Event With the 16th pick, Blazers have selected Hansen Yang (2 Viewers)

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UKRAINEFAN said:
OK. I have come to accept this as a legitimate pick and Yang as a good prospect. I think Cronin did a good job of getting future assets and still getting his guy. I do believe MN would have taken him at 17 so Portland handled that perfectly. I'm still not sold that a club can be championship caliber with somebody who lacks mobility like Yang (or Clingan). but I guess the team will have plenty of practice to learn to play defense in a system that incorporates those two. Glad to see that Billups accepts the obvious, that these two can never be on the court together. Clingan fouls so much that they could both get plenty of minutes eventually.
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Yeah the reach would be a harder pill to swallow if he didn't come with an unprotected future first (even if it's with a team ascending) and a couple of seconds which can be used to get a trade over the finish line.
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
OK. I have come to accept this as a legitimate pick and Yang as a good prospect. I think Cronin did a good job of getting future assets and still getting his guy. I do believe MN would have taken him at 17 so Portland handled that perfectly. I'm still not sold that a club can be championship caliber with somebody who lacks mobility like Yang (or Clingan). but I guess the team will have plenty of practice to learn to play defense in a system that incorporates those two. Glad to see that Billups accepts the obvious, that these two can never be on the court together. Clingan fouls so much that they could both get plenty of minutes eventually.
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As Chauncey noted, these two are probably not going to see a lot of court time together next season... & I'd add to that ever. However, the whole BPA thing is about selecting the guy who you think will have the highest upside of an NBA career regardless of your current roster. Add talent & then let it prove itself as valuable... then make trades to balance/maximize your team

I don't think Yang will play much this year as I expect Ayton to be with the club at least until the trade deadline. Yang will train with Blazer staff & develop his body, work on assimilating in the culture & pick up some scrap minutes. The following season is when he'll show what he can do.

STOMP
 
blazerkor said:
So we had a scrimage with his squad, made a ton of trips to China, had him do a secret one on one workout with Clingan, took way higher than anyone had him mocked and had a presser today for just him... all to trade the dude???

I think he's going to be here a while.
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Your probably right but its not like we dont have centers oenters on the team, and if another team wants him? These guys are only assets and if we have tom give up a young player with potential to swing for the fence? Would you rather package, Shae, Camara, Scoot, Deni or Yang? Anyn swing for the fence trade woulkd require including one of these guys, I would guess?
 
Hoopguru said:
Your probably right but its not like we dont have centers oenters on the team, and if another team wants him? These guys are only assets and if we have tom give up a young player with potential to swing for the fence? Would you rather package, Shae, Camara, Scoot, Deni or Yang? Anyn swing for the fence trade woulkd require including one of these guys, I would guess?
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I have theorized Clingan. You didn't name him. They literally just drafted a guy his position that he can't play with. I like our team and wouldn't rush to trade young pieces. Time to move the remaining vets.
 
There's a 6 hour draft deepdive on Hansen Yang on youtube LOL:



I watched some of it. The passing and touch stand out. Defensively.....he's gonna have a lot of issues. Basic positioning is not there. There is going to be an adjustment period for sure.
 
B-Roy said:
There's a 6 hour draft deepdive on Hansen Yang on youtube LOL:



I watched some of it. The passing and touch stand out. Defensively.....he's gonna have a lot of issues. Basic positioning is not there. There is going to be an adjustment period for sure.
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I think that’s going to be a matter of adjustment to speed of the game here. Yeah, he’ll be in more foul trouble than Clingan for sure, and Clingan was certainly anything but perfect. Last year though, I was extremely nervous about the prospect of having Zach Edey for many of the reasons people are concerned about Hansen. But I don’t feel this way about Hansen. It might take some time, but I think Hansen should become an infinitely better player than Edey. Unless Edey improves his conditioning mightily, I would expect Hansen to play Edey off the floor a lot in five years. That’s either a high or low bar, depending on how you feel about Edey. Edey was picked 7 picks ahead of Hansen this time last year.
 
B-Roy said:
There's a 6 hour draft deepdive on Hansen Yang on youtube LOL:



I watched some of it. The passing and touch stand out. Defensively.....he's gonna have a lot of issues. Basic positioning is not there. There is going to be an adjustment period for sure.
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So is he the Chinese Enes Kanter?
 
e_blazer said:
That is a large human being. There should be some epic practice battles between him and Clingan.
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Hopefully it won't get out of control like it did with Ha Seung Jin and Nedzad Sinanovic.

During a Portland Trail Blazers practice, Ha Seung-jin and Nedzad Sinanovic engaged in a physical altercation. Ha snatched the ball from Sinanovic after a made free throw, leading to an argument and escalating into a fight. The scuffle resulted in Ha being punched and shouting "I'll sue!" as he was being separated. Ha then grabbed a wooden pole and attacked Sinanovic with it, before being restrained by team staff.
 
Between us and the Suns, we’ve now seen two teams load up on bigs. Suns doing it on the same night, us doing it in back-to-back drafts. This is all a matter of planning a future to prepare for Wemby in his prime.

I didn’t get to watch much basketball at all this year, would anyone want to tell me how they feel about a Clingan/Hansen vs Williams/Malauch frontcourt? How do they compare to the Mobley/Allen frontcourt?

To me, Clingan will be right there among the best defensive centers in the league. The competition is probably steeper now that it would be hard to see Clingan win 4x DPOYs, but I would expect him to be somewhere near Gobert’s level of impact defensively. On the other hand, Hansen offers a whole new dynamic to our team’s construction. Hansen looks like he could be one of the coldest passing big men in the league eventually. He looks like he can dribble and make some reads already. His shot looks good. In his prime, Wemby is going to have to guard this guy too, and I would feel very comfortable in that matchup. Foul trouble from one guy just means more opportunity for the other guy that night.

Neither guy’s projection is guaranteed. But having both give us a real shot at having a dominant big man rotation for the foreseeable future.

I’m curious to see if the Rockets ever try to find another big skilled defensive big man next to Sengeun, or if OKC has to find a stronger big to play next to Chet.
 
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Anytime you can use back to back picks at 7 and 16 on guys who play the same position and cant play together with three other guys at that same position you really gotta jump on that. It took 48 hours but it’s nice to see he’s already the answer to Wemby and won over the fan base.
 
Did I miss where people discussed his news conference? Unique one with the translator. Billups was emphatic that Clingan and Yang wouldn't ever play together. Seems like he might not get minutes to start the season. Likeable guy and cool to see him already trying to use so much English.

 
GoZers said:
Anytime you can use back to back picks at 7 and 16 on guys who play the same position and cant play together with three other guys at that same position you really gotta jump on that. It took 48 hours but it’s nice to see he’s already the answer to Wemby and won over the fan base.
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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.
 
BankTeller said:
I think that’s going to be a matter of adjustment to speed of the game here. Yeah, he’ll be in more foul trouble than Clingan for sure, and Clingan was certainly anything but perfect. Last year though, I was extremely nervous about the prospect of having Zach Edey for many of the reasons people are concerned about Hansen. But I don’t feel this way about Hansen. It might take some time, but I think Hansen should become an infinitely better player than Edey. Unless Edey improves his conditioning mightily, I would expect Hansen to play Edey off the floor a lot in five years. That’s either a high or low bar, depending on how you feel about Edey. Edey was picked 7 picks ahead of Hansen this time last year.
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It’s more like he has trouble making basic reads. He doesn’t actually look slow footed. Or maybe it just doesn’t look as slow due to the competition. Either way, the IQ defensively looks poor.

I think he’s far from Edey on almost everything. I’d be ecstatic if he is even as good as Edey now when he’s Edeys age.
 
This was such an off the wall pick that everybody involved with the pick in management is basically jeopardizing their career. So they must have a lot of faith. I’ve scoured over quite a bit of footage. I don’t get it. But I’m not paid the big bucks.

Cronin might be the next David Kahn.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Billups was emphatic that Clingan and Yang wouldn't ever play together.
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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.
 
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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There didn't sound like there was much wiggle room when Chauncey said no.

With the amount of threes that are shot in the league you can't play two guys that are as slow as these two. Most teams play four out, so you'd either be daring teams to make practice threes or be leaving one of the two out on an island that they'd definitely get stranded on.

Even though Yang has really nice footwork, has insane hands and passing along with the shot blocking, rebounding and finishing you'd want from a 7'2" guy he is not some Wemby/Chet type of unicorn. In no way are either Yang or Clingan PF/Cs they are just Cs that's it and this isn't a league you can play two guys like that in.
 
GoZers said:
Anytime you can use back to back picks at 7 and 16 on guys who play the same position and cant play together with three other guys at that same position you really gotta jump on that. It took 48 hours but it’s nice to see he’s already the answer to Wemby and won over the fan base.
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Any time you say "BPA, BPA, BPA" and then bitch about fit, you gotta jump on that.
 
MickZagger said:
This was such an off the wall pick that everybody involved with the pick in management is basically jeopardizing their career. So they must have a lot of faith. I’ve scoured over quite a bit of footage. I don’t get it. But I’m not paid the big bucks.

Cronin might be the next David Kahn.
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That's what I thought, but then we found out FOUR team (including the Blazers) were going to draft him in the 1st round.
 
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