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From CBA All-Star to NBA Edge! Can Yang Hansen s "Level 7" counterattack come true?

9:45pm, 12 June 2025【Basketball】

Yang Hansen was depressed! The Dream of Little Green House + the seventh level of the draft, who can withstand this gap?

Today's Yang Hansen is likely to frown. The spotlight of the NBA draft green house did not shine on him, and reality even poured cold water on him - ESPN expert Sam Vecenie put him in the seventh level, what does it mean? It means that NBA teams may sign you as a "spare tire". First, try the waters with a two-way contract. Whether they can stay depends on others' expressions. From a CBA All-Star to a NBA marginal person, who has the identity to fall like a cliff, so who can't feel a little sad? After all, I was still called for the wind and rain in the domestic league last year, and I became a "replacement player" in a blink of an eye. This sense of gap is probably more dazzling than the spotlight on the draft night, right?

Foreign media poured cold water: Is his playing style "outdated" in the NBA?

Several foreign media recently analyzed that Yang Hansen's evaluation results were not surprising. It’s not that he is incompetent, but that his playing style is too “retro”. Now, the NBA still uses the "back-on-one singles + back-hook" system? Jokic was too lazy to be hard-core at low posts, let alone Yang Hansen's lateral movement speed - when defending the pick-and-roll, it was like stepping on cotton, and there was no threat outside the three-point line, and it looked like a center forward who had traveled ten years ago. The ESPN expert's saying "His low-post skills are hard to be useful in the NBA" actually hits the pain point: when the league is chasing the "space-type inside line", his way of making a living by relying on a sense of position is indeed like playing football in a suit, which is out of place.

Centrals gather in the draft year! Can his 56% of three-pointers save the field?

But this draft centers are crowded with outrageously. The top pick is popular Copper Flag, who can make three-pointers and switch to defense, even the inside line with the 30 pick is "mobile" label. No matter how good Yang Hansen passes and the high ball quotient is, the 56% three-pointers in the trial training are more impressive, but NBA managers believe in the "confrontation sample" more - his defensive coverage in the CBA in the past two years and his ending efficiency in facing high-intensity confrontations are all question marks. You said he is like "Yao Ming's successor"? But looking at the current template comparison, he is a "new era insider", but he is still relying on "old-school craftsmanship" to support the scene. How can he not be anxious? The trial training data is like a candy, but after the sweetness, it depends on whether we can withstand the hardships of the Development Alliance.

From a two-way contract to a counterattack? He has to walk on this road by himself!

The seventh level tag is unpleasant, but it also hides a way of life. Didn’t Caruso and Reeves both come out of two-way contracts? Yang Hansen is backed by Klutch Sports. This team is the best at "creating stars" and the potential of the East Asian market is also a trump card. But the key is whether he can stand it - he will sit on the bench in the Development League, be scolded by the coach for learning tactics, and may even be laid off. But how can you grow smoothly? When others are staring at the "first round pick", he has to polish the "old-school technology" into "new weapons" in the unseen arena. After all, a truly ruthless person is not born to stand in the spotlight, but is still holding ambitions when he gets up from the mud pit. In this next step, every step he took had to stumble on doubts.