, 15–23, 34–26, 20–27
Pts: Oliver 27
Rebs: Oliver 10
Asts: Machado 9		 Pts: Martin, Ware 22
Rebs: Martin 11
Asts: Bruce, Moller 4
Cairns Pop-Up Arena, Cairns
Attendance: 1,930
Referees: Vaughan Mayberry, Mitch Hare, Ruben Woolcock
25 January 2021
18:30
Cairns Taipans 85–87 Melbourne United
Scoring by quarter: 21–29, 24–22, 17–18, 23–18
Pts: Machado 19
Rebs: Oliver 13
Asts: Machado 6		 Pts: Landale 19
Rebs: Lual-Acuil 11
Asts: Ili, McCarron 4
Cairns Pop-Up Arena, Cairns
Attendance: 1,896
Referees: Chris Reid, Daniel Battye, Ruben Woolcock

Round 3

28 January 2021
18:30
Cairns Taipans 70–90 The Hawks
Scoring by quarter: 12–19, 24–26, 19–16, 15–29
Pts: Oliver 20
Rebs: Oliver 11
Asts: Machado 7		 Pts: Harvey 21
Rebs: Simon 8
Asts: Simon 5
Cairns Pop-Up Arena, Cairns
Attendance: 1,849
Referees: Chris Reid, Mitch Hare, Ruben Woolcock
30 January 2021
16:30
Brisbane Bullets 105–103 (OT) Cairns Taipans
Scoring by quarter: 19–23, 21–32, 21–17, 29–18, Overtime: 15–13
Pts: Sobey 30
Rebs: Law 11
Asts: Sobey 5		 Pts: Machado 23
Rebs: Oliver 8
Asts: Machado 10
Nissan Arena, Brisbane
Attendance: 4,065
Referees: Chris Reid, Nathan Durrant, Mark Mill

Round 4

Round 5

NBL Cup

Round 6
20 February 2021
15:00
Cairns Taipans vs. The Hawks
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9

See also

References

  1. ^ King, Gavin (8 June 2020). "Cairns Convention Centre redevelopment delayed yet again". www.tropicnow.com.au. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  2. ^ Mason, Grace (2 July 2020). "'Taipans must stay in Cairns': Minister to meet with club". www.cairnspost.com.au. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  3. ^ Gerrans, Jordan. "Cairns prepares for brand new NBL home". www.cairnspost.com.au. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. ^ "PLAYER SIGNING | Majok Deng". www.taipans.com.
  5. ^ "Taipans Coach of the Year signs on for two more". www.taipans.com.
  6. ^ a b "Mojave King signs with Cairns Taipans as part of NBL's Next Stars program". www.foxsports.com.au.
  7. ^ "NBL: Cairns Taipans lock in three for upcoming season". www.cairnspost.com.au.
  8. ^ Gerrans, Jordan (3 August 2020). "Co-captain locked in for NBL club". www.cairnspost.com.au. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Persistence pays off for Jarrod Kenny as he secures new Cairns deal to go with NBL title". Stuff. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Taipans welcome Jordan Ngatai". www.taipans.com. 14 August 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  11. ^ Bowles, Annabel (3 September 2020). "Blagojevic completes Taipans' 2020-21 stellar local lineup | Tropic Now - Cairns News". www.tropicnow.com.au. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  12. ^ Uluc, Olgun (16 November 2020). "Taipans secure star import Cameron Oliver". ESPN.com. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  13. ^ McInerney, Matthew (22 November 2020). "NBL: Scott Machado, Cairns Taipans, agree to a two-year deal". GeelongAdvertiser.com.au. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  14. ^ "Taipans sign development player Jordan Hunt". Taipans.com. 22 December 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2020.

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