I would like to see him play with his brother in Memphis. Him at PF and Marc at Center would be nice to see in the NBA story Arc wise.
To late for him to join the rockets.. i hope he starts to talk about how he would love to play for us.. but David Stern did save us
Pau Gasol expresses frustration with D’Antoni offense “The fact that I’m not getting the ball in the post affects directly my aggressiveness,” he said. “When I’m not getting the ball where I want to, where I’m most effective, where I can bang guys and utilize my skill, that affects my aggressiveness and overall intensity…. “This year hasn’t been ideal, certain things are not ideal for me, but that’s not going to change any time soon,” he said. So what did D’Antoni say? “I can’t lie to him… Our numbers tell us the worst thing we do is post up,” he said. D’Antoni’s right. When the Los Angeles Lakers have thrown the ball in the post this season, they have shot just 34.6 percent on their shot attempts, scoring a paltry 0.67 points per possession. (Numbers via Synergy Sports.) (What the Lakers do well is spot up shots — one in five Lakers attempts is a catch-and-shoot this season and they are hitting 40.1 percent from three and scoring 1.06 points per possession when they do it. Next most shot attempts are in transition, 11.7 percent of the team’s attempts, and the Lakers are shooting 56.8 percent on the break.) So how is Gasol responding to this criticism? “I don’t pay attention. Mike is sometimes all over the place, I don’t give much credit to things like that,” he said.
I agree with Gasol here. With Kobe back now, they should really look to play more post up with the starters. Bench can still be run and gun.
The Lakers want to save what potential 2014 cap room they still may have after signing Kobe (must keep the dream of landing Melo or whatever max guy might be available alive), so HOU is likely NOT a good trade partner for them. Gasol's salary is so big that we pretty much have to send both Lin and Asik in return to make the salaries match. Lin and Asik's salary next season eliminates the possiblity of that cap space.
How about the Wizards? they have a great shot at making a top 4 seed and nene's health is unreliable (even Gortat called him out!) http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=lnpuy6a Get'er done Washington Morey
Pau Gasol is the Jeremy Lin of the Lakers. Likable guy, says the right things, gets stuck in a system that doesn't play to his strengths, gets blamed for it, gets benched
Pau gets s*i*ted on by Lakers fan and LA daily yet, he wants to be there so I don't feel sorry for him at all. He fell in love with that LA life and knows that his time there is due if he wants to keep playing in the NBA. I'm glad he didn't want to to come to Houston and that the trade was vetoed.
Interesting that the exact same issues Pau is having with Dantoni are the ones Dwight was having. Dantoni, maybe the problem is....you.
Wow... [rQUOTEr]Mike D’Antoni suggests Pau Gasol needs to play harder Pau Gasol still doesn’t like how he’s featured in D’Antoni’s offense. He didn’t speak to reporters following morning shootaround Friday here at Chesapeake Energy Arena, but the Lakers’ forward in recent days has attributed his 14.4 points per game average on a career-low 41.7 percent shooting toward D’Antoni’s system not featuring him enough in the post. D’Antoni’s response? “It’s also a nice excuse not to play hard,” D’Antoni said. “That’s a classic, ‘I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.’ Well, you don’t have trouble getting up to the paystub line. You know what you need to do to get your check. You know what to do. They will. They’ll figure it out.” “That’s one thing. They don’t want to do it that way. I understand that. That’s when you have to accept it or not. But there’s no reason not to play hard.” ...[/rQUOTEr]
