I'm sorry, but ...

[ALL HAIL]

I'm not going to bombard anyone with numbers because I don't have them.

What I do have is a believe that the power forward and the center positions, much like the 2 and 3. are the same damn thing.

The only responsibilities that change are defensive.

Now I ask you ...

What players that play center are going to beat him up that don't already do that from the power forward slot?

It's the same damn beat down.

Matter of fact, that beat down is greatly exaggerated.

There are a few centers that Gasol would have a hard time with physically, but these are the same guys that every other center would have a hard time with physically as well.

I'm old school as hell Deep, so I know the importance of have that physically imposing center to anchor the middle, but I also realize that if you can guard 90% of the league's centers, then you can play center full-time, and Gasol can do that. I'll let others kill you with numbers Deep.

Also though, that whole arguement of justifying Gasol's playoff meltdown on him being tired and/or beat-up from playing center is weak as hell my man.

You and I both know that meltdown was not physical at all. I told you then and I'll tell everyone again, Gasol had a mental breakdown in the playoffs and most of that came from questioning his role on the team with Bynum's emergence.

Dude was not tired physically, he was mentally absent.

Yet in still, he can play center for any team in this league.

I once saw an interview with Chick Hearn and Sam Perkins as Perkins had just joined the squad, and Chick asked Perkins at which position he enjoyed playing more, PF or C. Perkins responded by saying that it was "the same thing". Chick responded by laughing and then going off on how he wholeheartedly agreed with him and then rumbling about how Olajuwon was really only 6'10 (he's right by the way).

The point is, in this era especially, if you are long enough and strong enough to guard the other guy's center and, hopefully provide some sense of an impediment in the middle, then you can play center ... full-time.

No question.

[JaVier Mastro]

You can be sorry all you want, but is anyone would leave its Gasol, Bynum is younger and has more years left than Gasol. Seeing Gasol playing the 5 with out Odom is something I don't want to see in this lifetime or the next. Bynum is the reason why we are playing so well the dude is a road block for us and I love having him AND Gasol at the 4 and 5. Williams is nice but never trade big for small and to add insult to injury your creating another need that we would have to fill. We can and will keep Bynum because we can bring in a PG some other way