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Before Nigeria’s first game in the Senior Basketball Basketball Basketball Championship FIBA FIBA this year in Luanda, Angola, a former captain of the country’s national team, Skambo Morrison has criticized the preparation that D’Tigers obtained for the competition.
Sports247 informs that Morrison is concerned that D’Tigers, who have won this competition only once in history, will not be able to resist what he believes will be a difficult opposition throughout the competition, which began intensely on Tuesday.
The former president of the Kaduna State Basketball Association seemed to have been tested from the Word Go, when the former Minnows, Guinea achieved this year’s first clash by defeating Senegal, and Morrison emphasized that Afrobasket 2025 will be more difficult than everyone before.
He said: “Playing championships like Afrobasket, sincerely, is not a walk in the park. You just can’t wake up from your room, then you quickly jump to a larger field and want to compete.”
Morrison also pointed out that ‘Big Names’ do not win high profile games in the modern Nasketball, hence his verdict that Nigeria will not find that Wednesday is soft and easy in his first group game against Madagascar.
He added: “There is no small team in basketball in Africa. It used to be names, but now everyone seems to be prepared, and all are now ready to play.”
The youth promoter with links in England then triggered his views to the accumulation of Nigeria for the championship, insisting that the D’Tigers did not get the best platform before their trip to Luanda.
“Regarding our level of preparation, I think we really have to do it well. Sincerely speaking, sometimes we do as if we are not going for something that is very important and difficult.
“We do as if we could go and use our names to win; but nobody does that kind of thing,” Morrison said.
He concluded by providing details of what he described as the miserable preparations of Nigeria for Angola 2025 and stopped in predicting the fatality for D’Tigers, who will also play the headlines of Tunisia and the Eastern Cameroon neighbors in his group.
“For me, with respect to our level of preparation, I don’t want to give any first level shot. The moment was short.
“The friendly games that played were not standard and not enough … they lost one, won one; the next day, they are out of the country and went to Angola.
“No country goes to Afrobasket lightly. So, our preparations, for me personally, we are not well,” reiterated the open player turned into a pastor.
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