Time To Trade Pau?

[GANGSTERDOG]

http://basketball.realgm.com/tradechecker/saved_trade/5831112

BIG Man in return and hes good against Boston

Jameer-Kobe-Lamar-Brandon-Andrew

and more on the bench, Get alot Younger

[Slava]

http://basketball.realgm.com/tradechecker/saved_trade/5831112

BIG Man in return and hes good against Boston

Jameer-Kobe-Lamar-Brandon-Andrew

and more on the bench, Get alot Younger

[Jase]

no need to trade pau, kobe, or odom...those are our untouchables...trade anybody else to make the team better...unless we get a young stud like rose, rondo, durant, or the likes

It depends on what we can get for them. If someone makes an offer that blows us away (sans Kobe, who will never go anywhere), then we should at least entertain the idea.

[HERSH]

gasol artest for batum, mathews, camby, pryzbilla?

[kobeaki]

ya'll are depressed and need prozac.

[LA Forever]

Gasol isn't going to be traded anywhere, end of story.

[sp6r=underrated]

FWIW. Since the Gasol trade

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            w-l            point differential
With Gasol 130-42 (.755), +7.35
W/O Gasol: 18-10 (.643),  +2.79

[sp6r=underrated]

As a non-laker fan I find the criticism of Gasol interesting because it touches on something that I've noticed in a lot of fans: the inability to differentiate between a finesse player (which Gasol clearly is) and a soft player (which Gasol isn't).

[SApuro_]

Pau turned the Laker franchise around. So easy to forget, missing the playoffs and Kobe threatening to abandon ship.

Gasol still offers the Lakers the best chance for another title.

Amazing that 34-16 means crisis mode for LA.

I know they haven't played hard and have had a super easy 1st half schedule but still you gotta ride these guys to the playoffs.

Any trade you make ruins any shot at a 3 peat

[Kilroy]

As a non-laker fan I find the criticism of Gasol interesting because it touches on something that I've noticed in a lot of fans: the inability to differentiate between a finesse player (which Gasol clearly is) and a soft player (which Gasol isn't).

Our problem is that we have 3 7'ers who are all trying to be finesse players... One of them needs to be a bruiser... It should be Bynum, but he's just bruised...

So people look for Pau to play tru C which isn't really his strong suite and also to play physical, which he clearly isn't made for.

For what it's worth, I don't want him to be Shaq but I would like him to have a little more Duncan in him... A little fire that when we're down, he turns it up a notch and can take his guy to the whole.

Last night, Duncan decided he was tired of shooting outside jumpers and was going inside if he had to drag Pau with him... That's what we need from Pau... Just a little bit more intensity and fire...
Not an over-night Alonzo Mourning transformation.