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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by ManirBK: 4:26am On Jul 28, 2021
Dont worry guys Germany will pay back by October.
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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Enn214(m): 4:34am On Jul 28, 2021
E b like say this olympic team just go cruise
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by dinamoo: 4:47am On Jul 28, 2021
Well done guys

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Jerrysmallz: 4:54am On Jul 28, 2021
I’m currently in Canada, watching Canadian TV. Canada is not doing too well but trying their best. You need to see the way the celebrate their athletes even those already knocked out of the olympics. But my country Nigeria will never celebrate you

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by blackbriar: 5:01am On Jul 28, 2021
theTranscriber:
is Naomi Osaka's dad Chinese? undecided
You guys and generalizing sef

No he’s Haitian
Haiti is not a country in Africa
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by zoomman(m): 5:07am On Jul 28, 2021
A game we ought to have won easily, now we will be basking on others misfortune so as to qualify as third place team. Obviously we can't beat Italy with this kind of play. They get tired and miss so many free throws and 3pointers. That's the issue.
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by jonahmatt(m): 5:12am On Jul 28, 2021
This country is cursed grin
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Johnnyessence(m): 5:15am On Jul 28, 2021
zoomman:
A game we ought to have won easily, now we will be basking on others misfortune so as to qualify as third place team. Obviously we can't beat Italy with this kind of play. They get tired and miss so many free throws and 3pointers. That's the issue.
lol dem done lose again
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by BangGanger: 5:16am On Jul 28, 2021
Nigeria is useless.
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Aystarz: 5:25am On Jul 28, 2021
dinamoo:
A bunch of guys with little passion. All most of them care about is party & girls.
Nigeria is just cursed. Very cursed.

Lord have mercy on us ooo.
House rent I cannot pay. Money has been wasted on this ones already. Must we go to Olympics when winning ordinary bronze medal is not guaranteed. I tire ooo. God have mercy on me to

Will you just shut up!
Trashy arm-chair critic spitting trash.

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Aystarz: 5:27am On Jul 28, 2021
Jerrysmallz:
I’m currently in Canada, watching Canadian TV. Canada is not doing too well but trying their best. You need to see the way the celebrate their athletes even those already knocked out of the olympics. But my country Nigeria will never celebrate you

This is where we are as a country and as a people. I keep saying it : The average Nigerian has something terribly wrong with their psyche.

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by CSTRR: 5:35am On Jul 28, 2021
Jerrysmallz:
I’m currently in Canada, watching Canadian TV. Canada is not doing too well but trying their best. You need to see the way the celebrate their athletes even those already knocked out of the olympics. But my country Nigeria will never celebrate you
Why should I celebrate disappointment.

You think China celebrates athletes that don't win medals?
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Funjosh(m): 5:36am On Jul 28, 2021
Kubernetes:
Nig 92..... Germany 99
Final scores

Which kind mumu score be this again

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by redcliff: 5:38am On Jul 28, 2021
Ruggedniggaone:
Another defeat on the way,9ia just dey collect from every conner in this olympics. just carry anything that want to play against Nigeria and stake your life saving

lmao!!!
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Fr33born(m): 5:44am On Jul 28, 2021
Jerrysmallz:
I’m currently in Canada, watching Canadian TV. Canada is not doing too well but trying their best. You need to see the way the celebrate their athletes even those already knocked out of the olympics. But my country Nigeria will never celebrate you


No, that's not our way. In Africa, we don't celebrate failure.
If you want to be celebrated, you must win.

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by AnanseK(m): 5:55am On Jul 28, 2021
jonahmatt:
This country is cursed grin

Not surprising , when we have so many negative people. You sound negative..
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Nobody: 6:04am On Jul 28, 2021
We played a very good game even though we lost the match.
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by UCHDR: 6:12am On Jul 28, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald


SportTokyo Olympics
OK, Boomers: Australia fail to hit heights in first-up victory
By Malcolm Knox
July 25, 2021 — 8.52pm
Australia 84 Nigeria 65

Okay, Boomers. At the end of a weekend that had produced plenty of surprises for the wider Australian Olympic team, several of them nasty, it was down to one of the more popular, experienced and high-profile outfits to provide a shot of morale.

Anxious Australian athletes would have been gathered around their TVs on Sunday night in Tokyo expecting the Boomers to look after them.

Joe Ingles drives to the hoop against Nigeria.
Joe Ingles drives to the hoop against Nigeria. GETTY

The Australian men, ranked third in the world, fresh off a practice match win over the United States, were expected to account comfortably for the 22nd-ranked Nigeria at the Saitama Super Arena. Like the Tokyo Games themselves, the result was a while coming and beset by human and non-human error.

For the first half, the Boomers struggled to shake off a Nigerian team that outperformed Australia in rebounds and turnovers, harassed them with willing defence and deprived them of cohesion. With coach Brian Goorjian giving long slabs of game time to old heads Patty Mills and Joe Ingles, there were flashes of coordinated offence, but only flashes.


In an irony that would have been observed by those noting the absence of Ben Simmons, off seeking a cure for the free-throw yips, it was only Nigeria’s poor free-throw shooting that saved Australia’s blushes. Swap Nigeria’s free throw percentage for Australia’s on the night, and the result goes the other way.

Patty Mills looks to find some space as the Nigerians close him down.
Patty Mills looks to find some space as the Nigerians close him down. GETTY

Like some other Australian Olympians in the first few days of these games, the Boomers left the court with frowns on their faces and a look of puzzled frustration.

After a prolonged struggle, eventually class prevailed. Or, put another way, lack of class failed to prevail. As the game developed, Nigeria’s poor shooting spread from the free-throw line around the court, and while they continued to thwart Australia with their enthusiasm and physicality, there was no making up for their shooting inaccuracy.

As if another obstacle needed to be put in the way of the athletes at these Olympics, the shot clock horn went on the blink in the third quarter, leading to extended conferences, contingency plans and effectively a supplementary three-quarter time break for both teams. Just one thing after another. When play resumed, the ever-impressive Dante Exum landed a three-pointer, followed up with a steal, and the Australian gears looked like they were finally meshing.


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But not really, or in any satisfying way. It was that kind of night. A six-point margin at the official final break was enough for confidence but not for comfort. The disqualification of Nigeria’s Chimezie Metu of the Sacramento Kings, for an unsportsmanlike foul on Matthew Dellavedova spelt the end of the contest when Dellavedova nailed his free throws, and from that point Australia strung some together nicer offensive play, with Mills at the forefront. The captain’s game-high 25 points were as reassuring as his solid 33 minutes of court time.

Australia’s win, by a final margin of 84 points to 65, was one of those looked better on the scoreboard than it would have felt, and will leave the Australians knowing they have work to do. It wasn’t pretty, and a more polished opponent would have held Australia to greater account.

“Jitters,” said Exum when asked later to explain Australia’s scratchy start. “Everyone wants to do so well and win this first match, and when we went to the locker room we sat down and said we need to get this together.”

Ingles, who was vocal in gingering up his teammates during breaks in play, said credit had to be given to the “up and in, full-court style of play” employed by the Nigerians, who had eight NBA players in their squad. “We need to be better with the ball,” he said, predicting that Goorjian ‘will get into us a little bit’ in the review of the game.

An unfazed Mills said the overall aim is a two-week project: to qualify out of the group stage and, simply, “to be the last team standing”.


At least the Boomers won’t have to worry about the hazards of peaking too early.

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by HEAVEN4444: 6:13am On Jul 28, 2021
I guess we should change their name to D lizards

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Emeka71(m): 6:23am On Jul 28, 2021
I believed that they have finished the match.
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by chrismastre5(m): 6:24am On Jul 28, 2021
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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Emeka71(m): 6:25am On Jul 28, 2021
dairykidd:
We played a very good game even though we lost the match.
Final score ¿
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Emeka71(m): 6:29am On Jul 28, 2021
manneger2:
This boys are not serious, playing with swagger even commentator said it too, they were leading with 12 point and allow Germany to catch up with them again.
Meaning that they are confident and may have something to offer in thier subsequent matches.
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by DesChyko: 6:30am On Jul 28, 2021
Emeka71:
Final score ¿
NGR 92 - 99 GER

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Nobody: 6:39am On Jul 28, 2021
Emeka71:
Final score ¿
99 _ 92
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by Nobody: 6:40am On Jul 28, 2021
Emeka71:
Meaning that they are confident and may have something to offer in thier subsequent matches.
I swear they have lot's to offer. They're fvcking good. This should be the best Olympics basketball team to ever rep naija.

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Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by mickells(m): 6:45am On Jul 28, 2021
Good game indeed. They put up a spirited effort...
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by popesco123: 6:49am On Jul 28, 2021
Hammyaladin:
Let's be positive guys. Support your own!!!!!


Why is everyone laughing?

because nothing good happens in the country
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by unlimitedmoneys: 6:54am On Jul 28, 2021
After the hype, here comes the fall. foreign cat
Re: Tokyo2020 Male Basketball: Nigeria Loses To Germany 92 - 99 by jonahmatt(m): 7:05am On Jul 28, 2021
AnanseK:


Not surprising , when we have so many negative people. You sound negative..
lol if im broke , I get upset unnecessarily ..

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