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Schemerkhiz:
Amanda Mbadi played DM in the last game, with Rita Chikwelu playing Centrally. When Coach Randy subbed off Mbadi, I was expecting him to bring in Regina Otu he moved Chikwelu to DM, Ajibade to the Central and Payne back to the Attacking Midfield with Ashleigh Plumptre moving down to the Left Back position...

Removing Chikwelu for Okobi spoiled everything, the Midfield finally Collapsed. Because there was no true DM and Ajibade was looking tired already..

Okobi who came in Can't do the Dirty job in the Midfield.. Yes Chikwelu is old and lack pace but her strength and experience is still there just that the pace of the modern game is no longer there...

....i thought i was the only one that noticed that, as soon as we made that first sub around 50 something minute into the match our midfield collapsed, i do not know the player substituted, as streaming was very poor., however, i realized that all off a sudden midfield became non existant..the only grace we had was we scored the second goal almost immediately, and our defense was up t the task. I believe he should have learnt his lesson, as the second leg no go easy....

Schemerkhiz:
Let's keep Voting for our own Solid Defender, Ashleigh Plumptre...

......done.....

GeneralDae:
Yeah it seems most of our Nigerian male fans just want to see beautiful Zogg on the pitch, many don't even ask about her improvement . Patricia George is the one they should be asking about more, but nah .

.... Lol..... The boys also want their version of maduka Okoye of super eagles..

lovewins:
4pm

....ok.....thank you.

Schemerkhiz:
Look out for NFF TV and AIT to watch the Superfalcons against CIV tomorrow

....what time is the match.

Danielnino00:
What's even the status of the Ogwumike sisters playing for us??
I understand that Erica is no longer playing at a pro level cus of school,but what about the elder ones?

We really need to fill up the team with more quality players before the world cup.. Big women and good shooters

...to be honest, i think we should move on, we should look for quality young players to add to the team, players that we can easily get a good decade from or there about.

PDPGuy:
Here’s the format for the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup.

The teams will be split into two groups of six.

.......chai, this is the tradition method,it is usually brutal, you play 5 games in about 6 or 7 days or there about, the last method to me was better to me, less games,you do not worry too much about fatigue, hence you can rest a little bit more but this one, by the end of a two weeks tournament, you would have played 8 games...Chai....well our queens are up for it.

PDPGuy:
The NBBF need to do all they can to get Michaela Onyenwere to commit to D’Tigress, because she will be obviously a valuable forward

This i agree with, we need more quality........

PDPGuy:
They simply went to sleep thinking the game was done and dusted after gaining a 21-point lead

..yeap, we switched off, it also happened, with this Malian team in the finals of Afrobasket, remember they cut the lead down at the Afrobasket finals in the 4th quarter.

SlyCharlie:
game is over..


Nigeria 73:69 Mali
disgraceful 4th quarter tho...

congratulations on the qualification and anyways

....Mali no come sell groundnut o,they also want to go to the world cup, If you followed the build up, you will know that we were really shorthanded, No true point guard in your team, going into a major tournament.......and also no good preparation, however, we came from 31 - 11 down to beat no 5 in the world in France. Basketball is not a straight line.....If it is a straight line, france should beat us too by atleast 8 points or there about.. Congrats Nigeria, back to back world cup......

we need to have a another true point guard.............Promise is not a true point guard. She is an off guard, she is been played out of position, i will give it her, she tried, having to play as a point guard, when you are not, at this level is not easy, she is my MVP...

Australia here we come.....lol.....

PDPGuy:
I agree. I don’t see the logic of starting Atonye over Okonkwo. Aside from Macaulay, Okonkwo has been our stand out player in this tournament

Atonye and Amy do not play the same position, Atonye is a small forward, Amy is a power forward, a stretch 4 because she can shoot. Atonye is helping with the heavy lifting of creating as Ezinne is not around due to injury. Promise, Elonu,Nyingifa are the players helping with creating shots. It seems it is in belgrade that Ify picked her injury, it seems they had a scrimmage with a team over there,i am guessing that was where ify picked the injury.

missing too many free throw today

Pidginwhisper:
You have link?

....star times.

game on....

i told you guys that the first game was like practice..........The girls are getting themselves back...........we beat no 5 in the world.......The girls strated slow, but balled out.....in the end to finish France off.....

Lets goooooooooooooooooo After 20 points down.....

....incredible ...........Lets go......... Ngr 67 France 65.....

Lets go............

67:65 Nigeria leading.....Nigeria leading

PDPGuy:
This 4th quarter has shocked me pleasantly

.....i swear...62:62

Time out by France....2:22 to go...Nigeria leading 62:59, after coming from 20 points down....

Lets go Ladies...we can do this....

2:41 to go Nigeria leading 61:59

who is watching the dtigress right now

WhyNa:
Here where I am, cheapest is 240 for fully furnished one bedroom apartment.

Similar but not as good as this place, you won't even dream of that amount.

my neighbourhood recently won one international city award...like in the world. I was prouding

.....omo, things are really cheap over there,i am really impressed.

WhyNa:
My dear see eh, if they even use one strand of shunbo (not sure of the spelling, but those slim long ones) to cook for the family, they'll be shouting pepper pepper pepper. that's how bad it is.

You need to see how they look at me llike an alien when i go to buy pepper and i'm packing it

.....lmao, i can imagine

WhyNa:
Neighbourhood.

....omo see neighbourhood, e be like banana island....whyna what is rent like in such a neighbourhood.

WhyNa:
Hi anayolity,

Yea I think it's high time I came back. After all it's a new year!!

Happy new year to you all, both the normal new year and the chinese new year.

I'm going to try and get back to my normal postings soon. I'm just going to use this space to shout out to a couple of people. Forgive me if I don't remember to mention you....

First, shout out to ASG01 and E** who have become Dons in Vietnam after just 7-8 months of being here. (I shared their arrival picture here a while back)

Shout out to Citygal, Emmiko90, Youngstown and Harbey92 whom their visas just came out. Big Congrats.

Shout out to Teslason, BunmiBie, Joohan, HenryG, Hahnemann, Jendy36, Sirwifi et al. I see you guys

Good to be back

Enjoy dinner with me

...good to see that you are back, time to follow the thread again,,,this food looks good,hwever the yoruba in me is saying that there is not enough pepper in this......

somehow:
They actually tried.
Another problem is the inability to close down 3 points shooters.

thats true, however you will notice that we played zone alot... If you play zone, it is to the advantage of a shooting team, i guess they were trying to give the Chinese a lot of problems going to the basket, as the Chinese girls a taller, however, the chinese could shoot. I am also guessing that our coaches were not privileged to watch a recent game of the chinese to make a scouting report. Also we are short handed at the moment(Ezinne and also Ify seems to ne injured too. Still not sure what it is, if the French team are weaker that their usual standard or the Malians have really improved. Time will tell.