and built his house there.. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UehpCd5bxjY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Feel like he'd be considered one of the most dominant players ever if a team would've built around him instead of letting him play 2nd fiddle to Kobe.
this is why he has been getting my vote for the allstar game... he has really revived his career. People keep talking about how we missed out on Bosh... we missed out on Pau!
Hey, he was not good enough for the Lakers, but the guy can certainly make a living playing basketball!
Pau is a generally classy guy and a talented player, but when he gets into a situation that makes him feel hopeless and unhappy, he has a tendency to mope and not try very hard. This happened in his final year or two in Memphis-- the team got rid of guys like Battier and Mike Miller and got less talented, which caused Pau to just not care any more. The team went into the tank after that and really just had to trade Pau. He got energized in LA when he had talent around him and he saw a potential payoff for working hard. But when that team aged, and especially after he got traded and vetoed, Pau started moping again-- it got better or worse for him during different times, but he really hadn't been trying 100% for either Mike Brown or D'Antoni. And of course it didn't help that he felt unappreciated by D'Antoni and often got into arguments over the press about things. I wonder which Pau we would have gotten had the 2011 trade gone through. Would he have been stung by it and mope? Or would a Lowry-Pau-Nene trio have enough juice to keep Pau interested?
Perfect song for Pau: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RRgv8T_ZPRE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
