Breakers 89 Taipans 78
The Breakers are back in the winner's circle.
It wasn't exactly a must win game but it would have been hard to see the Breakers getting their season back on track at the midway point if they had failed to beat the bottom of the table Taipans in Cairns tonight.
The Auckland franchise went into the game having losing five straight games but still held the favourites tag against an opposition with 10 defeats in a row, the last Taipan's victory coming in their opening game of the season back in October.
However the Breakers were certainly made to work for it. They looked to be in control after taking an 11-point advantage early in the third quarter but somehow coughed up the lead to trail 65-62 going into the final stanza. But they closed out the game with a dominant 27-13 fourth quarter to pick up just their third road win of the season.