{"id":260123,"date":"2025-11-03T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260123\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:27:10","slug":"mental-fatigue-impacting-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260123\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mental fatigue” impacting Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday’s 37-point loss to Sydney<\/a> marked the biggest by Brisbane during the Hungry Jack’s NBL26 campaign.<\/p>\n

Coach Stu Lash believes “mental fatigue” played a big role in the loss, with the Kings fixture was the Bullets’ third game in eight days.<\/p>\n

“There’s a bit of mental fatigue right now, which you get to that 10-game mark and about a third of the way into the season,” Lash said in the post-game press conference.<\/p>\n

“You want to kind of take a little bit of a deep breath and be like, ‘where are we?’<\/p>\n

“You know who are we as a basketball team and still have a lot of confidence in what we’re doing, how we’re going about it and the way we’re trending. <\/p>\n

“There’s just some areas that we really need to improve on and improve on quickly if we want to be fighting for a top four spot, which is one of our goals.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

To that point Lash, whose side is now 3-7, says his team needs to start games better but also questioned the lopsided free-throw count.<\/p>\n

The Kings took 18 more shots from the charity stripe on Saturday (26-8).<\/p>\n

“You can’t turn the ball over against this type of team,” Lash said.<\/p>\n

“They’re (Sydney)\u00a0really good in transition, they get downhill quick and they put heat on the rim. <\/p>\n

“There was some physicality there, but we’re a home team with two former MVPs and we got eight free throws to 26.<\/p>\n

“We’re not a club that’s going to complain, but on our home floor, we deserve a bit more there. <\/p>\n

“Did we deserve to get some more calls? Of course we did.”<\/p>\n

The Round 8 clash against the JackJumpers at MyState Bank Arena tips off at 5.30pm AEDT on Saturday, November 8, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n

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