- Hamed Haddadi, looking cool in the Griz rotation of late.
The past week has seen a significant shift in the Grizzlies’ rotation, with Hamed Haddadi taking over the back-up center role and with Hasheem Thabeet (along with Lester Hudson) now set to be sent to the Dakota Wizards for a developmental league assignment.
First, on Haddadi. After a couple of stints in Dakota himself and either riding the pine of modeling the latest big-and-tall fashions for the first year-and-a-half of his NBA career, Haddadi is now getting a chance to prove he can be a legitimate NBA player. Good for him.
In three consecutive games now receiving rotation minutes as a back-up center, Haddadi has acquitted himself well.
Against New Jersey on Sunday, Haddadi played 15 minutes and though he only shot 1-4 and picked up 5 fouls, he also had 6 rebounds, an assist and a block and didn’t really hurt the team (his plus/minus for the game: +3). He gave the Grizzlies passable back-up center minutes. (Thabeet, by contrast, came into the game and immediately sailed an outlet pass out of bounds. He took a seat after one minute and never saw the floor again.)
