Davis highlights sloppy afternoon
Veteran center getting the best of Mohammed, the team's top free agent acquisition in offseason.
by Chris McCosky / The Detroit News

This is brilliant. The last paragraph. Is McCoskey saying it is why Nazr starts slow, or is Nazr saying it? That is an important distinction to make.

All I know is that Dale Davis has been charged like the energizer bunny by his tazer experience, and Nazr Mohammed has seen very little dropoff in his play historically during Ramadan (best example 2001/2002 season).

I don't like that they are using the guy's religion as a crutch.

And as written somewhere here before, Ramadan is not a fixed date each year. It's from a different calendar, and the date moves each year. In 2001 it started Nov 15th. In 2006, it started September 24th.

Ramadan will be over one week before the seasons starts. If Nazr isn't playing at a high level by the 5th or 6th game, maybe Dale Davis should be the early season center.

If Dale Davis beats out Nazr for PT, somebody needs to hire Flip an in-house scout to evaluate his own players for him.

But I'm happy for Dale and the team, you can never have too many big guys.

I think it will be great if Dale Davis ends up replacing Ben in the starting lineup. As many here have pointed out, Ben was getting a little old for the job.

If Dale Davis gets real minutes, then we're starting to look at a 10-man rotation. Man, it would be nice to have some depth this year...

I am no expert on Islam, but it seems to me that during Ramadan religious Muslims only fast during daylight hours and can eat at night.

'the dream' went through ramadan every year, he still "came back puttin up numbers"

Yeah, otherwise it would be known as the month of starvation...

They also do not drink (even water) during the fast.

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."

Not that it's particularly fair to compare anyone else to such an all-time great, but I remember seeing stats on how he sometimes played even better during that month.

Yeah, it's no sexual intercourse, no smoking, no menstruation (kinda strange), drinking and not getting mad.
Nazr also shouldn'y lie, insult and talk bad about the others- I guess a Muslim is very nice during throughout Ramadan, even although he's permanently hungry. The craziest thing is if Ramadan is during summer in a country that is in the south- when you can't eat and drink while it's hot and sunny for about 16 hours- that deserves some respect.

If Nazr cannot even beat out the old man, I for one would be very disappointed.