Grade the Blazers 2025 draft on Jul15 - Yang Hansen

It’s just a fucking game y’all it’s okay to be optimistic and wrong later it won’t fucking kill you to have an opinion that isn’t backed by seven thousand pages of research in an attempt to never be wrong ever. Stop optimizing for misery.

 

I prefer "The World Is Not Enough."

 

Yeah I think its fine to be optimistic or pessimistic or try to be a realist or whatever. I just find it odd how many posters cling to the idea that its always way to early to have an opinion on any of the teams actions they are taking now - because we don't know the final results. Seen it in dozens of threads.

Once we know the final results nobody will care about the prior decisions from many years ago.

Its fine to have an opinion today, yet know that theres a lot of uncertainty with the final result in any one specific example. We still can 100% judge the decision process today, strategic moves completed today, and actions the team has taken today.

 

I was a B after watching some Yang video right after we drafted him. I thought then and still do that he is a prospect worth taking a big swing on... if people want to label that reaching or in Joe's case "over drafting" so be it. The fact that we got an unprotected future FRP and some SRPs to cover the risk makes it a super solid move. If I was sure that Yang would be what I think he might be (a fucking perennial all NBA 5) then I'd give it an A but I'm not sure so with the jury still out and our asses covered by what we got when trading back I'm still a very solid and impressive B.