The unstoppable Shawn Redhage poured on 37 points as the Perth Wildcats beat the South Dragons 108-80 in the NBL game in Perth.

Redhage, whose wife is two days overdue to give birth to their first child, focused to help the Wildcats hand the Dragons their fifth consecutive loss.

Fouls by their big men hurt the Dragons, putting all the pressure on captain Shane Heal and athletic duo Joe Ingles and Cortez Groves to score.

Dragons import Bakari Hendrix racked up three fouls in his first 2.53mins in the opening term, while Matt Burston had his fourth foul midway through the second term and fouled out with seven minutes left in the game.

Lacking an inside presence the Dragons launched myriad of bombs from downtown as they tried to arrest their four-game losing streak.

The Wildcats were unable to hit a shot from three-point range and struggled from the charity stripe (four of 13), while the Dragons found enough range to take a five-point lead into the first break.

The Dragons opened up a nine-point lead early into the second period but Redhage answered the call and poured on 15 points in the second term as Peter Crawford got a hot hand from three-point territory and brought their side back into the contest.

Perth guard Gerald Brown landed a basket with one second left in the first half to level the scores at 53-53.

Heal's long-range bombs silenced the Perth crowd every time as he landed five of six attempts by half-time.

Redhage started proceedings in the third term as Brown also showed plenty of creativity. The Dragons struggled to get any shots close to the basket and if it wasn't for Heal sinking three-point shots they would have been right out of the contest.

After getting back to within four points the Dragons couldn't sustain the attack from Redhage and company as they trailed by 14 points at the final change.

Scoring the first seven points of the final quarter the Wildcats showed no sympathy to the Dragons as they won their ninth game of the season.

Dragons coach Shane Heal said his team's second half was one of the worst he had been involved with.

"At half-time we had played the way we wanted them to play," Heal said.

"In the first half offensively it was working for us and the second half was one of the most disgraceful efforts I've ever been a part of to be.

"The same traits we saw in the second half tonight have come out spasmodically throughout the season.

"We don't have the ability individually to be tough enough to do things that make good teams.

"We are not hard enough mentally, we are not hard enough physically and we don't take enough pride to do the small things that win basketball games.

Wildcats coach Scott Fisher conceded that his team was still not shooting the ball well, but said it didn't matter if they could keep playing such a strong brand of defence.

"We didn't shoot the lights out if it tonight but we are banking on our defence right now and that kind of defence we saw there in the second half is going to beat most teams."

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