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UNITED LOOK TO<br />
BUILD ON MOMENTUM<br />
Melbourne United will be looking to<br />
build on their momentum before the<br />
Finals kick-off in a double-header<br />
weekend at Hisense Arena to round out<br />
the regular season.<br />
Having already claimed the Minor<br />
Premiership, United are not going to take<br />
their foot off the pedal in either Fri<strong>day</strong><br />
night’s game against Perth or Sun<strong>day</strong><br />
afternoon against Illawarra.<br />
United big man Josh Boone talked about<br />
claiming the Minor Premiership but also the<br />
fact that there are larger goals on his mind.<br />
“It definitely feels good. That was one of the<br />
main goals we’ve been working towards<br />
this entire year. We’re happy, but we’re not<br />
content yet because we know we still have<br />
two more games left.” Boone said.<br />
“The next one is a really big game against<br />
Perth. They beat us pretty badly last time<br />
they were here and there’s a chance we<br />
could see them in the Playoffs – we want to<br />
try to get that mental edge going into that<br />
potential series.”<br />
Having the mental edge over the opposition<br />
is something that Boone admitted<br />
Melbourne lacked over New Zealand. But<br />
that all changed last weekend, with United<br />
going two-from-two over the Breakers.<br />
“It was definitely very important. I think, up<br />
until the weekend, they definitely held<br />
the mental edge over us. They had beaten<br />
us twice in a row, 11 out of 12 times or<br />
something crazy like that, so getting both<br />
of those wins and in particular getting the<br />
dominant win in New Zealand on Sun<strong>day</strong><br />
was huge.” Boone said.<br />
“That’s why this game on Fri<strong>day</strong> is so<br />
important, because we need to take that<br />
mental edge back from Perth as well.”<br />
Coach Dean Vickerman also spoke about<br />
what he saw from his team over the<br />
weekend whilst getting two wins in three<br />
<strong>day</strong>s.<br />
“I think our conditioning really shone through.<br />
The run we had in our legs and the defence<br />
that we continued to play over there just<br />
showed that in tight turn around games,<br />
we’re more than willing, physically, to keep<br />
going.” Vickerman said.<br />
“Different people do different things. Casper<br />
scores 26 here and has 10 assists over there<br />
– he had a different night out. We were able<br />
to make slight adjustments on the fly with<br />
a small practice window going from game<br />
to game and I thought they handled those<br />
adjustments well.”<br />
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