9. He had an extremely low basketball IQ when he entered the NBA.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why so many teams released him and also why he has a tendency to rack up so many fouls. Pat Riley said, “When Hassan came from Marshall, he had no clue. He just didn’t have that basketball IQ. I remember seeing Marshall just put him in a zone in the middle of the court, and he just stood there. He didn’t know how to play man-to-man defense.”
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