FIBA World Championship 2010 Aug 28 - Sept 12 OFFICIAL Thread

[Super Shojaei]

I think Iran's coach attended Branko's school of "I dont have a clue how to coach and who to play at which position". haddadi is taking 3 pointers while our 5'11 guard is going for the rebound. Maybe that'll work in a bizzaro world!

Iran had so much success with our first serbian coach in 2007 that won us a trophy that after the olympics when he quit the Iran basketball fed was like " let's just hire another serbian he will do equally as good a job." There is a lesson to be learnt from this. SOME SERBS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS.

[Keyan]

Haddadi finishes with 23 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks.
Kazemi had 13 points, 7 rebounds and a couple of steals.

Great performance by both. Kamrany played well for the most part especially in the first quarter unlike the past 2 games. They need to learn to keep their composure when the other team is in a full court press and cut the turnovers.

But all said and done, well done boys.

Kazemi with 14 points, 7 rebounds and 4 steals

Arsalan is also tied for most steals so far (6) in the tournament with Espana's Ricky Rubio.

Haddadi with most blocks (11).

[K.C.I.N.]

[ali alipour]

can we just forfeit the US game?




tell them the whole team came down with some type of food poisoning

I mean ya were gonna get our asses plowed but it might be good for our rising star kazemi and many haddadi can prove that with playing time he can do good stuff

[footballcrazy10]

That game was insane!! To bad Brazil didnt win.

Maybe, just maybe, we can stay within 20 points of usa, cause I'm pretty sure after their game against Brazil, they don't feel as dominate anymore, and it certainly didn't do a positive for their team moral.

[EKBATAN]

at this rate, we'd be lucky to score more than 40 points on US


haddadi needs a 30 point game and kazemi 20 + we literally have 4-5 people scoring on our team and thats it....i dont know why we dont have a 3 point specialist, a small team like iran needs to atleast have good shooters

[Nokhodi]

at this rate, we'd be lucky to score more than 40 points on US
haddadi needs a 30 point game and kazemi 20 + we literally have 4-5 people scoring on our team and thats it....i dont know why we dont have a 3 point specialist, a small team like iran needs to atleast have good shooters

Afagh was the 3 point specialist.

[Super Shojaei]

What are the odds of us winning tomorrow?

[footballcrazy10]

does anyone have any contact with this team? lets get some good words out to these boys and boost their moral

[Keyan]

does anyone have any contact with this team? lets get some good words out to these boys and boost their moral

i do, i talked to arsalan just 2 hours ago. the best thing you could do is comment them on their FB's. they all like it. if theres anything specific you want me to say just let me know

[persianbruin]

i do, i talked to arsalan just 2 hours ago. the best thing you could do is comment them on their FB's. they all like it. if theres anything specific you want me to say just let me know

He must be very happy now Tell him to burn his Lebron jersey and buy a Kobe cuz thats him now!

[EKBATAN]

i do, i talked to arsalan just 2 hours ago. the best thing you could do is comment them on their FB's. they all like it. if theres anything specific you want me to say just let me know

im sure he knows already but tell him to inject some of his heart and maturity into the rest of the team, the rest seem to get shaky when pressure is on them, tell them not to be intimitated by US and go all out, be aggressive and dont rush shots and force things.

[footballcrazy10]

i do, i talked to arsalan just 2 hours ago. the best thing you could do is comment them on their FB's. they all like it. if theres anything specific you want me to say just let me know

Ok does arsalan understand how to read English perfectly? or close to it? because I am writing him right now to give him and the team some pointers?

[persianbruin]

Ok does arsalan understand how to read English perfectly? or close to it? because I am writing him right now to give him and the team some pointers?

for the same reason his game is head and shoulders above everyone else, his english is pretty good too! He plays basketball for division I school Rice university in Houston. He was first teaqm all freshman in the conference!

http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/2010/03/tulanes_kendall_timmons_make_c.html

[Keyan]

He must be very happy now Tell him to burn his Lebron jersey and buy a Kobe cuz thats him now!

come on, he already has his shoe collection, you cant change him.. he actually likes kobe too a bit, hes pretty unbiased

im sure he knows already but tell him to inject some of his heart and maturity into the rest of the team, the rest seem to get shaky when pressure is on them, tell them not to be intimitated by US and go all out, be aggressive and dont rush shots and force things.

i will even though i talked to him about half the stuff, he said batcheha yekaam laarzidaan va behdooneh fekr baazi mikardan, they wont make the same mistake

Ok does arsalan understand how to read English perfectly? or close to it? because I am writing him right now to give him and the team some pointers?

im not friends with the irans coaching staff haha, arsalan is the most fluent english speaker on this national team. for pete sakes he goes to Rice university, basically an IVY League school that is very hard! and hard to get into. he was freshmen of the year this year there!

i can tell arsalan anythihng, but i cant worry this guy right now and he's on a strict schedule.. his talk with me was pretty short itself at only 3 minutes long, he barely talked to his own family. keep in mind, arsalan is team melli's youngest player.. you cant have him mend anything in anyone on teams mind. he's just another player.. but he will eventually get all of their attention in the coming years, and it will be him in command, not bahrami, not haddadi. but go ahead and sum something up shortly and ill try to call him late tonight (his early morning)

my biggest hope is that they dont shut down our key threats this week, theyve seen what we can do and also seen our weaknesses.. im hoping for a low scoring game against slovenia and the u.s... hopefully more of our players can be exposed and we can play some awesome D.. it sucks not having afagh lined up at the three and bahrami to cause a shake