Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks has by no means seen his gamers do it higher.
But regardless of witnessing a “complete game” by his Crows, he is tempering any finals discuss.
“Form is fickle,” Nicks stated after Adelaide’s 52-point thrashing of St Kilda.
“But we are going to ride this wave because we have got so much confidence at the moment.
“We get our confidence from being competent. We know we are able to play actually good footy however there is a problem to do it week-in, week-out.”
Nicks preached caution at over-reacting.
“We have gotten to watch out. We’re not getting forward of ourselves,” he stated.
“We are nonetheless a younger group and we’re working via the best way to turn into a extremely good, constant, sturdy staff. That is the place it sits.”
The Crows, with a dozen goalkickers against the Saints, booted their highest score – 19.7 (121) – under Nicks.
They hold eighth spot after topping 100 points for the fourth time this season but the attacking firepower isn’t what satisfies Nicks the most.
“Scoring 121 factors is a good signal for us but it surely’s the place it comes from is the important thing,” he stated.
“Our mindset is just not about kicking 121 factors, that’s the bonus on prime. We stored them (St Kilda) to 69, that’s our mindset.
“If we got a lot of things right today it was going to be our defence and our transition.
“And I believed we nailed that at this time. That was nearly as good as I’ve seen us in that area.
“Off the back of that comes the opportunity to score.”
Nicks stated the broader dialogue might shift to Adelaide’s prospects of returning to the finals for the primary time since 2017 however he’ll ignore it.
“People start talking about finals – we’re just one week, we go again (then) we go again,” he stated.
“If we had lost, we were going to lose touch with that top eight.
“Now we discover ourselves in it and so now we are able to preserve combating.”
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