Who would you pick? A prime Ewing or a prime Gasol?

[phxspurfan]

Wow, Ewing all the way. Not even b/c I was a Knicks fan in teh 90s (stupid Rockettes).

Ewing made a team with a bunch of scrubs and John Starks into a championship contender every year. In the same conference as Shaq, Zo, Grandmama and MJ. Tehy were 2nd best in the league for about 5 years there, 2nd to only the best player/team of all time...

[The Franchise]

Ewing = better athlete
Gasol = more skilled

Wow.

[dirk4mvp]

Laker Hate on this site is beyond ridiculous.

These same people calling Pau trash in one thread, will call him amazing in the next one in order to make Kobe look bad. Bunch of morons

That goes the other way too.

[Kill Yourself]

Ewing = better athlete
Gasol = more skilled

[Bob Lanier]

Ewing is probably a better defensive anchor.

[Bob Lanier]

calling Pau trash in one thread

Because worse than Patrick Ewing in his prime is trash? Worse than Patrick Ewing in his prime but better than Tim Duncan at the end of his career is a contradiction?

[jdev82]

Sorta tough. Simlar players in a lot of ways. Good post game. Good jumpshot. Long. But mentally fragile at times.

Gasol is more skilled on offense, while Ewing is probably a better defensive anchor. So it really depends on your need.

I'd probably take Gasol more often than I would take Ewing though. Gasol is so ridiculously skilled in the post, its not even funny.

patrick ewing was one of the best defenders ever. pau only started doing anything on d this year, and hes still not very effective. i want to know which 6 idiots voted for gasol

[phxspurfan]

patrick ewing was one of the best defenders ever. pau only started doing anything on d this year, and hes still not very effective. i want to know which 6 idiots voted for gasol

Gasol
Capt Bringdown, DAF86, EJFischer, ezau, Phillip, twhottt

[Edward]

Phillip is a bubbling , of course he'd vote for Gasol.

[BUMP]

That goes the other way too.

Yeah, but we already know LakerFan is re ed. Most of these SpurFans have a little common sense but the Laker hate just gets in the way when they know better.

OMG Kobe the rapist is absolutely nothing without Gasol. Collusion, collusion, collusion!!! Gasol is the real MVP!!!

Really?!?!?! We're actually comparing Ewing to a scrub like Gasol!?!? Ewing all day baby, its not even close! Pau is such a scrub!! Lakers are teh suck!!!

[ezau]

And that's why you're a ing dumbass who doesn't know about basketball and thinks Dirk is a top PF all-time.

I don't understand why people underrate Dirk all the time. Just because he doesn't play a ton of defense doesn't mean he's a scrub. I firmly believe that he would have been just as good as he is today if he was playing in a different era.

[ezau]

patrick ewing was one of the best defenders ever. pau only started doing anything on d this year, and hes still not very effective. i want to know which 6 idiots voted for gasol

I voted Gasol, because the truth is, I was too young to remember Ewing's prime Still, this thread is telling me a lot about how good/great he actually is.

[MiamiHeat]

where's all the

"Ewing played in a weak era of ty athletes, he wouldnt be as good nowadays"

?

oh right, thats only when it comes to MJ.

[Spursfan092120]

For those people whose mind is cluttered with garbage, saying Gasol is better...

[Vinnie_Johnson]

Well looks like we have 7 Lakers fans who don't know about basketball. Ewing by a mile.

[bdubya]

Even asking the question is an insult to Ewing.

[The Franchise]

This is like arguing prime Magic Johnson or prime Mark Jackson. Where the is the debate?

[baseline bum]

For those people whose mind is cluttered with garbage, saying Gasol is better...

That video forgot the play where Pippen teabagged Ewing.

[pauls931]

Thank God Prime Ewing didn't play for Memphis.

[Vinnie_Johnson]

Who looks more like an Ostrage?

[Bob Lanier]

How the do you find a picture of an ostrich without knowing how to spell ostrich?

[Bob Lanier]

where's all the

"Ewing played in a weak era of ty athletes, he wouldnt be as good nowadays"

?

oh right, thats only when it comes to MJ.

Yeah, because all positions are equally good during every era. So it naturally follows that because Jordan had essentially only one wing compe or at a time who didn't have serious holes in his game, Ewing faced only one compe ive center at a time in his career, and because Bryant is faced with a number of star wings every season that Gasol also faces a Hall-of-Fame pivot every week.

Or could it be that the mid '90s were one of the most compe ive times in league history for big men, while right now we have Yao, old Duncan, Howard, Gasol, and Andrew ing Bogut? While, conversely, the Jordan craze of the '90s has led to a glut of imitators at the 2 and 3 this decade?

[ezau]

How the do you find a picture of an ostrich without knowing how to spell ostrich?

what the is an Ostrage?

[Pelicans78]

Ewing would have destroyed Gasol down low. A healthy Ewing in his prime is easily better than Gasol.

[dallaskd]

Ewing is highly overrated, but still a mile ahead of Gasol.