Man without a substitute for Iranian basketball
According to IRNA, the Iranian national basketball team ended its work in these competitions by holding three games in the Olympics and losing to the teams of the Czech Republic, the United States and France, but the positive point of these games was the brilliance of our 36-year-old basketball star.
“Hamed Haddadi”, who was able to reach the Tokyo Olympics with a severe injury, was able to have a good and positive performance in three matches of the Iranian team, so much so that “Vincent Cole”, the head coach of the French national team, after meeting with the team Iran stated in a press conference: Iran played well against us. Especially Hamed Haddadi who is an extraordinary player. He plays great at 36 years old.
Now we want to take a look at Haddadi’s statistics in these three matches.
Czech Republic:
In the match against the Czech Republic, the 218 cm Iranian basketball player managed to score 15 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and one block.
United States:
In the second match against the United States, he had 14 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block.
France:
Haddadi’s brilliance peaked in the third match against France. Where he recorded 18 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks.
Haddadi also won the title of the best and most influential player in Iran in the US-France matches. The good performance of the Iranian basketball star and on the other hand the poor performance of other players replacing Haddadi in the center post, showed that there is no suitable replacement for the number 15 of the Iranian national basketball team in this position.
Haddadi stated in his last interview: At the moment, I do not intend to say goodbye to the national team, but I try to be less and only attend important games. I would like to help the national team as long as I can score points. Everyone says that I am older, but there are players in different countries who play until they are 40 years old.
Undoubtedly, with Haddadi getting older, there was no fear of such a player in the national team, and we hope that Iranian basketball will be able to find a suitable replacement for this star during the time that Haddadi has not yet said goodbye.
Of course, in the Olympics, we lost the opportunity to give the field to young people like Salar Manji, Keyvan Riaei and Amir Hossein Khandanpour, and instead we gave the field to low quality players.
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