Perth Wildcats guard Kevin Lisch wants to help his bigs with rebounding in Friday's deciding Grand Final Game Three.
Lisch has had an outstanding finish to his first season in the NBL out of college where he played with the Saint Louis Billikens, and once again top-scored for the Wildcats with 11 points as they went down by 12 points after the 23-year-old starred with 15 on Game 1 last Friday in The Jungle.
Lisch also did a strong job defending Hawks veteran Mat Campbell who was scoreless on 0-of-8 from the field, but Wollongong did prove too good in the second half to force the deciding Game 3 this Friday night back at Challenge Stadium.
The players held a meeting amongst themselves without the coaches inside the change room at the WIN Entertainment Centre on Tuesday night where Martin Cattalini and Galen Young, in particular, stepped up to pull the team together and look ahead positively to Friday's Game 3.
"That's why it was closed doors so nobody finds out, but we have got to pick ourselves up and we have a Grand Final Game 3 now," Lisch said.
"You couldn’t ask for anything more than having that at home so we will be ready to play. It's the guys who have been there before and they offer some good two-cents. It's just the veterans showing us the way."
Rebounding was one area that Perth was beaten in on Tuesday and Lisch doesn’t put all the blame of that onto the bigs, he and his fellow guards will look to help out more on Friday.
"Our defence, especially in the first half at the beginning was good, but after the ball went up it was pretty poor with our rebounding," he said.
"I have to come in and help the bigs rebound too, so us guards have to help with that. We just have to attack the ball more. We have to put our bodies on guys and attack the ball, it's that simple. If you look at the good rebounders, they don’t do anything special."
The two Grand Final games so far have been played in front of sold-out crowds in Perth and Wollongong, and according to Lisch nothing beats the atmosphere created.
"Nothing beats this really. You might have some bigger crowds back in the States, but there's nothing like Australian fans really getting after it. It's been a lot of fun."
