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Kome with his chucker mode. I thought this was going to be his "dominant" game.
Did you guys see those DOMINANT jump shots! This guy is top 50 for sure!
I wont even mention the fact that Odom attempts shot blocks without jumping.
Yeah, that guy you have at shooting guard is pretty good too. He always delivers in the finals.
Send him to the Spurs then.
Luke has guarded 6 Pierce shots this series that I recall.
He hasn't put his hands up once
This.
Trade him for Bonner.
And The Spurs will be the NBA champions in 2011
oh..you're talking about last years finals MVP right?
Gasol is a pussy
The Collusion Principle on temporary hiatus.
tee, hee.
LOL, Cully
This from Kevin Ding:
Let’s review Gasol’s big-game history so far this postseason, which overall has certainly been better than either of the previous two.
- Game 6 vs. Oklahoma City: The Lakers need to win on the road to avoid facing elimination in Game 7. Gasol has nine points on 4-of-11 shooting in 39 minutes. To his credit, he does reach nine points by coming up with the winning tip-in of a Bryant miss, but Bryant has to carry the Lakers with 32 points; no other Laker scores more than 11.
- Game 6 vs. Phoenix: Again, the Lakers need to win on the road to avoid facing elimination in Game 7. Again, Gasol has nine points. This time he shoots 2 for 9 in 41 minutes. Bryant, however, scores 37 points and Ron Artest steps up as the second fiddle with his high as a Laker, 25 points.
The Lakers had a similar situation last postseason in the second round vs. Houston. They lost Game 6 in Houston with Gasol held to 14 points – without a single free-throw attempt – in 43 minutes. (Forced to Game 7, the Lakers won easily at home with Gasol scoring 21 points albeit with five turnovers.)
Gasol also averaged just fewer than two blocks last postseason. He has averaged a little better than two blocks this postseason. But in the aforementioned road Game 6’s and the just-played Game 5 in Boston, he averaged 0.75 blocks.
It’s not easy to be great with the pressure on and the fans against you. It doesn’t mean Gasol is not a true All-Star. It’s not that he can’t play on the road, either: He averaged exactly 18.3 points home and away this season, shooting 54 percent home and 53 percent away.
It just takes a little extra grit and spit to come through against such extreme adversity.And even though he’s a champion now, these are days when you have to remember that Gasol never won a playoff game before joining Bryant.
Not a playoff series, but a single playoff game. Gasol went 0-12.
Gasol is fortunate the Lakers didn’t get blanked in these three games in Boston. It was a pretty weak week for Gasol.
He had 13 points in Game 3 when Derek Fisher saved the day. Gasol upped it to 21 points in Game 4 but tied Shannon Brown with a team-worst minus-9 point-differential ratio. Then Gasol delivered just 12 points on 5-of-12 shooting in Game 5 with no blocks after averaging 3.6 blocks previously in the series.
All through the week, Gasol was muscled farther and farther away from the hoop by the Boston defense and never did consistently establish his presence inside. He absolutely did not outplay Kevin Garnett in the matchup that Phil Jackson said entering the series was the one to watch, and Gasol wasted his opportunities to use his agility and creativity to drive when Boston went to older (Rasheed Wallace) and slower (Kendrick Perkins) defenders on him.
“They do a good job pushing you out of the post,” Gasol said after Game 5.
He acknowledged this much: “I’ve got to find a way to get better looks.”
So the Lakers have lost back-to-back games. The famous stat about Gasol’s impact on the Lakers used to be that they’d never lost three consecutive games since he arrived on Feb. 1, 2008.
That perfection went by the wayside this season with successive road losses to Miami, Charlotte and Orlando in March. But the Lakers need to prove that door-slamming ability again and not lose Game 6 after already losing Games 4 and 5 to Boston.
Fourteen times the Lakers have lost back-to-back games with Gasol, but only that one time have they not powered back to win the third. That’s partly because Gasol is a fixer who prides himself on problem-solving – hence his arrival in the Lakers’ weight room after being bullied in the 2008 NBA Finals vs. Boston.
Asked if it was Boston’s success or his failure this time, Gasol said: “I always blame myself more. I think I have the set of skills that allow me to play against different defenses.”
Gasol will have to wait to fix the potholes on his playoff road record.
He has pressing business at home right now.
MVP of the Lakers ... my ass
I wonder if all the Miamiheat, Dwade, BRhornets are finally ready to admit how moronic that crap was ...
Or some of thr spur fans with the "you guys dont give Pau or Odom enough credit cuz you Kobe fanbois"
Or even the still Pro-shaq Kobe hating Laker fans ...foolish.
So you have demonstrated that the Lakers NEED Gasol to play well in order ti win.
In the losses, he had bad numbers.
And when he plays well, Lakers win.
So he is the most important Laker; it doesnt matter if Kobe goes off for 250 pts, L.A needs Pau
and right now we need him and he aint showing up.
no one disputes that fact ...i said the same thing ...
Problem is when people say well Parker or Manu is the MVP of the spurs (back when the Spurs were le contenders) it's ALMOST the same as saying Pau is MVP of the Lakers.
Tim brings it EVERY night (well used to) much like Kobe does ...of course when you have an all-time great doing what they do and then the supporting star bringing the same ...then you will win a great deal of the time.
It is NOT rocket science ...
No but a great barometer for success he and Lmar when they play well to support Kobe we win simple as that ...
Ipso facto, we get relieve from the Collusion File, but, get cleaned out by the San Antonio Celtics.
I could just cry.
In 2 of the Game 6 elimination games ...Kobe got 30 Pau was MIA ...Lakers can win against lesser teams with Pau being average ...because Kobe is Kobe.
Lakers can not beat the Celts with him playing like that ...
I hope the Collusion File is up and running about 9PM PDT tomorrow night.
this "collusion file" is about both teams, correct?
I don't do Collusion, Clam.
It's my religion.
the only thing that's been apparent so far this series is that Kobe needs not one but two real good post players by his side to have a shot at winning a championship because one voice yelling at him to get the ball in the post and play inside-out isn't enough.
Kobe showed absolutely no faith in his teammates with some of those shots that he took.
as he shouldnt with the crap they pulled in the first half.
you just want him to pass so you can say he gave up and quit.
Thats because they sucked
his shot selection was . he was in a real, real nice groove but he needed to mix it up. there were some that he took that he wasn't going to make in which case he needed to pass.
That is the problem that Laker fans totally over look. Basketball is the quintessential team sport. When Kobe does what he did last night in the third quarter he inhibits both cohesion and flow. The reason his team mates played so poorly in the second half is that Kobe TOOK THEM OUT OF THE GAME. It is a self fulfilling prophecy: Kobe deeply believes that his team mates will fail him so he shoulders 100 % of the responsibility, his team mates see this lack of faith and respect and give the up.
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