Pau Thread: Surgery a success; now rehab & rest for 12 weeks

noobiew wrote:Pau Gasol is a center playing out of his natural position by us, he excels in the low post not mid-range jumpshot smh

Rooscooter wrote:While Pau is having troubles defensively and I've been one of his more vocal critics he's taking some heat tonight for a beyond crap game by Howard... Pau gave effort and failed.... Howard failed to give effort.....

gill wrote:The sudden drop in foot speed is what's alarming. Turtle-speed Brook Lopez blew past him yesterday... then tonight Cousins just abused him with 2 straight baskets... and this pattern has been going on for a while. PG's will pick on him on the pick n roll. Mobile PF's just get to the hoop so easy against him

escobar8 wrote:http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=arh782m

thats one of only few scenarios which might be posible...

toronto sucks and needs some "star player"...we get...best pg rotation...similar player to jordan hill...and wery good 3pt shooting sf who can play strech pf...its not great but posible...and then try to dump blake or duhon for 2round pick...

GoldenKnight wrote:

gill wrote:The sudden drop in foot speed is what's alarming. Turtle-speed Brook Lopez blew past him yesterday... then tonight Cousins just abused him with 2 straight baskets... and this pattern has been going on for a while. PG's will pick on him on the pick n roll. Mobile PF's just get to the hoop so easy against him

Bro your sig worked for Meeks, hurry on the Pau sig before we make a huge mistake by trading the guy...

noobiew wrote:Did you know what is the field goal percentage of Pau Gasol this season after 12 games? He is shooting 43% FG (68-158) as a big men ! FYI Kobe Bryant as a shooting guard is currently shooting 53% compare to him.

I really think tat the inefficiencies is because of him keeps shooting mid range jumpers out of the paint, currently we are playing two centers in the game majority of the times which won't work, I would seriously considering playing him to his natural position as a center (off the bench to backup Dwight) to maximize his talent inside the low post, maybe this move could really preserve his energy in the playoffs and to save his life.

GoldenKnight wrote:
Pau isn't meant to shoot all these mid range jumpers. We are forcing him to be somebody he is not, remember when he first came here? How many times did we make him shoot like this? He was always operating in the post. We are ruining Pau's offensive game.

bumrusherer wrote:

GoldenKnight wrote:
Pau isn't meant to shoot all these mid range jumpers. We are forcing him to be somebody he is not, remember when he first came here? How many times did we make him shoot like this? He was always operating in the post. We are ruining Pau's offensive game.

When he first came here, he was the best Center on the team. That hasnt been the case for a good number of years now.

Now, you could make the case for trading Howard and making Gasol our main Center again...but that wouldnt make much sense at this point or at any point.

wcsoldier81 wrote:We should sit him on back to back games ... it's clear he's not able to play 2 nights in a row anymore

GoldenKnight wrote:
We could post him up more when Dwight sits, we usually have him shooting J's either way...

GoldenKnight wrote:

wcsoldier81 wrote:We should sit him on back to back games ... it's clear he's not able to play 2 nights in a row anymore

& what do you have to say about Dwight's performance?

kblo247 wrote:Trade Pau for being soft or lazy at times and it becomes a locker room notice that his lack of effort isn't acceptable. I also becomes a competition for the second captain and other non Kobe voice, and the next logical two are Ron and Dwight who play hard even when they don't get results.

If Pau was going hard and missing shots, being beat on boards, or scored on people could deal. When he doesn't try though because he knows he can sleep walk to stats it pisses people off. It also shows as we know his effort level from when he cares or doesn't, and this is what got him dealt from Kwame before and why he was never embraced like Zach or Marc in Memphis

He needs motivation to get on his job, that hasn't been there since he beat the soft label by beating Boston

It's not about missing or making shots, its about how he goes after the shots. It's about if he goes and seals his damn guy, posts up, is decide and tries to take over offensively.

Settling for jumpers, passing to Jordan Hill and Meeks or Morris when you are with the bench and the 20M player is inexcusable. Not boxing out is inexcusable, not moving his feet on D, not getting a hand up,

He's not gettin roasted while trying. He's getting roasted because he refuses to try t get in a defensive stance, put a body on a guy, and contest by ever leaving the floor. He is shooting so bad because he doesn't put in any work at all before the catch, no post position fighting, no second effort, no hard picks to jar Kobe or the ball handlers guy off them and he damn sure doesn't roll or pop hard and assertively.


I'M SAYING THIS NOT OUT OF SPITE, BUT TRUTH, WORLD PEACE HAS BEEN OUR THIRD BEST PLAYER THIS YEAR AND IT ISN'T CLOSE BETWEEN HIM AND PAU