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AND he will hold TD to 6-19 shooting again
hes averaging more points in the playoffs than that soo called great tim duncan?
so whats funny
im with u laker fan
AND he will hold TD to 6-19 shooting again
Gasol will outscore TD, punish him under the basket, score at will against him, block his shots and hold him to 6-19 fgs. But, the Spurs will still win the series. You know why? Because the Spurs is not selfish team. They dont rely on stats alone, they rely on teamwork. Didn't you watch the NO series?
Sorry. i just don't see Tim Duncan struggling against this guy at all.
If I saw myself in clothes like that I'd have to kick my own ass.Sorry. i just don't see Tim Duncan struggling against this guy at all.
What do you mean? Gasol has excellent taste.
I strongly disagree. In head to head matchups during his Memphis years, you remember those, Tim absolutely destroyed, owned and ruined Pau Gasol. Gasol is as soft on the low block as Tim is strong. And Tim, and Kurt Thomas for that matter, will take full advantage of this glaring weakness to maximum effect.
hahaha I wish Gasol had the balls to try to guard Duncan. But that won't happen of course.
on the other hand I see Duncan manning up and guarding Gasol if he starts to have big games.
@ "so called great" you guys are so silly!
I didn't know that Gasol warranted the double teams like Timmy does...hmm
Looks like he will guard TD...
Gasol to guard Duncan
By Ramona Shelburne Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 05/21/2008 12:30:23 AM PDT
EL SEGUNDO - The Lakers returned to the court Tuesday, rested, mostly recovered and decidedly more well-dressed after Kobe Bryant presented each player on the team with $9,800 personalized Swiss watch as a thank-you gift following his first MVP award.
But the mood was serious. Break time was over, the opponent standing between the Lakers and the NBA Finals now set, and it's a team the Lakers know all to well.
For the sixth time since 1999, the San Antonio Spurs and Lakers will meet in the playoffs. During that span, the teams have combined to win seven NBA les.
Though many of the faces on the Spurs stay the same, the challenge of matching up with them never gets any easier. Who will defend Tim Duncan? How will they stop Tony Parker's dribble penetration? Can Vladimir Radmanovic guard Manu Ginobili, or will Trevor Ariza be pressed into duty right away?
By the end of practice, most of those issues had been addressed, though the answers were short and kept close to the vest.
Pau Gasol will defend Duncan for as long as he can without getting into foul trouble, Derek Fisher will have the responsibility of shadowing Parker and Ariza will likely play in the series, though Lakers coach Phil Jackson wouldn't say when.
Gasol noted Monday that he and Duncan rarely defended each other when Gasol was a member of the Grizzlies because both were trying to stay out of foul trouble. That will change in this series.
"Without a doubt, (Gasol) is going to have to play (Duncan)," Jackson said. "They'll see what it's like, they'll test it out early and they'll see whether they can create a foul situation, that's not unusual in that situation. We'll probably do the same thing." Jackson said he doesn't like to double-team Duncan, because that tends to open up San Antonio's perimeter shooters, but that if Gasol gets into foul trouble, he may have to. That, or Ronny Turiaf would play extra minutes.
"You don't stop Tim Duncan, all you can do is make sure that he's working for his points and you put your body on him," said Turiaf, who has been effective against Duncan in the past. "My whole deal with him is I just try to make him take tough shots, at an awkward angle or at least a little bit outside of the paint so he's a little outside his comfort zone."
One advantage of being the oldest team in the NBA - Parker is the only Spurs starter under 30 - is picking up a few tricks of the trade. But the past two years some of those tricks have earned the Spurs - particularly Robert Horry and Bruce Bowen - a bit of a bad reputation.
Not in Lamar Odom's eyes, though.
"No. I don't think he's a dirty player at all," Odom said of Horry. "You have to understand that guys who have been around for 10 or 15 years know tricks. But I wouldn't say it's dirty. I think dirty is like when you're looking to hurt somebody. I don't think Robert Horry is a dirty player at all."
Odom also backed Bowen.
"He has had incidents. (But) champions don't win easy," Odom said. "It's like when you're going to war, you might poke somebody's eye out to win. That's part of the game. I wouldn't say he's dirty."
Tricks of the trade That's just too bad
As if the Spurs didn't have enough of a challenge getting ready for tonight's game.
After their Game 7 victory in New Orleans on Monday night, the team's ChampionAir charter plane was grounded due to maintenance problems. Then, because of a big conference in town, there were no hotel rooms available for the team to stay, so they ended up sleeping on the plane and flying to Los Angeles in the morning.
Asked if he felt sorry for the Spurs and all they've had to go through, Gasol seemed surprised.
"Sympathy? Now?" he said. "There's no mercy at this stage."
Yeah, but what about karma? The Lakers are one of 14 NBA teams that use ChampionAir for their charter flights.
awesome!
this will be fun to watch. but probably won't last long.
Pau's wife is x378430840 hotter than Duncan's wife
Pao 'Vanilla Nice' Gasol, ain't showing up when it matters the most in this series... Too soft baby!
and watch TD get shutdown like he did near the end of the regular season. Pau owns this
Getting Gasol into foul trouble would be huge. Hope Timmy will have a great series.
awesome!
this will be fun to watch. but probably won't last long.
I don't think it will be foul trouble. Refs won't call on that skinny caveman.
But still I see Duncan wipping that ass old school style.
And your point is?
the Spurs are going to lose tonightAnd your point is?
yet pau still wont get pass the spurs in the playoffs........ let him outscore wilt the stilt too. spurs just want to win. who cares if he scores more than tim?
he never has one....unless it has those -erotic tendencies of his other postsAnd your point is?
Pau has a wife ?
Hey I can make outrageous claims too, Spurs in 3 games with the Lackers forfeiting the 4th out of pure embarassment. < Notice the total lack of credibility.
But of course you will continue with your little remarks, because you are bored people with nothing better to do then to come on a Spurs forum and try an rile the fans.
I pity you, and await your well thought out and witty comment, which will undoubedly contain profanity.
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