Event With the 16th pick, Blazers have selected Hansen Yang

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  1. Tince

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    Saw a clip of our local expert with "league sources" and he really got exposed going live on YouTube. A lot of things he was near positive were going to happen, didn't come close to happening
     
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    Hey...... I haven't gone live on youtube in years!
     
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    Are we hoping for some Chinese billionaires to be bidding at auction in a couple months or something?
     
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    Yeah exactly what I posted in another thread. There are certainly teams that will go small and neither Clingan nor Yang can start. Just what the Thunder did with Hartenstein. So we have two players sharing a part time backup position with occasional starting opportunities.

    Yes there will be teams like the Nuggets where both can play more. But thats by far the minority of the league.

    Just such a perplexing move.

    Also crazy to think that Cronin acquired two centers in the Dame trade (Ayton+Timelord) and signed another to multi year deal (Duop).

    Litterally half the additions to this roster post Dame have been centers.
     
    SharpesTriumph, Jun 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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    You're bold enough to just blurt out your bad ideas, not hide behind fake league sources!
     
    Tince, Jun 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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    Schmitz should maybe find a new career. Maybe scouting just isn’t his thing.
     
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    Marang?
     
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    How do you know this?

    We traded Dame yet still entered the season a few months later with Brogdon/Ant/Scoot all at PG.
     
    SharpesTriumph, Jun 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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    I wouldn't be mad if he was only Yao
     
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    Correct. I would subject anyone to rewatching the entire thing, but man this guy is confident and wrong a staggering amount of times. To his credit, he can rewrite history that he was aware after the fact. That was his mistake going live though...
     
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    Part of me wonders if we couldn’t have moved down to 23 with the Pelicans for this deal? They gave up their pick unprotected next year which is almost certainly going to be better than Orlando’s 2028.
     
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    I believe it's the better of their unprotected 2026 pick or the Bucks unprotected 2026 pick; so even more valuable.

    You'd have to think Yang would've been there at 23, but I guess you never know.
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    lol he’s super arrogant and it’s funny when he’s wrong. He was also super adamant that Ant would not be traded this offseason. Kept blabbering about how rare his skill set is and how he’s hard to replace on this team. Watching him react to the Holiday trade was gold.
     
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    I don't watch him much but I did see a clip where he was really confident the Blazers were going to extend Ant's contract this summer
     
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    Cronin asked Memphis about this and Memphis said it would be better for us to do a deal with them.
     
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    Can always depend on Blazer fans being calm, rational and logical when it comes to their reactions to the draft.
     
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    Rumors Atlanta liked him enough to pick him at 23. Would they have picked him at 13? Also some rumors the Nets would have taken him at 19.

    But yeah, what NOP paid to move up 10 spots is insane.
     
    B-Roy, Jun 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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    I don't know it...it seems when you have 5 centers that you are probably not keeping two of them to me. Scoot couldn't run a team his first year, he was over his head a few months after the Dame trade and Ant never was a real pt guard. Brogdan was a combo guard as well.
     
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    I don’t care about the 5 centers thing honestly. Ayton, Williams and Reath are not on the team past this season.
     
    B-Roy, Jun 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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    I wonder how many of those rumors came out of the Blazer FO
     
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