Game Thread 2025 SL GAME #4 - BLAZERS VS ROCKETS - JULY 17, 2025 - THURSDAY - 5:00 PM PST - KUNP, NBATV, ESPN+

Our players are gunna feast off Yang screens, kid is elite

 

8 pts, 8 rbs, 5 ast, 3 blk, +19, 22 min

He needs to improve his cardio

This dude is gunna be good

 

Yang has the instincts; that is what will matter in the years to come.

 

His teammates will need to learn not to hesitate cutting to the hoop.

Just:

1. is there an opening? If yes then
2. cut to the hoop. DO NOT hesitate . Put your hand out. There's the ball. Fight through the defenders, make them foul you if they want to prevent the play.

 

Players like Yang make the game easier for their teammates. When the game is easy, you aren’t exhausted when you hit the playoffs. Remember how tired our teams were in the first round in the last 20 years or so? Yang will reap huge benefits for us in the coming decade.

 

Love is shooting around 33% through 4 games. Better from '3', but this is a continuation of his college career....quite inefficient.

 

Give it five years

 

I loved the sign someone in the crowd made: "I eat, sleep, ps5, and DOMINATE!"

 

Lose one game to a team that I don't think won another game, at least hadn't going into tonight.

 

One thing worrying me about Yang -- and, admittedly, we haven't seen enough to know whether it's a legit concern or not -- is that he might lack something you can't really teach, that being that he might not be assertive enough, that he's too nice and plays with too much finesse. I see things with not finishing strong and not going hard after rebounds that make me question. It could be other things, but, in my experience, that's usually a personality thing.

It's just the opposite of Love, who tries to do too much.

BTW, I remember seeing someone at one point ask if Love could take over the Simons' role on the team. Love is behind Ant by levels of magnitude, not that I thought that was a serious comparison. Simons is a much better athlete and a much better percentage scorer than Love will probably ever be, but I doubt Love will ever see meaningful minutes for this team. He's a fun guy to watch play at times, but, if you are trying to win, he'll drive you crazy. As a player, he's the type of teammate you want to have only in certain situations.

 

Agreed on both takes!

 

Good. That seems like a good place for me to call it a night.

 

He may be able to learn to mix it up, but his foot speed on the perimeter gets horribly exposed every time he is away from the paint. He is going to have to learn positioning and angles because when he is out in space, it has been very unfortunate so far.

 

Finally getting to watch Yang bring it up the court and fire a bullet into the key. What a talent.