Event With the 16th pick, Blazers have selected Hansen Yang (3 Viewers)

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Is the name Hansen supposed to be Chinese or English? Just curious if anyone knows? Could go either way.
 
Yang looks more athletic to me. Throwing the ball off the glass from3pt line and dunking it
 
RR7 said:
If we pick a PG, you and others would bitch about how we already have Scoot. If we pick a SG, you and others would bitch about how we already have Sharpe. If we picked a SF, you and others would bitch about how we already have Camara. If we drafted a PF, you and others would bitch about how we already have Deni.

I dont know much of anything about him. Watched some of the videos. I'm happy to be optimistic now about it. But it's so fucking annoying when we have 3 months of lead up talking about BPA, BPA, BPA, only to have people immediately bitch about a pick because we have a guy at that position.
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This and this and this!!!!!!
 
RR7 said:
If we pick a PG, you and others would bitch about how we already have Scoot. If we pick a SG, you and others would bitch about how we already have Sharpe. If we picked a SF, you and others would bitch about how we already have Camara. If we drafted a PF, you and others would bitch about how we already have Deni.

I dont know much of anything about him. Watched some of the videos. I'm happy to be optimistic now about it. But it's so fucking annoying when we have 3 months of lead up talking about BPA, BPA, BPA, only to have people immediately bitch about a pick because we have a guy at that position.
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Management not only has been scouting Yang for years but they had him in for a workout with other projected 1st round picks. What would they know compared to nobodies just learning of him now, but thats irrelevant to what you're speaking about. I'm convinced some follow sports mostly because it's a socially accepted space where they can publicly get their anger on to bitch and whine... it's how some enjoy an endorphin rush. I'm sure the same people throwing a hissy today over Yang have had draft day circled and would have been in hysterics no matter the direction management chose... there are some usual suspects here. Obviously management will be judged on this bold move by media, the greater fanbase and ownership as things play out the next couple seasons. There will be collective egg on their face if Yang fizzles and doubly so if one of the guys selected 11-15 pops. Jobs could be lost over this. But if Yang pops, anyone calling out posters for melting down will be met with all 5 stages of denial but mostly more anger lol. Thats who they are, expect more of the same

STOMP
 
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STOMP said:
I'm convinced some follow sports mostly because it's a socially accepted space where they can publicly get their anger on to bitch and whine... it's how some enjoy an endorphin rush. I'm sure the same people throwing a hissy today over Yang have had draft day circled and would have been in hysterics no matter the direction management chose... there are some usual suspects here. Obviously management will be judged on this bold move by media, the greater fanbase and ownership as things play out the next couple seasons. There will be collective egg on their face if Yang fizzles and doubly so if one of the guys selected 11-15 pops. Jobs could be lost over this. But if Yang pops, anyone calling out posters for melting down will be met with all 5 stages of denial but mostly more anger lol. Thats who they are, expect more of the same

STOMP
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And if you give them a taste of their own medicine and feed some anger back at them? You become a regular drama starter. Not those who constantly bitch. Only those who bitch about the constant bitching. Lol.
Crazy ass backwards world we now live in.
 
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.
 
BankTeller said:
Ever? Or just this year?

This year, I think most people would say “duh”. But I feel like it’s hard to definitively say they wouldn’t be able to play together in stints four years from now.
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Never, ever. ever!
 
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