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Yang Hansen made a comeback in a trial training! US media revealed the reasons for being ignored. Can the traditional center become the next Jokic?

2:59pm, 8 June 2025【Basketball】

. This strategy of "saving the country on a curve" is more practical than a simple draft pick - after all, in addition to the 60 draft quotas every year, there are countless examples of counterattacks through two-way contracts.

But there is also a controversy here: Will excessive reliance on the operation of brokerage companies affect the technological development of players? For example, in order to stay in the NBA, some undrafts have to change their playing style to adapt to the team's needs, but in the end they lose their original advantages. Yang Hansen's traditional playing style is his characteristic. If he forced three-pointers to cater to "modern basketball", would it be more worthwhile to gain? However, judging from the current trial training feedback, he seems to have found a balance point - not only demonstrated traditional technology, but also proved that he could adapt to some modern tactics. This persistence of "not blindly following the trend" may be his most valuable aspect.

Yang Hansen's trial journey is essentially a game about "data and bias". The joint trial demonstrated his athletic ability with cold numbers, and the trial trial demonstrated his technical comprehensiveness with intuitive pictures, but behind these appearances is the NBA's inherent perception of international players, especially Asian players. Some people say that as long as the data is eye-catching enough, prejudice will naturally disappear; but some people think that in the "probability game" of draft, the team is more willing to pay for "known potential" than "unknown possibilities".

This kind of controversy has been staged once in Zhou Qi - he entered the second round with excellent trial data, but eventually left the NBA due to insufficient confrontation. The challenges Yang Hansen faces are more complicated now: what he wants to prove is not only "can play in the NBA", but also "traditional styles of play still have room for survival in the modern NBA." If he can really become a "draft pick" like Jokic, the impact may be far beyond his personal destiny - it may allow more scouts to re-examine CBA players and even change the evaluation criteria for "international centers". But if he fails, what awaits him may not only be his personal regret, but also may make the NBA journey for later generations even more difficult.

Therefore, the significance of this trial journey has long surpassed the fate of a player's draft. It is both a touchstone of personal ability and a challenge to league bias - and we are fortunate to witness this process.