4 teams bearing the features of the “Dubai Basket Champion”

Four out of 10 teams, which participated in the Dubai International Basketball Championship in the group stage, which the curtain was dropped yesterday evening, strongly accrediting, as the most prominent candidates to win the 33th version Cup, held at the Al -Nasr Club Hall in Dubai, and extends until next Sunday.

Two teams of the four teams nominated for the title, with the conclusion of the fourth round, were able the day before yesterday, to maintain their free record of defeats, the summer of last year’s version of the Filipino “Strong Group” and the Libyan “Ahli Tripoli”, along with the remarkable improvement in the level of Lebanese wisdom players And the Tunisian team, by having the ingredients of the identity of the team that is able to reach the final and compete for the title.

The former Emirati basketball star, a member of the Board of the Game Federation, Chairman of the Referees Committee, Hamdan Al -Zaabi, told «Emirates Today»: “The technical level on which the group stage matches appeared, revealed the features of the champion that seems clear in the Strong Group team and the Lebanese wisdom, and Ahly Tripoli Libyan, and Tunisia.

Strong Group

Al -Zaabi emphasized that «Strong Group’s chances are the most preferred to win the title, in light of his high -ranking players from the Filipino elements, at the level of the playmaker center, has a quick transition in the ball from defense to the attack, and high registration rates with triple throws, along with professional foreign elements with physical structure Defense strong, and the ability to penetrate under the competitor’s basket in an offensive point of view.

Lebanese wisdom

Al -Zaabi pointed to the strengths of wisdom, saying: “The team has a substitute bench at the basic level, which gives it a clear preference, along with superiority at the tactical level on the field in the distribution of physical effort to all elements of the team, and its possession of three main elements that qualify it to reach the final, the first of which is a coach Dumen is able to employ physical effort, the speed of movement, and foreigners at a high level. ”

Ahli Tripoli

Al -Zaabi went to talk about the Al -Ahly Tripoli team and said: “His level in the current version is less compared to last year, but the team still maintains strong papers, as it owns a technical device led by the Lebanese Fouad Abu Shaqra, who sits on the throne of the most crowned coaches in the Dubai basket championship, and knows How to play on small details to reach the final, besides that the team showed a large club in terms of defensive side, gave him the ability to not receive any loss in the group league. ”

On the Tunisian national team, he said: “The strengths of the Tunisian team lie in the great experiences that its players possess in the major confrontations, and among them, Radwan Suleiman, who played many matches in (Dubai Basket) with different clubs and even with his country,” referring to The “only weakness that can prevent (Carthage Eagles) from the title is to decrease the physical level in the ends of the matches.”