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Nigeria’s national male basketball team, D’Tigers coach Mohammed Abdulrahman, has fulfilled a strong clue that his players will present a better performance on Friday when they face Tunisa at the Afrobasket ongoing in Luanda, Angola,
Reports Sports247. Although many Nigerians praised the performance of D’O tigers in his 77-59 victory over Madagascar on Wednesday, Abdulrahman gave an elaborate technical analysis of the game and declared that it was not a beginning without problems for his boys.
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The soft voice tactic took another look at the game in Pavilhao Multiusos de Luanda and acknowledged that the D’Tigers will have to do better against Tunisia, who defeated Nigeria in the previous edition, towards his third Afobasket title.
Abdulrahman said: “We were a bit careless in the first two quarters. We were giving two points and transition.
“They were able to use their strength and run towards us. After that, we could go to the third quarter and made the adjustments when it was necessary.”
Abdulrahman hinted that all corrected mistakes of Wednesday’s game will help D’Tigers in their second group game this Friday, but admitted that they also need to add new ideas to overcome highly technical Tunisians, as they did against Madagascar.
“We slowed them to play the middle court offensive, and then we had the opportunity to force them to make many mistakes.
“That’s where we take care of the transition and offenses. Throughout the line, we also ensure that they could not have a second chance on our board,” Abdulrahman said.
Now he expects more strict things from his boys to beat the Tunisians, which would put D’Tigers on the way to the next round round, with two victories in the rebound.
His last group game will be against Cameroon less formidable on Sunday.
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