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

I'm married with two daughters - I'm wrong more times a day than I can count.

Now do I think there's a question on Kris Murray effectiveness as an NBA player? No - I do not. Billups being effective his early years then way better later in his career doesn't change that.

Plenty of questions on the Blazers upcoming season. I don't see how Kris Murray is one of them - not how any of these Nash/Billups arguments have changed that.

 

I think of it as Yawng hawn-SOON, but I'm sure most don't.

 

I think the reason why they keep hanging on to Murray is because all reports are that he's amazing in practice.... he just sucks at shooting in games. Which is completely mental.

 

Latest Yang video:

 

Soon is Korean. It’s Sun in Chinese

 

No, it's Sen. Pronounced kind of like cen.

 

Sounds like the guy we drafted a ways back from Nevada - was it Luke Babbit?

 

This doc of his draft process is in chinese but there are some interesting notes here:

1. His workout with the Blazers was unimpressive. They didn't think the Blazers liked him. Looking back, they think the Blazers were just trying to be lowkey.
2. On the day of the draft, they got a call before the draft asking if they had concerns about Portland. They said, they were only concerned with the 76ers picking him if he fell to 35. Blazers drafted him later that night.
3. They (his team) thought Yang was going to be drafted in the 20s.
4. Blazers messaged Yang after his workout wishing him well and asking him to come back to the states soon. They didn't think much of it at first, but looking back it was a clear sign of interest.
5. Schmitz messaged Yang's translator during the draft wishing him good luck during the 3rd or 4th pick - and asking if they were at the draft. They thought it was strange, but after the Blazers traded back from 11 to 16, they had a good idea that maybe they were gonna pick him at 16, because 11 was too high.
6. Around the 14th-15th pick, the NBA called them asking them to get ready, so they already knew the Blazers pick. I recall during the draft the Blazers made their pick really quickly, so it makes sense.

 

is he playing against a middle school?