‘What just happened?’: Absurd six minutes trigger NBL’s most ‘ridiculous’ comeback

The Cairns Taipans produced one of many NBL’s biggest ever comebacks on New Year’s Eve, gorgeous the Adelaide 36ers to win 86-83.

Cairns trailed Adelaide by 18 factors with 6:41 remaining on the Snakepit, and nonetheless confronted a 16-point deficit with about 5 minutes to play.

What adopted was the equal-greatest fourth quarter comeback within the competitors’s historical past.

Cairns someway sparked a shocking 18-point run over the following 4 minutes with Adelaide operating chilly.

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The guests have been shell-shocked, and the Snakes stored their ft down to complete the sport by scoring 22 of the ultimate 25 factors.

That was regardless of lacking MVP candidate Keanu Pinder, whose absence was brilliantly coated by Tahjere McCall and Shannon Scott.

Scott completed with 31 factors, together with a three-pointer that put Cairns into the lead.

McCall hit 19 factors having supplied the spark that helped set off the unimaginable comeback.

Adelaide had gained the previous three matches in opposition to Cairns earlier than being rocked in entrance of a sellout crowd.

The loss ends the 36ers four-game profitable streak, whereas Cairns has now jumped to 3rd on the ladder.