部隊d snap Perth's unbeaten NBL start
Melbourne 部隊d have snapped Perth's undefeated start to the NBL season with a gusty 84-81 勝利，勝つ away from home at RAC 円形競技場.
After a blistering start and taking leads into the second, third and final ４半期/4分の1s in Perth on Friday, 部隊d 戦う／戦いd a 殺到するing Wildcats outfit, led by former 最高殊勲選手 Bryce Cotton.
Dean Vickerman's 味方する were humbled in their last NBL 遠出 but fought 支援する to silence a packed （人が）群がる, with not even Cotton's heroic 32-point 業績／成果 enough to stop them coming away with their seventh 連続した victory at RAC 円形競技場.
"When we got 負かす／撃墜する 激しい last week we didn't have a 返答 and so tonight to get 負かす／撃墜する, we locked in on the 防御の end, we 遂行する／発効させるd some stuff and that'll bring this group together a little bit more," Vickerman said.
With 部隊d 誇るing a six-point advantage 長，率いるing into the fourth 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, some 高くつく／犠牲の大きい turnovers 許すd the Wildcats 支援する into the game, as they 伸び（る）d the lead off a 10-0 run.
But the 訪問者s 決起大会／結集させるd with the lead changing a その上の four times as the game reached its final 90 seconds.
A 6-0 run in that time （期間が）わたる flattened a valiant Wildcats 味方する who had a chance to tie the game at 84, but Cotton's step-支援する three-pointer 動揺させるd off the アイロンをかける.
The 勝利，勝つ moves 部隊d to two 勝利，勝つs and one loss 早期に in the season and leaves every team in the 競争 with at least one loss after the 以前 undefeated Sydney Kings were beaten by Cairns earlier on Friday.
Isaac Humphries stood tall for the 訪問者s with 17 points, 10 回復するs and four 封鎖するs, Xavier Rathan-Mayes 追加するing 17 of his own, Chris Goulding 16 points and Rayjon Tucker 14 points.
部隊d began on a 9-0 run and led by as many as 1 3 points in the 開始 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語.
Wildcats coach John Rillie rued that slow start which was a ありふれた 主題 for them last year.
"We've got 広大な／多数の／重要な fight, got a 広大な／多数の／重要な bunch of dudes who love to play for each other, but we do just need to 演説（する）／住所 the start of the game," he said.
Cotton 確実にするd the 訪問者s wouldn't streak away in the first half 得点する／非難する／２０ing 22 points 長，率いるing into the sheds.
部隊d's 利ざや then hovered around seven points as the fourth 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 （機の）カム around, but 最終的に the 訪問者s' late-game defence and superior three-point 狙撃 証明するd the difference.
部隊d's 勝利，勝つ （機の）カム at a cost, though, as they lost Lachlan Barker, who was 床に打ち倒すd by a 足緒 Wagstaff 審査する and 支配するd out with a concussion in the first half.
