{"id":151,"date":"2017-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2017\/03\/06\/fiba-olympic-qualifier-nigeria-edge-out-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:00:00","slug":"fiba-olympic-qualifier-nigeria-edge-out-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/fiba-olympic-qualifier-nigeria-edge-out-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA Olympic qualifier: Nigeria edge out Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:left;height:0px\"><\/span><span style=\"display: table;width:477px;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinaacheru.com\/uploads\/1\/0\/1\/5\/10158091\/1754296.jpg?458\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder wsite-image\" title=\"FIBA Olympic qualifier: Nigeria edge out Korea\"><\/a><span style=\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\" class=\"wsite-caption\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block;\">Nigeria reminded everyone that they aren\u2019t ready to go home without a fight and that mindset paid off as they rallied to beat Korea 70-69 in the closest game so far at the 2016 FIBA Women\u2019s Olympic Qualifying Tournament (WOQT).<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>After trailing for most of the contest, Ezinne Kalu hit a three-pointer with 4.6 seconds left to play to rescue Nigeria from a potential elimination.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Kalu converted a three-point play with 2:51 remaining but that was just the beginning of a stretch that saw four lead-changes until the final buzzer sounded.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Korea paid the price for getting little production from their bench; players who contributed only 11 points against Nigeria\u2019s 37.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>By scoring 11 points off the bench for Nigeria, Kalu not only turned out to be a game-changer but also her team\u2019s new heroine.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>How does a team that makes a tournament-high 14 three-pointers lose a game?<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>That is a mystery which Korea head coach We Sungwo will have to figure out. But credit must be given to the Nigerian coaching staff who called a timeout when trailing 69-67 with 12 seconds to go.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In the ensuing possession, Kalu executed the game-winning play that edges Nigeria closer to the Quarter-Finals.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Culled from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotsports.tv\">www.hotsports.tv<\/a> <\/strong><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria reminded everyone that they aren\u2019t ready to go home without a fight and that mindset paid off as they rallied to beat Korea 70-69 in the closest game so far at the 2016 FIBA Women\u2019s Olympic Qualifying Tournament (WOQT).\u00a0After trailing for most of the contest, Ezinne Kalu hit a three-pointer with 4.6 seconds left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"china","author_link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/author\/china\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Nigeria reminded everyone that they aren\u2019t ready to go home without a fight and that mindset paid off as they rallied to beat Korea 70-69 in the closest game so far at the 2016 FIBA Women\u2019s Olympic Qualifying Tournament (WOQT).\u00a0After trailing for most of the contest, Ezinne Kalu hit a three-pointer with 4.6 seconds left&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}