The 2025–26 Taipei Taishin Mars season was the franchise's third season, its second season in the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL).

The Mars were coached by Hsu Hao-Cheng in his third year as their head coach. On March 26, 2026, the Mars announced that Hsu Hao-Cheng resigned from head coach, and named Milan Stevanovic, the assistant coach of the Taipei Taishin Mars, as their interim head coach.

Draft

Round Pick Player Position(s) School / club team 1 4 Xie Ming-Jun Forward Southern Coast Academy 2 7 Wei Peng-Ho Guard NTNU Reference：

Roster

Shiga Lakes Taiwan Camp

International friendship match Game log

Interleague friendship match Game log

Preseason Game log

|-style="background:#cfc" | 1 | October 4 | @ Kings | W 105–100 | Stanton Kidd (21) | Jordy Tshimanga (13) | Ting Sheng-Ju (7) | Pingtung County Stadium | 1–0 |-style="background:#fcc" | 2 | October 5 | Aquas | L 79–93 | Kenneth Chien (18) | Kenneth Chien (8)Chen Kuan-Chuan (8) | Ting Sheng-Ju (2)Samuel Manu (2)Kenneth Chien (2) | Pingtung County Stadium | 1–1

Regular season

Standings

Game log

|-style="background:#cfc" | 1 | October 19 | @ Kings | W 123–120 (OT) | Zach Lofton (41) | Jordy Tshimanga (10) | Zach Lofton (14) | Xinzhuang Gymnasium3,650 | 1–0 |-style="background:#fcc" | 2 | October 25 | @ DEA | L 78–91 | Zach Lofton (25) | Jordy Tshimanga (16) | Zach Lofton (4) | Xinzhuang Gymnasium5,851 | 1–1

|-style="background:#cfc" | 3 | November 1 | @ Aquas | W 110–105 | Zach Lofton (22)Stanton Kidd (22) | Jordy Tshimanga (16) | Zach Lofton (7) | Kaohsiung Arena3,657 | 2–1 |-style="background:#fcc" | 4 | November 8 | @ Leopards | L 102–122 | Zach Lofton (31) | Darral Willis (13) | Zach Lofton (5) | Taoyuan Arena6,023 | 2–2 |-style="background:#cfc" | 5 | November 15 | Kings | W 97–87 | Zach Lofton (28) | Jordy Tshimanga (15) | Kenneth Chien (4) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium5,500 | 3–2 |-style="background:#fcc" | 6 | November 16 | Leopards | L 102–112 | Stanton Kidd (23) | Jordy Tshimanga (17) | Zach Lofton (6) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,336 | 3–3 |-style="background:#fcc" | 7 | November 23 | @ Dreamers | L 117–128 | Zach Lofton (29) | Darral Willis (14) | Ting Sheng-Ju (3) | Taichung Intercontinental Basketball Stadium3,000 | 3–4

|-style="background:#cfc" | 8 | December 3 | Lioneers | W 100–98 | Darral Willis (29) | Darral Willis (15) | Xie Ming-Jun (4) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium3,158 | 4–4 |-style="background:#fcc" | 9 | December 6 | DEA | L 104–108 | Stanton Kidd (24) | Darral Willis (10) | Ting Sheng-Ju (8) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium5,169 | 4–5 |-style="background:#cfc" | 10 | December 7 | Aquas | W 96–91 (OT) | Darral Willis (39) | Darral Willis (20) | Ting Sheng-Ju (9) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,086 | 5–5 |-style="background:#cfc" | 11 | December 21 | @ Lioneers | W 94–83 | Stanton Kidd (29) | Darral Willis (22) | Ting Sheng-Ju (10) | Hsinchu County Stadium4,508 | 6–5 |-style="background:#fcc" | 12 | December 27 | @ Dreamers | L 98–108 | Darral Willis (35) | Darral Willis (17) | Ting Sheng-Ju (13) | Taichung Intercontinental Basketball Stadium3,000 | 6–6

|-style="background:#fcc" | 13 | January 7 | @ Aquas | L 103–108 | Darral Willis (25)Stanton Kidd (25) | Darral Willis (20) | Ting Sheng-Ju (8) | Kaohsiung Arena2,815 | 6–7 |-style="background:#fcc" | 14 | January 10 | Dreamers | L 91–110 | Diamond Stone (27) | Diamond Stone (9) | Ting Sheng-Ju (6) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium5,162 | 6–8 |-style="background:#cfc" | 15 | January 11 | Leopards | W 114–108 | Diamond Stone (28) | Diamond Stone (12) | Ting Sheng-Ju (8) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,071 | 7–8 |-style="background:#fcc" | 16 | January 17 | DEA | L 79–95 | Stanton Kidd (24) | Kenneth Chien (6)Diamond Stone (6) | Stanton Kidd (7) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,550 | 7–9 |-style="background:#fcc" | 17 | January 18 | Lioneers | L 98–101 | Makur Maker (25) | Stanton Kidd (14) | Ting Sheng-Ju (6) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,075 | 7–10 |-style="background:#cfc" | 18 | January 25 | @ DEA | W 112–104 | Makur Maker (32) | Makur Maker (11) | Ting Sheng-Ju (10) | Xinzhuang Gymnasium4,165 | 8–10

|-style="background:#fcc" | 19 | February 1 | @ Leopards | L 87–98 | Stanton Kidd (19) | Makur Maker (20) | Ting Sheng-Ju (4)Samuel Manu (4) | Taoyuan City Zhongli Civil Sports Center2,000 | 8–11 |-style="background:#fcc" | 20 | February 7 | Kings | L 96–98 | Makur Maker (48) | Makur Maker (16) | Ting Sheng-Ju (10) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium5,176 | 8–12 |-style="background:#fcc" | 21 | February 8 | Dreamers | L 91–104 | Makur Maker (34) | Makur Maker (22) | Ting Sheng-Ju (8) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,520 | 8–13 |-style="background:#fcc" | 22 | February 11 | Aquas | L 90–104 | Ting Sheng-Ju (29) | Samuel Manu (5)Huang Tsung-Han (5) | Ting Sheng-Ju (5) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium3,291 | 8–14 |-style="background:#fcc" | 23 | February 14 | @ Kings | L 95–116 | Huang Tsung-Han (22) | Samuel Manu (12) | Samuel Manu (4)Xie Ming-Jun (4) | Xinzhuang Gymnasium3,833 | 8–15

|-style="background:#fcc" | 24 | March 6 | @ Kings | L 90–93 | Youssou Ndoye (19) | Youssou Ndoye (17) | Ting Sheng-Ju (8) | Xinzhuang Gymnasium3,716 | 8–16 |-style="background:#cfc" | 25 | March 11 | @ Lioneers | W 102–94 | Darral Willis (24) | Darral Willis (11)Youssou Ndoye (11) | Ting Sheng-Ju (9) | Hsinchu County Stadium3,411 | 9–16 |-style="background:#fcc" | 26 | March 21 | Leopards | L 73–99 | Darral Willis (17) | Youssou Ndoye (16) | Ting Sheng-Ju (9) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium5,076 | 9–17 |-style="background:#fcc" | 27 | March 22 | Dreamers | L 96–118 | Darral Willis (29) | Darral Willis (16) | Makur Maker (6) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium3,984 | 9–18 |-style="background:#fcc" | 28 | March 28 | Aquas | L 104–112 | Makur Maker (26) | Darral Willis (13) | Ting Sheng-Ju (6)Samuel Manu (6) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,658 | 9–19 |-style="background:#fcc" | 29 | March 29 | Kings | L 102–116 | Makur Maker (39) | Makur Maker (11) | Ting Sheng-Ju (8) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,395 | 9–20

|-style="background:#cfc" | 30 | April 1 | @ DEA | W 91–89 | Darral Willis (28) | Darral Willis (18) | Ting Sheng-Ju (10) | Xinzhuang Gymnasium3,092 | 10–20 |-style="background:#fcc" | 31 | April 5 | @ Leopards | L 96–107 | Makur Maker (29) | Makur Maker (17) | Ting Sheng-Ju (6)Youssou Ndoye (6) | Taoyuan City Zhongli Civil Sports Center2,000 | 10–21 |-style="background:#cfc" | 32 | April 12 | @ Aquas | W 104–93 | Youssou Ndoye (37) | Youssou Ndoye (23) | Ting Sheng-Ju (16) | Kaohsiung Arena3,188 | 11–21 |-style="background:#fcc" | 33 | April 18 | @ Dreamers | L 66–99 | Youssou Ndoye (16) | Youssou Ndoye (15) | Xie Ming-Jun (4) | Taichung Intercontinental Basketball Stadium3,000 | 11–22 |-style="background:#fcc" | 34 | April 25 | Lioneers | L 86–104 | Youssou Ndoye (22) | Youssou Ndoye (10) | Ting Sheng-Ju (13) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,653 | 11–23 |-style="background:#fcc" | 35 | April 26 | DEA | L 103–111 | Ting Sheng-Ju (34) | Youssou Ndoye (16) | Ting Sheng-Ju (11) | Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium4,022 | 11–24

|-style="background:#fcc" | 36 | May 2 | @ Lioneers | L 73–96 | Youssou Ndoye (19) | Youssou Ndoye (16) | Michael Frazier (4)Wei Peng-Ho (4) | Hsinchu County Stadium5,050 | 11–25

Player statistics Legend   GP Games played  MPG  Minutes per game  FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage  RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game     Led the league<noinclude>

Regular season Player GP MPG PPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG Zach Lofton‡ 9 34:16 25.0 44.6% 36.9% 75.0% 4.3 4.8 0.8 0.3 Ting Sheng-Ju 29 36:20 12.9 37.8% 36.8% 83.2% 3.3 7.7 1.3 0.0 Makur Maker≠ 11 39:10 26.2 42.1% 30.1% 82.4% 13.0 3.4 1.0 0.6 Wei Peng-Ho 24 7:43 1.6 22.6% 15.2% 64.3% 0.7 1.0 0.5 0.0 Chiang Chun 17 6:32 0.9 26.1% 25.0% 12.5% 0.7 0.3 0.3 0.1 Liu Yen-Ting 18 12:09 3.2 41.8% 28.6% 42.1% 2.7 0.4 0.4 0.1 Chen Wen-Hung 30 11:50 2.5 38.7% 31.4% 78.6% 0.9 0.4 0.3 0.0 Chang Chao-Chen 21 15:11 3.9 34.5% 32.1% 40.0% 1.5 0.7 0.6 0.1 Stanton Kidd‡ 17 33:59 21.3 41.4% 33.8% 72.8% 7.4 2.5 1.5 0.5 Huang Tsung-Han 31 23:21 8.2 39.1% 38.2% 80.0% 2.1 0.6 0.8 0.2 Michael Frazier≠ 4 22:37 7.0 31.4% 20.0% 57.1% 2.0 3.0 1.3 0.3 Xie Ming-Jun 32 17:48 4.5 39.6% 30.6% 64.7% 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.0 Sun Szu-Yao 6 2:35 0.0 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 Darral Willis 18 32:17 23.1 47.5% 35.6% 76.7% 12.6 1.9 1.3 0.4 Kenneth Chien 34 28:53 9.1 48.5% 32.2% 54.5% 2.9 1.9 0.8 0.2 Chang Keng-Yu 2 3:55 0.0 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 Jordy Tshimanga‡ 8 28:19 11.1 57.4% 0.0% 58.7% 12.8 0.9 1.8 1.3 Samuel Manu 29 32:35 10.9 41.0% 26.5% 65.1% 5.3 2.6 1.2 0.3 Diamond Stone≠‡ 8 25:02 15.1 43.8% 42.4% 71.9% 6.6 0.6 0.8 0.6 Youssou Ndoye≠ 13 32:01 14.6 52.3% 21.1% 59.5% 12.1 1.5 0.7 0.5 Su Yi-Chin 19 9:25 1.9 44.4% 40.0% 63.6% 0.9 0.8 0.5 0.2 Chen Kuan-Chuan 20 9:32 2.1 41.9% 30.0% 75.0% 1.1 0.5 0.3 0.2 ‡ Left during the season ≠ Acquired during the season Reference：

Transactions

Overview Players added Via draft Wei Peng-Ho Xie Ming-Jun Via free agency Michael Frazier Stanton Kidd Liu Yen-Ting Zach Lofton Makur Maker Youssou Ndoye Diamond Stone Sun Szu-Yao Jordy Tshimanga Darral WillisPlayers lost Via trade Wang Lu-Hsiang Via free agency Jeantal Cylla Micheal Eric Lin Yi-Huei Ray McCallum Malcolm Miller Adrien Moerman Tsao Xun-Xiang Waived Stanton Kidd Zach Lofton Diamond Stone Jordy Tshimanga

Trades Date Trade Ref. July 11, 2025To Taipei Taishin Mars Cash considerationsTo TSG GhostHawks Wang Lu-Hsiang

Free agency Additions Date Player Contract terms Former team Ref. August 14, 2025 Darral Willis Aris August 20, 2025 Xie Ming-Jun Southern Coast Academy August 20, 2025 Wei Peng-Ho NTNU August 21, 2025 Liu Yen-Ting Kaohsiung Steelers September 3, 2025 Jordy Tshimanga Winnipeg Sea Bears September 8, 2025 Stanton Kidd Sendai 89ers September 10, 2025 Zach Lofton Sagesse October 9, 2025 Sun Szu-Yao Kanazawa Samuraiz December 16, 2025 Diamond Stone Maccabi Kiryat Gat January 16, 2026 Makur Maker Sagesse February 4, 2026 Michael Frazier Palayesh Naft Abadan March 4, 2026 Youssou Ndoye Dar City

Subtractions Date Player Reason New team Ref. June 18, 2025 Jeantal Cylla Contract expired Hubei Wenlv June 27, 2025 Micheal Eric Contract expired Changwon LG Sakers June 30, 2025 Lin Yi-Huei Contract expired June 30, 2025 Tsao Xun-Xiang Contract expired Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards August 20, 2025 Malcolm Miller Contract expired Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards September 10, 2025 Ray McCallum Contract expired Hefei Storm September 10, 2025 Adrien Moerman Contract expired Chorale Roanne December 24, 2025 Zach Lofton Contract terminated Al Ittihad Tripoli January 16, 2026 Jordy Tshimanga Contract terminated Ulaanbaatar Xac Broncos February 27, 2026 Diamond Stone Contract terminated Marinos de Anzoátegui March 4, 2026 Stanton Kidd Contract terminated Changsha Yongsheng

Awards Yearly awards Recipient Award Ref. Ting Sheng-Ju Assists Leader All-TPBL Second Team Samuel Manu Dunk of the Year All-Defensive Second Team

Player of the Week Week Recipient Award Ref. 8 Darral Willis Week 8 Player of the Week 15 Makur Maker Week 15 Player of the Week

Player of the Month Month Recipient Award Ref. January & February Makur Maker January & February Player of the Month (import)

References