here are all his lakers related questions, i'll summarize everything. if anyone thinks i didn't translate correctly, let me know. i'll start with the questions that have him looking back on the season
http://www.jotdown.es/2012/06/ettore-me ... erlusconi/"¿Cómo juzgas la temporada de los Lakers?" How do you judge the Lakers' Season(After a few moments of reflection): We had higher expectations. Its been a season of transition. There are a lot of things that could have been done better to improve our play, but three important things happened. first, the vetoed chris paul trade, it left a lot of wounds. Pau had to play til the all-star break with out knowing if he was going to stay or leave. Second was the trade for Ramon Sesssions and the trade of Derek Fisher. A change like that requires time to assimilate to the system, strategy, and emotion of losing Fisher. The third thing, and most important, was the late start, we only had a few weeks to get ready for the season.
Eso le ocurrió a todos los equipos." That was the same for all teams.."Yes, but not every team had a new head coach with an entirely new system. Those three things led to the season we had.
¿Te parece injusto que la NBA no dejara llegar a Chris Paul? Do you think what the NBA did with the Paul trade was fairLook, i've become an american. I don't judge. Thats the most surprising thing about being a coach in america. Once we found out Paul wasn't coming, no one said "what an **** David Stern" or "son of a bitch"...no one. What happened, happened. During the season not once did i hear the staff, not even in private, criticize a ref. Never, in Europe thats unimaginable. The night before we started our practices, we were told paul was coming here and pau/odom were out, which was going to change our entire way of playing. Brown and the staff said, wow, we have to change everything. The next day, one hour before our practice, we were told stern blocked it. Kupchak said "Pau, we love u, it is what it is. Sports is a business and we move forward. We're counting on you." And we all went to work. Thats it. Can you imagine something like that happened with Barcelona or Real Madrid?
De hecho, aquí muchos criticaron la decisión de los Lakers de vender a Pau Gasol., Many here criticize the lakers decision to trade pau...Its funny, cause pau gasol has explained it well in his interviews in the USA. But here in spain those interviews are released "edited". Just look at Ron artest's last interview. After the season, in his last media round he says "the coach has been fantastic, he's helped me a lot, he's not the one that missed big shots or missed key rebounds, like what happened to be in important games. He's not the one that Durant scores on, he's not responsible for that" and after that, jokingly, he says "He's not the one that camme in out of shape, well, on second thought, he's always been out of shape cause he's a fat ass". What was said here in Spain? "ron artest calls his coach a fat ass".
Ya, pero hablábamos de Pau Gasol. ¿Compartes que algunos tildaran de injusta la decisión de los Lakers de traspasar a Pau? Yes, but we're talking about Pau Gasol, do you understand why some think it was not fair for Pau to be traded?"No, i don't understand it. For one thing, the press in spain talks without knowing anything. These journalists talk about Pau without having any idea about the NBA. If you want to buy a bigger house, either you sell your house or take out a loan. In the nba they don't give you a house in exchange for two bikes, an old book, computer and a key chain. Pau is the only player that had trade value for the Lakers. Bynum didn't cause until this yr he hadn't had a healthy season playing at this high of a level. And Kobe is like Felipe Reyes (smiles), he'll play for the lakers til the day he dies, just like Felipe and Madrid. The other players didn't have trade value. The only possibility of remaking the roster was to trade Pau. Now perhaps they could trade Bynum. Gasol knew it and said it in every interview, cause he's a smart guy. But no one wanted to listen.
Pasaron los meses y se demostró que se necesitaba un cambio. Muchos de los que criticaron aquel traspaso corrieron a publicar que Gasol tendría que irse de los Lakers. After a few months, many that criticized the trade eventually started to say that Pau needed to leave the lakers..Watching what Chris Paul did with the Clippers, a lot said "ahhhh, now i understand. Mitch was right.
He also talks about Kobe shooting too much but that in the NBA percentages don't really matter and that systems are meant to get superstars the ball rather than get players open shots.
"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on." - Dumbledore
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