Splitter is leaving! At a time like this, why are Chinese fans still blaming Yang Hansen's coach?

Splitter, who led the Trail Blazers back to the playoffs as interim head coach, ultimately chose to leave Portland and officially signed with the Chicago Bulls.

Splitter's initial desire remained to stay in Portland and keep working on this young roster.

The main reasons he was poached were financial incentives and a lack of respect.

Team owner Jody Allen focused on controlling costs, initially planning to hire a new coach with an annual salary of $1-2 million, far below the typical NBA coaching market range of $5-8 million.

Splitter's salary in Portland was approximately $1 million, while the Bulls' contract is estimated to be at least $3 million annually.

What Splitter found unacceptable was the Trail Blazers' management's blatant disrespect for his work during the playoffs, they were secretly interviewing other candidates and never treated him as a long-term core part of the franchise.

How should we evaluate his work over the past season?

I truly believe it was excellent.

After Billups was arrested involving a gambling investigation, with the team leadership and morale in disarray, Splitter took over the coaching duties and became the interim head coach.

He led the Blazers to a 42-40 record, securing a playoff spot and ending the team's five-year postseason drought.

However, Chinese fans' public opinion, he has not received fair evaluations.

Only because of how he used Yang Hansen...

What find particularly puzzling is that after Splitter confirmed his move to the Bulls, many domestic fans media celebrated, widely believing that Yang Hansen had finally with a coach who didn't know how to use him.

Many have consistently criticized Splitter, attributing Yang's limited playing time and inconsistent performance in his rookie to the coach's conservative strategies and deliberate suppression.

After all this, why still blame the coach...

But used to this—any NBA team with a player will have its head coach criticized, Yao Ming was no different...

Adelman and Van Gundy were criticized too.

OK, let’s look at it from angle:

With a third head coach arriving, does Yang's NBA future become smoother?

Will he get consistent playing time?

Actually, I'm more pessimistic.

At least Splitter had a better understanding him.

A new coach wants make a strong impression—if you were theBlazers' new head coach, wouldn't you want to prove your abilities?

To establish authority good results?

If you want win, would you heavily rely on Yang Hansen? Even if the coach were Liu Weiwei, he’d think twice to keep his job.

So for the player, this turns into challenge.

To put it bluntly, no NBA coach would give significant minutes to player shooting just 11.9% from beyond the arc.

Ladies and gentlemen, over 43 regular-season games, Yang Hansen made 5 of 42 three-point attempts, shooting 11.9%—the lowest among the league's rotation and fringe players, he's dead last by wide margin.

Note: this is historically inefficient.

Unless he improves his shooting, no coach in Portland will give him stable, substantial, consistent playing time.

Unless his name is Liu Weiwei.

As a fan, my personal hope is naturally to see Yang Hansen play more and truly become part NBA team.

But]} we can't let bias cloud our judgment about players be completely.

Evaluations clouded by strong emotional attachment can never be objective.

Yang Hansen's NBA future has never decided by head coach, but solely on his own improvement.

Moreover]} he likely only next season.

Fans often from the emotional perspective hoping domestic players get more court time and exposure, but overlook the core logic of the NBA:

If you're good enough, you play.