well so what do you suggest we do? tank? thats not an option. if we wanna make the 5th or 7th seed? thats way more likely with Gasol as our best player than having Lowry as our best player. and having Gasol would actually attract other FA's, rather than the .500 ball we are displaying right now that no one wants to join and no one wants to watch
We could use our assets to trade up in the draft. We could use both our picks and sign a young player like Hibbert or McGee. All we do by brining over Gasol is create more of a log jam at PF which will prevent guys like DMo getting more minutes.
i can't believe people are rejecting one of the best skilled big men to be on their team. its like one day Adidas goes up to you and says, would you like to be our CEO?? and you reply "No!! because your shoes cause injuries to players!!" Subsequently you are still working as the factory boy at a Peak. because obviously Adidas is nowhere good enough for you. -__________________-''
LMAOOOOO hahahahahaha I laughed so hard at "Log Jam at PF". :grin: :grin: Woohoo a logjam!!! omg clearly we have Griffin and Love at our PF positions right now. do you really think Denver and Indiana are going to let us sign McGee and Hibbert away from them?
Yeah because sports and real life work exactly the same. Many people can win in life while there can only be one champion in the NBA. Some people, myself included, don't think Gasol puts us in a real position to compete so they'd rather go a route that does.
Kobe's feelings about Pau and Drew? Kobe said about Metta: "He's the one guy I can count on, night in and night out, to compete." https://twitter.com/KevinDing/status/200833860131500033 Kobe Bryant, asked if teammates matched his heart tonight: "No. Of course they didn't." https://twitter.com/MattBeshkeHK/status/200833785816809472
The Nuggets just need to hang close in the 1st half of game 7, make their move sometime in the 3rd quarter and watch the fault lines appear in the Lakers.
I used that comparison thing you sent to check last year's stats and Gasol's fg% was worse with Bynum on the bench last year. Are you sure Bynum is the reason Gasol's percentage is going down? http://www.nba.com/advancedstats/pl...Andrew-Bynum|2200,101115;year=201011;season=r
Lakers have 1 and 3 who can't make 3 and a 4 that's off in midrange and there'll be room for penetration? The defense can just camp in the middle and no penetration can beat that. If penetration can beat a zone, LeBron wouldn't have been LeBronze twice.
Gasol was given open look in FT line, was given 1on1 opportunity in low post too. And he couldn't get anything going. If he's Bosh he'd be able to hit those open shots and free up Bynum and Kobe.
Bynum and Gasol dogged it last night, no doubt. But that's not all that is wrong with them. The spacing was terrible last night for them on both ends. Defensively, Denver would come down and cram all their bigs down low. Most of the time, Pau and Bynum were close enough to be touching each other defensively. And many times Kobe was compressed down there with them. There's no reason for that. Denver is negating their length by bunching them together. Denver was packing 2 and 3 guys down low and compressing the defense to open things up for Lawson to meander around outside and get whatever he wanted after beating Sessions. Brown should have recognized what they were doing and went to a zone. Offensively, Denver is packing it in and Karl is openly admitting they are turning Pau into a scorer, not a playmaker, by backing off him and forcing him to shoot, while packing it down low on Bynum. Bynum has no chance to really score. He's got 2 ... 3 guys on him all the time. The solution is spread out the defense with a nice little zone and change the starting lineup and bring one of Gasol or Bynum off the bench. Bynum needs to play with a floor spreader at the 4....either McRoberts, or Murphy, or...Artest. And let Gasol pair up with Hill. Run Bynum and Gasol in the low post but not together. Spread out the defense and then LA's superior length and skill will cause separation.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>More and more this looks like Houston taking Lakers seven in 2009. Except Denver better than those Rockets. And Lakers ain't those Lakers</p>— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/200827279796994049" data-datetime="2012-05-11T05:58:49+00:00">May 11, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
