J. O'Neal or P. Gasol

sm61893 · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:00 am Post subject: J. O'Neal or P. Gasol

I think if I had to pick between these two I would take Gasol. I don't think O'Neal is the player he use to be and is only going to keep declining. We can get P. Gasol for less plus now we have his little brother and I'm sure he would love to be on the same team with him to help develop him. I say we send the PG we draft in the first round + Bynum + Odom, for Gasol and Conley Jr.
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KB24@CL · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:11 am Post subject:

depends on what you give up...

if its even I take JO
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melo061 · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 3044

Easily Jo.

Were still going to get killed witth that softy patrolling the lanes. Jo is one of the best shotblockers in the league and frankly that is what were missing, someone who could help on double penetration.
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nptntms · Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 17 Location: San Clemente, Ca.

If we can get Pau for less, and then be able to do another trade for maybe Artest to get that defensive apsect, then I say go for that.
JO for Odom and Bynum isn't going to improve the team enough to justify that trade.

Argomike · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Long Beach, CA

Gasol.

L8KERS4LIFE · Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 772 Location: SoCal

Gasol over Jo!! jam2

SashKa_LA_2000 · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject:

I voted for Pau.
JO has a lot more explosiveness that Pau, but he's too injury prone, so that Pau will be a better player for us in this case. He's 4 years younger thanJermaine.

Imagine if we give up LO and Drew for JO and during the season he gets injured and screws us.

klassix · Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 1501 Location: North Hollywood

Gasol in a landslide.

Weezy · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 20997 Location: Anaheim, CA

Gasol is younger and cheaper and you don't have to give up everyone on the team to get him. Most of all he's WAY better than nothing so , DO IT MITCH!
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Kingsama · Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 3971 Location: Tejas

Pau,

he is

cheaper,
younger,
HAS a back to the basket game (JO lost his)
Shoots a much higher percentage from the field 10% better on the season PG 53% JO 43%. and 5% over their respective careers PG 51% JO 46%
better passer
less fragile PG played in 88% of games in the last 6 years, where as JO is 79% of games over the same period.
only labeled soft because he is euro

so i would take pau...
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Radner · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

Gasol since we could definitely keep Odom.
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MoBasket · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 130

BOTH!

The Lakers are not willing to part with Odom for Jermaine O'Neal.
So trade Kwame and Bynum and Radmanovic for O'Neal.

And then trade Odom for Gasol.

Wouldn't that be a decent lineup?

C - Gasol / Mihm
PF - O'Neal / Turiaf
SF - Walton / LLE (wasn't SF our most crowded position on the roster not long ago?)
SG - Kobe / Evans
PG - Papaloukas (MLE) / Farmar / Crittenton

Kobe>Jordan · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 62 Location: Long Beach, CA

Gasol he's younger he's bigger and he's not injury prone like J.O. is

Geno · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

Gasol's without question seems to make more sense, so my question is: WHY HAVEN'T THE LAKERS CONTACTED THE GRIZZ IF HE'S AVAILABLE?

Does anyone know or think they know why?

Eomer · Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Turkey

Gasol doesn't have health problems and he's younger than JO..he can be more useful than JO for us..

Also his brother will play Lakers,too man10

halekulani · Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 5604

i selected gasol due to money reasons...he leaves more money for us to spend

player vs player, oneal is simply better. far better defense.

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2k · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 77

Gasol cuz he is cheaper, we get to keep lamar and we dont have to give up bynum or odom.. there are other ways to get him.. we can also get ron artest which would be a plus and then our MLE most probbaly a PG... we can trade luke, sasha, and mihm or kwame for gasol... whichever they like... if mihm plays in the summer league and the grizz like him we can trade him otherwise its kwame...

SashKa_LA_2000 · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:35 am Post subject:

Let's get them both ! jam2

Mitch can do that !

sm61893 · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:31 am Post subject:

low · Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 487

Gasol just cause he is not injury prone.Jo is better but i don't want to risk it when i can get a younger player like Gasol.

I would like both as long as we don't trade Odom.Gasol looks easier if we want to keep Odom i think.

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markskyywalker · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 71

Pau for sure.

2k · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 77

i liked this poll!! heheh...

D1ZzY24 · Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 822 Location: Santa Barbara, CA

Um, let's drop it. It's done.