Blog a Bull: "Signing Pau Gasol Was A Mistake"

[dontgetchoked]

While the author is being pretty dramatic, a lot of what he says is true. Pau doesn't box dudes out and gives up a lot of offensive rebounds, He is slow as **** so his defense is pathetic. Vucivic dominated him 1 on 1 in the post a bunch of times when we played orlando. A big reason why our defense is so bad this year is because pau plays center on defense because he's so slow, so joakim is pulled out away from the rim. While pau blocks a lot of shots, he doesnt rotate well to help. pau off the bench would be great, however he is still better than mirotic and taj .

Taj is a bad passer and almost never passes the ball once he gets it in the post. His post up game is very good though, as is his defense and rebounding. His mid range seems to have regressed some this year. Niko is inconsistent and lacks confidence. He pump fakes less than he did at the beginning of the season, but he still needs to pull the trigger more. All the blame for the bulls struggles can't be placed on pau though. Joakim hasn't been himself this year ( due to injury as well as playing out of position) taj has been hurt, dunleavy missed 16(?) games with an ankle injury and derrick rose has been shit for the most part.

I came into the season expecting to make the finals, but the way the bulls have been playing they may not make it out of round 2. They have the talent to be a finals team, but guys just arent playing hard. Even the last two seasons when we knew we werent going far, the players played with more passion. right now they are playing like a bunch of *** boys

[secund2nun]

It's not Gasol's fault that Rose sucks and is causing Chicago to lose with his never ending chuckfest.

[SexSymbol]

Gasol never knew how to box out, no matter who he was playing against. For such an offensively skilled player to be so unskilled and untrained defensively is one of the biggest misfortunes and wastes of height and potential I've ever seen.

[nathanjizzle]

Nonsense

[keep-itreal]

If Gasol wasn't on this team they would be at the bottom of the east

[tamaraw08]

yeah, it's a mistake alright for signing a 2 ringed winner averaging 18 pts 12 rebs and 2.+ blocks per game.

Is Pau infallible? nope, yes, he has slowed down, sometimes late in the rotation, not posting low enough etc, but he is NOT the main reason the Bulls are not measuring up.

[Bandito]

It's not Gasol's fault that Rose sucks and is causing Chicago to lose with his never ending chuckfest.

[Mr. Jabbar]

after reading the whole article kobe climbed from 7 all time to 5 all time

[VeeCee15]

The obvious problem is rose killing team chemistry and shooting them out of games while playing 0 defense.

The dude is now a scrub..he's far from his ASTERISK MVP season. He's half the player that he was and cannot shoot at all.

Bulls were better without rose. OR rose needs to limit himself to 15-18 shots a game at the most.

[JohnFreeman]

Get rid of Rose.

[G-train]

This is old news for those that watch Bulls games.

[MellowYellow]

You mad bulls fans that Melo passed on a ship this year with the Bulls to win a ship next year with the Knicks?

[GoldMedallist]

I really can't understand that article.

Some points he makes are valid. He is not so quick anymore, and has defensive flaws, but he admit he could be better off the bench (I agree) and deadly against second units. Then why blame him? That statement makes that Thibs's responsibility.

And he really is playing worse these days, and he will continue doing if he plays more than 35 minutes per game. What can you expect? He is 34, and hardly stopped playing since he joined the nba.

He should play 25 minutes from now on (actually, he should have done that the entire season) to reach the playoffs fresh. But, again, that is coach's fault.

And no, he won't be a cancer if he does not play 35 min per game. You don't know Pau if you think that. He only wants to be a part of the team, winning and not being used as a 3 pointer shooter, that's all.

[coin24]

The Bulls have a few problems at the moment..

I think the players are zoning thibs out, Rose is chucking like crazy, missing layups wtf, Gasol has been a turnstile on d and an average rebounder for a few years now..
Not sure if Noah is injured but he looks like crap, taj is like a non factor...
Butler is a bright spot, he's beasting, same with brooks off the bench..

What happened to McDermott?

[poido123]

Pau is the same on defense as he always has been.


Still lazy on help defense and regularly let's the guards drive to the rack without any attempt to block the shot.

However, he's been solid offensively and has rebounded the ball well.

Overall he's been a blessing, considering we had boozer who did zero on D.