What's Up With Pau Gasol These Past Several Games?

[KingsFan416]

What's up with Phil playing him 46 minutes tonight. Freaking ridiculous.

Well, he has no back up center that can do the job now that Theo is out. Gasol will play a lot of minutes than usual.

[Rose]

He ran into...Joakim Noah, and after that happens....you never look the same again.

[04mzwach]

Ever since Darko owned him:

Darko's stock UP

Gasol's stock DOWN

[gilalizard]

1. He's probably tired.

2. He's finally going up against some decent competition. He was feasting on the smaller teams earlier in the season. Both Noah and Hibbert kept in him check, Don't know how you can blame Kobe for that but where there's a will there's a way.

Yeah I think so. The combination of fatigue and stiffer competition.

He'd be doing better against these better bigs if he wasn't playing so many minutes.

[Lakers12]

He's too f-cking passive. I hate that about him. He's too good offensive.

this. when he gets a chance to post up, he passes instead of shooting. inside shot is better than an outside shot. and he's got too many lazy passes out of the double team, too many deflections.

[TMacYaoRockets]

Pau Gasol for LeBron!

[Batz]

Fatigue.

[oh the horror]

While I realize its a hard concept to swallow for some of you kids, considering the fact that most of the normal routines here consist of eating Doritos, and playing basketball on your playstations....but players DO get tired after awhile.


I mean Bynum is out, and Theo Ratliff is out right now. Do people even know that? This means, yes...you guessed it, Gasol has to play more and more minutes.

[bdreason]

He's playing too many minutes because Phil doesn't trust the other bigs on the team. 40+ minutes a night for Pau is too much.... I thought Phil was the master at "pacing" his team.

[Lakers12]

Ever since Darko owned him:

Darko's stock UP

Gasol's stock DOWN

next time they play the timberwolves, bynum will be on darko. hopefully pau will eat kevin love alive.

[LAClipsFan33]

I think you're lying.

I just watched the damn game. I live in L.A. I get ALL of the Laker AND Clipper games. I watch most of them.

[oh the horror]

He's playing too many minutes because Phil doesn't trust the other bigs on the team. 40+ minutes a night for Pau is too much.... I thought Phil was the master at "pacing" his team.

Well, really though, what other bigs are on the team? I mean there is Caracter...and thats damn near about it dude. Bynum, AND Theo are OUT.

[LAClipsFan33]

What the hell are you talking about?

I'm talking about how Kobe decided to shoot most of the teams shots for the game and the Lakers shifted to Kobe mode. When this happens nobody wants to shoot and they just figure Kobe will take all the shots. How did the end of the game look ? Like this...

[KingMichael23]

I'm talking about how Kobe decided to shoot most of the teams shots for the game and the Lakers shifted to Kobe mode. When this happens nobody wants to shoot and they just figure Kobe will take all the shots. How did the end of the game look ? Like this...

Kobe gave them the ball and nobody was making anything. If Kobe wasn't in the game, they still wasn't making baskets. What do you want them to do?

[B-Easy]

he cant play flawless all year ..

seriously when your bad games are 15-15 , 13-13 double double type games .. then youre in good shape.