Why is Pau Gasol all of a sudden a bigger name now?

[remingtonbo2001]

just stfu and start making that list

[peskypesky]

[Medvedenko]

Hmmm...I don't know about TODAY...but in general.

Tim Duncan
Carlos Boozer
Dirk Nowitzski
Rasheed Wallace
David West
Kevin Garnett
Amare/Shawn Marion (Have your pick)
LaMarcus Aldridge (?) (TLong's got my back)
Elton Brand
Chris Bosh

I could name a few more. But to be one of the best, IMHO, you need to at least be in the top 5, not 10. Go take a look at his +/- stats. Historically, they haven't been great. DC also claimed Gasol was equally as clutch as Manu. So, I'd like to know where his Gold Medal is at, let alone an NBA championship.

These are the players that Pau is better...look at his career stats. Oh, and now on the Lakers he'll become even a better player.

[dg7md]

If it were just Pau, then well, you might have a point. The fact is, he can average 20/10, he's that capable, pair him with Kobe, Lamar, Bynum, Fisher and a pretty strong bench and you have a possible WCF champion.

I know Spurs fans, and I know if Gasol were on the Spurs we'd suddenly be over the top, so give Laker fans their time to rejoice... they dumped Kwame for PAU GASOL. I'm still pretty envious.

Lakers aren't the Hawks or anything, they are proven with one of the greatest coaches of all time as well as one of the greatest players of all time... stack that with Pau and of course Pau will have amazing stats, especially under Phil Jackson.

[z0sa]

Yes you can. .04 is enough time for a catch and shoot, it's not physically possible to do it in .03.

first of all, the decimal goes inbetween the 0 and 4. that drives me crazy, doesn't anyone know their numbers?

second, fisher grabs the ball facing the sidelines, turns, jumps, fires.

tell me that goes in in 0.4 . yeah, that. shoulda been replayed ffs

[remingtonbo2001]

These are the players that Pau is better...look at his career stats. Oh, and now on the Lakers he'll become even a better player.

I'll give you LaMarcus and David, but really you wouldn't want Rasheed. Is he that much of a problem? (serious question). I'd put Rasheed as one of the top 5 PF's in the league. However, with Rasheed, you really never know if he's going to put 100%. If I'm the Lakers I think I would take LaMarcus or David over Gasol. Although, I'm taking potential and upside in consideration.

LOOK, I'm not saying Gasol isn't a good player. If that's the picture your trying to paint, you'd be more effective in the political arena. I just believe there are better PF's than Gasol.

If I'm taking them off the list then I'll go ahead and add Dwight Howard who is listed as an F/C. (Yeah, that's about as big of a stretch as it gets).
I'll be waiting for DC to tell me Howard is overrated and Gasol is better.

[John HollinPER]

So how did this skunking work out?