“Fitness” worries Al-Ahly youth despite winning the “West Asia Basketball”

Shabab Al-Ahly basketball coach, Tunisian Walid Zuraida, expressed his concern about the level of physical fitness of the team’s players, despite the broad victory over Al-Bashaer of Oman (85-65), the day before yesterday, at the Sheikh Saeed Bin Maktoum Hall in Dubai, at the opening of the first group competitions for the edition. The third of the “West Asian Super Championship” for the Gulf region.

Zuraida said in press statements: “We achieved victory in our opening match, but we have some fitness problems, and we look forward to fixing them before playing the next matches, and we hope that we will be able to provide a better performance in the upcoming confrontations that bring us together with Al-Ahly of Bahrain and Al-Kuwait of Kuwait.”

In the same context, American professional Sir Dominic, who won the title of best player in the match, said: “We have a good team, and I feel confident in our abilities, but we have several mistakes in terms of concentration, and we must correct that and continue improving as a team together.”

The victory led the Shabab Al-Ahly team to enter into an early partnership at the top of the group’s teams with two points, with Al-Kuwait of Kuwait, who defeated its host Al-Ahly of Bahrain (88-77).

During the Al-Ahly match, Shabab Al-Ahly relied on the cumulative experiences of its players, which led them last June to runner-up in the AFC Champions League, through the “Knights of the Basket” showing an effectiveness rate exceeding 52% in team play under the basket, and this was reflected by the ability of its players to record 28 decisive passes, in addition to To his defensive superiority and success in cutting off balls from his opponents on 14 occasions.

Shabab Al-Ahly ended the first quarter with a 12-point lead (25-13), before Al-Bashaer was able to reduce the gap by gaining the advantage in the second quarter (19-17), but Shabab Al-Ahly imposed in the second half a turning point, moving away with the difference ahead by the results of the third and fourth quarters (16-16). 10 and 25-23) respectively.

His young star, Hamed Abdel Latif, shone in Shabab Al-Ahly (19 points), including nine points from three-pointers, while the stardom of American Dominic came (18 points, 11 rebounds, and five assists).

On the sixth of next November, Shabab Al-Ahly will head to the Bahraini capital, Manama, to meet the Al-Ahly team, before facing Al-Kuwait on its home soil, Al-Kuwait, on the second of December, at the end of the first leg.