Nigeria’s D’Tigers have qualified for the semi-final of the ongoing FIBA Africa Basketball championship in Tunisia after a dominant 88-64 points victory over Gabon in the quarter finals.
Nigeria will now face Senegal in the Semi Final, a step away from winning a first ever Afrobasket title.
Al-Faroq Aminu continued from where his elder brother Alade stopped in the final group game against Mozambique, leading with 17 points, in-form Michael Gbinijie recorded 15 points and 5 steals while veteran guard Mike Umeh got 11 points.
Alade Aminu who was 1 point short of consecutive double doubles, with 9 points and 10 rebounds said he was happy the team took care of business.
” The coach already told us what he wanted us to do and we just went there to take care of business”.
A delighted Stan Okoye who was part of the team that lost in the quarterfinals Senegal in 2013 said he was happy the team crossed to the semi finals and expressed confidence in the team’s ability to go all the way.
“I am very optimistic we can win this thing but we got to take this one step at a time”.
Big contributors to the landslide victory include Ben Uzoh who had 6 points, 6 assists and 5 steals with Oguchi and Lawal adding 8 and 6 points in the team efficient game, Channels reported.
Posted by Janice Johnson
