Dynamos on brink of logging winless season

By TONY BIRD - Taranaki Daily News

Taranaki Dynamos coach Trent Adam is pleading for his team to string together a consistent performance in a bid to end the side's winless drought in the 2009 national basketball league this weekend.

The Devon Dynamos' miserable season ends with an away double header.

The Taranaki team takes on Bay Hawks in Taradale tonight and will back up against the Manawatu Jets tomorrow night.

If the Dynamos lose both games they will be the second team in the history of the NBL to go through a season winless. Northland Suns went 0-20 in the 1998 season.

The Dynamos have been guilty of squandering opportunities to break their duck on numerous occasions during the season.

A case in point was the last round when it led going to the the halftime break against Auckland in front of a home crowd last Friday night only to come up with a woeful third quarter and end up going down by 10 points to the visiting side. "We've got to make sure we play four quarters of these last two games and play the games out," Adam said yesterday.

"Two good quarters keeps you in a game and all of a sudden you fall asleep in a quarter and you just get blown out.

"The quality of the league is that if you don't concentrate throughout, it's going to be hard to get wins."

Adam has worked his team hard at training this week focusing on competitive drills and rebounding, an area which cost the team last week, and trying to make sure players can be successful in those situations.

The Dynamos will put the same team on court that played Auckland.

"The guys we have, providing they put their mind to it, they can play well. We've just got to make sure we don't switch off and take the pressure off."

The Dynamos fly to Hawke's Bay today for tonight's game before busing through to Palmerston North for the season finale on Saturday.