He made 6 fouls and left the field, and made 4 mistakes and was directly criticized by the fans! Is Yang Hansen s performance really that bad?

I wonder what everyone thinks of Hansen Yang’s NBA preseason debut? Welcome to discuss and exchange in the comment area!

On October 9, during the preseason match between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Golden State Warriors, rising star Yang Hansen made his NBA debut. In the whole game, Yang Hansen played 21 minutes and scored 4 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist on 2 of 5 shots. At the same time, he made 4 eye-catching turnovers and 6 fouls. In the last minute and a half, he fouled out and left the field. Judging from the data column and the comment area after the game, the performance of this Chinese star who has high hopes seems to be unsatisfactory.

Indeed, judging from the basic data, Yang Hansen's performance is indeed unsatisfactory. First, in 21 minutes of playing time, his plus-minus was -1. This means that the team lost 1 point to its opponents when he was on the court. This stat alone is not outstanding in the team. Compared with his overall performance of 10 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks in his summer league debut, today's performance is indeed inferior. Especially in the final stage of the game, when the Warriors launched a counterattack, Yang Hansen failed to respond effectively on both offense and defense. In the end, he left the field with six fouls and watched the team be reversed.

Including the team level, the Trail Blazers once led by more than 20 points in this game, and still maintained a 19-point advantage at the end of the three quarters, but eventually encountered a reversal. This result made Yang Hansen's debut even more bleak.

What is even more noteworthy is that fouls and mistakes became the biggest obstacles in Yang Hansen's debut. He accumulated 6 fouls and 4 turnovers in 21 minutes, with an average of one foul every 3.5 minutes and one turnover every 5 minutes. Such a high frequency of fouls and turnovers has obviously affected his playing time and game rhythm. Yang Hansen himself has a clear understanding of this. In the post-game interview, he specifically mentioned: "The NBA's whistleblowing standards for screen actions are relatively strict. I was called for 4 offensive fouls, and I have to adapt to the NBA referee standards."

However, what I want to say is, was Yang Hansen directly criticized by some fans as worthless for just 6 fouls and 4 turnovers in one preseason game? Is Yang Hansen's performance really that bad? Obviously this is not the case! Looking back at history, Yao Ming, who has achieved great success in the NBA, received 3 fouls in just 11 minutes of his NBA debut. He played 11 minutes in the game, made 0 of 1 shots, did not score, and had only 2 rebounds and 2 turnovers. Yi Jianlian was also troubled by fouls in his debut. He played 25 minutes and scored 9 points, 3 rebounds, 2 blocks and 1 steal on 4 of 5 shots. He also had 6 fouls.

From the CBA to the NBA, it is not only an improvement in the level of competition, but also the process of adapting to the referee's penalty scale. The NBA has stricter rules on defense, and more detailed penalties for mobile screens and hand movements. It can be said that this is a required course for every international rookie. Perhaps most fans don't know that Yao Ming scored 0 points, 2 points, 0 points, 3 points and 7 points respectively in his first five games in the NBA. It was only after gradual adaptation that he exploded. Eventually grew into the core player of the Rockets.

So, Yang Hansen is already very good if he can stand on the NBA court. You must know that Zeng Fanbo on another court is still waiting for the call of the head coach.

Of course, Yang Hansen must also face up to his current problems. After all, there are huge differences between the NBA and CBA in terms of game rhythm and intensity of confrontation. Yang Hansen also said frankly after the game: "Compared with the NBA Summer League, the intensity of confrontation in the preseason is much greater. You still need to adapt to this kind of confrontation and improve your physical fitness." This also reflects that physical fitness issues are another difficulty facing Yang Hansen in addition to foul trouble. He needs to improve his ability to run back and forth as soon as possible to keep up with the speed of small guards. In today's game, his physical fitness seemed to decline rapidly after the rapid transition between offense and defense, which affected the matching of the rhythm of the game. On a technical level, Yang Hansen also needs to develop scoring methods that can perform stably in the NBA. During the CBA period, he was good at low-post offense and high-post support, but facing NBA-level physical confrontation, it was difficult for him to squeeze out defensive players, and he currently does not have many opportunities to dominate the ball. At the same time, language communication is another major challenge faced by Yang Hansen. He has also realized this and expressed that he wants to "improve his language communication skills to better implement the coach's defensive requirements."

Just as media person Detective Zhao said after the game: "Xiao Yang has enough golf intelligence and a good mentality. He is a learner." A player with strong ability and adjustment ability. I am not worried about him. Instead, I think of Xiao Yang's first CBA game, when he also left the field with six fouls, but everyone knows what happened in the past two years. "

So, some fans should not rush to complain, the game has just begun. Yang Hansen's NBA journey is destined to be uneven, but the 19-year-old's NBA journey is even more worth looking forward to.