Nigeria - Mali

1/2 finals. Hosts of the tournament (Mali) take the main favorite of the championship (in my opinion) Nigeria. Nigeria goes without defeats 6-0, a minimum victory difference was in 4 points over the second-strongest tournament team Senegal (again, in my opinion), another claimant for the medals of Mozambique Nigeria beat in 11 points. Mali is going 5-1 with a record, they lost the only match against the more or less sturdy team - Angola 59:68. I can say with full confidence that Mali's group was rather weak - a vivid confirmation is that 3 teams in 1/2 from another group B.
Except home parquet Mali has only one major advantage in this tournament - the game on the boards. They are the best in rebounds - 56 per match and in all games they simply destroyed opponents "in the paint", but today for them will be opposed no less powerful team (2nd in rebounds, 50 average for the match), which also attacks better, like from the paint, and from a long distance. Such a rival Mali was have not yet. It's one thing when domination takes place on the boards, all the rebounds for Mali and so on, but today it will not be exactly like that.
Nigeria - Senegal, that's what the final is for the forces in this tournament, and Mali let go 3 rd place wins. As for the size of the handicap, it is quite playable, given the fact that Nigeria is gaining with every match.

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