'I can see the improvement': McCarron

Adelaide 36ers captain Mitch McCarron is thrilled with how his side is improving off the back of a three-game road trip.

The 36ers won two of those three matches in Melbourne and Perth and had their chances in a tough loss to New Zealand Breakers in Auckland.

“We have been talking about the journey, and we just want to get better game by game,” McCarron said. “I think we are getting better as a whole.”

“We are going to need different guys at different times. That might mean that certain guys don’t play like one game and play a lot more in the next one due to match ups.

“We need everyone bought into that.”

McCarron said the impact of Kai Sotto has been profound recently, the 218cm centre having a big impact in the win against the Wildcats.

“Kai has come back in with great effect, KG (Galloway) has been showing his stuff and Nick Marshall has been good in bursts,” McCarron said.

“Kai is a great defender for us and is a great rim protector.

“That is something we probably have missed at times which is what we need to do and that is to keep people out of the paint.”

The 189cm point guard has been thrilled with how his side has limited its turnovers recently.

“We don’t want to be giving teams run outs and fast breaks and easily scores and lay ups to get them going,” McCarron said.

“We want to stay aggressive, and we are going to turn the ball over, but we just don’t want to spark the other team.”

The fun has returned to the group, something McCarron hopes continues this Friday night against Cairns Taipans at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

“It’s great to see guys having fun in transition and that is the team we want to be,” he said.

“Locked in defensively, get stops, rebound and push the ball. We are going to be unselfish; we are going to let the ball pop ahead, and then go a have some fun.

“Now we are finding that consistency of effort on the defensive end and offensively we can reward ourselves.

“It’s a super tight competition, there’s no reason to freak out because of one loss and there is no reason to get ahead of yourself if you win one game.

“It’s about trying to build streaks right now and we have to string a few together because we haven’t been able to do that so far.”