In the first window of the 2025 Asian Cup qualifiers, the Chinese men's basketball team sat at home to face the Mongolian men's basketball team.
For the Chinese men's basketball team, the big win is not happy, because this should have been a higher score victory, the strength of the Mongolian team composed of amateur players is still too bad, purely from this window, the two games are considered a warm-up game, and the next game on the 25th away to challenge the Japanese team should be a tough battle. To put it bluntly, if you simply play this game, especially the play of the two guards Zhao Jiwei and Hu Mingxuan in the starting lineup, it is really not as optimistic as playing the Japanese team. Du Runwang's 3-of-5 three-pointers can't hide the gap in overall outside projection. Qiao Shuai still needs to do a lot.
The reason why fans still feel that it is reasonable to say in this game is that the debut performance of 18-year-old Yang Hansen should be regarded as a highlight, and it can be regarded as covering up many problems of the current Chinese men's basketball team from the side. In his debut, he scored 13 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals on 6-of-9 shooting, although the limited strength of the Mongolian men's basketball team is not a touchstone, and the reference value of this game is not enough, but he feels that the fans are in place, his play in the game, his skills, his vision, and his calmness in dealing with the game, the future is really worth looking forward to.
The start of the Chinese men's basketball team in this game was very bad, Djordjevic's starting lineup was beaten by a weak opponent 8 to 1, there was no sports battle score in the half of the game, only relying on free throws to get a point, the audience was confused, the appearance of Yang Hansen and Abdu at the critical moment changed the situation on the court, and the substitute lineup completed the reversal of the game with a wave of 15-0, this process of young player Yang Hansen showed his ability to change the course of the game, from the Qingdao team to the national team, He's all about making the game easier with his performances. He is the one who changed the trend of the game on the court, and the fans said it more simply: with him or not, the Chinese men's basketball team is like two teams, with him he will play, without him will not play. This can be clearly seen from the course of this game.
Before this game, Djordjevic said that he saw a lot of shadows of his former teammates from Yang Hansen, I don't know whether it was a former teammate or a former player, but Qiao Shuai must have seen the shadow of Serbian basketball from Yang Hansen, Xiao Yang was affectionately called China's Jokic by the fans It must be reasonable, as the inner line of the basketball province of Shandong, Yang Hansen did not enter the youth training in the system, nor was he poached by other regions, and finally stayed in Qingdao Guoxin Youth Training, Qingdao Guoxin hired a youth coach from the Balkan Peninsula, which is why there is today's Yang Hansen, to tell the truth, if Yang Hansen keeps the youth training in the Shandong system, or is poached by the youth training of other clubs, in the hands of those inbred local youth coaches, it may also be cultivated into the next Zhu Rongzhen. This is not an exaggeration.
There is also a more gratifying thing in this game is that Xu Jie and Yang Hansen, who entered Qiao Shuai's national team for the first time, are more likely to call, which is also the thing that fans are most willing to see, their internal and external combination comes from the mutual assistance of the two, when Xu Jie hangs high to Yang Hansen to score easily, and Yang Hansen reciprocates Li Chang to Xu Jie in the bottom corner of the three-point shot, that moment is estimated to be a moment when all fans are happy. If this situation can become a norm, and not only happen to Yang Hansen and Xu Jie, will the Chinese men's basketball team be much more optimistic?
I think there is a professional who says that the difference between Xu Jie and Zhao Jiwei is that he knows how to play with Yang Hansen, while Zhao Jiwei has not yet found this feeling. There's a good saying: people who do things with their brains make things simple. Yang Hansen and Xu Jie are both a type of player who plays with their brains, plus Abdul Salamu who plays with their brains, In fact, Qiao Shuai's starter should have a better choice. is too stubborn about his starter, Qiao Shuai is more like digging a hole for himself. After the game, Jia Lei, a professional ** person, praised Xu Jie's performance in this game, believing that his statistics did not reflect his contribution on the defensive end, and his value should be more fully reflected in the next game against the Japanese defenders.