French Newspaper Le Monde Suggests Pau Gasol Was Doped At EuroBasket

[Rooster]

Zero evidence. Frechs being sore losers what else is new.

France just choked.

Spain and Greece cancelled each other out except the 5 quick fouls.

[BoutPractice]

I doubt that was what caused Pau Gasol to make his free throws, and French players to miss theirs...

[kennethgriffin]

dear france: nobody cares

[robert de niro]

the blogger who wrote that article keeps writing shit about Spain on his twitter, meltdown ensured

[Euroleague]

Pau was looking rather beastly this Summer. But he always shines on the World stage.

Zero evidence. Frechs being sore losers what else is new.

Gasol has never in his entire life played that good. He has also never in his entire life looked that fresh, or that athletic in terms of being able to play at top pace for duration over such a grueling tournament like that.

10 games in 12 days, playing max effort for heavy minutes...........

Even in his 20s he would have been half dead out there.

Just as an example, Antetokounmpo could barely even make it up the floor by the end of the tournament he was so exhausted and done. He was benched very early in Greece's do or die Olympic qualification game against Latvia, because he could not even make it up the floor actually. That's a 20 year old guy, considered a freak of nature athlete.

There is something suspicious about the whole thing, and a lot of people watching it were doubting it. But as the writer pointed out, nothing can come of it, because they did not test Gasol. Which is odd, considering how he was playing, at age 35, and how he has never played well when he was in his peak of his career.

With all that being said, the worst thing was the fact that Gasol traveled almost every time he touched the ball and the refs never called it, while they called every little ticky take travel against the other teams, and how Gasol kept getting free throws at all the important moments in all the crucial games, even if he was not actually fouled. That is actually a much bigger problem and issue to me than if a guy is doping or not, because it involves the refs favoring specific players and teams.

[Derka]

Natural to be suspicious because of that doc messing with doped cyclists, but it looks like France having a meltdown because Pau whipped that ass.

[Euroleague]

Natural to be suspicious because of that doc messing with doped cyclists, but it looks like France having a meltdown because Pau whipped that ass.

If Greece, France, or Lithuania would have beaten Spain, then this probably would not be a discussion. Greece and France almost beat them, Greece actually should have won, they just got unlucky really, and France had a 50/50 game with them and it went to overtime.

Lithuania stood no chance because they are a lower level team than those others.

But the way it did turn out. Spain did win, and I as said, it was mainly to me because of how the refs favored Spain, and not if Gasol was doped or not.

But that's the thing though, since Spain did win, now Gasol is going to come under the microscope because of the way he played.

If Spain had lost either one of those games down to the wire with Greece or France Gasol probably would have gotten through that tournament with no one in the media bringing it up though.

But it is the same way in the Olympics. It's almost always the medal winners that end up getting caught some how, not through testing, because they can't detect it, but through the microscope of suspicion about how they performed.

Really, there is no diet plan that explains Gasol suddenly getting that much better at age 35. Otherwise, every athlete in the world is going to be on that special diet.

Sure, the French are pissed off, but they have a legit reason to wonder about it. Even how Spain's basketball federation reacted to it, considering they went the Lance Armstrong route, with the we will sue the hell out of you.

[ShaqTwizzle]

Pau "The Gawd" Gasol destroyed France.

[Maga_1]

Gasol has a crew of 5 personal trainers (physioteraphist, yoga teacher, etc etc including a new added physiologist) that has been working with him since he left the Lakers, maybe... just a lucky guess... thats why?

[kennethgriffin]

this is sorta like the barry bonds situation


except gasol weighs 200 pounds less and doesnt have a fat bowling ball head

[HOoopCityJones]

Call me when he cramps up in a Finals because of alittle heat while literally every other player, ref and ball boy was fine, or has growths surgically removed from his jaw or how about a mysterious leave of absence to Miami mid season (a known Steroid haven) where he comes back looking like ultimate warrior despite starting the season at least 60 pounds lighter.

There's way more blatant examples of doping around the league than Pau Gasol putting together a great run.

[brain drain]

Gasol has a crew of 5 personal trainers (physioteraphist, yoga teacher, etc etc including a new added physiologist) that has been working with him since he left the Lakers, maybe... just a lucky guess... thats why?

You know what the "physiotherapists" job at the TDF is?

[Lebowsky]

Gasol has never in his entire life played that good. He has also never in his entire life looked that fresh, or that athletic in terms of being able to play at top pace for duration over such a grueling tournament like that.

10 games in 12 days, playing max effort for heavy minutes...........

Even in his 20s he would have been half dead out there.

Just as an example, Antetokounmpo could barely even make it up the floor by the end of the tournament he was so exhausted and done. He was benched very early in Greece's do or die Olympic qualification game against Latvia, because he could not even make it up the floor actually. That's a 20 year old guy, considered a freak of nature athlete.

There is something suspicious about the whole thing, and a lot of people watching it were doubting it. But as the writer pointed out, nothing can come of it, because they did not test Gasol. Which is odd, considering how he was playing, at age 35, and how he has never played well when he was in his peak of his career.

With all that being said, the worst thing was the fact that Gasol traveled almost every time he touched the ball and the refs never called it, while they called every little ticky take travel against the other teams, and how Gasol kept getting free throws at all the important moments in all the crucial games, even if he was not actually fouled. That is actually a much bigger problem and issue to me than if a guy is doping or not, because it involves the refs favoring specific players and teams.

Gasol was tested right after the final match. (In Spanish, last paragraph.)

[Lebron23]

The French being a biggest sore losers than the Kobetards in this forum.

[julizaver]

Gasol has never in his entire life played that good. He has also never in his entire life looked that fresh, or that athletic in terms of being able to play at top pace for duration over such a grueling tournament like that.

I watched few of Spain games and for me Gasol was ...just Gasol.

10 games in 12 days, playing max effort for heavy minutes...........

No, it is 9 games for 16 days (from 5.09 to 20.09.2015). And in the first 5 games, where the schedule was really really busy he played less then 30 minutes and his stats were not so good. After that with more days to rest he played great with more minutes and had better numbers.

Even in his 20s he would have been half dead out there.

Simply an exagaration.