Gasol

Big baby, a weirdos weirdo

Did he just let that hit the floor or?

http://streamable.com/yudv

Brad Stevens

already better than Doc

Pelicans get back into the top 8 ahead of OKC. Please hang on

Well done CP3.

Dominating performance yesterday against Westbrook.

Hopefully, we'll see a lot more of that from him come playoff time.

17 offensive rebounds from Drummond last night. GSW not going anywhere against better teams if they dont rebound the ball.

Give the Grizzlies (or any West playoff team) 17 extra possessions and you lose. Without question.

Well, it is Drummond.......

AD is a beast, but 17 offensive rebounds is more than just him being him.

17........

That shouldn't be happening but, Bogut, Lee, Green and Speights........ what more can they do?

They are gonna get abused.

Agreed. Said they needed another big, they could have used Perkins..dead serious. He at least is a big body and while not a premier rebounder of any sort, he always boxes out well which allows others to get the boards.

Which teams in particular would do the most damage to them in that regard?

Clippers
Memphis
Spurs
OKC

They'll go to 7 games against each of those just because of that.

Memphis are the first team which come to mind straight away. I am pretty confident they would beat GSW. ZBO and Gasol would maul them.

Their best defensive weapons, Green, Iggy and Klay are useless in this match up. Bogut obviously is a factor too but not much he can do vs Gasol.

Im not sure about the Spurs and Clippers, because they seem to prefer to get back on defence than crash the offensive glass. But I think Duncan and Jordan especially would accidentally fall into rebounds. Jordan is so hard to box out, he would likely dominate on offensive glass.

I dont know about OKC, Kanter is a strong rebounder though.

The rely so heavy on Bogut, maybe not now but in the playoffs. If he cant play post defence on Duncan/Jordan/Kanter AND rebound the ball....they are in trouble.

In any event, I would bet money on the Spurs or Memphis beating them in a series. OKC and Clippers less so, but I wouldnt be surprised in the slightest.

I agree.

They are gonna have to rely heavily on their perimeter defence throughout then.

Bogut will get into foul trouble a lot so I fear for them.

Question.

If Pelicans are in the playoffs and OKC are not why is it that Westbrook is getting more hype as it attains to MVP than Anthony Davis?

izzy wrote:Which teams in particular would do the most damage to them in that regard?

Clippers
Memphis
Spurs
OKC

They'll go to 7 games against each of those just because of that.

Portland, they have no one to stop LMA. Anyway it's not just defense they lack offensively as it attains to bigs. Everyone says the game has changed but i still see teams with low post scorers being dominant in the playoffs and having the most success.

Everyone uses Spurs as an example as to why Warriors can win it, forgetting one major thing. Tim Duncan is the reason Spurs were able to win that 5th championship and get to the final the year before without him they don't have a hope in hell.

I didn't include Portland simply because LMA shoots so many jumpers and doesn't play under the basket. He plays away from it, but I get your point.

The Davis and Westbrook thing? I don't know why. I will say this though, Tyreke Evans is having a very good season.

I agree he shoots too many jumpers, but then again so does Dirk ( although he's more efficient) both are them are capable of causing damage to that frontline though.

Dallas are just shit in general right now so i'll ignore them, but Portland would have a chance.

Dallas?

They are all over the place and they may need to take Rondo out of the starting line-up. The spacing with him, Chandler and Ellis on the floor is terrible. They can barley generate offense.

Dirk can't carry that load anymore can he?

Nope as it stands right now they are going out the first round. I don't care who they face, shame because they looked really good before the trade.

Just using Dirk as an example of how a big who does like to shoot could cause them damage, not that Dallas in general would as if something doesn't change drastically they are not hurting anyone.

Portland can though.

I don't know Mole.

You would need Lopez to have a big series for Portland to do it.

I think the biggest factor is Batum, if he can play to his potential then they are capable and that translate to most teams Portland face.

Him performing changes everything for them, if he doesn't though they are out in the first round unless they face Dallas

Dallas

True, Batum is their best perimeter player imo. I think he'll step up in the playoffs.

Lillard has been streaky as well.

Game of the season so far, wow.

Kyrie is a beast. Offensively he's just as good as anyone in the league pound for pound, probably the most offensively gifted PG in the league tbh.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Question.

If Pelicans are in the playoffs and OKC are not why is it that Westbrook is getting more hype as it attains to MVP than Anthony Davis?

Media narrative IMO.

For some strange reason, the kinda arbitrary hype about getting triple doubles (even while turning the ball over a truly incredible amount) is more hype worthy than what Davis is doing.

LeSwagg James wrote:Game of the season so far, wow.

Kyrie is a beast. Offensively he's just as good as anyone in the league pound for pound, probably the most offensively gifted PG in the league tbh.

The amazing thing about the performance was that there was nothing really the Spurs could do that differently. I read that they contested 30 of his 32 shots, you cant do much more than that.

Though I would have liked to see Green guarding him more than Parker.

Great game last night.

Me and my friend got in an argument last night about whether that performance by Kyrie was "clutch" or not.

He gave it a 10.
I gave it a 5.

It's the regular season. The post-season means so much more to me imo.