By Our Reporter
HEAD coach of Rivers Hoopers Basketball Club Ogoh Odaudu
is expecting a tough challenge when the 2019 Nigeria Basketball Federation
(NBBF) Premier League dunks off on Sunday in Ilorin.
Rivers Hoopers alongside 12 other teams in the Atlantic
Conference have been invited to Ilorin while 10 other teams will battle it out
in the Savannah Conference in Zaria from Sunday, October 20 to Monday, October
28.
With only one slot awarded to Nigeria in the newly formed
Basketball Africa league scheduled to begin in March 2020, Odaudu believes it
will be a tough battle against any team.
“It is a very tough task. No team will be easy with this
kind of situation and you can't afford to have any slip ups or make any
mistake,” said Odaudu.
“You have to approach each game with 100 percent level of
seriousness. We won’t underrate any player or any team we are going to approach
each game as if we are playing the Toronto Raptors in the NBA finals. We are
going to do our best to finish top and hopefully grab the one slot awarded to
Nigeria”.
The Lagos State Basketball Association started a City
League in June and Odaudu thinks it has handed the Lagos based teams an
advantage over others due to inactivity of the National League.
“It is a great advantage for the Lagos teams. Practice is
entirely different from playing matches they have played lots of matches in the
City League experiencing different ball situations. It will affect us but
hopefully with the team that we have and amount of talent on the team, we are
confident that we can overcome them.”
Rivers Hoopers will leave Port Harcourt on Saturday
morning for Ilorin, venue of the 2019 NBBF Premier League.
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