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

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  1. SharpeScooterShooter

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    Here's the point I've come to:
    1. Yang was not in fact our first choice, Demin was. I would be a lot more uncomfortable with Demin at 11 (and no future first) than Yang at 16 (with future first).
    2. This was a wild upside swing. We're not taking a guy to be a useful rotation guy, we're taking a guy who will either be a star or out of the league after his rookie contract. The probability is more the latter, but that's okay for a #16 pick.
    3. He will not be playing big minutes this year (unless everything goes to shit. Again.)
    4. We will make at least one more trade and it will be with the idea of actually competing, so people will kind of forget about Yang (except for, you know, a billion plus Chinese people).

    If I'm wrong, the first sign will be that we don't keep Jrue.
     
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    Gunna be fun to watch Yang and Clingan in practice
     
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    A big that dunks. I was beginning to wonder if they still existed.
     
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    Does this mean we will have more national broadcast games next year?
     
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    Yes but only in China.
     
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    What is Brian Grants roll with the team?
     
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    With its population of about 1.4 Billion people.

    That's 70 New York City (20 million) metro areas.
     
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    Truly fascinated by the fan confidence in Clingan over Yang. We shall see.
     
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    Why? One of them won a natty playing against D1 competition. He had a really solid rookie season.

    The other hasn’t proven much against good competition.
     
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    Yes, but they'll all be in Mandarin.
     
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    So you're saying it'll just sound like we brought Mike Rice back?
     
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