Yang Hansen, a young player who is playing in the national youth team recently, has won the praise of many fans because of his excellent performance, and even some fans say that he is: upper limit Jokic, lower limit Haddadi.
However, this evaluation has also attracted many fans to refute it, believing that Yang Hansen can reach the level of Haddadi's peak in the future, which can be regarded as a "genius" that the Chinese men's basketball team meets once in 50 years.
So which of these two views is more reasonable, let's talk about what kind of athlete Haddadi is.
For the first time, in terms of intuitive achievement.
On August 28 , 2008 , Haddadi signed with the Memphis Grizzlies , thus becoming the first player in the history of the Iranian men's basketball team to join the NBA.
Then after four and a half seasons with the Grizzlies, that is, until the 2012-2013 season, he was traded to the Raptors in the middle of the season, but did not play for the Raptors, and then was traded to the Suns, playing a total of 17 games for the Suns that season.
After a full game, Haddadi played a total of 5 seasons in the NBA, 151 games, averaging 2.2 points and 2.5 rebounds per game, with a total of 339 points, ranking 6th on the NBA scoring list of Asian players.
Of course, looking at Haddadi's average data, many fans will think that it seems that it is not remarkable, even if he can join the NBA, it does not mean anything, after all, the South Korean men's basketball inside player Ha Seungjin passed the NBA draft in 2004 and successfully entered the NBA.
However, in the eyes of many Chinese fans, Hesheng Town's overall strength is even inferior to some local insiders of the CBA team, not to mention, in the cognition of many Liaoning fans, Han Dejun's comprehensive strength is more than Hesheng Town.
For example, the Japanese men's basketball team had a guard player named Yuta Tian, who also joined the NBA in 2003 and signed a contract with the Nuggets.
He is not only the first player in the Japanese men's basketball team to join the NBA, but also the first Asian player to join the NBA as a guard.
However, what his personal strength is, fans who know it understand.
It can be seen that the NBA's selection vision is not 100% accurate.
Indeed, if the NBA's "identification" of global outstanding players can be 99% accurate, it is unfortunate that Hesheng Town and Tian Yongtai are the one percent.
However, this does not prove that the threshold of the NBA is not high enough, or that Haddadi has become the same "role" as these two because he has not played too much in the NBA.
It can be said very responsibly that Haddadi is still stronger than these two, or even much stronger.
Secondly, from the confrontation between Haddadi and the previous inside players of the Chinese men's basketball team.
At two o'clock in the afternoon of July 29, 2011, Yao Ming, the pride of Asian basketball and NBA All-Star Center, known as the "Little Giant of the East", held a press conference in Shanghai to announce the end of his career.
Countless fans and basketball people felt regret and regret when they heard the news, but a 26-year-old Iranian man was overjoyed, and even ignored the strange eyes of the people around him, shouting loudly to the surroundings: Without Yao Ming, I am the first in Asia!
And this Iranian man is Haddadi.
Maybe this sentence sounds a little "big" at first, but later, when he and the Chinese men's basketball team competed for more than 10 years, everyone suddenly realized that the sentence that Haddadi said back then was not exaggerated.
Let's talk about it next.
Haddadi was born in 1985, Yao Ming was born in 1980, in terms of age, Yao Ming is 5 years older than Haddadi, and it is precisely because of these 5 years that the peak of the two is completely staggered, so that Yao Ming has almost lost alone at the Asian level, and Haddadi has not fully grown.
2003 was the first time the two met on the court, but the overall strength of the Chinese men's basketball team in that period was very strong, and the Iranian men's basketball team was not qualified to be the opponent of the Chinese men's basketball team, plus Haddadi was also young and was only a substitute player of the team, so Yao Ming played well or badly, and it was not his turn to come up.
Two years later, in the 2005 Asian Championship, Haddadi and Jaber formed the Iranian men's basketball "twin towers", plus Bahrami and Kamrani on the outside, the strength is much stronger than in the past, and it is at the beginning of this period that the so-called "golden generation" of Iranian men's basketball began to emerge in Asian basketball, but this game they still lost 61-76 and continued to play the role of "losers".
In terms of personal data, Yao Ming slashed 29 points and 17 rebounds, as well as 3 blocks and 4 steals, it can be said that Yao Ming has become almost unrivaled at the Asian level during this period.
On the other hand, Haddadi still scored only 0 points in the whole game.
In the 2007 Asian Championship, Haddadi has grown into the absolute main force of the Iranian men's basketball team, and Yao Ming was unable to represent the Chinese men's basketball team due to injury, when the two sides met in the group stage, the Iranian men's basketball team defeated the Chinese men's basketball team 77-68, and won the powerful Lebanese men's basketball team in the final, successfully winning the first Asian Championship championship in the team's history.
It was from this period that the Iranian men's basketball team really showed its "hideous" side.
The following year, in 2008, the so-called "golden generation" of the Chinese men's basketball team was born, and then with almost all the members healthy, we met the Iranian men's basketball team again, but the Jones quilt organized by FIBA, which was a warm-up game before the Olympics.
At that time, the three major inside lines of the Chinese men's basketball team, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian all played on the court, taking turns against Haddadi, which was really addicted to the fans, and finally the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the Iranian men's basketball team 75-46.
Once again, the Iranian men's basketball team, which was just about to "emerge", was severely pressed.
With that, Yao Ming and Haddadi's record at the national team level is over, because since the 2008 Olympics, Yao Ming has basically faded out of the Chinese men's basketball team.
In Yao Ming's position, it can be said that Haddadi is completely suppressed, of course, this can not be blamed Haddadi, in addition to the fact that he has not fully grown up at that time, more is the absolute gap in strength, after all, even Howard, known as "Warcraft", saw Yao Ming without temper, let alone other interior players in the world at that time.
The Chinese men's basketball team really has the name of "lifelong enemy" with Haddadi is the next ---- Yi Jianlian.
As mentioned earlier, Haddadi was born in 1985, while Yi Jianlian was born in 1987, the latter is two years younger than the former, and this is almost the same generation of players on the basketball court.
Coupled with Yao Ming's retirement in 2011, the banner of the Chinese men's basketball team was naturally handed over to Yi Jianlian, and at that time Haddadi was also fully grown, and the two top Asian insiders began countless battles.
However, objectively speaking, Yi Jianlian was "at a loss" at the beginning, and in the 2009 Tianjin Asian Championships, the Chinese men's basketball team and the Iranian men's basketball team met in the final as much expected.
Although we no longer have Yao Ming at that time, as mentioned earlier, we still have Yi Jianlian, a new generation of Chinese men's basketball "leaders" who are playing in the NBA.
However, what everyone did not expect was that when Haddadi and Yi Jianlian were in the final, he made the gesture of "please shoot" many times, which means that Yi Jianlian was allowed to shoot and did not do any defense, which is a very obvious "humiliation".
However, there is no way, this is a basketball court, if you want to hit back at the opponent, the best way is to throw the ball, but the UAE shooting in that period was not as stable as it was later, plus this was the first time he played the role of team leader after Yao Ming left the team, which was somewhat uncomfortable.
The main thing is that he is also a little confused by Haddadi's "way", especially after the first few shots are deviated, and the back is even more outrageous, so that he does not dare to shoot in the end.
In the end, the Chinese men's basketball team lost this inevitable final, and in this "humiliating" way.
After the game, the fans' accusations and angry scolding of Yi Jianlian are still a little shocking to think about now.
And Yi Jianlian's inner pain and self-blame at that time were also very huge, but there was no way, competitive sports did not rely on self-blame and pain to change anything.
That is, it must be admitted that Yi Jianlian in that period did have great "drawbacks" at the technical level in the face of Haddadi, not to mention, Yi Jianlian's strength is physical talent and athletic ability, but Yao Ming's injury made Yi Jianlian can only obediently go to the No. 5 position, and Haddadi to grind positional battles, which is equivalent to "ignoring" these advantages of his, and in turn, Haddadi's height and weight advantages are vividly displayed.
Coupled with the ability to respond to the ball at the top level, it really makes the UAE exhausted at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.
In this way, it was not until the 2015 Changsha Asian Championship that Yi Jianlian developed a stable mid- and long-range shooting, and at that time, two newcomers Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin appeared on the inside of the Chinese men's basketball team, which could help share some of the pressure, so far, Yi Jianlian and the Chinese men's basketball team completed the real "revenge" in 6 years.
Looking at the record of Yi Jianlian and Haddadi in the national team, it can only be described in one word: mutual victory and defeat.
The two sides have played a "tie".
Then there are Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin, but this period of Haddadi is already in his twilight years, after all, he is nearly 10 years older than these two, so losing is not an incredible thing, but even so, he can still play back and forth with them.
This shows how strong Hadadi is.
Therefore, everyone should now understand how exaggerated it is to say that Yang Hansen's "lower limit" is Haddadi.
Therefore, the part that says that Yang Hansen is relatively reliable if the "ceiling" can reach the peak level of Haddadi.
Or in other words, you may wish to position this as a "small goal", and then strive to achieve it first, and then seek greater development later...