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Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by steady986(m): 7:44pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
Nigeria does a three-peat at the FIBA Women's Afrobasket, defeating Mali 70 to 59 Elizabeth Macaulay 15 pts Ify Ibekwe 13 pts Ezinne Kalu 13 pts 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by excel101(m): 7:44pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
Mali 59:70 Nig final score. |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by justicechichex: 7:45pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
We're gargantuan 2 Likes
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Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by steady986(m): 8:01pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
Player of the tournament: Adaora Elonu All-star five: Marina Ewodo Ezinne Kalu Mariam Coulibaly Adaora Elonu Diop Yacine 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by justicechichex: 8:05pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
Ify Ibekwe deserved to be in the tournament's top 5 imo |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by Queenslander(f): 8:15pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
justicechichex:on point, Even Victoria Macaulay.. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by steady986(m): 8:29pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
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Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by excel101(m): 8:37pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
I really missed one player in this team, in the person of "EVELYN EKHATOR" wherever she is, i hope she's good. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by justicechichex: 9:01pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
steady986: Marina is from which country? |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by skallion7(m): 9:07pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
justicechichex:cameroon 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by Pidginwhisper: 9:27pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
steady986:Where’s Ify ibekwe? Are they mad�� 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by steady986(m): 9:32pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
Pidginwhisper:My thought exactly |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by PDPGuy: 11:58pm On Sep 26, 2021 |
D’Tigress ended up winning their last ELEVEN Afrobasket games by double digits, and have gone 2 straight Afrobasket tournaments winning each game by double digits. This team is simply incredible!! 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by somehow: 6:46am On Sep 27, 2021 |
Danielnino00:Thanks, I watched it there. The girls did well. Congratulations to D tigress. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by PDPGuy: 3:30pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
Up next for D’Tigress is the February 2022 Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by justicechichex: 4:53pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
PDPGuy: Who are their opponents? |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by carbonado(m): 5:14pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
PDPGuy:.... I envisage they we will have to play Mali again.... Or else, their might be likelyhood of both African teams not qualifying for world cup proper. |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by PDPGuy: 5:56pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
justicechichex: The draws haven’t been made yet 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by PDPGuy: 5:57pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
carbonado: I would prefer the African teams to be split into different tournaments, in order to increase their chances of advancing to the World Cup |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by carbonado(m): 7:09pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
PDPGuy:...Bad idea, i do not know the format, but, if we get split into different groups, it can work for us or against us(Africa).By this,both teams might not qualify or both teams might qualify..imagine being in the same group with France,spain and canada, Anyway, this is the time for the federation to work on getting serious reinforcement, cause the level of opposition just went 10 times higher. However, if we face each other again, it means we are certain of having one team in the world cup as a continent. However, if it based on grouping, we hope to get a good draw, so as to be able to qualify. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by PDPGuy: 9:14pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
carbonado: The bolded is very plausible. Didn’t think along those lines initially. Yes, the NBBF needs to scout especially for outside the paint shooters, preferably players who stand 6’2” - 6’5”. I’m sure the NCAA (or even WNBA) has talented players of Nigerian heritage who will be thrilled by the prospect of playing for the undisputed #1 team in Africa within the last 6 years. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by Nobody: 10:20pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
I love this |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by carbonado(m): 11:27pm On Sep 27, 2021 |
PDPGuy:....Well, from the research i did, every team gets to be in four groups of four teams(16 teams in all). The top 3 in each group qualifies for world cup. 3 teams are be awaited to emerge from the Asian region to complete 16 teams for the qualifying tournament, The Asian region are playing their own tournament at the moment. You do expect Japan to be one of the teams that will qualify. The U.s and Australia are the only two teams that have qualified for world cup proper. This is because the Australians are hosting it, and the Americans are the Olympic champions, however, the two teams will still play the tournament. I see the d tigress team become even more competitive, because we still have some players that were not around for afrobasket, example Nyingifa, Evelyn. Now imagine we can get the likes of Arike, Micheala, i swear, i do not envy coach Hugley Jnr, if something like this plays out, imagine if we also get the Ogwumike sisters and other hidden gems that we have not discovered yet. It will be serious war to get a jersey, if such a scenario plays out. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by PDPGuy: 1:05am On Sep 28, 2021 |
carbonado: Of the Ogwumike sisters, it’s likely that Chiney would be the only one that shows up for the tournament, because Erica will be in her Spring semester in medical school, while Nneka is still ineligible. Also, it looks like Arike Ogunbowale has firmly committed to the US, which is a big big blow. But I hope Coach Hughley and the NBBF are able to convince Micheala to don the green-white-green. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by Danielnino00(m): 3:14pm On Sep 28, 2021 |
carbonado: It would be fairer and much easier if FIBA can adopt the FIFA model of playing qualifiers...Let each continent organise its own qualifier instead of this current model... 3 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by carbonado(m): 3:39pm On Sep 28, 2021 |
Danielnino00:...yes, unfortunately, this current method seems, it might be used for awhile... |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by PDPGuy: 11:14pm On Oct 05, 2021 |
Congrats to Michaela Onyenwere on becoming the WNBA Rookie of the Year! NBBF and coach Hughley, the ball is now in your court 6 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by justicechichex: 5:01pm On Oct 06, 2021 |
PDPGuy: Must the NBBF and the coach always wait for these players to become popular b4 poaching them? |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by PDPGuy: 7:23pm On Oct 06, 2021 |
justicechichex: Ideally, their scouting network should identify the players before they blow. But the publicity makes the NBBF's job easier. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by Danielnino00(m): 11:52am On Oct 09, 2021 |
Nwora lead the offense for the Bucks last night with 30 points against the Nets...that was after he recorded 16 points against the Grizzlies in a game that ended in the 3rd quarter... It is clear that he is their best scorer after Giannis... I'm tipping him to play more this season... Meanwhile,in Toronto, OG has been doing OG things and is primed to be the raptors main guy this season.. And Achiuwa has been getting quality minutes in the pre season too,with good returns... Should all things work well, we will definitely be presenting a much better squad ahead of the world cup! PS: the Commonwealth games is next year, I'm not sure basketball will be included in it this year... 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by carbonado(m): 1:04pm On Oct 09, 2021 |
Danielnino00:.. We should qualify for the world cup first, lets no get ahead of ourselves, NBA players hardly play qualifiers, what Coach brown did to the core of the team is not cool, most of the old guys that play in Europe or Asia might not show up, based how they were treated prior to olympics. Usually the guus from Europe and Asia are the one that play our qualifiers. How do you not take your captain(ike Diogu), A.K.A captain fantastic or Ben Uzor, he also dropped Ireogbu, who is a natural point guard, dropped Stan Okoye. Notice how we struggled at the point guard position at the Olympics. So if the group i named above do not show up, we will be left with the group that could not qualify from the group stage of afrobasket. So i will not get ahead of myself based on the mess we have created. On Coach Brown, i think he should have realized that the way he wanted us to play (golden state warriors way) will not work as we do not have players that shoot that well, also Fiba competitions are very physical, it is even worse in afrobasket. As regards xommon wealth games, yes they play basketball, but we hardly use our best players in such competitions. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Basketball Thread - Onward To The Afrobasket by Danielnino00(m): 2:01pm On Oct 09, 2021 |
carbonado: I wasn't happy with the team selection under coach Mike myself,but you can't blame him... Some of our best players are in the NBA...But they can't be available because the NBA doesn't care much about national team competitions like that... They can't risk losing contract at their clubs over some qualifiers... And yet,we need them.. The same thing might just repeat itself heading to the world cup... We will use the available players to partake in qualifiers and then move to the NBA boys when we eventually qualify.. I'm sure that some of these NBA players won't mind showing up for the qualifier if they have the chance... Players like Nwora, Okogie and Metu have been with the team for a while... 2 Likes |
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