Tough Law helps Perth to NBL win

Perth coach Scott Morrison has hailed the toughness of import Vic Law as he helped the Wildcats snap a three-game losing skid in the NBL.

The 89-78 win over Tasmania JackJumpers in Launceston on Monday, was just Perth's second win in their past six games and it lifted them above Sydney Kings into third.

They can look forward to returning to Perth soon, after playing most of the season interstate because of border restrictions in WA.

"It was a good team win to finish off this two-month odyssey," Morrison said.

Law was in doubt for the game right up to the start after injuring an ankle in the Wildcats' previous match.

Coming off the bench on Monday, Law injected some much needed spark after Perth trailed 10-1 and took 10 attempts and four-and-a-half minutes to nail their first field goal.

Perth trailed by a double-digit margin in the first half for the 10th straight game, but Law finished with 19 points and a game-high 13 rebounds in just under 28 minutes.

"We weren't sure if he could go, I didn't put him in the starting line-up because when I had to put the starting line-up in we still didn't know," Morrison said.

"I give him respect for sucking it up and playing a tough game, he had a double-double and without him we probably wouldn't have won the game."

Law and Perth's other star import, Bryce Cotton (20 points), scored almost as many points as the entire JackJumpers team in the two middle quarters, when the Wildcats made their decisive surge.

Cotton and Law got good offensive support from Luke Travers (16 points) and Matt Hodgson (15), though Morrison confirmed the latter had hurt a calf late in the gamebut he hoped it was nothing serious.

"I thought the guys gave one of their better efforts of the last couple weeks,