Yang Hansen: The Chinese Rookie Reshaping Basketball

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00:00Yang Hansen, Hansen, Hansen, the big tariff, the Chinese joker,

00:09whatever you want to do, that boy is nice.

00:14And what he could do for L is you could see it.

00:17Like when he gets the ball, he's moving guys with your footwork,

00:21but he's moving guys with his eyes and with ball fakes and what he did.

00:25I'm telling you something.

00:26I sat there on draft night and said, you got DeAndre Ayton, Robert Williams,

00:31and you drafted Donovan Klingon, and you draft this kid.

00:35And I watched the tape.

00:36I was like, okay, all right, the kid looks pretty good.

00:38And then I watched him and some of the guys said, all I need to see,

00:42this kid's going to – it may take him a while, but unless he gets bully-balled,

00:47this is not Yao Ming we're talking about.

00:50I'm going to say this, folks.

00:51I'm not saying he's going to be joker.

00:53But I'll tell you this, the last time I was big on a rookie big coming in

01:00that was international, his name was Al Ferenc Shungun.

01:05And go pull up the tape.

01:06I was right on that kid, and I'm right on the big tariff.

01:10Yang Henson is going to be a player in this league.

01:12You know, I watched his highlights and reel of his work that he's done.

01:18So I think one of the problems is people never saw him because he played in China.

01:22And that, you know, hurt his, if you will, you know, the North American stigma of,

01:29you know, we know everything about every player.

01:31We never saw this kid play.

01:32But when I watched his reel, and it was, you know, whatever,

01:3510 minutes straight of watching this guy absolutely juke players with his footwork

01:40and his spins and his passing and his handle, his ability to put the ball on the deck

01:46and find the basket with whoever, the cutter, the pick and roll, himself,

01:54whether he finishes, the floaters he's got.

01:56You're right.

01:57You talk about joker.

01:58He's like, he's a Chinese version of this guy.

02:01And with, like, all of the bag, I mean, I couldn't believe his pump fakes

02:07and his footwork and his ability to pass, you know, from the elbows in.

02:13It was unbelievable.

02:14I'm sitting there watching him going, oh, my God.

02:17What am I?

02:18Because when I saw it, I was like, oh, this guy's going to be a freak.

02:21He's got everything.

02:23I just think it's that we never saw him before.

02:25No one has ever seen him before.

02:26Yeah, the problem is he'll be playing in Portland.

02:31We still ain't going to be seeing him for at least a year.

02:33That's a shame.

02:34It's so bad.

02:35That's a shame.

02:36It is a play.

02:37Listen, as someone that coaches kids and someone that specializes in post-development,

02:43post-footwork, I'm saying to you kids right now, if you want to go back in the day,

02:49you know what it is.

02:49I used to say, go watch Kevin McHale in the post.

02:54I'm telling you right now, if you want to go watch footwork in the post or around the

02:58perimeter for a big, go watch this kid for 20 minutes, kids, and you may learn something.

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