Nigeria sole representative at the final round of the 29th
edition of the Africa Champions Cup for Men currently on in Tunis,
Tunisia, Mark Mentors basketball club must raise it game in its two
remaining games in group-B.
The
Nigerian debutant in the continent biggest men club competition
currently occupied the fourth position in the group which has eight-time
winner of the Champions Cup Primeiro D’Agosto of Angola with one win
and two loses and must beat US Monastir basketball club of Tunisia on
Monday and ASB Mazembe basketball club of Democratic Republic of Congo
in it last group game on Tuesday.
Mark
Mentors started it campaign on a bright note when it pip Abidjan Basket
Club of Cote d’Ivoire in it group-B opening game by 68-65 points last
Thursday only to succumbed to the defending champion Agosto by 88-74
points on Friday and lost again to Etoile Sportive Rades basketball club
of Tunisia by a single digit of 73-65 points a pointer that the Coach
Peter Ahmedu tutored Nigerian side can still make it to the knock-out
stage if it raises it game against the Tunisian and Congolese sides.
Fellers
from the team Tunisia camp reveal that the players and their handlers
have resolve to put in their best so as make it possible to get a
quarter-final ticket.
Mentors
have a cumulative total of 207 points and conceded 226 points with
average of 69 points per-game and an average of 75.33 points against
which means it has to develop a more proactive offense while shutting
down threat around it low-post because it might come down to head-head
to decided who goes through as US Monastir is second on the log with 2-1
record having defeated ASB Mazembe by 68-54 points last Friday while
Mazembe who has played two games in the group and lost both to US
Monastir and Agosto while Abidjan Basket Club might be completely out of
contention having lost all three games played so far including the
68-65 points loss to Mark Mentors.
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