COACH Don Pyke insists the football world is yet to see the best of his Adelaide's potent attack, despite the Crows booting 22 goals in a mammoth win over rivals Port Adelaide in Saturday's Showdown.
The Crows possess one of the League's most intimidating forward lines, boasting Taylor Walker, Eddie Betts, Josh Jenkins and Tom Lynch and it hummed sweetly at Adelaide Oval.
Lynch slotted six goals in a best-on-ground performance, Betts kicked five, Jenkins four and Walker and Wayne Milera two apiece. Small forwards Charlie Cameron and Troy Menzel aren't yet in the best 22.
With Lynch claiming the forward line is "dictated" by movement further up the field, Pyke said the Crows could heat up further as the year progressed.
"Today was a good outcome, we were efficient when we took the ball forward but we'll continue to work on things," Pyke said.
"We don't sit there and go 'we're 100 per cent satisfied'… that's the nature of the game, if we stand still and think 'oh we've got it done', the game does jump up and bite you pretty quickly.
"It's just the balance in terms of some of our leading patterns and bits and pieces … it probably doesn't mean a lot to yourselves but for us internally we can keep working away on it."
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The club's ball movement and speed through the midfield was a highlight in the 58-point demolition.
As St Kilda was able to do on multiple occasions last weekend, the Crows managed to find open space behind the Power's defenders but they also ran the ball through the middle of the ground.
Adelaide finished with an astonishing 248 uncontested possessions to 164, highlighting the quality of its spread from the contest.
Showdown medallist Lynch praised the side's bravery to attack the game through the corridor as well as its generosity when it came to finishing in front of goal.
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"I thought we were very brave, defenders and midfielders were able to move the ball and get it inside to the corridor to be able to let Eddie (Betts) and JJ (Jenkins) and Texy (Walker) out the back," he said.
"I'm extremely lucky to play in such and unselfish forward line and those guys like Eddie, Tex and Josh were all super today - obviously Mitch (McGovern) and 'Wayno' (Milera) were also really fantastic.
"We're dictated to how the ball movement up the field is and we thought the midfielders were very brave."
