The two title-contenders produced one of the games of the season in round 14 that ended in a tense one-point victory to Melbourne with star guard Chris Goulding icing the game with some clutch free-throws.

The Hawks had a chance for a late equaliser but couldn’t make the shot drop.

However footage of United assistant Simon Mitchell rushing to head coach Dean Demopoulos after the break up of the Melbourne huddle to predict the Hawks would go to ‘‘Penney in the post” sparked allegations that someone from the Melbourne camp had listened in to Beveridge’s final timeout which was shown live as part of the Fox Sports broadcast.

The club issued a denial and Beveridge said it won’t stoke any extra fire from his side this week.

‘‘We haven’t even discussed it,’’ Beveridge said.

‘‘It was one of those things where the assistant coach said that he didn’t do it so I take his word for it. 

“We had to move on very very quickly because we had a game two days later against Sydney so we couldn’t get all worked up about that.

‘‘We just know that Melbourne are now playing great basketball. They want that first place and we need to make play-offs so that’s our complete focus.

‘‘We’re not in play-offs yet so we don’t care who we play this week, we need to keep winning to make play-offs.’’

While he’s not keen to rehash the spying claims with his players he hopes the Hawks faithful show long memories and create a hostile atmosphere at the WIN Entertainment Centre.

‘‘When we go to Perth when we go Adelaide those crowds go absolutely nuts about anything and I want us to be able to do that as well,’’ he said.

‘‘I want them to give the [Melbourne] players a hard time. This our home court.

‘‘Adelaide are one-eyed, Perth are one-eyed and I expect our fans to be one-eyed as well.’’

As far as the players are concerned, Beveridge said the memory of the agonising loss and the fact the crucial series is at stake is enough to get his side motivated.

‘‘It was one of those game where it was a hell of a game and we had a chance to win it,’’ Beveridge said.

‘‘We know we can compete with and beat Melbourne. 

“We feel pretty good abut ourselves going into what’s going to be a great contest and knowing we can win.

“I haven’t worried about it but I’m sure the players are looking at it and remember what happened in Melbourne.

‘‘It was a very a close loss and I think they will want to have some sort of revenge.”