Pau Gasol is one of the best RIM PROTECTORS in the league

[Im Still Ballin]

http://stats.nba.com/defensivehub/#!..._RIM_FGA&dir=1

Highest volume of any player in the league (FG's defended at the rim)

Has a very good DFG% that rivals Whiteside, Deandre, Marc Gasol, Duncan, Bismack, Favors, Davis

[90sgoat]

Eye test told me this alone, I wrote about it before and in that thread all the dumbasses exposed themselves by calling Gasol a bad defender.

[miggyme1]

http://stats.nba.com/defensivehub/#!..._RIM_FGA&dir=1

Highest volume of any player in the league (FG's defended at the rim)

Has a very good DFG% that rivals Whiteside, Deandre, Marc Gasol, Duncan, Bismack, Favors, Davis

stats tell everything these days. smh......so great of a rim protector yet no one is mentioning it. Best rim protector since hakeem. Finished top 3 in the defensive player of the year the last 10 years and still hasn't won it. Was the anchor on the best defensive team last year (bulls). LMAO



stop it.....great offensively but defense has always eluded pau.

[pegasus]

I don't even think he can protect his own rim. He's been awful defender for several years now, and was never that good to begin with.

[Im Still Ballin]

LMAO

The stats are right there and they still deny it

Pau is a TOP RIM PROTECTOR

[90sgoat]

LMAO

The stats are right there and they still deny it

Pau is a TOP RIM PROTECTOR

They're fukking morons, allthough he wasn't as good in Lakers.

[Quickening]

Kobe fans melting down

[ralph_i_el]

Part of being a good rim protector is NOT letting the other team take a high volume of shots in that area....

[miggyme1]

LMAO

The stats are right there and they still deny it

Pau is a TOP RIM PROTECTOR

so why isn't anyone recruiting him or signing him for his rim protection?

You mean to tell me 30 Gms, thousands of scouts/analysts and everyone else is blind to pau being a TOP RIM PROTECTOR???

A decorated career in the nba and internationally and pau has never been lauded as a rim protector.....but according to you and another dummy he is because of some bs stat you found. OK

[HurricaneKid]

LMAO

The stats are right there and they still deny it

Pau is a TOP RIM PROTECTOR

He is a good rim protector because he backs up on PnRs. Rather than come out and defend PnRs like the rest of the league he gives space and allows the shot without defense. He defends the drive well, but is also giving unfettered jumpers. Which was fine back when everyone and their mother weren't 3 pt shooters.

That's how he is both a POOR defender and good at the rim.

[NBASTATMAN]

PAU was the 2010 FINALS MVP

We all knew the guy was a good defender..

[Im Still Ballin]

He is a good rim protector because he backs up on PnRs. Rather than come out and defend PnRs like the rest of the league he gives space and allows the shot without defense. He defends the drive well, but is also giving unfettered jumpers. Which was fine back when everyone and their mother weren't 3 pt shooters.

That's how he is both a POOR defender and good at the rim.

Pau Gasol 2016 3pt defense: 31.4%

1 attempt defended a game

[Im Still Ballin]

Part of being a good rim protector is NOT letting the other team take a high volume of shots in that area....

Rethink that logic

That's more of a question about the state of team defense, specifically perimeter defense

[Lebron23]

Kobe fans melting down

In 2025 he'll be out of the top 15.

[beastee]

Is he a great rim protector of the dudes in front of him...Yes! Awesome at it.

I watch nearly every Bulls game and the amount of weak side cuts deployed against him and his lack of P&R catchup defense is what is so frustrating. Throw the ball behind him and its an easy bucket EVERY time. I know that can be said against most defenders...but good teams figured out to attack him that way constantly.