HEAD coach Paul James is adamant he is the right man to bring more trophies to Worcester Wolves, despite falling at the first hurdle in the British Basketball League play-offs for the second consecutive season.

Wolves were left in “shock” when Glasgow Rocks ran out 90-53 winners in the first leg of their quarter-final on Friday before closing out a 173-141 aggregate victory on Sunday.

James was disappointed with the way his side finished the campaign but having achieved a top-four finish and reached the semi-finals of the BBL Trophy, he firmly believes they have made progress this term.

“As a coach,you are judged on your results and you want to be winning things,” he said.

“This year in the Trophy we gave ourselves that opportunity and we didn’t take it.

“We had a good opportunity in the play-offs, but in the first leg we didn’t match up to where we needed to be. But I am still very keen to go on and bring more success to this club as I have done before.”

James, who joined the club in 2009 and clinched the BBL Trophy and play-offs in 2014, added: “I have brought this club forward and you can see how far the club has come on since I have been coaching them.

“We have got ourselves to where we want to be as far as being a top-four team and being a contender.

“But now we need to kick on and move on to be challengers in every competition.”

After being knocked out at the same stage of the play-offs last season to London Lions, Wolves made wholesale changes.

James revealed they were on a “three-to-five-year” project to get the club to the top of British basketball.

“We could have completely built a new team and not made the play-offs, so I think what we have done this season should be applauded,” he said.

“Teams at the top have not done that overnight in one season when they have changed their team. It is unfair and wrong for anyone to say that we have not made any progress because we have and we will continue to.”