The national team debut of teenager Yang Hansen ended with a full stunning. On the evening of February 22, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the first opponent of the Asian Cup qualifiers Mongolia 80-49 in Xi'an, Yang Hansen played 19 minutes off the bench, scoring 13 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals on 6-of-9 shooting.
With 5 minutes and 34 seconds left in the first quarter, the Chinese men's basketball team, which had a bad start and fell behind 1-8, tried several times, but still could not solve the problem of sluggish offense. Head coach Qiao Shuai chose to make a substitution, and Yang Hansen ushered in his national team debut. The 18-year-old came up to assist his teammates, and after an unsuccessful attempt, Xiao Yang showed his skills in the next attack. After holding the ball with his back in the low post to attract the double bag, Yang Hansen looked at the six roads, flicked his wrist slightly, and distributed the ball to Zhu Junlong, who was empty on the bottom line, and assisted the latter to complete the score.
When it was his turn to attack, Yang Hansen played with ease. Less than 2 minutes into the last quarter of the first quarter, Yang Hansen still held the ball with his back, and after receiving a pass from Abdul Salamu, Yang Hansen faced the basket directly. Dribbling one step to the basket, Yang Hansen deceived the opponent, and then took a step forward to pick up the basket easily.
But the most exciting thing has to be the steals and dunks in the last moments of the first quarter. When the Mongolian team pushed the counterattack, Yang Hansen bent down and dug out and directly completed the steal. Xiao Yang was not greedy for merit, and gave the ball to Abdu Salamu under the basket for the first time, but Ah Butou did not choose to attack, and received a return pass, Xiao Yang split the dunk with one hand on the spot, and completed the one-handed split dunk in the face of the two people's block. A teenager is a teenager, after completing such an explosive split, Xiao Yang except for a celebration of patting his head, the rest of the Mongolian players actually smiled towards the bottom line, with an innocent face.
But Yang Hansen, who has an innocent face, is not naïve at all on the court, but is old and spicy everywhere. In the last quarter, he replaced the exhausted Hu Jinqiu, and Yang Hansen made a layup with a burning sky, and he made an easy layup with a show of footsteps under the basket, basically how to play.
After the whole game was played, Yang Hansen's influence on the game was extraordinary. In the 19 minutes he played, many times, the offense of the Chinese men's basketball team could make a significant difference. Whether it is a personal attack or a strategy for the ball, Yang Hansen can also form a good tacit understanding with his teammates. Although he is a newcomer to the national team, as the main attack point of the second team, Yang Hansen is not afraid at all, but shows the demeanor of a backbone player.
In this battle, Yang Hansen was certainly not perfect, 4 mistakes were still the biggest flaw, and the long-range shot did not show much threat. In addition, the strength of the Mongolian team is limited, so Yang Hansen still has a lot to improve in this battle. But after all, this is Yang Hansen's national team debut, and it is rare to be able to play like this, after all, before him, too many promising men's basketball seniors can rarely be so amazing in their debut.
Yang Hansen is a potential player who is expected to become an iconic player in Chinese basketball in the future. My expectation is that for a long time in the future, it depends on his own development, and he will get better and better," Qiao Shuai said of Yang Hansen during the national team training camp.
Now, teenager Yang Hansen has begun to hit the road. He still has a long way to go, but fortunately, Xiao Yang's first step is stable enough, and he is by no means the strongest at the moment.