Foul taste: Tassie's "recipe for disaster"

The Tasmania JackJumpers have won eight straight NBL matches and are the form team of the competition, alongside the Illawarra Hawks, but coach Scott Roth isn't content. 

In the absence of Will Magnay, the JackJumpers' rebounding and foul troubles are becoming all too real, and Roth is conscious it could prove costly when it matters most.

"We just played two rather big human beings with Fall and now Harrison, and that fight is real down there," Roth said, following a 95-86 win over Brisbane.

"I did think we battled and finally did better on the glass, but our foul discipline is something that obviously we survived, and that's normally not a great recipe for us.

"We kept throwing bodies out there and guys kept plugging away, and we did enough to hopefully counteract some of his (Harrison's) size."

While the JackJumpers are doing plenty right to be on an eight-game winning streak, Roth says it's far from a perfect formula.

The JackJumpers sent the Bullets to the charity stripe 31 times on Sunday, New Zealand 28 times back on Christmas and even Melbourne 20 times back on Monday night.

"There's two or three areas that we continue to talk about and our foul discipline has always been one of them," Roth said.

"We are quite an aggressive team just in general and we're up the floor for 94 feet for 40 minutes, which we hang our hat on.

"We just have to be a little bit smarter in some of those areas with some of our close outs, but that is a really bad number and again we survived it ... but that's a recipe for disaster."

The JackJumpers now don’t play again until hosting the South East Melbourne Phoenix next Sunday. Roth is looking forward to having a full week to tidy up some things, before they have seven games through the rest of January.

"This is our time to do our individual work which we've prided ourselves on for these last three years of slowly getting these guys better during their vitamin sessions," Roth said.

"We'll work on that for two or three days before we actually get back to playing some five-on-five and keep a rhythm going that way.

"I don’t mind the breaks even though the players would love to keep playing, but we have a big monster of a schedule coming up for most of January and we have a few guys with some bumps and bruises who can heal up a bit so it's not a bad time for us."