Perth Wildcats coach Rob Beveridge doesn’t expect Wollongong to bring momentum into Friday night's deciding Game 3 of the NBL Grand Final series and is happy with how his team has returned and prepared for the clash.

The Wildcats returned home on Wednesday afternoon after the Hawks won Game 2 at the WIN Entertainment Centre 75-63 following Perth's 75-64 win back at Challenge Stadium last Friday.

The 2009/10 champions will now be decided on Friday night inside The Jungle as the Wildcats press for a record fifth NBL title, and Wollongong its second in the 32-year history of the club.

Despite winning on Tuesday night, Beveridge doesn’t expect Wollongong to bring momentum into the game in Perth on Friday night.

He does feel that some of his players were overawed in the atmosphere of a full Sand Pit environment on Tuesday, but that won't be a problem back at home and he just hopes that some of the open shots that didn’t fall in Game 2 do on Friday.

"There is no momentum whatsoever, none. We were in the game for most of it and in that final quarter Jesse (Wagstaff) had two open looks from the three-point line, Kev (Lisch) had an open look, Stevie (Weigh) and Cat (Martin Cattalini) did too," Beveridge said.

"We just didn’t make those shots where in the big road wins on Melbourne and Gold Coast we did. If we make them, we might not be here today, but the situation was that we didn’t and there's a huge emphasis now on backing ourselves with the belief that we can make the shot.

"With the crowd the way they were over there, it possibly got to some of our guys, but that's not going to happen at home where we will have 4500-plus people going nuts for us."

Beveridge and the team are now feeling good after a solid training session on Thursday and the coach feels the 'Cats took themselves out of their game as much as Wollongong hindered them on Tuesday. He knows whoever does dictate terms will be the NBL champions now.

"I'm feeling really good and so is the team. I've watched the game three times and felt really disappointed. Their defence was pretty good, but it wasn’t a situation where they really took us out of our stuff," he said.

"I felt that we were a little overawed by the situation and took ourselves out of a lot of our stuff, we have to have the discipline to do what we do well. That's where they beat us the other night.

"They dictated the tempo to us and if they do that again, they will win, but if we dictate it we will win. It's a real battle of wills as to who will stamp their authority on the style of game."

After just scoring five points in Game 1, Cameron Tragardh had 28 on Tuesday to score 12 more than anyone else has in the series so far in a game.

Beveridge felt it had as much to do as the poor defence of his point guards on the on-ball screens as anything, so he expects Damian Martin and Brad Robbins to fix that, and then Shawn Redhage to guard Tragardh strongly.

"Tragardh didn’t beat us one-on-one. It's not like they threw it in the post and he made all these magnificent moves. He made a couple, but most of it was through us doing a terrible job of containing the penetration and defending the on-ball screen," he said.

"That's where he scored a lot of points through their discipline, and Damo and Robbo have to do a better job defending the Martin's, because they did a good job getting in the paint. Their challenge is to definitely shut down their guards and that will possibly take a bit away from Tragardh as well."

Like they did with Townsville's Corey Williams, Wollongong's point guards Rhys and Luke Martin sat off Wildcat Damian Martin daring him to shoot. It worked for the Hawks with the Wildcats guard shooting just 3-of-10 for seven points. Beveridge expects him to bounce back.

"They did a good job daring our guys to do it and we'll learn from it," he said.

"Damo did second guess himself and right now he's taken that as a bit of disrespect and he'll be better for it. It was a good experience for him."

Beveridge has been impressed with the focus his team has shown since Tuesday's loss and that leaves him confident heading into the game.

"They are very very focused. They came back knowing they had one hand on the trophy and they couldn’t get it done, so they were disappointed themselves with the effort after watching the game again and seeing what they did or didn’t do," he said.

"I was really happy with practice, it wasn’t physically demanding, but it was sharp, they were attentive, focused and there was a good feeling in the group."