Reports: Lakers offering Gasol for Joshua"Mid Range Shawty"Smith and Kyle Korver

[Mr Hate Coffee]

fukk outta here. Lakers tryna rape us.

It was all good just a week ago

Kobe said the same thing right before Mike Brown got fired. Bean is obviously a liar.

 

[Romey Rome]

if mitch the gawd could pull off pau and jamison or another scrub for lamarcus aldridge and nic batum

 

[AVXL]

Not gonna happen. LAL offered this deal this past summer & we declined. Doesn't make sense for us to add a contract when our team is set up with a bunch of expiring deals after this season

 

[NatiboyB]

I don't get how come no one realizes ATL don't want no Pau they aren't trying to contend for anything. They will let Smoove walk for nothing before messing up there cap by brining in Gasol.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Take the risk with his bad shot selection? That's equivalent to playing Russian roulette with six rounds. Trust me, you don't want none of that. D'Antoni's offense will just give him more situations to put up shyt from 16-ft out. Teams will just beg him to shoot off the PNP/PNR and they'll stay deeper in the paint when they see him with the ball - low% chance (compared to Pau) they fall for p-fakes to draw them out. Yes, his athleticism will enable him to captalize on more drives to the hole than Gasol - but not to the point where it will outweigh Pau's production-ability = ability to hit from the outside or re-set with Nash or make a play for x-player; things which Smith is damn near incapable of doing. Plus you've got the whole free throw situation as well, having Smith and Howard at the line in close games (which will be inevitable in the playoffs) is heart attack material; the chances of BOTH of them hitting FTs (in a game) to a beneficiary-level for the Lakers is too low to even think about.

It's really no use moving Gasol now. This team's window is this season and this season only; moving him for Smith would just be counter-productive. Pau knows what it takes to get the job done, not saying he'll get it done but this team doesn't have time to be mixing and matching 'big pieces' in hopes for a remedy, that they might not even need.

Lakers have more of a chance winning a ship this season with Pau then they do with Smith. That I'm sure of.

Yeah...disagree with pretty much all of that...and Yup, again i'd take that risk...because after all the talk of josh being some reckless jumping shooting terrorist, we're left with worst case scenario a low 40% jump shooting pf on offense...with is what we got in Pau right damn now...but with worse defense and less explosiveness in the open court...and less ability to match up with small line ups trotted out by other contenders in the league...

I'd absolutely take his ability to attack the rim over the possibility of Pau's ability-production at hesitating on taking open jumpers and swinging the ball with no real purpose...averaging 12pts in playoff series while getting dominated and taken out of games by a 6'6 players...I'm done with all these abstract discussions about Pau's "ability and iq" based on what he did 4 years ago playing another position...I've already seen where the argument ends the last two playoffs (mind you, I'm somebody who would LOVE to be proven wrong in this case)...I'll happily take whatever supposed peril and doom would await this team replacing pau for josh as 3rd option on offense, for what it'd stand to gain on the other end of the floor....it's waaay past due time to trade pau...the moment the decision was made Bynum had to get most of the minutes at center, pau had to go...in hindsight they should've took houston's package of martin, dragic and scola straight up when the CP3 deal fell through..trading him now for an athletic replacement like josh extends the window if anything...though they may have waited too long and have to wait till his contract becomes an expiring so he gets some trade value back...

 

[RickyGQ]

Pau/Blake for Calderon/Bargnani.

this is actually a good deal...

 

[jfkennedy]

pau + artest +blake for klove + luke + budinger >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Why would the Lakers trade for a guy who is hurt for the next 4 months? And that's just Budinger, Love is out another 2-4 weeks.

 

[kash10003]

if mitch the gawd could pull off pau and jamison or another scrub for lamarcus aldridge and nic batumQUOTE]

ROFL, you nikkas are delusional as fukk

 

[J-MIL]

Why the fukk would atl want pau

 

[Mr swag]

Korver should kill that deal

 

[eastside313]

i meant in terms of running up and down the court on fast breaks and defending 3s and 4s.
theres more to being a stretch 4 than range on your jumper.
josh isnt your prototypical power forward at all from an athletic standpoint.

bruh the term stretch 4 or 5 means bigs that can shoot

 

[kingofnyc]

this is actually a good deal...

 

[Romey Rome]

if mitch the gawd could pull off pau and jamison or another scrub for lamarcus aldridge and nic batumQUOTE]

ROFL, you nikkas are delusional as fukk

i know its scary just chill

 

[DoubleClutch]

Why do the Lakers gotta have a perfect team. They got Dwight, Nash, the leading scorer in the league. Thats 3 players in the top 5 of their position. Then then got a new coach. They have Pau and don't appreciate him.

Like someone said, "the talent is there"....but it's never enough.

Lakers fans are just to greedy/lazy. They want the perfect situation? Watch them as for Phil again at some point in this season.

 

[RickyGQ]

The raps would have to put some picks up or maybe add a third wing player but bargs is a stretch 4...