2020-2021 NBL Depth Charts
May 19, 2021
Tamuri Wigness
- Nationality: AUS
- Date of Birth: 26/03/02
- Place of Birth: Brisbane (QLD)
- Position: GRD
- Height (CM): 180
- Weight (KG): 84
- Junior Assoc: QLD - Cairns
- College: None
- NBL DEBUT: 16/01/21
- AGE AT DEBUT: 18
- LAST NBL GAME: 11/04/22
- AGE AT LAST GAME: 20
- NBL History: Brisbane 2021-22
- Championships: 0
- None
BIO: Tamuri Wigness was born in Brisbane (QLD) and began playing basketball as a junior with the Cairns basketball program. Wigness received a scholarship to attend the Australian Institute of Sport (Canberra) in 2017. He spent four years year there and played for the program’s state league team (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020).
NBL EXPERIENCE
Tamuri Wigness made his NBL debut with the Brisbane Bullets at 18 years of age. He scored six points in his first game.
Coming off the back of finishing sixth last season, it was announced that Andrej Lemanis was leaving the side after five years as head coach. After considering assistant coach and former Bullets player CJ Bruton for the role, they instead brought in former Sydney Kings assistant James Duncan as the team’s new head coach.
The Bullets were also forced to re-tool their roster, making several changes to key personnel. While import Lamar Patterson returned, the Bullets lost Vic Law to Perth, and with BJ Johnson signing a NBA deal with Orlando, they were unable to retain him either. Local bigs Matt Hodgson (to Perth), Harry Froling (to Illawarra) and development player Callum Dalton (to Melbourne) all headed elsewhere, looking for better opportunities.
Brisbane re-signed Tyrell Harrison (two-year deal) and Jason Cadee (two-year deal) and filled the remaining gaps with international flavour, signing Chuanxing Liu (China), Jack Salt (New Zealand), Deng Deng (South Sudan), Next Star Tom Digbeu (France) and import Robert Franks (USA).
In the opening game of the season, the Bullets fell short against the JackJumpers in Tasmania (74-83). While the overtime loss didn’t end the team’s season, it set the tone for the Bullets, who saw single-digit losses pile up against the league’s top team’s all season.
As the competition hit the halfway mark, Brisbane’s record was 5-9, and with injuries to Harrison (elbow) and star guard Nathan Sobey (knee), Brisbane struggled to find any rhythm during the second half of the season with the duo missing 11 and 16 games respectively.
Robert Franks (18.2 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 1.6 assists) was the Bullets high scorer in 13 games, and leading vote getter for the Leroy Loggins MVP Award (Club MVP). While leading the team in scoring, he shot 50% from the field and 76% from the free-throw line and finished fifth in the league for points per game.
Patterson (16.1 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 1.0 steals), Sobey (16.1 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 3.5 assists), and Jason Cadee (10.4 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 4.9 assists) were the only other players scoring in double figures.
This season new head coach James Duncan wanted the Bullets to be better defensively, at the start of the season the 44-year-old would have been impressed with how his team was playing defensively. However, Brisbane wasn’t able to maintain it, and its defence fluctuated throughout the year, it finished the year as the worst defensive team, conceding 89.3 points per game and finishing first for turnovers, averaging 14.6 per game.
Although the Bullets did show small glimpses of potential under the reigns of new coach Duncan, Brisbane would miss the finals for the third straight year, finishing in eighth place (10-18). Wigness would appear in 17 games for the Bullets, averaging 2.0 points, 0.9 rebounds, and 0.5 assists in 11 minutes per game during his rookie season.
Tamuri Wigness played two seasons the Brisbane Bullets. He averaged 2.5 points, 1.2 rebounds, and 0.8 assists in 44 NBL games.
NBL TOTAL STATISTICS
| SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 20 | Brisbane | 10-18 (8) | 17 | 115.0 | 34 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 34 | 41% | 2 | 7 | 29% | 4 | 6 | 67% | 46% | 44% | 11 |
| 2020-21 | 19 | Brisbane | 18-18 (6) | 27 | 303.4 | 79 | 38 | 28 | 12 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 24 | 34 | 90 | 38% | 8 | 29 | 28% | 3 | 5 | 60% | 43% | 42% | 8 | Totals | 44 | 418 | 113 | 55 | 37 | 16 | 39 | 15 | 3 | 23 | 33 | 48 | 124 | 38.7% | 10 | 36 | 27.8% | 7 | 11 | 63.6% | 44% | 43% | 11 |
NBL PER GAME STATISTICS
| SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 20 | Brisbane | 10-18 (8) | 17 | 6.8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 41% | 0.1 | 0.4 | 29% | 0.2 | 0.4 | 67% | 46% | 44% | 11 |
| 2020-21 | 19 | Brisbane | 18-18 (6) | 27 | 11.2 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 3.3 | 38% | 0.3 | 1.1 | 28% | 0.1 | 0.2 | 60% | 43% | 42% | 8 | Total | 44 | 9.5 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 38.7% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27.8% | 0.2 | 0.8 | 63.6% | 44% | 43% | 11 |
CAREER HIGHS
| POINTS | REBOUNDS | ASSISTS | STEALS | BLOCKS | TURNOVERS | TRIPLE DOUBLES | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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STATE LEAGUE EXPERIENCE
- Canberra (2017–2020), Brisbane (2021), North Gold Coast (2022)
Wigness joined BA Centre of Excellence for the 2017 SEABL season and entered the national development program as a young guard after arriving in Canberra in April 2017.
He remained with BA Centre of Excellence for the 2018 SEABL season and continued his progression in the Centre of Excellence system while building his profile as a backcourt prospect.
BA Centre of Excellence kept him for the 2019 NBL1 season and he produced 11.7 points, 4.0 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game, closing the year with 22 points and 12 assists in his final appearance of the season. During 2019 he also won Basketball Queensland Male Player of the Year.
He returned to BA Centre of Excellence for the 2020 Waratah League season and remained with the program through the final year of his state league development before moving fully into senior professional basketball.
Brisbane Capitals signed Wigness for the 2021 NBL1 North season and he joined the club for the remainder of the year during the Bullets off-season, adding another Queensland state league stop to his career.
North Gold Coast Seahawks signed him for the 2022 NBL1 North season as their starting point guard and he averaged 16.3 points, 4.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.6 steals across 15 games. His season included a 30-point outing against Brisbane and a 29-point performance against Ipswich.
NBA EXPERIENCE
During NBA All-Star weekend, Wigness has also appeared at Basketball Without Borders Global Camps on two occasions. In 2019, the guard was named in the All-Tournament side.
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