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Painin me criosly dat I cnt watch d match

Hw's d game goin?

dominique: Morroco 46
Algeria 48
3rd quarter

Opps, they're 55 apiece now

Morocco nd Algeria played against each oda yestaday

Afam4eva: They're just there when compared to the US team but in Africa, they're the king and it's evident in the way they molested Morocco.

Last tym I checked,dey didn't qualify 4 d London Olympics.Based on deir matches in d preliminary stages,I feel dey ar livin on past glory.I don't feel dey ar gud enof 4 d trophy.

Krasid: Close one between Egypt and Cape verde.If Nigeria beats Senegal, they might just make it to the final.

Who won?

Sagamite: I know.

But I think the present Angolan team can beat them.

I have watched d present Angolan team play and I feel dat dey are just dere.I don't think dey would get 2 d final so I have no fear of dem playin Nigeria.

Sagamite: Cameroun dey fire our yansh anytime they meet us for ANC final na, and dem don win more ANC than us.

I don't see us overcoming Angola anytime soon. They simply dominate and are that good.

The only way we can overcome them soon is to drastically review our funding and reward programme for basketball so we can attract the best Nigerian-American basketballers to play for Nigeria.

The thing there is that outside the NBA and some few major Europe-based basketball leagues (Spain, Italy, Russia and Greece), many basketball players don't make alot of money.

In America, if you are not in the NBA, the next layer of leagues (minor leagues) hardly pay you over $30K per year.

In Europe, only the top elite players get paid top pay, which are effectively the equivalent of lower paid NBA players ($1.3m). Majority of average and lower paid basketball players in Europe hardly make over $300K. Many less than $100K.

So if Nigeria was to reward players with roughly maximum $50K (if the win tournaments) to play for the national team annually, we would increase and improve the talent of players coming to play for us. That is big money to many basketballers.

We cannot compete with Angola because they have a far better local league than us. The only place we have advantage is the immense number of Nigerians in diaspora, of whom many are in America borning kids. Angola cannot compete with us on that, and many lower leagues in the US are better than Angolan league.

Maybe even with that chicken change and improved successes, we could have attracted some NBA players like: Hakeem Olajuwon, Emeka Okafor, Andre Ighuodala etc.

All but two of d members of our present squad were born abroad.Only Stanley Gumut plays in d Nigerian basketball league.Ayo Bakare has done a gud job in makin nigerians based in d diaspora play 4 us.The Angolan league might be better than ours BUT our present crop of players are better than theirs

I just hope d'tigers won't suffer from fatigue wen dey play Senegal 2day because it may make dem susceptible to injuries.

Pls,wen is our next match?

So touching.Definitely my post of d month.