Food is the original sin? Have you forgotten Yang Hansen’s original intention of entering the NBA? 27 replies / 19 comments

Yang Hansen said frankly in the documentary: The opponents he encountered during the joint trial and summer league were all rookies similar to him, and their on-court experience was similar to his, so he was very comfortable playing on the court.

In the preseason, I felt like a rookie, but in the regular season, I felt that both the team wanted to win and the players on the court wanted to do their best to win the game, which made me feel very insignificant.

When you read Yang Hansen's words, you can really feel that his ability has not yet reached the level of a true NBA rotation player. In other words, he has just entered the NBA and he still doesn’t know what preparations he needs to make to play in the NBA and how far he needs to be.

As Yang Hansen's translator Liu Yucheng said, he and Yang Hansen experienced "being shocked by the real intensity and speed of the NBA, and the long-standing basketball concepts were shattered and rebuilt."

They saw the gap between Yang Hansen and the NBA. "Speed, confrontation, consciousness, reaction, stability, etc., these cannot be aligned with effort."

Even though Yang Hansen won the best defensive player in the CBA season that just passed, when he entered the NBA, he discovered that he could not even guard the Warriors' second-round pick Post.

When he came on the court, Curry immediately launched a single-point blast to target him, and asked Davis to pick and roll outside the three-point line. You will know that you are retreating and the defense cannot guard you.

Against the Lakers, Rivers and Ayton followed the same approach, launching 15 pick-and-rolls, allowing Ayton to punish Yang Hansen's retreating defense with a mid-range shot, making every hit accurate.

Yang Hansen has never seen this kind of offense in the CBA!

The outstanding performance in the summer league may cause Yang Hansen to misunderstand the NBA, and also make Chinese fans have very, very high expectations for Yang Hansen. During the summer league, some fans began to predict that Yang Hansen's statistics for the new season might be 10+6+3. These are relatively conservative fans.

To the extreme, he kicked Klingen, went straight to Shen Jing, and finally waved to Jokic.

Obviously, many people have overlooked why the Trail Blazers selected Yang Hansen with the 16th pick in the first round. Was it because of his immediate ability? The Blazers value Yang Hansen's potential and believe that he has the ability to grow into a qualified rotation center in the next two to three years. His static talent and golf intelligence are a bonus.

If you look at combat ability alone, Yang Hansen's draft ranking is exactly what ESPN predicted - he will be selected in the middle to late second round.

The "Hansen Plan" launched by the Blazers' general manager has been implemented for two years. The selection of Yang Hansen is the result of long-term observation, so the management has a lot of patience with Yang Hansen.

At the beginning of the season, although Yang Hansen's playing time is not much, the rotation time is an important period. Even if he will lose points when he plays, the team will give him the opportunity to practice and let him compete with the best players in the league to feel his shortcomings. For him, data is not the most important, perception of the intensity of the game is the first priority.

In the summer league, when Yang Hansen is holding the ball at the top of the arc, he can easily provide beautiful assists to his teammates, and he can pass and cut with ease.

Get offensive rebounds under the basket, and can easily score in the second offense.

In one-on-one situations, he can also complete turns and score with his feet.

In the preseason, facing Eubanks' defense, he first faked a shot, then added a backhand move, turned around, passed Eubanks and scored an easy layup.

He also had three-pointers at his fingertips, very confident.

However, when he faced a stronger opponent, everything was different. When he was holding the ball at the top of the arc and preparing to deal, he was still observing the movement of his teammates. As soon as he hesitated, the ball was stolen by Nurkic.

When he feinted outside the three-point line like in the preseason, adding a back dribble and a turn, they all looked the same, but when the defender was changed from Eubanks to Vanderbilt, Yang Hansen's beautiful layup also turned into a mistake + falling to the ground.

When he was holding the ball at the top of the arc and preparing for a give and go with his teammates, he didn't realize that TJD, who was guarding him, had a wingspan of 2.16 meters and destroyed his pass.

When he got the offensive rebound, he found that he couldn't hold up Ayton, lost his balance and lost the ball.

Playing in the CBA and summer league, you can beat your opponent with just one turn, but then you turn around and add a fake move, then a hook shot, and you can still be blocked by Gobert.

This is the intensity of the NBA!

If you're not prepared, you just can't beat players who are.

Regarding Yang Hansen, Trail Blazers interim head coach Split said: He does not know Yang Hansen’s future plans. What Yang Hansen needs to do now is to train and adapt to the intensity of the NBA as soon as possible. This is a marathon.

Yes, it is a marathon, but in a marathon, there is also a first place and a last place.

What Yang Hansen needs now is the desire for progress, the determination that I must stay in the NBA and make a name for myself. Yang Hansen's current situation is similar to when Wang Junjie first entered the University of San Francisco. He was originally a core player who played with the ball, but everything changed in the NCAA. The head coach asked him to be a role player and do the dirty work.

What can Wang Junjie do?

Practice like crazy at the training ground, practice defense well, and sweat every drop of your body in every minute given by the head coach. High-intensity self-discipline day after day allowed Wang Junjie to maintain a very good competitive state and mental state. In the end, he won the trust of the head coach in one game and took advantage of the team's injuries to gain a firm foothold.

They are also 20 years old and the same group of players.

So, we need to give Yang Hansen some time. He is not an all-around warrior. He does not have the ability to quickly integrate into the NBA like Coward once he enters the NBA. He also does not have the innate talent of a king like Edgecombe.

He can only take one step at a time.

I hope fans can give Yang Hansen a little more patience, at least to survive his rookie season. Is food the original sin? If this is the case, it will deviate from the original intention of supporting Yang Hansen and supporting Chinese players to leave the CBA and move to a higher level stage. Aren't the players coming out just to get promoted?

It is precisely because they are better than NBA players that they went to the NBA to improve!

Since we all understand, what’s the point of scolding...