Iranian Basketball team Olympic Thread

[Nokhodi]

any news on hadadi's injury???
he seems to get injured easily...he had a minor back injury in that Utah game too
yea we're pretty much f-cked if he doesnt play....we'll be lucky if we lose by 20 or so

Read the posts. He is fine. His injury was minor.

[1Heesham1]

Aug 9 9:00 PM ET Basketball - Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 1 (RUS vs IRI)

thats 2am GMT... fck it, ill still watch.

[Bobbyrider]

First game is tommrow hopefully they will give me something to cheer about on my birthday

[Darvish11]

First game is tommrow hopefully they will give me something to cheer about on my birthday

haha they play their last game on my birthday...

some reports say hadadi is questionable but he said he should be fit

[Bobbyrider]

^if he is injured we are DOOMED hopefully he is not i think iran actually might have a chance against russia we will see
haha wish that the last game on your birthday will be the one that takes us to the next round lol

[Super Shojaei]

alle Iran!!!

[Super Shojaei]

dosen't any1 find it annoying how the game we are most likely to win (croatia) is the last game on the fixture list.

[Super Shojaei]

well iam in holiday in france atm gotta wake up at 3 ****ing am.

[RahmanRezai]

This is our team, Rouzbahani not in the squad and N.Bahrami is captain. The average age in our team is 24, so its a very young team.

DORAGHI Ali - F/C 2.10cm / 6'11"
AMINI Amir - G 1.90cm / 6'3"
DAVARI Javad - G 1.80cm / 5'11"
KAMRANY Mehdi -G 1.80cm / 5'11"
DAVARPANAH Saeid - G/F 1.90cm / 6'3"
ZANDI Iman - F/G 1.87cm / 6'2"
AFAGH ESLAMIEH Hamed - G 1.88cm / 6'2"
SOHRABNEJAD Hamed - F/C 2.02cm / 6'8"
SAHAKIAN Oshin -F 1.90cm / 6'3"
NABIPOOR Moosa - C 2.12cm / 6'11"
NIKKHAH BAHRAMI Mohammadsamad (C) - F 1.90cm / 6'3"
HADADI Hamed - C 2.18cm / 7'2"

[RahmanRezai]

Nikkhah Bahrami

Amir Amini

Javad Davari

Iman Zandi

Oshin Sahakian

Moosa Nabipoor

Ali Doraghi

Hamed Afagh

Hamed Hadadi

Mahdy Kamrany

Saeid Davarpanah

Hamed Sohrabnejad

[SP1006]

my friends is jame jam going to show it?

[RahmanRezai]

Russia vs. Iran (group A) Preview

In this first match-up of Men's Basketball, the European champion is pitted against the Asian champion. Russia qualified for the Games as the gold medal winners of the 2007 EuroBasket, finishing undefeated in the tournament over strong teams like Lithuania and Serbia to eventually beat World Champion Spain by one point in the final. US-born point guard J.R. Holden's jumper with 2.1 seconds left secured Russia their first-ever European Championship with a score of 60-59. Holden became a citizen of Russia after playing many years for CSKA Moscow.

The Russian team has its own home-grown stars, including Utah Jazz forward and EuroBasket Most Valuable Player Andrei Ki.rilenko, who scored 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds in a friendly match against the United States on August 3 in Shanghai, China. Russia lost that warm-up by 21 points, but Iran is a team that Russia can likely handle.

Iran beat Lebanon in the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship for an Olympic berth, their first trip to the Games since 1948. Iran's team is very young and does not boast any NBA professionals, but they have had the chance to practice together for the last four months. The standout player on the team is 2.18 meter-tall center Hamed Hadadi, who averaged 31 points per game in the Asia Championship finals and 9.6 rebounds per game overall in the tournament. Hadadi also led the 2007 EuroBasket in blocks.

Javad Davari is another one to watch for Iran, recently netting 46 points over three games to be Iran's second-highest scorer in the Diamond Ball for Men this August, and the sixth-highest scorer in the tournament overall. Center Hadadi also led China's Houston Rockets star Yao Ming in the warm-up tournament with blocked shots, with a tournament high of 11 blocks over Yao's four.

One of Iran's biggest basketball talents, Aidin Nikkah Bahrami, died in a car accident last December, but his brother Mohammadsamad Nik Kah will be making his Olympic debut in this opening game against Russia.

[Super Shojaei]

alle iran

[Babak]

Any word on whether Kamrany has recovered from his injury? Its crucial he plays since he's our starting PG and one of our best players.

[Super Shojaei]

alle iran