To say the basket is looking as big as the ocean right now for the Tigers wouldn't be an overstatement.
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Fresh off of dropping 107 points in their opening win, the Tigers looked to one up themselves on Saturday April 9 with a 116-95 win over the Inner West Bulls White.
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"The offensive firepower we have this year is one of the strongest I've seen in quite a long time," Coach Ben Morris said.
"We are making a lot of shots right now, probably something like 75% and you can't complain when you are making those sort of percentages."
The team attacked the Bulls early with a strong full-court and half-court press that the opposition struggled to combat.
The Tigers bread and butter for a long time has been their speed and transition play and it was no different in this game.
The team notched an unfathomable number of steals on their way to a blitzing number of fastbreak points that quickly put the game out of reach for the Bulls.
"A lot of teams and coaches haven't adjusted to a half-court trap and we've been getting great results from it," Morris said.
The Tigers according to Morris ran their half-court offense a lot tighter this time and he was pleased to see them be able to get through a variety of sets.
"They got a lot of looks out of the sets we ran which was really good to see," he said.
It was yet again a full team effort with everyone scoring at least once, six of whom notched double figures.
An insane feat for a team, to be so well-rounded to start the season.
Lachlan Armstrong and Jeremy Harding lead the way for the team with 22 points and 19 points respectively.
With Morris especially commending Harding's rebounding and defensive prowess throughout the match.
While the match was an easy win for the Tigers, Morris said he wants to see more intensity on the defensive end as he feels they took their foot of the gas at the end of the match.
"In that forth quarter we had a big lapse, I feel if we had maintained the intensity from earlier in the game we would have held them to a lot less," he said.
"We just got a bit lazy in the defensive end and I felt we definitely weren't as focused, I called a couple of timeouts to regroup...we got the win but I don't want to see us get too relaxed."
The Tigers are off to a flying start and it'll be interesting to see if the squad can keep up the monster efficiency they've started the season with.
Their next match is Saturday April 30 against the Goulburn Bears.