Perth Wildcats star Bryce Cotton has revealed trash talk from the crowd inspired his recent 49-point game against the Adelaide 36ers.

Cotton is enjoying the best form of his outstanding career with successive games of 59, 40, 49 and 44 points.

The four-time NBL MVP said 36ers fans made the mistake of taunting him during the game on December 8.

“Somebody said something courtside. It was the opposite side to our bench and I made a mental note of it,” Cotton told NBL Now.

“Then what really set me off was when Jesse got hurt and the crowd started booing. I felt that was just disrespectful. You don’t ever boo when a player is hurt. It just added a bit more fuel to the fire.”

Cotton will attempt to maintain his extraordinary run when the Wildcats travel to play the Illawarra Hawks on Sunday. He scored 40 points against the Hawks two weeks ago.

The American said while he was attempting to avoid the hype surrounding his dominance, he always understood the significance of being the star player in a league like the NBL.

“I’ve been fortunate to play in the era where I feel this is the best the league has ever been,” he said.

“So I take pride in being able to compete against the league’s best. That’s a nice honour to be able to take home whenever you finish playing – that you played during the league’s most talented time.”

The Wildcats have also been in great form in recent weeks and their scoring has surged since the break for international games.

Since that time they have scored 117 points against Brisbane, 123 points against New Zealand, 121 points against Illawarra, 115 points against Adelaide and then a 40-minute club record 128 points against Cairns. They have won four of those five matches.

Cotton revealed a heart to heart between the players was the catalyst for their rise with the group realising they had to set their season up before Christmas.

“During that FIBA break, we had a meeting, just talking to each other and telling ourselves that we are at that fork in the road and our season is going to go one way or the other,” he explained.

“There’s no in-between and whichever direction we take, it’s going to happen right now, so we’ve got to do everything we can to put ourselves in the direction we want. From there, you live with the outcome.”