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The London Lightning are beaten up, sick and reeling from a three-game losing streak, but the four-time National Basketball League Canada champs are confident they’ll recover.

The Bolts still lead the Central Division with a 12-6 record, but a lingering virus and a spate of injuries have sent the once soaring Lightning crashing to the hardwood.

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It’s been a tough stretch, one that every team goes through, Lightning coach Doug Plumb said, but to blame the recent slide on the team’s health alone wouldn’t be accurate.

“I think it would be arrogant to say that, even though we were winning, we were playing championship basketball,” Plumb said. “We were winning games that we easily could have lost.”

Plumb believes in the team he’s put together, but he said the Bolts need to get bigger and stronger — and healthy again — and he plans to bring in at least one new forward.

“I think we have the right combination of guys, but we are missing a couple of pieces, which I hope we can add over the next two to three days,” he said.