₦airaland Forum

darkelf:
I hope our guys won't loose to the USA at FIBA and then struggle to take autographs thereafter.

I remember beijing 2008

BascoVanVeli:
Asisat Oshoala, Fracisca Ordega, Ngozi Okobi, Ngozi Ebere, Rashidat Ajibade, and Osinachi Ohale will not be available for our Tokyo Olympics qualifiers.

BascoVanVeli:
Fill in the blanks....

Oshoala ______ __ _____ today

Danielnino00:
What about the game against Iran?

GalaticHorde:
because Trump is a very stable genius and knows all the best people! catch my drift?

GalaticHorde:
Trump's twitter/meltdown against Jerome Powell causes Dow to loose around 600 points, very presidential

somehow:
Good job bro.

Do you see us beating Russia and Argentina

I believe we will beat South Korea

Seems were the 3rd ranked in our group

steady986:
Don't sleep on Promise Amukamara. You could see that coach Otis trusted her to be the primary ball handler in the finals, even when Ezinne was on the court. She made some important 3s to settle the nerves too. I'd put her in there. Akhator is more a forward than a guard. Ibekwe would drop to the bench.

somehow:
It's high time ministries learn to generate IGI for themselves. HABA, so if the government doesn't release money, they can get sponsors, yet don't want government interference. This needs to stop. They should package the sport (All sports), none should be even 60% dependent on government.

isan:
Oshoala and ordega best asset is their pace they thrive in a attacking formation they enjoy it when the ball is played in from of them to chase because they have pace to burn ..example Nigeria second goal vs korea at the just concluded world cup and Nigeria second goal vs Sweden 2015 world cup ...going in forward 4-3-3 is our best formation

A40:
Unless Otedola, Dangote or any of these other mazajes step into the picture I don't see any private establishment pumping that amount into the female team alone.

With the number of girls we have playing in US colleges we should be top 3-5 in the World behind only US and maybe Australia. Even my WCW Liz Cambage I heard her dad is Nigerian

A40:
Lmaoooo if you had a kid would you advice them to play for Nigeria? I see most of these guys as humanitarians because it's only football that provides some compensation for your services. I wouldn't advice Arike to come and play here, even in the WNBA most of those babes are underpaid talk less of Nigeria

A40:
So 2020 Olympics is sure.

Imagine if the Ogwumike sisters and Arike Ogunbowale could play for Nigeria. But our federation will not allow us be great. Smh

Danielnino00:
Finally D'tigers have departed for China..

they will play Iran, Montenegro and Poland in an invitational tourney before the world cup

steady986:
Spot on. I believe the future of D'Tigress is looking good. We'll be the team to be for a very long time. The core of this team can stay together for a long time. Akhator is 24, Nyingifa is 27 or so, Ezinne is 27, Jasmine is 24, Promise is 26. The rest are 28 and above and have only 1 or 2 tournaments in them, thus the coach has to scout really hard. The good thing is Senegal have at least 8 of their players above 30.

steady986:
By and large, the quality of the teams in the tournament was just horrible. Women's basketball in Africa still has a very long way to go. Bar Nigeria and Senegal, and Mali to a lesser extent, the rest were terrible. Basic things like holding strongly onto the ball was a problem. The ball readily slipped out of their grips when dribbling or catching a pass or rebounding. And shot selections were awful. Let's not even talk about the actual shot taking. Even open layups were readily missed. Still a long way to go.