Data analysis: What is Yang Hansen’s current level of catching up with the Trail Blazers’ target Klingen?

In the recent NBA summer league, Yang Hansen received key attention. In the first game against the Golden State Warriors, the Trail Blazers head coach Billups, players Klingen, Henderson, Sharp, Murray, Kamala and other players all came to assist. Especially when Yang Hansen performed well, the broadcast camera switched to Klingen who was watching the game off the court in time. Netizens laughed and said, "Did Klingen feel the pressure?" So what level is Klingen now? Today's Star Test will bring you Klingen's data analysis.

A total of 104 new faces appeared in the NBA last year. Among these rookie players, Klingen averaged 19.8 minutes per game and 1324 minutes a year ago, ranking 17th among all rookie players. At that time, Ayton was still in the team, so the Portland management still hoped that Klingen's growth could progress step by step. However, with Ayton being injured, Klingen was promoted to the starter. In the end, the data he gave was averaging 6.5 points, 7.9 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 1.6 blocks, 1.1 turnovers, and 2.8 fouls.

First of all, we must emphasize that Klingen is currently the center of the Trail Blazers and is the goal that Yang Hansen needs to catch up. However, the charm of the NBA lies in competition. Players' reputation and status are all achieved by personal strength and game performance. Klingen was selected for the second team of the All-Rookie Team in the rookie season (the center of the first team is Zach Edie). If it weren't for Xiao Yang, he would be the cornerstone center. But now Xiao Yang has joined, judging from the recognition and love of Xiao Yang by the Trail Blazers' management, he should indeed feel some pressure.

Klingen played for two years in college and was a substitute at the University of Connecticut in his freshman season, but he made rapid progress after becoming a starter in his sophomore season. He joined forces with Stephen Castle, Tristen Newton, Cam Spencer and others to win the NCAA March Crazy Championship. However, he was beaten by Purdue's Zach Eddie in the final matchup. He received very high attention from scouts as a champion, so his scout report is of great reference value.

Now we will look back at the draft report of the NBA draft website. (slightly deleted)

Draft template - Jacob Pelter/Walker Kessler

Advantages: Klingen is 2.18 meters tall and weighs 120 kg. He is a burly center with excellent wingspan (armspan 2.31) and relatively good physical control and smoothness for players like him. He is difficult to be pushed out at present, and can easily increase muscle 4-7 kg. He knows his body shape advantages and makes good use of his body shape advantages on both ends of the offense and defense. He can be said to be the best inside defense in this draft. The player, his size can cut off the opponent's breakthrough angle and shooting space. When he is on the court, offensive players must be on guard all the time. Even against the best offensive players in college is a defensive threat. Excellent basket protectors, high block points, can avoid unnecessary fouls, have a good basketball IQ, can effectively defend under cover and pick-and-roll, efficient basket hunters, have a sensitive sense of frontcourt rebounds, can rely on tip-offs to continue to maintain offensive vitality after missing the shot, like physical confrontation, has a soft feel, can shoot with your right hand, and his step-back shot is He is often successful within 5 feet, quite selfless, able to make the right choice in time, and in college career, he can send a lot of timely passes to the player who cut into the basket, his footsteps can enrich the low-post offensive arsenal, and may also have some unexplored offensive potential that may be realized in the future, showing the fierce offensive and aggressiveness that does not usually appear in a big player.

Disadvantages: Although he has good mobility compared to other giant insiders, he still lacks absolute explosive power, movement speed, bounce ability, and flexibility. He is not an athletic athlete with explosive athletic ability. When attacking at the basket, he sometimes misses his shooting opportunities due to insufficient preparation or slow jumping. This may leave time for interfering inside players in the NBA with stronger athletic ability and better physical talent. With his physical condition, the rebounding performance is not outstanding, especially defensive rebounds (6.5 games per game in his college career). It is difficult for him to grab those rebounds that are not directly below the penalty area. His low-post skills are not particularly rough, but they also lack sufficient offensive means. His jump shot ability is still improving. Although his hand shape is good and has a development foundation, he rarely shows range potential in actual combat. Both college seasons have had less than 60% free throw shooting percentage (57% in sophomore and 51% in freshman year), which further raises questions about whether he can expand his range and develop his shooting potential, willing to move on defense, but can get into trouble when facing an NBA-class speed guard due to his lack of flexibility and sometimes overweight center of gravity.

Finally, based on the comprehensive advantages and disadvantages, Klingen has the advantage of body shape, and his athletic ability is considered good in this body shape level, but in NBA-level games, he still needs to face the test of name by small players, has natural franchise protection ability, frontcourt rebounding disruptor, backcourt rebound dominance needs to be improved, excellent pick-and-roll partner, ball maker is also good, with a soft touch on the attacking frame and has the potential to shoot growth, but currently there is a lack of scoring methods. In addition to the second score after grabbing the frontcourt rebound, scoring skills such as low posts and shooting are very average.

For this draft report, let's look at the transcript he handed over after joining the NBA.

First of all, it is defensive ability. The center is the core of a team's defensive system. Defense is also the center's life. As long as there is defense, you don't have to worry about playing without the ball. On the contrary, only scoring ability will become useless (Vucevic bows his head and speaks without saying a word).

Last season, the opponent averaged 13.6 shots in front of Klingen, ranking second in the Trail Blazers, lower than Ayton's 14.8 times and ranked 47th in the league. The opponent averaged 5.8 goals in his defense, limiting the opponent's shooting percentage to 42.9%, reducing the opponent's shooting percentage by 5.7 percentage points on average. This is a very excellent defensive efficiency. This reserve requirement ratio cut ranks fourth among the top 50 players in the league in defense of opponents, only lower than Homgren's drop of 7.1%, Wenbanyama's drop of 6.7%, and Porzingis's 6.2%. Billups is a coach who emphasizes defense. Last season, the Trail Blazers' defensive efficiency has improved to 114.7, ranking 15th in the league, so Klingen's defensive ability alone will occupy the main starting position of the Trail Blazers.

is detailed in specific defensive position data.

The defensive back player has 629 rounds in 112 minutes, accounting for 22% of the total defensive time. The defender player hits 40.5% under his defense, which is a very excellent defensive level.

The defensive forward player has 870 rounds in 162 minutes, accounting for 31% of the total defensive time. The forward player hits 42.4% under his defense, which is also a very outstanding level.

Excellent defensive performances against defenders and forward players show that under the Trail Blazers' defensive system, Klingen will not become a toy for small players, but on the contrary has brought them huge defensive suppression.

The defensive center players have 1,215 rounds in 241 minutes, accounting for 47% of the total defensive time. The center players hit a shooting percentage of 46.6% under their defense. Although the defensive centers do not have the strong suppression power of defenders and forward players, they are also at an excellent level.

Put the matchup data of several center players known for their scoring ability in Klingen's defense.

Defense Jokic 7 minutes 48 seconds 38 rounds, Jokic 12 of 19 shots made a shooting percentage of 63%

Defense Vucevic 7 minutes 28 seconds 40 rounds, Vucevic 9 of 13 shots made a shooting percentage of 69%

Defense Nurkic 7 minutes 27 seconds 40 rounds, Nurkic 1 of 7 shots made a shooting percentage of 14%

Defense Shin Kyung 7 minutes 07 seconds, Shin Kyung 4 of 12 shots made a shooting percentage of 33%.

Defense Valanciunas 6 minutes 28 seconds 28 rounds, Valan made 3 of 9 shots and shot 33%.

It can be seen that the Klingen defense technology inside line has poor effect, but the tonnage inside line that relies on low-level technology is very good.

Then look at the rebounding aspect, as the scout report said, his frontcourt rebounding ability is very strong, and he almost loses rebounds that he misses the basket. He averages 3.2 offensive rebounds per game, ranked 9th in the league, and scores a total of 141 points for the second offense, ranking 3rd in the league, but his defensive rebounding performance is average. Because of his average bounce ability, his defensive rebound coverage is limited to the basket area, and he averages only 4.6 defensive rebounds per game, which will become a shortcoming in the future against higher-level games.

The reason why Klingen did not establish a star reputation in his rookie season is because of his lack of scoring ability. As mentioned earlier, second-time scoring is his main scoring method at present, accounting for 32% of his total score and completing 58 slam dunks.

44 three-pointers were received from the outside and hit 14 goals and hit a 31.8% shooting percentage, which averaged less than 1 game. This was at least an attempt. He did not shoot mid-range shots, got 104 free throws and hit 62 goals and hit a nearly 60% shooting percentage. His free throw percentage has not improved significantly compared to college.

Based on Klingen's rookie season performance, he may really be the next Kessler. If he strengthens his defensive ability and uses pick-and-roll offense and second-scoring ability to the extreme in the future, the upper limit will become Gobert. In short, he has established his main position on the team by relying on his excellent defense. Xiao Yang and him are completely two types of players. I hope the two can compete with each other and make progress together.