The Breakers have played a best-of-three series without home advantage only once in their history, losing to the Melbourne Tigers at the penultimate stage of the 2008-2009 season.
But Breakers coach Dean Vickerman says the way to break that trend is straightforward.
"You've got to win away. That's as simple as it is," he said. "In 2006 I was with the Tigers, we didn't have home court advantage and we swept the Sydney Kings."
And the Breakers do have some experience of winning series on the road. Their most recent title, in the 2012/13 season, came after they won against the Wildcats at home and closed out a 2-0 series sweep in Perth.
"It was massive beating Perth over there, in that one, just to win one of those series on the road," Vickerman said.
The Breakers are certainly more battle-hardened at this time of the year than this week's opponents.
Cairns' last trip to the grand finals was in the 2010/11 season when the Breakers won their maiden title, a series in which the Taipans drew level with a game two double-overtime win before the Breakers finished the job at home in the third and deciding encounter.
"It feels a little bit like that first time when we played Cairns and what an amazing game that was up there in double overtime.
"We expect it to be a close game [against Cairns] and we've just got to make sure we can execute down the stretch."
After dispatching semifinal opponents Adelaide with consecutive victories last week, Vickerman expects the all-round talents of the Taipans to make them a more formidable opponent.
"It's going to be different to Adelaide ... They can run and they execute really well in the half-court.
"We have to be perfect in our scout in this game."
Breakers forward Tom Abercrombie reiterated his coach's thoughts while exuding confidence that his side could do the job on the road on Friday.
"It's a different challenge for us," Abercrombie said. "It's a position we haven't found ourselves in before, but we've been a very good road team all this year and we just have to back ourselves to go over there and get the job done.
"We've done a good job and we've responded to challenges all year and this is the biggest one of the lot for us.
"To go up there and try and knock off a game in their home court in a finals game, we're really going to have to come together as a group to get the job done.
"Their fans get right into the game and it's a great environment up there to play basketball, so hopefully we can quiet them down a little bit."
3 things about the finals
1. The Breakers have played a finals series without home advantage only once.
2. In 2012-13, the Breakers won the title after winning against the Wildcats at home and closing out a 2-0 series sweep in Perth.
3. Cairns' last trip to the grand finals was in the 2010-11 season.
