Sign Sun Yue

by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 12:06 AM PDT

I have become convinced that the key to our future is to sign this Sun Yue guy that LA released recently. After careful analysis of the situation, I believe he is the key to our future success.

Top Ten reasons to sign Sun Yue:

Chinese fans will watch our games, and therefore vote for our guys for the All-Star game. Brandon, LMA, and Greg all start. David Stern will then send a memo to the refs that the fans obviously want to watch our guys play, so they should get the calls from now on. We win everything.
He doesn't need a lot of touches. The guy only took 11 shots last year.
He can help spread the court. Of his 11 shots, 6 of them were 3 pointers -- clearly, he's got a feel for the long ball. Sure, he didn't actually make any of those 3 pointers, but he obviously has good BBIQ and recognizes the value of the 3 point threat.
He's a 6'9" PG! KP likes length. Think about putting that guy out there on the court with Brandon at SG, LMA at SF, Greg at PF, and Joel at C. How many 6'9" PGs have there been in the NBA? Only one comes to mind, and he also played for the Evil Empire. Check out this guy's nickname (first paragraph). How can you pass on a guy like that?
Sun missed a lot of games with illness and injuries. That's a real team player, absorbing all the bad luck, so his more important teammates could stay healthy. Just think what we would have had if McBob had been willing to take on the whole microfracture thing on Greg's behalf. Not willing to "run through walls" as they say. No wonder KP dumped him.
Sun will help with the minutes crunch at PG. The dude only played in 10 games, averaging 2.8 mpg. He obviously doesn't need a lot of court time, but is willing to play when asked. Every team needs guys like that.
"Sun Yue" sounds almost like you are swearing at him, so he probably won't get mad when other players do swear -- he probably won't even know it. This will play with their minds, and probably cause them to lose mental focus.
He's obviously a pass-first kind of guy -- he had two assists for every three buckets he scored.
Everyone says we need a banger down low. This guy got 1 foul for every 2.8 minutes on the court -- he's obviously knocking people around.
His name is Sun -- he can "Rise With Us".

Poll

Should the Blazers sign Sun Yue?

Yes

111 votes

Yesterday

88 votes

The Blazers should do everything jscot suggests

75 votes

I can't believe jscot created a whole fanpost just so he could use that line in #10

131 votes

I can believe it

49 votes

I am looking forward to the end of the offseason, so people can second-guess Nate occasionally instead of KP all the time

51 votes

505 votes | Poll has closed

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i’m a believer

by medmelon on Aug 4, 2009 12:19 AM PDT reply actions

I like this plan

I support acquiring international bench warmers to encourage those countries to watch and root for us to blow people out so they can see the bench play.

by lurtsman on Aug 4, 2009 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions

He will also save the D-League. Again. So his value is manyfold.

Although he is a very average player.

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by Norsktroll on Aug 4, 2009 12:31 AM PDT reply actions

link

http://www.ridiculousupside.com/2009/8/3/973547/in-which-i-discuss-sun-yue-in-a

It got chopped off in your comment.

Very average players are important. They help make the good players look good by contrast.

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 12:40 AM PDT up reply actions

Financially, Sun Yue would be good D-League fodder fo the Golden State Warriors.

Compared to keeping Acie Law and Craig Claxton around for no reason, signing Yue isn’t a bad idea.

Stupid people have stupid ideas.

by AK1984 on Aug 4, 2009 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions

We're ahead of the Warriors

We already did half of that. We already aren’t keeping Acie Law and Craig Claxton around for no reason, so we are much more in line to sign Sun than they are.

This guy is the ideal 15th man. Who do you propose would be better for the role? Then, we will not only have Spanish and French Bedgers, we’ll be overrun by Chinese. Dave will become world famous. And when my time comes to take over the world, I’ll already have Chinese recruits in place.

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 6:36 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

sounds like a foolproof plan

Without you out there, we're nowhere here

by 22baylor on Aug 4, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Fools can prove lots of things

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions

I knew what your ulterior motive was before i even read the post

Also he may well be good enough at ping pong to give Bayless a game

by southern oregon on Aug 4, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Hmm

That could be a problem. I detect an international incident: “Member of Chinese Basketball Team Eaten Alive by U.S. Rival After Ping-Pong Victory.” Secondary headline: “Chinese Ambassador Lodges Protest”

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions

when you become the All High Ruler of the World

you should really make a code word for the good people of BE. So you can tell who your true friends and allys are… also so we can say it and aviod being beheaded…

by In Walks Rudy on Aug 4, 2009 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Oh, really, now

it is such a waste of useful ~~slaves~~ helpers to behead them.

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by jscot on Aug 5, 2009 2:04 AM PDT up reply actions

but

they could make our good players believe that they should be paid more. That could get expensive. By keeping only good and exceptional players, they’ll believe they’re average and that will lower their price.

"Fernandez, to my eyes, is the Blazer who walks that walk most comfortably. A lot of Portland's fans (egged on, dare I say, by their local broadcasters) lament things like how Ron Artest or Yao Ming get to hit Brandon Roy's arms.

But I suspect Fernandez sees all that and thinks: We get to hit arms! Cool!"

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-39-135/On-Playoff-Experience.html

by ratbastird on Aug 10, 2009 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Sun Yue

I hope this deters you guys… Rick Kamla and Ryan Blake (son of Marty) gushed about Yue here and and soured me more than I thought I could be soured on any 6’9 Chinese player, LEFT HANDED, who neeeds, needs shehehehe NEEDS to play American basketball. Sun Yue coverage starts at 2:18.

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by Scott Schroeder on Aug 4, 2009 6:14 AM PDT reply actions

I'm not even going to listen

There is nothing they could say that could shake my confidence in the analysis above. Did they refute a single one of my ten reasons? Why do I even ask, those ten reasons are irrefutable.

Go Blazers. Sun Yue FTW.

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 6:32 AM PDT up reply actions

No

They’re blindly in love with him as well. Unfortunately.

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by Scott Schroeder on Aug 4, 2009 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions

I don't think you understand guys....

I need this to happen. I need the Blazers to sign hi and send him to the D-League so that I have a comdeic foil for next season, I’ll be lost and adrift without him.

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by Aisander D on Aug 4, 2009 8:35 AM PDT reply actions

We should do anything for a Duke fan?

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions

Why all the hate.

I just want my asian brother to get signed.

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by Aisander D on Aug 4, 2009 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions

That's a reason I could support

but you had to go and put “Duke fan” on your profile.

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm all about full disclosure

I live in Durham
I have a picture of me as a todler in a Duke onesie
I’m not bandwagon
I love Sun Yue’s unintentional comedy potential

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by Aisander D on Aug 4, 2009 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Ah

Is that child abuse?

I take it all back.

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions

I love the State Farm with the babies in "home team" outfits

they had the Cubs baby wanting to “play” with the Cardinal’s baby, but they got pulled apart

I would’ve done the same thing with my kids, if a L*ker baby had wanted to oogle them

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by two4larue on Aug 4, 2009 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Once again, excessive hate.

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by Aisander D on Aug 5, 2009 6:12 AM PDT up reply actions

LOL

Is there any other kind of hate?

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by jscot on Aug 5, 2009 6:33 AM PDT up reply actions

Lets sign the guy already. Sounds like the perfect fit. Plus you forget No. 11 on your list....

11) He can give away top secret Laker’s play and give us the dirt on Kobe and Phil so that that Blazers can effectively talk smack about their families to take them off their games mentally.

by Escrote on Aug 4, 2009 9:09 AM PDT reply actions

I thought we knew dirt on Kobe's family life....

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions

We know what Kobe wants us to know.

by TappedPotential on Aug 4, 2009 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions

Kobe actually wrote 1984....

don’t underestimate him.

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by Aisander D on Aug 4, 2009 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions

sounds like a ball hog

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The weak died along the way
Only the strong survived
They were the Trailblazers

by lukeyhere on Aug 4, 2009 10:19 AM PDT reply actions

"7. 'Sun Yue' sounds almost like you are swearing at him"

For the record, his name sounds like “Soon You-eh,” not “Sun You!” But agreed, “sun you” does sound like the nicest insult ever.

by Kaboomm on Aug 4, 2009 12:32 PM PDT reply actions

"sun you" does sound like the nicest insult ever.

unless they’re kicking you out of every casino in Vegas when it’s 110+ degrees outside

those actors in Hangover weren’t sweating nearly enough…when was that filmed, in January? And who has an outdoor wedding in the winter?

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by two4larue on Aug 4, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions

For the record

my analysis in this case is not to be deterred by facts.

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions

a la Thorsten Veblen, who claimed that he "theorized with all the abandonment

which comes from a complete indifference to the facts."

ignacio

by ignacio on Aug 4, 2009 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Someone knows PinYin. Yay!

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by G_dubs on Aug 4, 2009 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions

actually his last name is pronounced more like "Swun" than "Soon".

by AwFuhK on Aug 5, 2009 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions

I am not sure your analysis is any good at all...

But as usual your powers of persuasion are top notch. I am convinced….. at least until tomorrow.

RoadBlazer

by Roadblazer on Aug 4, 2009 12:54 PM PDT reply actions

How many people rec'd this because it was written by Jscot?

I’d have rec’d it solely for point #10, but the rest was fun too.

I think his plan for taking over the world is working well.

μὴ φοβοῦ, μόνον πίστευε.

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by T Darkstar on Aug 4, 2009 1:13 PM PDT reply actions

To turn the tables.

It was a post worth a rec., but I DIDN’T rec. it because it WAS jscot.

*Unless KP has a secret plan that makes this statement incorrect.

by staylost on Aug 4, 2009 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions

I agree, partly

I didn’t rec it because it was jscot, either. I never have rec’d that guys posts. Wreck, yes, rec, no.

I’m not sure I agree that it was worth a rec, though. Well, except for maybe #10. But then, I always laugh at my own jokes (somebody has to), so I’m not sure that’s a good indicator.

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by jscot on Aug 4, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

i watched him in olympics he was playing pretty well commentators were really

praising him. if we can carry around ruffins then why not someone with some potential in sun yue

"shaq and zach randolph have the same trainer... "

best one liner i ever heard.

by bowdown on Aug 4, 2009 2:14 PM PDT reply actions

# 12

(If I understand Chinese names correctly…)
He is, theoretically, related to Sun Tzu… writer of:
THE ART OF WAR!
enough said.

Potential next move?
Sign Sherman Alexie. The dude loves basketball, and we’d have the most poetic trash talking team ever.

by KiksadiMike on Aug 4, 2009 4:15 PM PDT reply actions

Sign him, and resign Ha.

Then we can have Sun and Seung. Epic.

by Roy Wonder on Aug 4, 2009 4:34 PM PDT reply actions

no, sign him and trade for Jamario Moon

then get Spike Lee to reprise his old “Mars” character

then, get the taller of the tennis-playing Williams sisters

And maybe Terry Pluto will write a book about it

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by two4larue on Aug 4, 2009 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

laughter and applause!

Without you out there, we're nowhere here

by 22baylor on Aug 10, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Beautiful.

I was expecting jscot to post a Schedule Analysis today, but this is much better. Rec’d.

by prezofdeath on Aug 4, 2009 5:36 PM PDT reply actions

LOL – two thumbs up, way up!

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by Blazer1342 on Aug 5, 2009 2:01 AM PDT reply actions

You say yes, I say no.

You say why, and I say I don´t know.

by amlmart1 on Aug 5, 2009 6:13 AM PDT reply actions

Never learn English, you're doing better without it.

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by jscot on Aug 5, 2009 6:34 AM PDT up reply actions

You say goodbye

And I say hello.

"We believe" -Rudy Fernandez

by twiggs on Aug 5, 2009 7:24 AM PDT up reply actions

Yes, I could have gone with "here comes the Sun", which also fits in yesterday "The Weather-Junk Drawer", or with "we can work it out".

These things happen when you put “Yesterday” as an option in your poll.

Obviously Blue Boo Jay, or Miss Lizzy, would have done better.

by amlmart1 on Aug 5, 2009 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions

LOL @ "Yesterday"

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by jscot on Aug 5, 2009 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions

you mean Dizzy Miss Lizzie

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by 22baylor on Aug 10, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions

don't forget

the championship experience. sun yue – 1 ring, current blazers – 0

by whorge on Aug 5, 2009 12:39 PM PDT reply actions

It just gets better and better, doesn't it?

KP has to get this done.

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by jscot on Aug 5, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions

I agree if KP doesn't sign Sun Yue this summer is an epic failure...

and Canzano will write an article about his shortcommings.

by Escrote on Aug 5, 2009 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Come on KP

Get this deal done. He adds size and a championship pedigree that nobody on the current roster has. Imagine how much he could show Roy, Oden, and LMA… Not to mention our newly acquired PG…. Dre could learn all sorts of things from this guy!

GET IT DONE!

by Blazers_Bring_The_Pain on Aug 5, 2009 3:24 PM PDT reply actions

I have been making this same argument

on Sportstwo.com . The Chinese factor cannot be underestimated, especially when they are booming and we are busting. Sign him right away this guy has 15th man play time 6th man game impact written all over him.

"Death is not final," Gita says. "If any man thinks that he slays, and if another thinks that he is slain, neither knows the truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. The soul in man is neither born nor does it die. Weapons cannot cut it; fire cannot burn it; water cannot drown it.

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by Idog1976 on Aug 6, 2009 12:40 PM PDT reply actions