Nigeria's Basketball team at the Rio Olympics, D'Tigers despite putting
up a brave and hard fought tactical battle lost 87-96 to World number 2,
Spain.
D’Tigers
must now beat Croatia and Brazil in their next two matches to reach the
quarter-finals as they have lost three games against Argentina,
Lithuania and now Spain.
In the match which started in the late hours of Thursday night and ended on Friday
morning, Spain started brightly and ended the first quarter 25-11 ahead
of Nigeria, Nigeria then muscled their way through in the second
quarter and cut the deficit to just two points, 43-41.
Spain trying to avoid their third straight defeat just like Nigeria lost the third quarter 66-65 to Nigeria.
Spain then showed tactical brilliance as they took it up a notch and defeated D'Tigers 96-87 in the fourth quarter.
