COACH PJ A WORD FROM

Welcome to today’s game against Cheshire Phoenix. This is Cheshire’s first visit to the pavilions this season.

Last week we certainly were put to the sword by a very good London Lions. While it was a heavy defeat, we must put into perspective that the London team has been put together this season to be competitive in European competition the 7Days Eurocup and they showed exactly what that takes.

They put on a real basketball clinic of the highest performance and displayed why they have been sweeping all before them.

I was disappointed with some of the little aspects of the game that we didn’t handle well, and it was a bit of a baptism of fire for the team and especially our new players.

We cannot worry too much about that result as London are on a whole different level to every other team in the BBL. There are some good teams in the BBL but London are far more superior than any other team.

Having said that, our game against Bristol on Friday was even more disappointing and given the result we have even more work to do if we are to get ourselves out of this slump.

Right now, it feels like nothing is going our way, but only we can put this right, and we must keep working hard as a group and even more importantly for each other and the wins will come!

It has been a frustrating period, but nobody is more frustrated than the team. The last two games have knocked the team and the confidence, but we are still in a pretty good position to make the end of season playoffs which has been one of our goals for the season!

Cheshire will be another tough game for us, but I’m hoping for a real positive reaction from the team this evening and that things start to come together!

Welcome to the coaching staff, players, and support teams from Cheshire for these BBL championship game.