Team reporter talks about Xiao Yang: If a person receives excessive praise, he will also receive undue criticism.

November 1st: In the NBA Cup group match, the Trail Blazers narrowly defeated the Nuggets 109-107. In this game, Trail Blazers Chinese player Yang Hansen did not get a chance to play.

In this regard, team reporter Li Hanlin posted a long article commenting on Yang Hansen. The full text is as follows:

20251031 "What are you serious about?"

More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Celts believed that October 31 of each year was the end of the old year.

The harvest season is over, and the harsh winter is coming. In fact, the boundary between life and death will become blurred at zero o'clock.

So on this day, they extinguished the fires in their homes and offered food to the spirits of the dead. Later on, people would dress up as ghosts on this day, either to avoid distinguishing themselves from "real ghosts" or to drive away ghosts. The sense of humor of the North American people made this so-called "Western Ghost Festival" gradually evolve into a reasonable and legal community carnival.

"The harvest season is over, and the harsh winter is coming."

On this night, Yang Hansen should have had a head-to-head dialogue with his idol in basketball, Nikola Jokic. In Hexion's own article in the PlayerTribune, he said: "I learned everything I could, watching him play, and I learned that a center can pass the ball like a guard... I tried my best to make The way I play is like his."

90 minutes before the game, Yang Hansen stepped onto the court. This was the pre-game warm-up period assigned to him by the team. Coincidentally, at the other end of the court, three-time regular season MVP Jokic was also warming up. In the past four games, this man, recognized by almost all major sports media as the number one player in the world, has scored a triple-double in each game. With one more game, he can set a record of five consecutive triple-doubles in the first five games of the season. NBA history, one person from ancient times.

But Yang Hansen did not look back at his idol. Accompanying him to complete the warm-up was assistant coach Ronnie Brewer, who is also the head coach of the Trail Blazers Summer League. Brewer is 6 feet 9 inches tall and played the third and fourth positions as a player. Before the last two games, he focused on training Yang Hansen's finishing ability after confrontation. Even in the routine pre-game warm-up and the confrontation between master and apprentice, he spared no effort - bang, bang, bang... Brewer had a smile on his face, but his skills were unambiguous. He inserted one leg between the legs of the 20-year-old young center in front of him, and pressed his elbow against the opponent's back. Hexion took a breath, puffed up his cheeks, feinted twice after two confrontations, and then dunked the ball into the basket with his right hand.

In this set of training, Yang Hansen needs to complete about five such confrontations at the basket, then make free throws with his heart rate almost reaching its peak, then retreat to the three-point line to practice long-range shots, and then return to the penalty area. After several sets, his training T-shirt is half soaked, and then he walks to the player tunnel, signs autographs for fans, and returns to the locker room.

However, on this night, unlike the past three games against the Clippers, Lakers, and Jazz, in fact, Yang Hansen himself probably would not have thought that this would be the last time he would sweat before the buzzer sounded tonight.

Facing the Clippers, Portland, which had just stepped out of the Billups incident with its left foot, seemed too eager to take its right foot out as well. Previously, they won back-to-back Warriors. There was such a conversation in the Portland locker room. Veteran Holiday yelled: "What did he (transition coach Splitter) tell us at halftime?" Thybulle on the side answered: "He said we will not practice tomorrow and we will not shoot. Warming up," Holiday said with a smile: "Yes...he said, we have to throw everything on the court, and I think we did it." Facing the "oldest in the league's history" Clippers, the Trail Blazers who had just "thrown everything on the court" were unable to match the veteran superstars of Harden, Leonard, and Paul in the final quarter. Yang Hansen came on the field in the first quarter of this game. His first touch of the ball was very resolute, forcing Zubac, who was revered as "Zunier" by the fans last season, to pay a foul. However, after that, his positional awareness problem when guarding the pick-and-roll was exposed again.

Zhang Weiping's guidance hit the nail on the head: "Xiao Yang is in a position that is neither above nor below."

After the loss, Split summarized the game: Overall, we did not shoot as well as we should have. We got 18 offensive rebounds and caused 22 opponent turnovers... But in the end you need to make shots, and they made more shots.

Split emphasizes speed. The Brazilian's most well-known years as a player - 2014, the regular season of the champion Spurs, ranked 10th in the league in number of rounds, which was very different from the Spurs in the minds of popular fans - the Spurs were already fast at that time. When Split followed Uduka in the NBA assistant coaching staff for several seasons, and then took up the coaching staff of Paris Basketball last season, he created the team's style:

-An average of 14.01 seconds per attack, first in the league; when the opponent made a mistake, 11.53 seconds per attack

-Full-court pressure starting from the jump ball, radical thinking The anti-pick-and-roll strategy - the opponent only scored 0.65 points per pick-and-roll attack

- the opponent's turnover rate was 18.3%, fourth in the league

Fast, pressing, radical anti-pick-and-roll ideas, increasing one's own shot opportunities by creating opponent mistakes - this is not an invention of Billups, but is Split's consistent basketball philosophy. At the moment, Yang Hansen, who is slow, has poor defensive position, needs to hold the ball for a long time on the offensive end, and basically does not have the ability to compete for offensive rebounds, has stepped on the coach's minefield in almost every characteristic.

In the next game, they faced the Lakers who had "no east and no James". Although the atmosphere of Staples Center is still noble, the star of the home team in the center of the field has been replaced by "Crazy Xiaoli", the undrafted diamond. Austin Reeves was averaging 34.0 points and 9.7 assists before that game, which put him on par with Kobe Bryant and Jerry West in the 2011-12 season.. The Purple and Gold Army was indeed shabby that night. At the beginning of the second quarter, only four players were sent to the floor. Director Zhang joked: "The Lakers' lineup is not called a lineup at all."

Before this game, there was news that "Hexion will play more tonight", and his appearance again with 9:15 left in the second quarter seemed to verify this rumor. Once again, his defensive position in the pick-and-roll was targeted by the Lakers. The one-and-five pick-and-roll between Reeves and Ayton allowed Yang Hansen to shoot. Last season's Trail Blazers starting center and the No. 1 pick in 2018 faced Hexion's defense, but he briefly regained the feeling of being the No. 1 pick and began to hit mid-range jumpers and floaters continuously. On the offensive end, after missing two open three-pointers, Yang Hansen also seemed hesitant. In the second half of the game, he only stood on the court during garbage time.

The Los Angeles fans at the scene were already celebrating the Dodgers' victory. The team's top player, Japanese star Shohei Ohtani, led the team and took a 2-1 lead in the series after a record-breaking six-hour battle. Staples Center erupted again and again after the game, sporadic cheers that had nothing to do with basketball.

Later, the Blazers flew to Salt Lake City. They were defeated here in the preseason. The small lineup was helpless against the Jazz's three seven-footers protecting the basket. The two Spurs coaches, Splitter and Will Hardy, will also have their first coaching conversation in their careers.

Before the game, Splitter described Hardy like this: "(Time working with Will Hardy) When I was with the Spurs, Hardy was doing video work, and he was picking up rebounds for me... Things are ever-changing, aren't they? In basketball, he is One of the smartest people I have ever met, he has very, very clear ideas, which is why he is now the head coach."

A reporter asked: "So you are now the head coach, have you ever thought about it?"

Split: "When. When I started coaching, I realized that this was what I wanted to do, and I could feel the adrenaline rushing through my body again."

That night, Yang Hansen came on the court during the regular rotation, with 5:44 left in the first quarter, his first offensive goal. One touch of the ball, against Kessler who had just beaten him 2+1 - Hexion was very well prepared, as if the muscle collision with Brewer before the game had an effect. He hooked the ball in after the confrontation and scored the first non-garbage time sports game score of his career. What forced him to leave the field was his hesitation to handle the ball on the line. He stopped the ball at the wrong position, and his subsequent dive to save the ball was of no avail.

In order to match the Jazz's height advantage, Split used Dupu Reese in the second quarter. This wandering veteran seemed uncomfortable when he first came on the court. After hesitating on a corner three-pointer, Split pulled him aside and whispered for three seconds. Later, in the second quarter, he fired five times from the three-point line and hit three goals...

After the game, Split told everyone that I told him: "Shoot the Ball"

In the conversation with the Jazz, the Trail Blazers almost ruined their lead in the last minute and finally won the game with penalty kick tactics; against the Nuggets, the five-small lineup once again made great achievements, and Jeremy Grant made two free throws. Mainly, Nikola Jokic's statistics were finally fixed at 21 points, 14 rebounds, and 9 assists. In the last 1.4 seconds of the game, he even had a chance to end the game with a hailmary-like long throw from the backcourt.

In the whole game, Teacher Yue seemed to have only used 70% of his strength, passing the ball across the court again and again. One point more is too much, one point less is too little, and it fell impartially into the hands of his teammates. The feather fan shook slightly, and the oars disappeared in the chat and laughter. What Jokic cared about was naturally not going to Las Vegas, but his eyes were locked on the O'Brien Cup.

On this Portland night when "the harsh winter is coming", Yang Hansen also received his first DNP in his career. The team rotated eleven players, and only his playing time was zero. He did not show any displeasure. Faced with the pervasive prying, suspicion and even abuse in the social media era, he did not respond. His sincerity and straightforward expression of "eating, sleeping, and playing games" have been constantly coming back to bite him in the past few days. Just like he never thought that eating American fried chicken would help him "get out of the circle", eating out has become a crime when he doesn't play well. But those sounds would eventually dissipate, so he didn't have to worry about that. After all, if a person receives excessive praise, then he will probably also bear undue criticism. Besides, even in the most merciless winter, there will be hippies who tie it up - they dance on the forehead of the cold winter, "Give candy or trick-or-treating?", as the fat man No. 15 in Denver said, there is still a long way to go,

"WHYSOSERIOUS?"