Trail Blazers Select Hansen Yang With The 16th Overall Pick

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00:00the blazers with the 16th overall pick with a little bit of a shocker not sure how high you had

00:06this prospect on your draft board jy but yang han son the 7-2 center from china is who the blazers

00:15select at 16th overall how stunned are you by this move that portland just made uh i'm very

00:23stunned by this move i i thought this is someone you can get uh later in the draft but this is a

00:28a guy 20 years old seven foot two i mean he is big and he has a low pulse presence think of him uh

00:36uh can move a little bit more so i don't want you to think he's like a like a yao ming he's a little

00:39bit more uh adaptable to move around but if you kind of look at it like if you want to take a center

00:46your portland number one you just got donovan clinton that's seven foot two so if you take a

00:52center why not uh the kid from stanford why not uh ryan kalkbrenner two guys i had ahead of hanson

01:00in regards to where i had my bigs now he still slotted to me as a second round guy but to me

01:06getting him at 16 could have been somewhere that you probably could have traded back man got some more

01:11draft capital and still got him still and they already did trade back to 16th overall and they

01:17select yang hanson kev tom you've been following the odds through the entirety of the pre-draft process

01:24here of course tonight on night number one was there a price a number a wager you could make

01:31on yang hanson in the opening round he actually was someone who i believe was seeing a plus price to

01:38actually be a first round selection a couple of notable mock drafts actually each had him going 36th

01:44overall to the brooklyn nets i think to jy's point you could trade back and get him later

01:52they did do that now this is a team if they were willing to take him 16 i'd imagine if this team

02:00couldn't find a deal they would have likely selected him 11th and i know that would have been a stunner

02:06i'm not saying it wouldn't have been but when you draft a seven foot two productive in his league

02:14big you probably really liked the guy he was one of the real showcase pieces of the draft combine

02:24perhaps where portland fell in love with the player tom it's very possible and again there's there's

02:29elements of the that pre-draft process that we we're just not privy to and obviously some of that is

02:35tough to judge when it comes to the betting market and then how do we evaluate there how do we derive

02:40value from it so if portland's high on this guy that's fine i think he can not step into minutes

02:45immediately but from everything that i've i've taken from him is that he moves the ball well the

02:50light comp that i've seen from is al prince and goon on the rockets but they said he needs to be

02:55a little more physical and learn and learn how to take contact better and that is obviously a huge

03:00part of a down low game in an nba offense so there are uh blocks in front of him on in the portland

03:06depth charts so i see this as a prospect piece for them right now