The Hume City Broncos have gotten off to a strong start in the Big V men’s championship, but aren’t getting ahead of themselves.
The Broncos headed into the Easter break on top of the table with a 3-1 record having dropped their most recent game.
Coach Matt Foster said they would have rather been 4-0, but were still happy with the start.
“It’s hard to know where we sit with who we have played,” he said. “It has been a good start.
“We’re still a work in progress like a lot of other teams, I’m guessing. It’s all positive signs.”
Foster said having kept a core group of players from last season, it had held them in good stead heading into this year.
The Broncos went deep into finals again before falling short.
“We’ve kept a bit of a core with Zach [McKenzie] and Eli [Saifaleupolu] and Haydon [McIntosh] have been around for a while with us,” he said.
“Keenan Gorski as well. It’s his second year with us.
“We’ve added quite a few new pieces and went the route of having played in the league before. Hopefully that helped fast track them, gelling and not having to get used to a new league and all that sort of stuff.”
Last season’s league most valuable player Kavione Green has made an instant impact having crossed to the club.
Foster said they couldn’t have asked for much more from him.
“He is very talented player, great guy, competed for a few years now,” he said. “It’s great to have KG, he can play basketball that is for sure.
“He’s a really good person to have around the club, and a gym rat who is in the gym as much as he can be.”
Foster said that the break was a good chance for them to reset after a big start to the season.
He said they would have preferred to be coming off a win though instead.
“Having a couple of weeks to stew on it a little bit, it would have been nice to get back into it, keep things going,” he said.
“I think it is probably a good thing, a big pre-season and the first few rounds, nice to rest the body and rest the mind, and prepare of the next section of the season,
“I don’t think we’ve got another break until Kings Birthday weekend.”
The Broncos are back in action on Saturday against Wyndham.
Foster said for this next block of games they were just focused on redlining what they’ve been doing.
“We’ve sort of set out a bit of a strategy, on what suits us best with what we have,” he said. “Just refining that, getting guys used to playing different roles.
“They’re still getting the new guys up to speed on things that we do as well.
“We’re trying to focus on getting ourselves to be where we need to be, and hopefully puts us in a good position.”
