The Tasmania JackJumpers have marked their first NBL game at home in a month with an emphatic 86-70 victory over the Sydney Kings.
The JackJumpers returned to MyState Bank Arena for the first time since the opening night of the season when they suffered an agonising loss to Melbourne United.
In between, Tasmania won three of four games on the road and they came out firing in their Ignite Cup clash on Wednesday night.
The JackJumpers opened with eight points and led 29-19 at quarter-time, Tyger Campbell landing all three of his attempts from long range.
The hosts turned their advantage into a 50-32 lead at half-time on the back of scoring the last 11 points of the half.
That lead got out to 19 in the third frame, but the Kings did get a boost when Tasmania captain and imposing centre Will Magnay was ejected late in the third quarter for a technical foul.
The Kings took advantage to score the first eight points of the last term, but couldn't make serious inroads to deny Tasmania (4-2) victory.
Campbell made 5-of-9 from deep on his way to 21 points and five assists with Josh Bannan impressive again with 18 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. Ben Ayre chimed in with 13 points.
JackJumpers coach Scott Roth was proud of his team.
"I thought we were pretty relentless the whole 40 minutes and that we played smartly and aggressively, and then tidied some things up which gave us some problems in Adelaide," he said.
"We had contributions across the board and guys chipping away, and I just thought we did a really nice job defensively to hold them to 70 points there."
Sydney are now 2-3 and were unable to back up their ultra-impressive win in Adelaide, with superstar guard Kendric Davis having a night to forget with 10 points on 4-of-17 shooting.
Xavier Cooks had 12 points, eight rebounds and four assists, Tim Soares 12 points, eight boards and three blocks while Jaylin Galloway top-scored with 13 points.
The visitors shot at just 43 per cent and it contributed largely to their defeat.
Kings coach Brian Goorjian just felt his team might have been a little flat coming off their spirited win in Adelaide.
"We fell in the hole early and you don't want to do that down here and they just shot the ball unbelievably at the start of the game," said Goorjian.
"From that point on I thought we battled and we did move the ball, we did work hard on defence, but those 50-50 balls, the rebounding and the way they shot the ball, and playing this team from behind isn't what you want to do.
"In the games we've won this year we've shot the ball at a pretty good click and in the games we haven't, it's been a struggle and tonight that made it difficult for us."
