CARACAS, Venezuela – Russia and Nigeria won Friday to reach the semifinals of the men's Olympic basketball qualifying tournament.
Russia defeated Angola 80-65 and Nigeria edged out Greece 80-79.
The top three teams in the tournament will fill the final berths for the London Olympics.
Vitaliy Fridzon led Russia with 18 points and Alexander Kaun added 17. Carlos Morais scored 14 for Angola.
Ade Dagunduro scored the last five points, including two decisive free throws in the last three seconds, for Nigeria. Ike Diogu led Nigeria with 17 points and Dagunduro had 14. Vasileios Spanoulis had 25 for Greece.
Russia will face Nigeria in Saturday's semifinals, with the winner advancing to London. The other semifinal will pit the winner of Friday's two late quarterfinals, Macedonia vs. the Dominican Republic and Lithuania vs. Puerto Rico.
The two losing semifinalists play Sunday for the final place.
Nine teams have already qualified for London. They are Spain, France, Argentina, Brazil, Britain, China, Australia, Tunisia and the United States.
http://metronews.ca/olympics/288602/russia-nigeria-into-olympic-qualifying-semifinals/
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Good news…..so hapi
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Good result, but i don’t think nigeria can overcome this russia team!
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yashau: Good result, but i don’t think nigeria can overcome this russia team!
With level of spirit in the camp now Nigeria team will crush the Russians
Dz is good 4 their careers
I’m so happy, and I hope they make it to the olympics..
Let’s get it, boys.
This after beating Lithuania too.
Wusses!
Pretty good team they’ve got there, and I watched clips of the Russian team playing and from what I’ve observed, I think Nigeria has a better team, and they should be able to beat them.
Wusses![/quote]
Basketball is a more manly sport than soccer anyways
Ironi: So now you turn to basket ball after you’ve been fcked so much by Ghana in soccer.
Wusses!
No it simply means we are a hugely talented people and we excel in almost every sphere of life…if we choose to.
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emmke:
So why isn’t there are larger more forefront following of basketball in Nigeria? It’ seem like the only sport most Nigerians care about is Soccer.
Rank Country
1. USA
2. Spain
3. Argentina
4. Greece
5. Lithuania
6. Turkey
7. Italy
8. Serbia
9. Australia
10. China
11. Russia
12. France
13. Brazil
14. Germany
15. Angola
16. Puerto
17. Slovenia
18. New Zealand
19. Croatia
20. Iran
21. Nigeria
22. Venezuela
23. Lebanon
24. Canada
If we can do it against world no 3 & 4, then no 11 should beware.I strongly belief we will defeat the Russians
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Lovely
Celebration galore
Nigerian-Players-celebrating-after-defeating-Greece-80-79-during-their-pre-Olympic-basketball-game.jpg
Ike Diogu led Nigeria with a double-double of 17 points and 12 rebounds, Ade Dagunduro added 14 points. One of the victory keys was both of their excellent shooting from three throws line, adding up to 11/12 from the charity line.
Greece were led in vain by Vassilis Spanoulis, who hit with 25 and Ioannis Bourousis with 18 points.
At the beginning Nigeria kept the game tied, ending the first 21-21 after the Greekstarted off the game with a 10-2 run, while having Spanoulis on a bad day from the free throw line, going 3/8.
The European basketball powerhouse finished the second quarter and first half with a 12 points advantage thanks to Spanoulis's two triples.
But Nigeria gave their best in the second half and succeeded to cut Greece’s advantage to six at the end of the third quarter 50-56 which resulted into an unexpected drama during the fourth period.
The African side tied at the four minute mark at 65-65, The teams changed the lead for the remaining of the game. Bourousis scored for 76-75 wih just 44 seconds to go. After the Nigerian coach called a timout which was vital. Nigeria took a shock 78-75 lead. Papanikolaou answered 14 seconds later for another lead change 79-78. Finally, 3 seconds before the end, Dangunduro was fouled and with two free throws realized, 5/5 throughout the entire game, and Spanoulis last 3 points shot blocked, Africans could start celebration.
The Nigerians are in action again tomorrow, where one more win will secure a shock place at London 2012.
Great news! Go Nigerian basketballers.. We are fully behind you and you can do this!
Matteos: Congrats!
If you support NIGERIA in all sports, you are invited on the 1st international forum about Olympic Sports.
You can discuss with sport fans from all around the world about all Olympic sports, represent your nation and be always updated about all sport events in the Road to London 2012 Olympic Games.
If you are interested, here is the link: www.totallympics.com
Here is the direct link to the Basketball Olympic Qualification Tournament: http://www.totallympics.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2724
I hope some of you will register and start posting about Basketball and other sports, we already have a couple of Nigerian users and it would be nice to make the Nigerian community bigger
Thanks!
Matteos
Dont like basket ball,….. Next topic pls
kiyosaki1: Ranking Men after all 2011 FIBA Zones Championships
Rank Country1. USA
2. Spain
3. Argentina
4. Greece
5. Lithuania
6. Turkey
7. Italy
8. Serbia
9. Australia
10. China
11. Russia
12. France
13. Brazil
14. Germany
15. Angola
16. Puerto
17. Slovenia
18. New Zealand
19. Croatia
20. Iran
21. Nigeria
22. Venezuela
23. Lebanon
24. Canada
If we can do it against world no 3 & 4, then no 11 should beware.I strongly belief we will defeat the Russians
dnt underate d russians bcus d wl prove harder than u think.Based on ur judgement, why didn’t d greece beats us since we are on 21 according to d rank?
kiyosaki1: Nigeria defeated Greece 80-79 in a thriller in the second quarter-final of the day, at the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Caracas.
Ike Diogu led Nigeria with a double-double of 17 points and 12 rebounds, Ade Dagunduro added 14 points. One of the victory keys was both of their excellent shooting from three throws line, adding up to 11/12 from the charity line.
Greece were led in vain by Vassilis Spanoulis, who hit with 25 and Ioannis Bourousis with 18 points.
At the beginning Nigeria kept the game tied, ending the first 21-21 after the Greekstarted off the game with a 10-2 run, while having Spanoulis on a bad day from the free throw line, going 3/8.
The European basketball powerhouse finished the second quarter and first half with a 12 points advantage thanks to Spanoulis's two triples.
But Nigeria gave their best in the second half and succeeded to cut Greece’s advantage to six at the end of the third quarter 50-56 which resulted into an unexpected drama during the fourth period.
The African side tied at the four minute mark at 65-65, The teams changed the lead for the remaining of the game. Bourousis scored for 76-75 wih just 44 seconds to go. After the Nigerian coach called a timout which was vital. Nigeria took a shock 78-75 lead. Papanikolaou answered 14 seconds later for another lead change 79-78. Finally, 3 seconds before the end, Dangunduro was fouled and with two free throws realized, 5/5 throughout the entire game, and Spanoulis last 3 points shot blocked, Africans could start celebration.
The Nigerians are in action again tomorrow, where one more win will secure a shock place at London 2012.
Narrow escape though. the team needs good 3 pointers. weldone all d same.
Watch out for Team Nigeria @ds olympics, I fink its gonna be a gr8 outing for Nigeria!
where can i watch this ? is there any game today ?
MMJ: Dont like basket ball,….. Next topic pls
Don’t you like goodnews? If it’s basketball that will return dignity to Nigeria sports, then it’s worth taking interest in. It’s worth my interest even if I don’t also like it. We pray our Super Eagles regain their glory in football.
buzugee: where can i watch this ? is there any game today ?
No matches today ,the two final matches Nigeria vs Russia ,and Lithuania vs Dominican Republic will take place on Sunday 4:30 GMT
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