Nigeria, June 8 -- Rivers Hoopers Head Coach Ogoh Odaudu offered a frank assessment after watching his team fall to US Monastir 89-81 in their final Basketball Africa League (BAL) seeding game on Saturday.

After seeing his team match the firepower of their opponents in the first two quarters, the KingsMen as Rivers Hoopers are fondly called, capitulated in the second half.

"Well, I think it's [due to] a loss of concentration. We were up there in the first two quarters and then in the 3rd quarter everything broke down. We're happy it happened in a game that was just a seeding game," Odaudu said after the game.

Despite the defeat, the reigning BAL Season Four Coach of the Year remained optimistic about his team's prospects as they head i...