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Basketball: Hawks need more aggression and consistency

By Shane Hurndell
Sports reporter·Hawkes Bay Today·
20 May, 2018 09:00 PM3 mins to read

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Hawks head coach Zico Coronel had little to be pleased about on Saturday night. Photo / Photosport

Hawks head coach Zico Coronel had little to be pleased about on Saturday night. Photo / Photosport

One simple message should be written in bold letters on Hawke's Bay basketball team coach Zico Coronel's white board when his troops turn up for training today.

GET MORE AGGRESSIVE!

Coronel agreed his players had to be more aggressive in the wake of the Taylor Hawks 104-74 loss to the SIT Zerofees Southland Sharks in their round four Sal's National Basketball League match in Invercargill on Saturday night.

"It was an old fashioned beat down and they played better. For the whole game they were more aggressive. They were on the front foot from the start," Coronel lamented.

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"We've got a collective plan and we know what we need to do. Sometimes it takes something like that to put everyone on notice ... to have a think about how much better we need to be."

"It's good to know we have an opportunity to address it," Coronel said, referring to their next match against the Saints in the capital on Sunday. Saints beat the Hawks 93-85 in Wellington on May 11 and will do the same again if the Hawks don't display a bit more mongrel like they did in their May 12 89-85 win against the Nelson Giants.

On Saturday night the Hawks conceded 28 turnovers, 15 more than the Sharks.

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"Turnovers are the result of fundamental errors," Coronel said, and he's not wrong.

He pointed out the Sharks owed the Hawks a win after the Hawks beat them 92-84 on April 26. But the Hawks have far too much talent to allow teams to beat them in the way the Sharks, who are coached by former Hawks player Judd Flavell, did.

The Hawks, who have recorded four wins and two losses to date, have already proven they are good enough to reach the playoffs but they need to regain some consistency again.

"The Sharks are a very balanced team. They have the biggest budget and a lot of depth. Six of their players were in double figures tonight ... that's the nature of their team," Coronel said after addressing his players following the loss.

"Their collective defence was a big factor too," he added.

The fact three of the Hawks starting five, American power forward Jamie Skeen and shooting guards Dion Prewster and Ethan Rusbatch, contributed sevens points with four, two and one respectively made dismal post-match reading for Hawks fans. Hawks captain and point guard Jarrod Kenny scored a game-high 18 points during his 30 minutes of action.

Aussie centre Angus Brandt scored 15 points during 24 minutes while former Tall Blacks shooting guard Everard Reid came off the bench for 21 minutes and scored 11 points.

Just as disappointing for Hawks fans was the ability of the hosts to establish a 35-point lead at one stage. Sharks centre Alex Pledger scored a team high 17 points in 18 minutes.

Canadian forward Conor Morgan, who collected a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games, scored 12 points in 24 minutes. The Sharks also boast a four-win, two-loss record.

The Sharks managed 10 steals, four more than the Hawks, which is another example of the Hawks' lack of aggression. Allowing the Sharks to score 13 unanswered points at one stage was another.

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Five unanswered points contributed to the Hawks' best run.
Leading scorers:

SIT Zerofees Sharks 104 (Alex Pledger 17, James Hunter 16, Luke Aston 15), Taylor Hawks 74 (Jarrod Kenny 18, Angus Brandt 15, Everard Bartlett 11).

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