Achara urges Rocks to finish with net gains

KIERON ACHARA says Glasgow Rocks players must draw a line under their four-game losing streak and focus on building momentum heading into next month’s BBL Play-offs.

Sterling Davis’s men still sit third in the league despite losing to Bristol on Sunday but now have a 14-day break before taking on leaders Leicester.

And Achara insists they must use the spell to iron out their problems and then prepare to finish off the regular season on a high note.

“We’re over-thinking,” the Great Britain captain said. “We’ve lost a few. We started blaming our defence and rightfully so.

“Against Bristol, we didn’t play a lick of defence in the first half and in the second, we couldn’t score. We have to get back to just playing because when things go wrong, you can think too much.

“We need to find ourselves again and refocus. We haven’t turned into a bad team overnight.”

GOLF Masters champion Danny Willett has welcomed the decision to restore Muirfield to the Open Championship rota after the club voted to admit women members.

The decision means the East Lothian course will again be eligible to stage the sport’s oldest major championship.

Willett, who was 15th at Muirfield when Phil Mickelson lifted the Claret Jug in 2013, said: “I think it’s a great thing that they’ve done.

“I was fortunate to play in the Open at Muirfield and it was an awesome week.

“When the vote was passed that females weren’t going to be allowed and they were going to be taken off the Open rota, it was not only a blow for a lot of other things, but it was a blow for us golfers who think that that golf course is one of the best Open courses that we play.

“It’s back in the Open rota and I’m looking forward to when it eventually gets back there.”