luss54321 wrote:random_hero891 wrote:Ring_Me wrote:I love how you said "aging big" when Gasol is years younger than Pierce yet you say "added experience" when Pau brings that to the Bulls favor also. You cray.
Experience is a young team destroying an experienced playoff team. Cray is thinking a 34 year old big, a pair of rookies and a player that's missed the past 2 seasons makes you east contenders.
Do you know what a straw man argument is?
Look it up. It will improve your debate skills because right now you suck.
Dismissing Gasol as "aging" when he averaged 17 PPG and 10 REB last year, just shows you're ignorant.
Dismissing Mirotic as a "rookie" when he was the Spanish League MVP, Spanish Cup MVP, and 2X Euroleague Rising Star, also shows you're ignorant.
Settle down.
Splitter was also Spanish League MVP in 2010, and was pretty weak when he first came to the Spurs.
And he still is no star.
I don't see the problem with Gasol being aging (sure, he's no longer in his prime, when he was a beast and really underrated by all the Kobe fans), but more the position he's gonna play. He didn't work well with Dwight, doesn't want to play outside or PF, and was at his best when playing C. Especially today, when most teams go small, his ideal position is C.
So how is he gonna play with Noah on the floor ?
The spacing will be horrible, since none of them has that much range. Gasol can occasionally hit a 3, but defenses will be happy to let him shoot 50 3's a game.
I also think the loss of Deng is underrated, and the Bulls bench is weak.
If Thibs continues his tendency to rely heavily on the starters, he's gonna run them into the ground before the playoffs start.
The Bulls might end up being the only challenge to Lebron's Cavs, but that's because everyone else in the East has glaring weaknesses, and the Pacers managed to miss their biggest chance of making the finals.
If they kept their team intact (and didn't have the bad luck of the PG injury), they'd have been the de facto best team in the East. Normally they should have learned from their almost implosion last season and came back better. But they cheapened out on Lance and PG got hurt, and now they might not even make the playoffs.
