Sometimes all you need is a win to kick-start a season, which appears to be the case for the Whittlesea Pacers men’s Big V state championship basketball side.
After losing the first five games of the season, the Pacers have won four of the past five.
Speaking before Sunday’s 68-65 win over Sherbrooke, coach Ross Moll said that playing well for a whole game seemed to have been the difference in the past few weeks.
“We’re starting to get on track,” he said. “We were very inconsistent [in the early games]. We were good for large periods of time but didn’t get results.
“Once we got our first win the belief factor kicked in.”
Improvement across the board has been a key in the wins.
“The lack of experience has hurt us,’’ Moll said.
“We have a new point guard this season, so it’s been about getting the ball in the hands of the right people at the right time.”
Moll said the next challenge for the side was to play consistent basketball.
“Outside the top two to three teams it’s a very even competition,” he said.
“We have the next few games at home after four on the road.
“We need to keep the consistency regardless of the opposition and use the momentum we have to make up for the games we lost earlier in the season.”
