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SHOCK OF THE DRAFT 😱 Yang Hansen picked No. 16 🀯 ‘How did he KNOW?’ – Windy | Numbers On The Board



SHOCK OF THE DRAFT 😱 Yang Hansen picked No. 16 🀯 ‘How did he KNOW?’ – Windy | Numbers On The Board

interesting wow y’all saw it i have good eyes and I don’t I not
Don’t worry about it it’s You going to see it in a minute baby you going to get your reaction as a Blazer fan
he’s not i don’t think he’s going to have one
you don’t think he did his draft work on that guy
nah no
i wouldn’t be You think so
no i
That’s how far out it was
i know so
I know which is okay it’s okay it’s okay that’s what we here for we a team baby we are a team who Who do you want them to take or who would you have wanted them to take i don’t think we ever got your answer on that i think when you’re looking at the guys that’s available um Asa Noa would not have been a bad pick also like Rasher Fleming
so you you okay with doubling down on the center though you got Donovan Clinger DeAndre Aiden and Robert
we know you’re getting rid of those guys but they’re still in
you drafted the center last year in the lottery rashir Fleming would probably be a really good guy i honestly I I like him as well
another team
over Oh well you said you’re not a a Kasparus guy
yeah i I just He doesn’t jump off the board i just think
it don’t make sense cuz Wendy said they trying to convince Drew Holiday to stay we have
Well you’re not convincing him to stay with the 17th whatever he’s doing i mean like
Oh no no no not in that sense but if if Kasparus is playing that position it wouldn’t make sense to draft him if you’re bringing in a guy that’s and you already have
the 17th pick in this draft ain’t getting much i mean you know
that’s not affecting your
Drew Holliday is probably still pissed it’s going to take be a trade in order to make him happy well it was nothing that Yakoson is still on the board though
right now based on who’s coming up next he might find his way to to a 20th overall pick or something along those lines
i I’ I’ve started hearing about this guy over a year ago people started going to see this guy play and they were more excited about him a year ago than they were this year like the more information that came out on him I don’t know his game at all i’m just gonna tell you
but the more information that came out on him he kind of slipped down draft boards but also I’m going to tell you Mike Schmidz who’s for my former colleague
yes he was great i don’t know why we’re building up this drama but let’s just keep doing it because we’re doing they’re guesting in the chat
mike Schmidz who’s our former colleague um used to be one of our draft experts at ESPN got hired
by the Blazers three four years ago
he is an expert at international players he like you know he saw Victor Romanyama when he was like 11 okay he goes all over the world and you know that was one of his specialties he was a coach he was coaching on the Ugandan national team I think for a while he’s really especially in going and beating the bushes um so just going to say that and I will tell you something else
incredible
one more hint in case anybody hadn’t looked it up
the NBA is very very excited about this pick this is very very excited about this pick
it’s a good market to tap into
any guesses Derek since you might be the only one that don’t know
is it the Hugo guy
no
no not Hugo Gonzalez
oh no which is fine which is fine which is fine
i mean we’re already
I’m very I’m very interested as to who it is
yang
has Yang
played in what the Canadian Basketball League put up some good numbers there and then in the scrimmages this year I guess played really well
and and got his stock up high enough to get drafted right outside the lottery
oh wow um talk about a come up huh
i mean a lot of good passing for us position um good feel that’s what it seems like defensively
canadian Basketball League you said
i think so i think he played in the CBA the Chinese
No Chinese basketball league i’m sorry cba is is what I meant um
Yeah sorry i just wanted to not correct the record
yeah yeah thank you for that um but in Yeah this is really
This is one of these guys where I mean look I I’m going to be clear i do not know his game i’m just going to tell you what people say all right i’m not Don’t put this on me
this is one of those two years away from two years away type situation
oh wow
bruno Kaboklo again
so
if there is a team to do it it’s them I guess yeah I mean they got nothing but time
so yeah
shout out to Portland
how do you feel about I mean you’re a Trailblazer fan
i mean me personally I’m not familiar with this guy’s game to be able to say whether or not I like him or dislike him
what about the fact that they’re bringing in another big um it it doesn’t really make sense when you talk about they was looking to usher in Donovan this year as like the starter um so yeah I mean maybe they just feel like if it don’t work out then we have another option so that’s really probably the only thing that I can see i’m always a fan of the team saying kind of what Wendy alluded to earlier where if you’re going to get fired get fired by making your own decisions
so if you We saw Cam Johnson go 11 to the Suns that one year and it’s like
Well Joe Cronin got his extension so he ain’t got to worry about getting fired
no yeah but this feels
he got his extension cuz they’re about to sell the team i mean that’s I mean like you know I mean I mean that’s not the only reason but um Adam Johnson was solid
oh Adam Silver so excited about this
oh he’s there he’s there he’s in the green room invite okay so
so did he get a promise did he know or was he just This is you know this is so much of a of a journey for him that he was probably
Okay that is something I got to look into
mhm
how did he know to be there maybe Brooklyn promised him with one of their picks cuz
Yeah somebody probably told him he would probably
There was no guarantee he was going first round
he was there ready this This is reminiscent of Giannis on Dumpo
i’m supporting either way
yeah i feel like he’s gonna be just one of those guys you root for yeah okay i’m I’m excited
you here for it Derek
yeah how tall is he he looks tall
71
71 okay
largest hands in the combine
largest Oh wow i like big hands you don’t never say that about me when I when they talk about my big hands
well you just got big fingers you ain’t got big hands
i’m happy to report by the way that uh Kaman Malawatch um I saw him in some pictures he put on a son’s hat
okay all right so we did get the picture
so I don’t know if that was sanctioned by the NBA
okay
but somebody gave him a son’s hat so there’s going to be photos with him and a son’s hat gosh darn it
good thank goodness i love that
yeah i’m This is We’ve seen a few surprises so far in this draft this definitely is one of them um
start with Mike
i’m in the same boat as D Mills i’m not too familiar with this guy but I’m I’m rooting for this guy
well he’s a blocker he blocks shots
yes he does nobody blocks more shots in China than Yang

On the Numbers On The Board x Hoop Collective NBA Draft livestream, Brian Windhorst joins Kenny Beecham along with Derrick, Pierre and Mike to react to the Portland Trail Blazers selecting Chinese star Yang Hansen, who was projected to go mid-second round, out of the stands with their No. 16 pick.

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39 Comments

  1. Don’t forget he had rich paul as his agent too. He know what he’s doing that’s why he told yang to show up and ready to go.

  2. Yang Hansen dominated the previous U19 World Cup and trained more than a dozen teams this summer. These experts are still asking him who he is.

  3. The ignorance on display is crazy. People think Yang a reach all because they don't know him. As a Hawks fan he's been on my radar for a year. I convinced most Hawks fans we should take him at 13. Big boards had him late sinply because of uncertainty and dismissing the CBA. Blazers imo got a great player. I promise you if Yang played in NCAA he would've went top 10 and would have been mocked top 10 from jump

  4. This guy just said Yang "played in the Canadian Basketball League"???? He played in the CBA aka The Chinese Basketball Association, for the Qingdao Eagles. Last time I checked Qingdao is not a city in Canada.

  5. The dude that brought wemby into the conversation the only one with potential from those 4

  6. It’s painful how poorly these clowns understand the Blazers. Williams is never healthy. Ayton is trade bait. No future here. That leaves them with inexperienced Clingan who also has injury problems. There is no clear future at center for the Blazers

  7. This is probably some of the worst content I've ever seen outside of Angel Reese highlights on ESPN

  8. I don’t get the 2 years away from being 2 years away claim. He’s either gonna be good or he ain’t. I personally like the pick from the highlights I’ve seen. Seems like star potential, which I don’t see from most of the other names left at this point in the draft.

  9. As a Blazer fan I am excited to get Hansen. We now have two young rim protectors which i feel is needed for the "Wemby era"….Cronin also got a unprotected first and two second round picks from Memphis….Joe Cronin is playing chess

  10. Fun watching Brian taking a bunch of kids to school. Wonder where ESPN got em.. summer internship?

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