The form guide says Thursday's clash against the struggling Perth Lynx should be a stroll in the park for Paul Goriss's all-conquering Canberra Capitals.
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But the coach has warned his side against a potential banana skin ahead of the Capitals' final match in Cairns, before heading south to Townsville to see out the remainder of this year's shortened WNBL season.
Canberra's dominant win over a heavy-hitting Southside Flyers was the defending champions' fifth in a row, while Perth are languishing with just one positive result in North Queensland this season.
Not that Goriss is paying any heed to form.
"Each team is different in terms of how you prepare and what they run and what they do," Goriss said.
"We've got total respect for Perth, you look at their starting group and they've got two Opals in Katie Ebzery and Darcee Garbin ... Kayla Steindl's a veteran in the league, Alex Ciabattoni's played in the league and been in Europe playing.
"While their bench might be young, their starting group can light it up.
"They're a different group in that they haven't got a traditional centre, they do like to spread the floor because they have shooters and so we've got to be locked in defensively, it's going to be something different that we haven't encountered before with their lack of size."
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Goriss has a full-strength side to pick from, although he will continue to manage the minutes of superstar pairing Kelsey Griffin and Marianna Tolo, who both missed the start of the season through injury.
"We've done a good job in filtering back Tolo, Kelsey, Tahlia [Tupaea] and Britt [Smart] and I think that's paying the rewards now," Goriss said.
"Getting those wins while we were not fully not 100 per cent fit with all of our 12 players has put us in a good position for the second half of the season most definitely and playing some really good basketball."
James Buckley
James is a Queanbeyan boy enjoying his second stint at the Canberra Times, more than eight years on from his first. In between he's traveled the world, and spent time covering sport in Sydney.
James is a Queanbeyan boy enjoying his second stint at the Canberra Times, more than eight years on from his first. In between he's traveled the world, and spent time covering sport in Sydney.
