Review of Yang Hansen s preseason debut: The "supermodel" Warriors taught the Chinese big man a good lesson

Yang Hansen played against the Warriors in his first real NBA game (all NBA players), which can be regarded as a "good intention leads to bad" in terms of schedule.

It is understandable that the official gimmick of using the Warriors and Curry to "test" Hexion and create traffic, but the Warriors and Cole, as the teams in the league that least like to use traditional centers, have also accumulated a lot of ways to deal with big men over the years.

In recent years, what they have been afraid of is the explosion of talent like thick eyebrows, or the omnipotent ceiling like having a teacher. There are many tricks to deal with slightly inferior big men.

The most recent example is that in the first round of the playoffs, Shen Jing, one of Hexion's draft templates, was tortured to death. This season, Horford, who made Antetokounmpo and the Emperor lose their temper, was added to the team this season.

Playing against the Warriors in the first game is equivalent to putting additional questions on the first page.

In 21 minutes (the highest in the team), he made 2 of 5 shots, 4 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 turnovers and 6 fouls, with a plus-minus value of -1. This is the report card of Yang Hansen's first NBA-level confrontation.

If you put aside the nationality filter, as the 16th pick in the first round, this kind of performance would be 2 points on the five-point scale, and it would be unqualified in terms of rating.

Of course, there are also many rookies who have a mess in their first preseason game or even in the regular season. For example, last year's No. 2 pick Sarr scored 2 points and 5 rebounds in his debut.

This is not to excuse Yang Hansen. The adaptation progress of big players in the league is often not reflected in statistics, but intangible influence on the court.

But in this regard, Hexion also failed to do a good job.

He replaced starting center Klingen in the 8 minutes of the first quarter. As soon as he started, he was called for a foul during a rebound fight with veteran Horford, which was regarded as a "welcome to the NBA" given to him by the referee.

Yang Hansen said before that this place is more "civilized" than the CBA, but as soon as he came on the court today, he had to repay his debt for his previous roughness.

Of course, this foul is more of a "rookie blessing" given to him by the referee.

But he soon responded in kind, causing Horford to pay a foul on him while fighting for rebounds.

His size still has an impact on the court. When he and Klingen, the two traditional five-position players, are on the court, the Warriors are still wary of the Blazers' rim protection and rarely go straight to the basket.

But the Warriors are probably the team that likes to move their center out of the basket and make fuss in the high post.

Post, who was of little use to the Warriors last season, can also pull him to the three-point line and succeed in a layup, embarrassing Yang Hansen.

This is the center ecology of the NBA. He will be constantly pulled out of the penalty area by opponents and travel back and forth between high and low positions. This not only requires you to have enough physical toughness, but also flexible footsteps and judgment.

But the most embarrassing goal was against veterans Horford and Butler.

Today the Blazers will play with all their main players. Big brothers such as Holiday, Grant and Sharp will naturally not pass the ball through Yang Hansen's hands like their summer league teammates.

Finally gave him a chance to hold the ball in a high position, but he was forced to stop the ball by the veteran Horford. Although Butler on the side had his back to Yang Hansen, he was always waiting for him to play the ball. In the end, he had no choice but to return the ball and was intercepted by Jimmy. When he returned to defense, he was tripped by Dream Chasing.

Three top veterans used their experience and cunning to let him know how deep the water in the NBA is.

He played for 5 minutes in the entire first quarter. Except for 0 shots and 1 foul, he only made one assist by simply passing the ball to his opponent.

His biggest problem now is the gap in confrontation. On the offensive end, the pick-and-roll effect between him and his teammates is average.

The quality of the block is unstable, and in terms of dismantling, it has neither the will nor the ability to project external bullets, and the pace is too slow when moving down, making it difficult for the opponent to get stuck.

When defending, his first tendency to grab rebounds was to get stuck rather than take off, which cost him many opportunities to get rebounds.

Faced with veterans like Dream Chaser and Horford, or newcomers of the same age as Post, they were all very uncomfortable. The Warriors even dared to use Butler to defend him, because he lacked personal strength and could not form a physical suppression.

He came on the scene again at 8 minutes in the second quarter. This time he faced another large forward of the Warriors, causing trouble in the offseason.

The performance of the two gives people the illusion that if Yang Hansen's mind + Kuminga's body, he is almost a perfect NBA insider.

Yang Hansen's defense forced Kuminga to make a passing error, and then he created a 2+1 for his teammate Avdija through his position inside.

But Yang Hansen himself still couldn't show his signature ball-handling and high-position support during the draft.

Both his body and mind are not yet strong enough to cope with real NBA matches, and he spends most of his energy on hand-to-hand combat with his opponents.

In the second half, several veterans of the Warriors' starting lineup retired, and Yang Hansen's life became slightly easier.

In the third quarter, he finally opened up his scoring account, but it was not the hard-hitting or beautiful skill that people expected from a center.

Instead, he cut inside after a pick-and-roll and scored an offensive rebound.

This is definitely not what the Blazers want. If they just want a pick-and-roll blue-collar center, there are a lot of young people with explosive bodies in the United States, and they have no need to choose Yang Hansen.

The worst thing here is that the only time he showed off his scoring opportunity, he gave up a dunk and instead put the ball in slightly gently. This is a point-minus action for the NBA coaching staff..

In the fourth quarter, both teams came off the bench and the Trail Blazers led 97-78. It should have been a great opportunity for Yang Hansen to fully demonstrate his talents, but it turned out that the referee taught him how to behave.

Fouled 4 times in 6 minutes and only grabbed 1 rebound.

Although you can say that today's referees may be targeted and harsh on him, rebounding fouls and pick-and-roll fouls are the easiest things for today's insiders to be caught by referees.

The Blazers' defense was beaten to pieces by the Warriors in this quarter, and he neither managed the offense well as a potential ball-handling point on the offensive end, but was also overwhelmed by the Warriors' fast-playing whirlwind on the defensive end.

In the end, the Warriors' 51-26 wave in the final quarter allowed the Trail Blazers to fly away with a reverse victory.

For Hexion, the starting point or reference object for the Blazers to choose him is "Fire Dragon" centers like Yue Laoshi, Sasha, and Shen Jing, who can serve as the offensive center and high-position command tower to improve the level and quality of the team's half-court offense and defense.

But the premise is that he must first do the basic skills of a center.

Rebounds and frame protection, pick-and-rolls and blocking, these are the things that a center big man should do well. Even if he cannot do everything, he still needs to have strengths in some items, so that it is easier for the head coach to configure the rotation lineup.

Otherwise, even if you can occasionally deliver some wonderful moves, the team will collapse on the court and lose points easily. Then no coach would dare to train newcomers like this.

Lakers fans should remember that in the past two years, there was a two-way player "Castle Brother" Castleton in the team. He was also initially considered to have the potential to become a ball-handling center, and he could occasionally pass a few good balls.

But pick-and-roll blocking, rebound protection, and shooting backs are not enough. It is too easy for opponents to see through just spinning the top in the high post. In the end, after playing for two years, he could only be waived and left. Now he can only make a living with the Magic.

Every team hopes to find a teacher, but before proving that you can solve advanced mathematics, you must first prove that you can do basic skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the Pythagorean Theorem.

As the first opponent, the Warriors are indeed a bit of a supermodel. Come on Hexion!