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lovewins:
The Australian Opals just released their Pre- Olympics camp Squad. .

"As the excitement builds for the 2024 Olympic Games, here is your Seven Consulting Opals squad set to compete for a place on the team destined for Paris."

The D'Tigress will be facing Australia in the group stages.

. Georgia Amoore in the list,Brazil called Cardoso for qualifiers. Let see if Kiki will be called up.

Danielnino00:
I'm out of touch with the situation of the Ogwumike sisters... any chance one of them might still be able to join the team?

If we go to the Olympics with this same squad, we will be cooked... no two ways about it.

i honestly do not know the situation with them. This is by far our weakest squad in awhile....

lovewins:
Not sure we have top guard right now whether in College or the WNBA, save for Arike who obviously won't be playing for us. Ezinne will probably have to come back for us to have a semblance of that. Promise wasn't promising at the qualifiers.

.. absolutely,also remember that promise is not a point guard,she is a 2 guard...if we are serious about this Olympics, atleast Vicky and Ezinne will have to comeback,then mix that with Kiki and Micheala, then Amy,Musa and the likes..infact invite everyone,let everyone fight for shirt,the most inform players picks the jersey.

lovewins:
Kiki Iriafen just put up a 41 Point display for Stanford at the NCAA tournament. Rena has to at the very least invite her for the training camp. We have no one with her skill set presently on the team.

. Kiki and Micheala should be invited. We also need to get a real point guard.

Chris Danjuma weldone o...your team never has an extra gear when they are down...same team,same result,twice..

Anyone that has link for the south Africa game should post it

Gooal...Nice assist by Echegini..Nice finish by Okoronkwo...

1000..

Deltamani:
I literally saw a lot of comments on Facebook where Cameroonian fans were complaining about meeting Nigeria in the Olympics Games Qualifier… They were like Nigeria Again😂😂😂

...lol...don't blame them, Cameroon has not had it easy with Nigeria lately,either men or women....
🤣🤣🤣

isan:
Not competitive at all , it's a shitty league

....it is well...

mostob:
I made the same observation weeks ago. Her defensive game may be getting depreciated.

..we would find out soon sha...

Deltamani:
Ashleigh Plumptre Called Up….

...I hope Ashleigh has not lost form, because the way she was scoring goals in that Saudi league,made me wonder how competitive the league is.

Princezibk:
Wow 😯 thank you Jesus ooo 🙏🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

Did Belgium qualify too

..Belgium already qualfied, infact they have been given their tickets.....

lovewins:
Cut Ejiofor some slack cause she played some defence. But like you rightly noted, she's clumsy and we really wouldn't miss her should she not be in the team.

.. Imagine a close game, and you give away fouls clumsyly... however,I like her effort,she be diving and all,but..there is a lot of growing that needs to be done...we downgraded real bad...no thank to NBBF.

lovewins:
Cut Ejiofor some slack cause she played some defence. But like you rightly noted, she's clumsy and we really wouldn't miss her should she not be in the team.

...offcourse she plays defence,I am just pointing out her flaws. There is no way way in hell that any of the players starting for us is benching Chidom and Vicky....

lovewins:
She has been atrocious both games she played. She's amongst the worst shooters in the team and brings nothing on defence.

..she is not ready for this stage yet.

lovewins:
Adeyeye doesn't have a business with this team.

... Absolutely,even Ejiofor is clumsy. Alot of the ladies on the squad just walked in and picked jersey due to NBBF pressing self destruct button.

lovewins:
Okoro should don't be making the Olympics. Brings nothing to the team in my opinion.

...lol...your NBBF and coach did not call Ezinne, but carried Okoro and Taiwo. Okoro is okay, however,she is not ready for the world stage yet, I knew Taiwo was also going to struggle shooting because if she does not have her feet set,it will be hard for her to pull the trigger. Unfortunately for her,the speed at which the game is played at the world stage is alot faster that Afrobasket, also there is no true point guard to create those shots for her. Ogoke,Promise,Taiwo, Elizabeth are all shooting guards o..basically,only Okoro is a point guard, however, NBBF still did not call Ezinne. If we do not reinforce,we will just be going for jamboree.

lovewins:
The last team took USA to the wire. We had something to build on. Sadly NBBF happened.

absolutely,we had them at the corner,we lost by 5 points if I remember correctly.

NBBF thinks they do not need the old players any more .Well,well....Our players finding it hard to get to their spots and making all the wrong reads and passes. Not crashing the boards,not hustling on defence against the number 1 basketball nation in the world.

PDPGuy:
Tid bits..

- D’Tigress would qualify for back to back Olympic tournaments for the first time ever.

- A female coach would have qualified the team to the Olympics for the first time…

- Moreover, since October 2, 2025 D’Tigress have won ALL competitive games against African opposition 🤯

.....Just realized Cardoso of South Carolina WBB is playing for her national team(Brazil) at this OQT,that means if invitation was sent to Kiki she would have honoured it..

My performers for today's game.
1) Amy Okonkwo
2) Promise Amukamara.
3)Sarah Ogoke/Lauren Ebo/ Ejiofor/ Musa.
Pallas did not play too well today,maybe because she got into foul trouble early. Tomi Taiwo was missing,this I think had to do with her not having the opportunity to set her feet before the ball gets to her. The Sengalese watched her at the Afrobasket and knew how to make her less effective,she has to set her feet,otherwise,she might not take the shot. Did not see much from Nicole as she did not play much. Elizabeth Balogun was not bad.

PDPGuy:
D’Tigress would qualify for back to back Olympic tournaments for the first time ever.
And a female coach would have achieved the feat for the team for the first time…
Moreover, since October 2, 2025 D’Tigress have won ALL competitive games against African opposition 🤯

...2015 you mean...That 2015 Afrobasket was also suppose to be ours, however,we lost it..

For any one that wants to watch the full game again,it on the FIBA YouTube page..

MSGAMBLE9:
The US are always slow starters, the last time we played the we led until the final 5mins.... their overall quality always seems to come to bear.

... Absolutely, however,it will backfire one day,other teams are also developing...

I am sorry for Senegal o... because the anger this Belgium team will use to play them,knowing they have just 2 games to go...It is well..

Phew....U.S wins it 81 : 79...went to the last milli second..

See war....79:79 ...4.5 secs to go.., ...bonkers..

Belgium 66: U.S 57...end of 3rd quarter...the U.S staring at defeat in the eyes..will they rally...they 10 mins to do that...

PDPGuy:
Yes, I get your point about the Senegalese not winning the other two games. But what I’m saying is that the improvement is needed so that, even if D’Tigress lose to the U.S. and Belgium, those losses would be single-digit losses which could also boost the confidence of the team as they head into the Olympics

...okay,I get you know. That is very doable,we just need to play the way we played in the 4th quarter against Senegal in all the 40 mins against Belgium and U.S.A... ......

Belgium 30 : U.S 23...5:32 to go in the 2nd qtr