As I predicted this was our toughest match. I knew we may flop again. This generation has no more steam left in them they are over 30 years old already.
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What was the point of having played lots of top teams in previous olympics and world championship (something football TM cannot say), having sent one players in NBA and not being able to beat Philippinos and China?! Are these 2 teams so good?Comment
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2015 FIBA Basketball Asia Championship [23 September - 3 October]
China is pretty good especially @home when even refs help them but we shouldn't have lost to PhilippinesOriginally posted by PSGman#19 View PostComment
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Just saw how can teams qualify for rio2016 with tournaments. It is just impossible!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_F...nament_for_Men
3 groups of 6 teams, only the winner of each groups will qualify! And there is teams like France, Canada, Greece, Italy + 3 guests.
As this tournaments is really high level, why not prepare the future and throw some youngs? haven't we some young good prospects in U21 etc... or am I mistaken with volleyball?Comment
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yea its pretty impossible. Not sure how good our youth are, im not too familiar with them. But yea i would throw a mixture of youth and experience. who knows maybe we'll get an easy draw if there is any. we did almost beat france somehow in world championships last year, but they kept hitting their 3sOriginally posted by PSGman#19 View Post
To answer your question about phillipines and china, they are good for Asia but they're not better than us. In past 5-6 yrs we've beaten all these teams but they're not good on world level. Our team lacks fundamentals as i mentioned above. There is a problem with game IQ and defense, which majority dont know how to play. We dont have 3 point specialists that can knock them down consistently and we cant defend other teams that take 3s either. Only Arsalan Kazemi can do these things and haddadi on the inside. Problem is haddadi hasnt improved over the years with his NBA experience and looks like he's gotten worse overall. We need better development to make smarter players and also more aggressive types. Sadly our only scorers in haddadi and samad nikkhah are old and soon will be gone.Comment
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what a crap performance by TM basketball. We were scared to shoot today. don't hesitate to shoot the 3 when you have an open look. Unforced turnovers gave China too many fast breaks, and at times we defended well but they would hit the contested 3s. If it wasn't for our shitty first quarter performance we could have somehow pulled the game out, but at the end of the day our offence was horrendous today, and i could see this coming against a good chinese side after our shitty performances in the games before.Comment
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At least we played the world cup last year..Comment
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We won this asian competition when it is not vital to qualify for the world championship, and we are going to end at 3rd place while we have to win it to go to olympics.Originally posted by Abtin View Post
I just hope we get grouped with France in the pre olympic tournament and knock them out!Comment
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knock out france? are you good bro? How is Iran gonna stop all the french nba players when they can't stop blatche and li jan lianOriginally posted by PSGman#19 View PostComment
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It is group of 6 teams, it is enough a team end 2nd to be knocked out.Originally posted by babak_iran View PostComment
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And to be fair, we did give them a good race last year in Spain. Even the French fans applaused IranOriginally posted by babak_iran View Post
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i beg to differ, in the final things change,with the way tm has been "very inconsistent" and the host China under pressure at home, we could have atleast had a chance. same thing that happened few years ago, where we played China in the final and China crumbled at home under pressure from the final and fans.Originally posted by rouzbahani View PostIRI = FAILEDComment
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It was a piss poor performance by our team! they couldn't buy a three or defend them either and it probably didn't help to have arguably our best three point shooter Afagh injured for the game!
Maybe with Afagh and Kazemi the team could have performed better. I am especially disappointed with the youngsters in the team Jamshidi and Yaghchali...it doesn't seem like they have improved much even with good experience at International competition. I just hope there a good new talents coming through in our basketball because we really need it.Comment
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China scored three pointers with ease, as for us we missed most of them. I only recall Davarpanah scoring one in the first quarter. Really crap peformance.Originally posted by ایرانی View Post
I just hope we don't let our guard down in the third place match against Japan.Comment
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I don't think it was the fans at all, it was just us. In the 2013 championship in the Philippines, we won facing an enthusiastic home crowd.Originally posted by persian-eagle-13 View Post
TM's problem is mentality. From the 9-point deficit in the first quarter, the team seemed to have no intention of coming back. Losing cool at the worst of times, mistakes and lack of motivation ain't the way to go if you were thinking of a berth in the finals. Looks like they weren't aiming for gold in the first place. And good luck to them with Olympic qualifying as well, they'll need it.
ALSO WHY didn't they play Hassanzadeh!? He only came on very briefly.Comment
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