The Perth Wildcats have dominated the undermanned Brisbane Bullets to record a massive 94-63 NBL victory.
A Bryce Cotton three-pointer, his second, gave Perth the lead with four minutes remaining in the first term and they didn't look like giving it up for the rest of the game.
The Wildcats biggest win of the season was highlighted by 25 points from import Cotton.
Perth coach Trevor Gleeson warned the league last week that Cotton was due to find his range and he didn't take long to deliver.
In his seven previous outings, Cotton had hit 11 three-pointers from 58 attempts (22 per cent) but against the Bullets on Friday, he shot five of six, four of them early on.
With those points came a 29-20 lead to the reigning champions at the first break.
It wasn't a perfect performance by the Cats though and early fouls gifted the Bullets eight points in the opening term.
Shaun Bruce was the main beneficiary and he had seven points early. Mitch Young was also causing Perth some headaches and led Brisbane's scoring with 12 at the break and the duo finished with 12 and 16 points respectively.
By the main break Cotton already had 17 and the Cats led 53-37.
By then, Brisbane had foul trouble of its own and Tom Jervis collected his third foul less than two minutes into the second term.
When Young attracted his fourth less than a minute after halftime, the job for the Bullets became a whole lot tougher and Perth began to stretch their lead before running away with the match.
Perth's win and Cairns' loss to Illawarra earlier in the night, saw the Wildcats jump to third on the NBL ladder, with just over a week to go in the regular season.
Gleeson was happy to be proven right on Cotton finding his shooting stroke.
"The whole team has confidence in him," Gleeson said.
"It wasn't dropping; we knew it wasn't long before he'd star. I was really happy for Bryce; he got some clean looks from assists.
"They weren't self-made shots; they were making the extra pass and hitting him and making great screens."
Brisbane coach Andrej Lemanis said his side lacked defensive intent from the opening buzzer.
"To give up 29 points in the first quarter to a team that is not a high scoring team, was representative that we weren't in the mindset that we needed to be to give us a chance to compete here," he said.
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