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

I hate both nicknames honestly

 

Love it. Even though we got him in his elder years, he has an argument for best player to have ever played for us.

 

Kind of looks like Torrey Uprise - the Smile especially

 

Given that peak Walton was a blazers Walton, that argument is null and void

 

Or people can learn to control their offended emotions more?

its like nothing can be said anymore, for fear of someone being offended.

When does it end and people crawl out of their safe bubbles and join the real world, which is not kind or easy?
Be better or grow some skin?

gotta walk on eggshells to have any type of real talk anymore. Part of why I think communication is devolving.

With that said, if someone asks to not be called something, it is incredibly selfish and rude to continue to do so.

 

I see some people are calming down and startng to see the big picture. Nice to read. The many meltdowns last night should have prompted the meltdown thread.

@kjironman1 … slackin bro…

 

Agreed. Yang has a very good skillset and needs to get stronger. Beringer's only obvious talent is shot blocking. Of the two, Yang's weaknesses, no pun intended, will be a lot easier to address. I can see Beringer making the occasional wow play, but Yang's assets makes him more set up for a longer, more impactful career.
Also, Yang has very good footwork and crazy good hands. His ball handling, as well as passing, really stood out in all his tape.

 

Welcome to bump that MF at any time my man!

 

Done. LMAO!!!

 

You have to admit that was an off the charts bad draft from the way the lotto went down to last night pretty much couldn’t get much worse for the Bkazers.

 

100% disagree. But thats the beauty of opinions not being facts.

 

Happy to talk to you more in depth why I disagree with what you said. I'd rather not continue to flood this thread with my response.

 

I don’t know?
Watching Dallas trade Luka then making the playin and losing only to get the number one pick and San Antonio getting the second pick with the Blazers dropping from 8 to 11 then drafting a guy most feel would have been available in the second round with our traded for first round pick.

Hmmmm. Sounds pretty bad to me.

This all after three years of tanking.

 

Pm me anytime.

 

Oh i gotcha. Not what we did last night, but the process overall.
This is why I'm so against tanking. We could have had the worst record last year and we still weren't getting the top pick.
People upset we didn't drop more games put waayyyy too much value in a couple of percentage points of change in our chances.

 

Sure would have been nice to lose that last game vs the Spurs though.

 

He uses both hands well to shoot in the paint. He also has an effective hook shot...if you can call it that. Whatever it is, it works.

 

Plus, nobody would ever know any better if they didn't actually have Yang as the bpa. Bpa is whatever the FO says at a press conference. He could have been behind a few guys on their board, but those higher ranked guys were low ceiling at positions of strength.

 

Couldn't agree more.

 

here's a video from a month ago from a service that ended up ranking him as the 12th best overall prospect...



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