Tireless Zaki Monqad went up against older players on playgrounds
When Zaki Monqad started playing basketball, he’d go to the park or the gym and inevitably there would be a group of older guys to challenge him.
“I learned I had more speed than the others, so I used that. Yes, I’d get beat up and bruised, but I’m very competitive.” He never really had trouble with the older players because coming from a football-team sized family that now numbers 11, he learned how to get along. “Zaki is getting there, and I always see the correlation between the two. Like Dominic, Zaki runs the show. He never finishes back in the pack in the sprints, he’s always in front. He’s the first one there to open the gym doors and the last to leave. Zaki never just goes through the motions.
“I’m not the biggest or the strongest but playing against older guys made me learn to screen and understand the angles,” he said. “When someone shoots, I have a pretty good idea where the ball’s going and try to be there. We make up for lack of size by running more than the track team. If the game is close at the end, we can still run.”About Afghanistan.
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