The Hamed Hadadi Thread

[Bobbyrider]

88-72 raptors 5 minutes to go still no Hamed

[Bobbyrider]

come onnnnn play hamedddd!!!!!
Gasol is honestly extremely overrated, he's doing almost nothing tonight.
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Honestly

[Bobbyrider]

103 - 82 Raptors win no Hamed, even when the freaking team is getting crushed man i feel so bad for him, good game by the Raptors though.

[Behzad12]

i guess coach ivaroni doesnt trust hamed enough to play him.

i guess we shouldnt be complaining. its the NBA not houseleague city basketball league where everyone plays.

[Bobbyrider]

if Hamed gets the amount of playing time Gasol does he can do way better than him.

[Behzad12]

if Hamed gets the amount of playing time Gasol does he can do way better than him.

i highly doubt that.

sorry to say this but you are all overrating hamed. he is VERY raw at this moment while gasol is a very polished player. remember they are also both the same age, and gasol has developed with a stronger history of basketball.

FIBA is a whole different game than the NBA. i just dont see hamed, especially right now, being able to even handle it on a CONSISTENT basis night in, night out.

lets put all the biased aside, if you guys still think hamed can play better than gasol with the same PT, i really dont have much to say but "lol"

[EKBATAN]

VISA ISSUES.....he didnt even travel to Toronto with the team



behzad, its ridiculous how many minutes gasol and other players get....i've seen hamed play and he is not that bad....he just needs chances....if he was a smaller player then i would say yea maybe he's not ready but he's a big size in the middle that'll turn the team away from goin straight to the hoop...on offense they dont really rely on him anyways so i dont understand why he cant get like 5min/game til he gets more comfortable.....right now he's still a little timid and they need to give him more chances

[Bobbyrider]

Hamed is solid, he just needs to work on his turnovers.

[Behzad12]

VISA ISSUES.....he didnt even travel to Toronto with the team



behzad, its ridiculous how many minutes gasol and other players get....i've seen hamed play and he is not that bad....he just needs chances....if he was a smaller player then i would say yea maybe he's not ready but he's a big size in the middle that'll turn the team away from goin straight to the hoop...on offense they dont really rely on him anyways so i dont understand why he cant get like 5min/game til he gets more comfortable.....right now he's still a little timid and they need to give him more chances

ekbatan i agree with you fully but put yourselves as the coach. your coaching a re-building team that will struggle and is trying to build around a young group of guys (gay, OJ mayo, and like they say, marc gasol is a centrepeice of their franchise).
now you have 2 7 footers at centre. no doubt hamed is a big body but realistically, you have to compare him to who they currently have starting in marc gasol. also until 2 weeks ago they also had darko before injury, whos another young player with potential (personally i still see potential in him to an extent to be a solid player).

so you bring over a raw 7 footer in hamed after trading for marc gasol. marc is there centrepeice for the future, and he is certainly one of the top rookies in the league. they need to play him as well so he gains experience in the NBA. i kind of see both gasol and hamed in a similar situation but gasol getting the nod over hamed because of the NBA readiness. as a coach you dont want to put on a player that you dont trust, even if it means for a couple minutes. im only saying this because its the life of the NBA. if this was highschool ball it might be a different story!

anyways my final point, hamed needs to work hard in practice to earn minutes. i remember reading a while back about how he has poor work ethic. maybe that has an affect on his PT? i dont know since we dont get much info on practices as fans.

all i can say is gasol is playing well, and only way for hamed to get PT is to earn it in practice by working hard.

[The]

Gasol needs to be a PF.

[Babak]

Behzad is right. Gasol is significantly ahead of Haddadi at this point. Hamed will get some opportunities later in the year, but next year will be his real make or break season after he spends some time working on his upper body in the gym and getting his conditioning up to par this summer.

As far as Gasol, few rookies ever come into the NBA and give the type of production he has as a starter this year. Just compare him to Greg Oden as an example.

[BusiG]

just saw on nba.com that he got visa issues in the boxscore against the raptors
Anybody with more informations? couldnt find anything on this

edit: my fault!Game was in Canada due to the fact that the Raptors are not in the U.S and therefore Haddadi was not able to travel with em cause he only got U.S Visa

[Demis-11]

haddadi was not with the team due to VISA issues..gotta love the NBA

and i think i could have made some of the baskets gasol missed lol

[Masoud_A]

If Hamed was a football player and was in Man U with all that competition he would get far more playing time, FFS its not like Hamed is gonna make the freaking 20 point gap any worse, the team is losing like **** and the coach fears of what? this is all BS!

[Behzad12]

If Hamed was a football player and was in Man U with all that competition he would get far more playing time, FFS its not like Hamed is gonna make the freaking 20 point gap any worse, the team is losing like **** and the coach fears of what? this is all BS!

i kind of agree with you but i help coach a high school basketball team and in a 20 point game there, we still had 2 of our starters on and didnt play 2 bench players! and that is just highschool basketball with grade 9&10s.