Muslim Basketball

I don’t think we can expect the same dominant Dhaka team that we saw a couple seasons ago - the rest of the league has gotten too good for Dhaka to be able to dominant week in and week out. What we should be able to expect though, is finding ways to score, which didn’t mature against Suba. Credit to Suba for a terrific defensive effort, but how about getting Salman the ball down low. Only two attempts from the field (had a couple more that resulted in trips to the line) is unacceptable for one of the best finishing big men in the league. Farzad looked determined to be the one to get them a basket, attempt after attempt it didn’t happen. He needs to understand that somedays it won’t fall - find one of the other professional scorers on your team. Two shots for Ameer is a travesty, he is next to impossible to defend. Also, Ali needs to relax and under

Defeated some very good teams. This team will always be there, you can’t ever question the heart of a champion, and they’re 3x champions. Salman is an ideal big in this league, grabs boards, plays defense, gets put backs, sets screens.

They look like they got it again. Faced a Pat-less Kazan squad that is better than they looked. This team is at its best when Salman is winning down low. Ameer has to be the main option, no disrespect to Farzad, but Ameer is far more consistent, far less streaky, and is a menace to guard. They are at their best when Farzad and Fahad are hitting shots off of Ameer’s creation. They have a tough opponent in Tehran coming up - Dhaka always finds a way to struggle against size.

Very un-Dhaka like performance. I don’t expect them to look frazzled like that again any time soon. They never got a chance to reset and take a breath against Kabul. Credit to Kabul for constantly applying pressure and keeping Dhaka on their toes. Dhaka will get back to being the aggressors and forcing their opponents to be on their knees.

Another dominant game from Ameer, Farzad had the 3 ball working, and the team defense stifled the entire Granada attack. If they can play this level of defense, they have as good a chance as any to make another deep run. Salman does his thing down low, seemingly never gives up and offensive rebound or misses a putback. Fahad was quiet, but still found a way to leave his fingerprint on the game. We know this team inside and out, we’ve seen what they’re capable of.

This group is always so good, but they cannot be giving up 53 while taking their foot completely off the gas in second halves of games. They know what it takes to win championships and I’m sure they know that second half effort against Istanbul was unacceptable. They have a stretch of tough games coming up, they’ll need to bring their A-game. They talked about going D1 since this league “wasn’t competitive enough” for them after winning three straight, show us that’s still true.