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Laker_Town
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gasol and davis would probably do well together.
But, i miss winning more than I miss gasol. Heck, I miss simply being competitive |
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audioaxes
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| the lazy "I dont want to be here" Pau would do nothing on this current team |
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| Steve007 wrote: | | He probably is missed by some right now because Boozer looks terrible. |
17-7-2-1 is terrible? As our only interior option? Ok. But Pau would have brought his quality NBA defense too, eh? I forgot, he doesn't play defense.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Steve007 wrote: | | He probably is missed by some right now because Boozer looks terrible. |
17-7-2-1 is terrible? As our only interior option? Ok. But Pau would have brought his quality NBA defense too, eh? I forgot, he doesn't play defense. |
That would be a subpar game for Pau, even last year. And better defense. |
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venturalakersfan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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Completely disagree about the defense. Pau was a sieve last season, at least Boozer will put a body on someone. And stastically Boozer's stats weren't that far off from Pau's last season.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Completely disagree about the defense. Pau was a sieve last season, at least Boozer will put a body on someone. And stastically Boozer's stats weren't that far off from Pau's last season. |
Really? Except Pau brings height, passing, and ball movement in addition to his scoring and rebounding. Boozer will put up points and thats about it. Pau's selflessness makes teammates better. Pau also defends against Dwight pretty good--Boozer cannot defend against DH. Boozer plays on an island.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| magicdays wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Completely disagree about the defense. Pau was a sieve last season, at least Boozer will put a body on someone. And stastically Boozer's stats weren't that far off from Pau's last season. |
Really? Except Pau brings height, passing, and ball movement in addition to his scoring and rebounding. Boozer will put up points and thats about it. Pau's selflessness makes teammates better. Pau also defends against Dwight pretty good--Boozer cannot defend against DH. Boozer plays on an island. |
Can we not do that thing where we underrate the players we don't have that we don't like, overrate players we don't have that we do like, and so on?
Pau was highly unmotivated as a Laker in his final season, so much so that he took less money to play elsewhere. |
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magicdays
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| ringfinger wrote: | | magicdays wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Completely disagree about the defense. Pau was a sieve last season, at least Boozer will put a body on someone. And stastically Boozer's stats weren't that far off from Pau's last season. |
Really? Except Pau brings height, passing, and ball movement in addition to his scoring and rebounding. Boozer will put up points and thats about it. Pau's selflessness makes teammates better. Pau also defends against Dwight pretty good--Boozer cannot defend against DH. Boozer plays on an island. |
Can we not do that thing where we underrate the players we don't have that we don't like, overrate players we don't have that we do like, and so on?
Pau was highly unmotivated as a Laker in his final season, so much so that he took less money to play elsewhere. |
Agreed but lets not kid ourselves about Boozer--he was amnestied.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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And as such is a bargain. I can't miss Pau when he bailed on the team.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| magicdays wrote: | | ringfinger wrote: | | magicdays wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Completely disagree about the defense. Pau was a sieve last season, at least Boozer will put a body on someone. And stastically Boozer's stats weren't that far off from Pau's last season. |
Really? Except Pau brings height, passing, and ball movement in addition to his scoring and rebounding. Boozer will put up points and thats about it. Pau's selflessness makes teammates better. Pau also defends against Dwight pretty good--Boozer cannot defend against DH. Boozer plays on an island. |
Can we not do that thing where we underrate the players we don't have that we don't like, overrate players we don't have that we do like, and so on?
Pau was highly unmotivated as a Laker in his final season, so much so that he took less money to play elsewhere. |
Agreed but lets not kid ourselves about Boozer--he was amnestied. |
Believe me ... I know exactly what Boozer is and what he isn't.
But Boozer showed more fire at moments of a 20pt blowout loss, then I've seen Gasol show in maybe 1-2 seasons now.
I'd much rather have a motivated Gasol over Boozer, but not an unmotivated Gasol over a motivated Boozer. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Completely disagree about the defense. Pau was a sieve last season, at least Boozer will put a body on someone. And stastically Boozer's stats weren't that far off from Pau's last season. |
Pau's gone and he dind't even want to come back here for more money so at the end of the day it's irrelevant but how do you get "not far off" between 17.4/9.5/3.5 assists/1.5 blocks and 13.7/8/1.6/0.3? That's not even in the same realm. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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You must have looked at the wrong boxscore, Boozer had 17, 7 ,2, 1 last night and shot over 50%.
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | You must have looked at the wrong boxscore, Boozer had 17, 7 ,2, 1 last night and shot over 50%. |
Nah, it was my fault. I thought you were comparing his production last season to Pau's. |
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venturalakersfan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| jonnybravo wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | You must have looked at the wrong boxscore, Boozer had 17, 7 ,2, 1 last night and shot over 50%. |
Nah, it was my fault. I thought you were comparing his production last season to Pau's. |
Gotcha, probably should have made that clearer. And just as with the bad things, we have to remember it is only one game.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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So this is the "diss guys who aren't here anymore and hence have nothing to do with anything" thread? Got it.  |
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OregonLakerGuy
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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It is actually too bad that we didn't have Davis with Pau. That would have been a good combination.
As to the OP, I don't miss Pau. He did what he came here to do and for whatever reason you choose to believe, he was done as a Laker. |
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kcxiv
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I dont, it was time to part ways with him. We gotta build this (bleep) from the ground up. There is no other way. |
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cirehawk
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Completely disagree about the defense. Pau was a sieve last season, at least Boozer will put a body on someone. And stastically Boozer's stats weren't that far off from Pau's last season. |
To me, Boozer has always been one to put up "meaningless" stats. Most of his points last night (and in MOST games) came when the game was a forgone conclusion. Whenever you really need him to make an impact, he disappears. He was like that in Utah, and in Chicago as well. |
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dawglaker
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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I dont miss him for 13mil , the price we probably would've had to pay him to stay
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| With Gasol gone Kobe basically has nobody to really talk to lol |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: I miss pau gasol |
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| magickobe24 wrote: | | LAKERSCMXCIX wrote: | | If he was in the middle alongside this squad the lakers would be pretty damn good |
no they wouldnt. you miss a real 7 footer. as a laker fan there has never been a time when we didnt have at least one legit 7 foot big that could play. sacre is not the one. lol.
We're ultra small in every way right now. |
Agree with this. It's not Pau specifically, it's that this team doesn't have a real center. Running two guys who should be backup power forwards at center isn't going to cut it. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Looking real good right now. Playing defense too.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| You watch pau Gasol consistently take it to the basket and draw fouls as a member of the Bulls and it pisses you off because it becomes more obvious how badly he was phoning it in his last few seasons as a Laker. |
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leor_77
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| 21/11 in his first game. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| leor_77 wrote: | | 21/11 in his first game. |
I think he'll post rejuvenated numbers this season just because he's in a different environment now. Its a team that has a chance to go deep in the eastern conference. |
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