Breakers prepare for NBL Grand Final

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With a Grand Final berth taken care of there's a swagger back in the Breakers step, none more so than Charles Jackson.

"I try just to build off the energy of the crowd as well as for my team," Jackson said. "Even if we're not making a good run, I have to come in there and give it everything I've got and bring that energy with that go-hard method to get my team back up.

"That's what I came here to do and that's what I'm going to do."

Jackson was at his emotional best in Saturday's series-clinching win over Melbourne.

"I didn't need to go for an offensive rebound because I knew it was going in so I just ran down the court," he said.

"Thanks T [Tom Abercrombie] for my assist because I knew this one was going in. He was hot so I had to give it to him."

That's an attitude coach Dean Vickerman likes to see.

"If you saw that in isolation you might've thought he got a dunk or did something, but he made a pass and celebrated someone else's success and that's a big part of being a Breaker: enjoying other people doing well," he said.

Vickerman's challenge now is keeping his team pumped for the Grand Final.

After wrapping up their series, the defending champions now have a 10 day-long break between games.

"We've just got to make sure we build in rest periods as well as some intensive," Vickerman said. "Just got to get up to game-speed for a period of time on the days we want to get the loading. So they're all going to be under an hour practice."

The extra break gives them a chance to rest some weary bodies, while the Breakers will have to wait until Friday to find out who they'll play in the final.

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