Marc Gasol Discussion: The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On The Plain

You keep “lying” about that. The front office tied his hands and promised the starting position to Drummond. Stop it! Vogel would never on his own have handled it that way.

 

Gasol had already been replaced by Trez. Why do you think they wanted Drummond in the first place? We already knew Gasol wasn't the answer. That whole promised the starting role stuff is a bunch of hot air. The guy underperformed to the point that we considered a 6'7 power forward a better option at 5. Now it's some kind of huge deal that we brought in another 5 to start? That doesn't make any sense.

 

Gasol spent time out for Covid, Slick, and came back and had to work back in shape, they didn’t make Trez start for any other reason. Same thing with you ignoring and calling it hot air what everyone knew at the time and was written after the fact of it happening that Rob landed Drummond with the promise of starting. SMH.

 

I'm hoping that AD is at 100 percent and dominant all season. That way it will be pretty irrelevant what the traditional 5 is doing.

 

To Marc or Not to Morc........is the question? Gasol has been more Morc, than Marc.

 

My point is Marc had no reason to complain about starting. Covid or not, he was lackluster all season. I fail to see what issue was supposedly caused, by promising Drummond the starting position in the first place. According to Dudley it motivated Gasol to play with more effort. That coming from a legit locker room guy, wasn't some ringing endorsement of Gasol's play IMO. Perhaps you can enlighten me differently.

 

That's all the Lakers need. If that happens, it's over for everyone.

 

If anything Trez had a legit beef for Vogel cutting his minutes for Gasol when Drummond came.

 

One little comment, could even have been kidding and you’ve of course run with it, and there was no reason if healthy for him not to start.

WUT?

WUT? It was Gasol that got benched and DNPs, not Trez.

 

That wasn't kidding, he repeated it on multiple occasions and never walked it back. It was never contradicted by anyone either. There wasn't any reason for him to start, other than he started the season at 5.

 

Career low's in many things across the board. Can he contribute, yes. On a starters level, no. He's a stop gap because we can't afford anything else and that's a "fact". He shoots 40% from 3 on 2.3 attempts per game which means he hits barely one a game, big deal. Father time waits for no one and how long will it take him this year to play himself into shape?

Lol Gassed-ol


Yea he was a great player once upon a time, he's no longer that and that's a fact. Hopefully he can contribute In a limited role and prove me wrong. His "stats" aren't screaming I'm an NBA starter for any other team in this league there's another fact lol

 

What wasn't a fact? That he can't jump off the floor anymore or he has regressed from where he used to be? It's not my opinion, his "stats" show regression. Anyone can see he is a shell of what he used to be

Opinions also create discussion. Some of the top sports authorities have shows where they display their outlandish takes which creates tons of discussion. I don't feel my take here on Marc is outlandish, I just don't think he's the player some here think he is

 

I have 2 main takeaways from the last 24 hours:

1) it’s interesting that some are baffled by posters defending Gasol, but I find it just as baffling how much energy and time some have spent to hate on a guy that played less than 20MPG and all we’ve been saying is that he was adequate enough on a top defensive team, which virtually all data supports.

2) anyone using, “I’ve watched basketball for XX years and know what I’m seeing,” I refuse to accept that as a valid argument in any debate here. Most posters on this site can say that and stating that in defense of an opinion comes across as arrogant. Disregarding data doesn’t make it less true.

 

You can spin it however you want. He hasn't been asked to change his game to play here. The reason we brought him here is because of his court savvy and ability to play within a team concept. He just isn't who he used to be anymore and "that's a fact". He's been shooting 3s for the raps, been grabbing boards and starting the break with his outlets, been playing positional defense same thing he was doing there but it's no longer at the same level. These are all facts, I'm not making up some devisive narrative to stir the pot I just don't agree with the opposing faction who believes he still has a lot to offer and that's "my opinion".

 

Multiple occasions? Honest question for anyone else, do you recall Dudley being quoted saying this on "multiple" occasions? Since we're in L.A. and that's what happens with the Lakers press and any controversy, seems like this would have been a headline in the L.A. Times. Just asking? Doesn't sound like something Dudley would do publicly once he had made his little dig, if indeed that's what it was.