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The New Zealand Breakers have managed a rare win at Perth Arena, beating the Wildcats 87-86 in overtime on Sunday.It wasnt pretty, but wins against the Wildcats in Perth rarely are. Corey Webster went coast to coast and scored a lay-up with 1.40 second left on the clock to give the Breakers the lead.Jaron Johnsons three-point attempt on the buzzer wasnt to be and it rimmed out.It helped the visitors cause that Casey Prather was sidelined for the entire extra-time period with five fouls.Jameel McKay also missed most of the second half and adds to the Wildcats injury woes as they are already missing captain Damian Martin for an extended period.The two points from Webster gave him 20 for the game, with only Perths Matt Knight ahead of him on the night.Knight kept the Cats close earlier in the game when the Breakers were clearly on top.He finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds, as the home side dominated the boards, 59-40.But for most of the game, they couldnt get their offence going and finished with an average 38 per cent from the field.The Breakers victory was their first in Western Australia in six years.For most of the game, the Wildcats were unrecognisable as the reigning NBL champions.Without Martin, their defence was way undermanned.Johnson, who electrified the crowd a week ago, had two points at 14 per cent at the half and finished with 12 points and went 0-6 from beyond three-point range.The Breakers led 46-41 at half-time, but it felt as though they had a greater advantage. The lead had been as high as 11 and was 10 with just 55 seconds left in the half.Perths Prather was the sole reason why five points separated the sides at the break. He had a game-high 14 points at the break.He scored three of them in that last minute, created two steals and assisted Matt Knight to two points to keep the Cats chances of an 11-game home winning streak alive.That chance went out of the window with 3.55 minutes left on the clock when he was forced to the bench with 20 points and five fouls.Breakers coach Paul Henare said he didnt know how his side was able to overcome such a beating in rebounds (59-40).Thats an unbelievable number, he said.The Wildcats are the best rebounding team in the competition. You talk about it and you prepare for it and then you talk about it again. Stuart Pearce has been drafted in to help Simon Amors Olympics Sevens squad unite under the Team GB banner in Rio this summer.Former England football full-back Pearce has addressed Team GBs wider Olympics training squad as head coach Amor races against time to draw the best sevens stars together from England, Scotland and Wales. Pearce talked of common passion, but has also advised Sevens boss Amor on selection dilemmas, given his own stewardship of Team GBs 2012 football side.Ive had a lot of conversations with Stuart Pearce about how he managed to bring that GB team together for London 2012, the challenges he faced in a short space of time, to bring the home nations together, said Amor. Stuart told me to smash the Team GB message with the players.He obviously had the difficult choice of not picking David Beckham, he chose Ryan Giggs instead. The biggest thing he said was hammer home that Team GB message, how big it is.Everyone you speak to says it doesnt matter what youve done in the past, theres nothing that compares to this, the Olympics, the size, the scale, the feeling. And the other thing he said was to try to enjoy the journey, because he said it goes by just like that, in a second.Weve tried to enforce that with the guys and theyve worked so hard so far.Amor is just as busy weighing final Rio selection as building excitement and ambition amoong his squad.dddddddddddd The former England Sevens star will not though be filling any quotas when that final squad selection comes around. Amor has insisted the top-performing players will be selected to travel to Brazil, irrespective of their nationality.Every British & Irish Lions tour squad selection is picked apart for the numbers representing each nation, but Amor claims there will be no need for any similar process for the eventual Team GB line-up.Amor will finalise his 12-strong squad selection on July 19, before the GB mens outfit face New Zealand, Kenya and Japan in group-stage action, starting on August 9.There has been no quota set, said Amor of the impending Team GB selection. As soon as I got the job I committed 100 per cent to sending the very best team we could possibly to the Olympics. That meant making some tough calls for resting and recovering the England guys, knowing we needed a squad of at least 24 going in.But now its about that blend and that balance, and thats what were trying to do in training, seeing who works well together. So it may not be the best individual players, it may be who works best with that particular player.So nothing to do with quotas, well send what we think is the best squad. ' ' '