The Perth Wildcats have lost their last pre-season match before the start of the NBL season, going down 95-81 to the 36ers in Adelaide and head coach Scott Fisher believes his team still has alot of work to do.

The Cats trailed by just six points with four minutes left in the match, but then star import Shawn Redhage fouled out and giant centre Paul Rogers fell and hurt his back, and sat out the rest of the game.

“We’ve still got a fair amount of work to do, which really isn’t a big surprise,” head coach Scott Fisher said after the match.

“I thought we would have shown a bit more fight today – we should compete harder than that. “

The Cats gave up 19 turnovers, and Fisher admitted it was a continuing concern.

“It certainly was – I look at them and so many of them were unforced, just stupid fumbling errors and bad choices.”

Fisher said that only Redhage and Rogers could hold their heads high, although some others were OK.

“I thought Peter Crawford , despite not shooting too well, played alright, and Justin Brown and Jeff Dowdell’s minutes were serviceable, but I thought everybody else struggled.

“We need a lot more from Tony Ronaldson, who looked slow out there. If we’re going to take advantage of this big lineup, all our bigs have got to be rebounding, and Tony’s got to rebound better, and finish a little bit better on the paint.

“I don’t think the final score was quite indicative of exactly how the game went – there were a lot of problems out there, but we also had so many easy shots that we just did not make. We had so many layups – I’ve never seen a team miss so many layups, and at the end of the day you still have to make them, but I thought when we were patient, our offense was giving us some good looks.

“We need Darren to step up, we need Adam to step up and we need Tony to step up – you know, they’re starters on this team and they do need to play a bit better than they did tonight.”

And the Cats shot just 16 of 25 free-throws, something guaranteed to make the coach - one of the best free-throwers in NBL history – unhappy.

“Not impressed after the way we’ve been shooting, that’s probably only the second time we shot under 70 per cent, and we did get as lot of looks too, we had 25 free throw attempts, and I would expect a better percentage than 64,and hopefully we’ll do it.”