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

Sleep. PS5. Eat.

 

I hope there's t shirts made that say just that for Yang night at one of the games this season.

 

If we pick a PG, you and others would bitch about how we already have Scoot. If we pick a SG, you and others would bitch about how we already have Sharpe. If we picked a SF, you and others would bitch about how we already have Camara. If we drafted a PF, you and others would bitch about how we already have Deni.

I dont know much of anything about him. Watched some of the videos. I'm happy to be optimistic now about it. But it's so fucking annoying when we have 3 months of lead up talking about BPA, BPA, BPA, only to have people immediately bitch about a pick because we have a guy at that position.

 

It’s more like he has trouble making basic reads. He doesn’t actually look slow footed. Or maybe it just doesn’t look as slow due to the competition. Either way, the IQ defensively looks poor.

I think he’s far from Edey on almost everything. I’d be ecstatic if he is even as good as Edey now when he’s Edeys age.

 

This was such an off the wall pick that everybody involved with the pick in management is basically jeopardizing their career. So they must have a lot of faith. I’ve scoured over quite a bit of footage. I don’t get it. But I’m not paid the big bucks.

Cronin might be the next David Kahn.

 

Ever? Or just this year?

This year, I think most people would say “duh”. But I feel like it’s hard to definitively say they wouldn’t be able to play together in stints four years from now.

 

There didn't sound like there was much wiggle room when Chauncey said no.

With the amount of threes that are shot in the league you can't play two guys that are as slow as these two. Most teams play four out, so you'd either be daring teams to make practice threes or be leaving one of the two out on an island that they'd definitely get stranded on.

Even though Yang has really nice footwork, has insane hands and passing along with the shot blocking, rebounding and finishing you'd want from a 7'2" guy he is not some Wemby/Chet type of unicorn. In no way are either Yang or Clingan PF/Cs they are just Cs that's it and this isn't a league you can play two guys like that in.

 

Any time you say "BPA, BPA, BPA" and then bitch about fit, you gotta jump on that.

 

That's what I thought, but then we found out FOUR team (including the Blazers) were going to draft him in the 1st round.

 

https://www.youtube.com/live/8B3EMrSu8UQ?si=AkUZ91QfSJlDixVR

 

All these chinese sabas, chinese jokic takes. . please. By the time the story is written, Sabas and Joker will be known as the lithuanian and serbian Yang, respectively.

 

For this tournament (FIBA u19 2023) Yang averaged 5 blocks per game!

What happened to Zacharie Perrin (who pipped Yang to lead the tournament in "Efficiency" (i.e., a sort of PER) playing for France)? Is it a bad sign that he went undrafted this year?

 

Is the name Hansen supposed to be Chinese or English? Just curious if anyone knows? Could go either way.

 

Yang looks more athletic to me. Throwing the ball off the glass from3pt line and dunking it

 

This and this and this!!!!!!

 

did he really do that?

 

Management not only has been scouting Yang for years but they had him in for a workout with other projected 1st round picks. What would they know compared to nobodies just learning of him now, but thats irrelevant to what you're speaking about. I'm convinced some follow sports mostly because it's a socially accepted space where they can publicly get their anger on to bitch and whine... it's how some enjoy an endorphin rush. I'm sure the same people throwing a hissy today over Yang have had draft day circled and would have been in hysterics no matter the direction management chose... there are some usual suspects here. Obviously management will be judged on this bold move by media, the greater fanbase and ownership as things play out the next couple seasons. There will be collective egg on their face if Yang fizzles and doubly so if one of the guys selected 11-15 pops. Jobs could be lost over this. But if Yang pops, anyone calling out posters for melting down will be met with all 5 stages of denial but mostly more anger lol. Thats who they are, expect more of the same

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