Deltamani:



She’s no longer eligible for the U20 World Cup as she was born 1 October 2003 (20yrs).

Only Players born from 1 January 2004 are eligible.

Then why take her to the African games? Abeg this one na confusion

Rivers Angels vs Osun Babes
Blessing Okpe Hattrick. Hope she brings this form to the Falconets camp


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k6wwlzpUGI

BankyGee:
Happy birthday to me everyone 🎂😌❤️

My guy!! Happy birthday. Have a good one

jihday:
yeah, there have been talks that he’ll be removed, have another person been hired

Ok but how did that affect Finidi for him to quit like that

TheGoodJoe:


What did I miss?

Lol I'm the one that missed something. The NFF said they were getting a foreign technical director and then Collin Udoh said that was the reason Finidi quit. So now I'm kind of lost as to why Finidi will quit if it wasn't him they were planning to replace.

Guys this Technical director isn't that the position Augustine Eguavoen was having?

Deltamani:
❗️Barça players had initially agreed on a €40,000 bonus per player for winning the UWCL.

➡️ However, after their victory, Joan Laporta doubled the bonus to €80,000 per player to acknowledge their accomplishments. The players appreciated this gesture.

— @jordicardero

At least that useless man can do something right. I still dey vex am for Messi sha

Enugu Rangers vs Bendel Insurance
The match that crowned them champions


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlO-gh9ed6Y

I guess Ifeoma won't be at the Olympics. She's still out of action.

Flamingos vs Liberia


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f96L9KxuzI

Match highlights


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f96L9KxuzI

Chidi Harmony makes it 2-0

Our finishing has been F9

BascoVanVeli:
We just scored a clean goal that was called offsides

The cancelled goal

https://x.com/Naija_Bias_FC/status/1801646076002279439

We just scored a clean goal that was called offsides

We've been missing chances oh. Should be 4-0 right now

Nigeria 1-0 Liberia
Chidi Harmony goal

Game time

https://www.youtube.com/live/E1LG6y0Rz0g?si=i3bReISZNRoUGtzI

Akwa United vs Katsina United
2 goals for Sulaiman Sani.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU_f1LF3D0A

Deltamani:


They did finished well… @7th position. To be sincere I didn’t even expect Saint Etienne to finish in that position, I was thinking they might be relegated or narrow escape because of the Strength in their Squad, Regina Otu and Amanda Mbadi were key players with Otu playing 20 League games with 1 goal and Amanda 15games and 1 goal.. Yewande only played 1 league game.

Opening room for French girls. I hope Regina and Amanda find clubs in France. Paris FC wouldn't be a bad option for Regina although my hope is that they get Christy Ucheibe

dankorode:
wetin be this!?

Senior man abeg no vex for the derailment. We will get back to football soon.

lovewins:


I can count in my fingers how many WNBA games I haven't watched this season. Even if 3 games are going on concurrently I watch all of them so you can use that one to bobo me.

Angel is shooting less than 35% as a big, I mean from 2 FT from the basket. That is just flat out ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, she's a great rebounder of the ball and I believe once she fixes her offense she'll be menace, but she's still miles away from CC. And yes half her offensive rebounds her from her misses. I have watched all her games too and not even die hard Chicago fans are disputing this.

Record as at 3rd of June shows she's drawn 46 fouls and is 3rd most in the league. All this as a rookie and despite the fact that she doesn't even get a lot of calls. Baba the numbers don't lie. Angel's defensive rating is because of her team and not necessarily because of her. Compared the Clark their stats defensively are really close.bThe numbers again don't lie.

CC averages more blocks than Angel does. Angel averages 1.9 Steals while CC is 1.5. Angels averages 4.8 Drebs while CC is 4.4. As you can see the difference is marginal. No point comparing their offensive stats.

Addendum:
Can't believe I missed this. The Sparks have won 4 games bro, and have beaten Defending Champions the Aces and the Wings . They also beat the Fever. How can you call them nothing because of your bias against CC. Lol

The Mystics though not great have had very close games against top teams in the league. They lost by less than 10 points in 8 of their 11 loses against teams like Liberty, Storm, Mercury and Lynx. Don't try to discount that to water down what CC did against both teams.

Well u must not know how to multitask if u are saying Angel Reese only rebounds her misses. 90 percent of her missed layups are plays when she is being smothered by defenders. It's not like she is free under the basket and just misses. In college most those contacts would result in a trip to the freethrow line so she just has to get used to that and make adjustments.

Now with Caitlin she was a -30 in her last game vs CT. That is tragic Johnson type stuff. That means u are a big time liability to ur team especially defensively. I didn't even know it went that low until I saw it. There is no way u actually believe that same player is as good defensively as Angel Reese. If so let's just end it here cause that is too much na

As for defensive rebounds Marina Mabrey averages 4.2 so let's not make a mountain out of a mole. Every defensive boards is not going to drop where the bigs are, sometimes the ball bounces past the 3 point line. If u play more than 30 minutes a game u are liable to get rebounds

The Detroit Pistons beat Dallas, Sacramento and OKC last season, does that make them something to write home about? The Sparks have an all W player in Dearica Hamby doing her thing but outside of that they are not yet anything to write home about. Talented yes but ready to compete night in night out? No. Even Chicago are somewhat young and can fall into bad habits.

The fact of the matter is people like me have eyes. We see what happens to her against the better teams who have lock down defenders. Caitlin was so shook against CT she air balled 6 feet from goal.

lovewins:


First, Candace was a damn good player, in a class if her own I will say. But she wasn't guarded like CC is. Again, don't take my word for it, listen to those who actually played the game that shared same sentiments. No rookie in WNBA history has been guarded 94 FT away from ball. No rookie has a player forget she has a free throw left just cause her defensive assignment on CC. In their game against Mystics, She drew 3 defenders and didn't even have the ball, and that left Kelsey open for an uncontested 3. Only one other player in history has that kind of gravity.

And yes, PGs have more of the ball cause they move the ball up the courts and literally facilitate plays. Your bias against CC shouldn't make you argue against fact na. Also notice how you skipped that fact that the greatest players in basketball also have the most turnovers. Maybe that tells you something. I'll post a screenshot of career turnover leaders for both the NBA and WNBA. Only thing you'll see it great players cause they have most of the ball. Even though I think she needs to obviously work on it, I'll say she's on damn good company.

South Carolina's recent successes again gives credence to my point on women's basketball gaining parity. But like you rightly said, College and Pros aren't the same. Of course you are free to pick Angel or Kamilla ahead of her, but only one of them is a generational talent and time will tell. Angel is literally shooting 30% from 2FT and half of her offensive rebounds are from her own miss. Abeg. Again, time will separate who is good and who is great.

On Olympics, Mic is a good addition, but priority for me is Kiki Iriafen. She will do our roster a whole lot of good. I wish Ezi Magbegor wasn't playing for Canada, my God that babe is just out of this world. Arike remotely still has a chance if Chelsea Gray won't be ready.

Abeg make we move this conversation for Dtigress thread and leave this for Falcons.

Bro the Mystics are 1-11 and the Sparks are also dumpster juice so they don't count for anything. So basically u are saying because they are stopping Caitlin she is facing the toughest defense? Candace was physically attacked in the paint every single time she went up. Caitlin has someone follow her around the court whoopti Doo. If she had credible handles they would have stopped after the first game. Why on Earth would they allow her to play to her strengths? That's just common sense.

For the freethrow, it happens all the time in basketball. LSU did the same thing in the NCAA tournament and it got a laugh. When I was in high school my teammate scored on his own goal lol that kind of stuff happens in sports, people sometimes forget.

About angel Reese, again u are just repeating what Caitlin Clark fans say on the internet. U have a player averaging 12pts, 10rebs, 2assists and 2steals. 35% fg and 71% ft. She is already a defensive leader on her team taking on the Marquee assignment each game. U are talking about a player that can guard from 1 to 5. As for getting her own rebounds, yes that happens but to say most her O boards come from that is a flat out lie. She was literally choke slammed by an MVP candidate because she was causing so many issues on the boards. I have watch all her games and that one na lie lol.

Canada keep it real with their foreign players. It will be hard to get any of them. Magbegor is a great player Sha.

Arike should just come home jor. She would be the highest profiled bball player for us men or women. USA don't favour our sister if not Nneka would still be playing

lovewins:


Baba now you are making things up. First things first, the level of competition when Candace got drafted isn't the same now. There's parity in the women's game now. It's why just a few years ago UConn won 4 straight championship in college and haven't won any for quite some time. That's because of top players like CC lifting up programs like Iowa and what Dawn Stanley is doing in South Carolina. Also, no Candace wasn't guarded like CC and this isn't me just parroting unfounded arguments. Even the best of the best have said same thing and the reason they gave us because just like Steph she can shoot from half court and the best thing you do is get the ball out of her hands.

Also, you're factually wrong in that she gets a lot of the ball. She doesn't. As a matter of fact she played as a shooting guard the vast majority of the first 6 games. It was when it didn't work she started getting the ball a little more. Also half her turnovers are because her teammates can't catch a pass, but I agree that's something she needs to work on. Also the turnover argument is also funny cause top players through history always lead in turnovers. Go check who leads in turnovers in the NBA and the WNBA.

Ezinne is still open to playing, but there seems to be some politics in the NBBF keeping these folks away. Michaela is good for the roster, but she isn't great sha. She's at least a lot better than what we currently have. She also won rookie of the year in 2021 even though her draft class was one of the worst we've seen in a decade sha. Lol.

Bros u act like South Carolina didn't just win their 2nd national title in 3 years. They just went undefeated this season. That is a dynasty the same as UCONN or Tennessee under Pat. Plus college and the W are 2 different things. The W has always had great players, Cynthia Cooper, Lisa Leslie, Swoops and so much more. Candace faced double teams and tripple teams all day long. She even had to fight in one of her games because of the treatment she was getting. Caitlin gets shutdown by one defender and her fans will lie that they double teamed her.

Caitlin being a point guard or not was never in my argument. Being a point guard doesn't mean u will have the ball more, even prime Chris Paul won't have more of the rock than LeBron or even Giannis. But do u think someone with high turnovers does not have the Lions share of the ball? Take a look at every other player in basketball that ever had high turnovers and tell me that again. My point is simple, she is not as good as u guys are trying to make her to be. Publicity aside I would take Angel Reese and Kamila Cardosa over her everyday of the week. Those are player that can actually compete night in night out in the W and they also have a high upside.

Wetin concern me with Michaela's draft class? She is a player that can help us and that's that. My own is that I have already gone to beg Arike to play for us on Instagram and I expect u guys to go and do the same

lovewins:


Context na. Lol

She's been guarded like nobody is. I've watched the WNBA for years and I can tell you no one has been guarded like she is. That said, they shouldn't take it easy on her, she'll grow through it.

Despite the unusual attention she's still averaging 16.8pts 6asst and 5rb. Obviously not near her best but pretty good stats for a rookie.

On Arike, first she has a history with team USA. She was at the 2019 Americup and also played at youth level. Whether that is significant enough for her not to allow a switch is up to FIBA to decide. I however do not think she's even trying to switch. I also think this is probably her last chance to make a USA roster cause she's 27 already and they'll probably skip her again by 2028. Would be a good thing if she plays for us though cause we don't have any guard quite frankly. Whether point or shooting.

Lol Caitlin is not receiving half that treatment Candace Parker got. Don't join those her fans to make up stuff. Why wouldn't u pressure a player who struggles with pressure? It's called scouting report for a reason. They all watched the NCAA final and Rayven Johnson gave them the recipe.

U talk about stats but what about her leading the league in turnovers? That shows that she has the ball more than anybody else. If Indiana played to their real strength and stop focusing on CC, her number would be less but they would actually win games.

The US have put out their Olympic roster and Arike is not on the team. I don't think her playing for them at youth level would be a problem.

Did Ezinne Kalu truly end up retiring?
Angel Reese has a Nigerian teammate named Michaela Onyenwere we should also look at.

Yo Lovewins u see ur Caitlin Clark bah Now they want W players to go easy on her

Anyways why are we not trying to get Arike Ogunbowale on our Olympic roster? I don't think she has ever played for the US and she is having an MVP type season in the WNBA.

Joebie:
He spent the most time winning free kicks “and this run opened the way for Fisayo Bashiru”. Which run?

Granted he should be given some credit for our equalizer for his hold up play contribution

If his movement made the player right in front of Lookman follow him and the space he left open was were Lookman found that pass at.

If it was Osimhen winning those fouls I am sure u would call him a warrior.

Match highlights


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAnSEYUI5W4?si=U1ATGWRX4AEpHrzL

mrwilliams9:


Onuachu did nothing in the match against SA

Stop the cap


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHp8xhzWoY?si=rmZH59bJUbSn0TMX

Finidi's only mistake was listening to the hype and dropping Onuachu

Lookman comot for road na

Paul Onuachu vs South Africa for those throwing dirt


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHp8xhzWoY?si=rmZH59bJUbSn0TMX