Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress skipper, Amy Okonkwo has credited the half time pep talk from the Rena Wakama led technical crew as the springboard they needed to relaunch themselves in the game with Canada yesterday.
D’Tigress defeated 5th seeded Canada 79-70 points to record their second victory of the group stage but they were trailing at half time 41-37 points despite their explosive start.
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Okonkwo who sustained a shoulder injury but continued after some rest said they knew they needed to do something special to qualify for the quarter final after their loss to hosts France in the second group game.
“I am so proud of us. The last game wasn’t good for us and even in the first half today, we were not doing what we wanted to come out and do. We had a talk with ourselves and realized it was winning or go home and we decided we wanted to stay.” Nigeria forward, Okonkwo said.