fareweatherfan wrote:I was at work. Nobody at my office knows a thing about the Lakers (or sports, for the most part) except one file clerk (he's gone now, so its just me).
File clerks don't have internet access so I went downstairs and told him the good news. We were so loud that my coworkers came out of their offices to see what was going on. I told them, they didn't know who Pau was, so they went back in their offices dismissively.
My best day at work ever.
My work is the opposite. Everyone is a Laker fan and work essentially stopped as the news spread.
Also, did anyone pick up on the fact that Memphis waived Damon Stoudamire the day before... making room for the extra players.
BTW there was no chance MEM was taking Sun Yue when this was their feelings about Marc:
(2/1/2008) Wallace has long been a refreshingly candidly interview. He says, for instance, that Marc Gasol "has emerged as a real force in European basketball ... that I believe would have been a first-round pick this year."
On his three-headed point-guard situation with Mike Conley, Jr., Kyle Lowry, and Javaris Crittenton: "We're gonna lock these three guys in a room and see which two emerge, and then we'll trade somebody at some point."
He also adds that the 2008 pick is top-three protected and the 2010 pick is top-six.
If you believe what Wallace says about Marc Gasol, then essentially the Grizzlies got four first-rounders, and a mountain of cap space, for Pau Gasol.
(2/2/2008) For the record and from Spain. Marc Gasol is not and never will be like his brother. Marc was a monster, in size and fat, some years ago, when he was playing in US high school. He blamed American food. But right now he's a different kind of player. He lost tons of weight a couple of years ago and learnt to play with his size. This year, he's scoring about 15 points per game (with 9 or 10 rebounds in many matches) in Spanish league, the best in Europe, not in a very good team, but impressing the big guys of other teams. In fact, he's the most valued player acoording to the ranking, with futured Portland's Rudy Fernandez second to him.
A force inside the paint, yes, but still a bit slow to play in NBA. In two years, maybe one, he can make the journey to America.
