<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">In the new-era media exclusive, Pau Gasol's Web site, www.paugasol.com, scooped everyone with these comments: "If they really want to keep me, then they have to make the necessary effort to get players around me that can compete at the maximum level. I want to be on a winning team that has ambition and fights for everything with stronger players."</div> Source: Chicago Tribune I guess personal websites are the way to request for trades now.
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Source: Chicago Tribune I guess personal websites are the way to request for trades now. </div> I would LOVE to see Gasol go to L.A. I think he is an underappreciated player who plays really hard and he is wasting away in Memphis.
Gasol should be able to be had for cheap, if Jermaine doesn't work out...I think Gasol could be possible, I know VC doesn't want to hear that.
I guess that in these days if you want to be traded the best place to put it is your own personal website right Shape!Gasol is a great player i will really want him in LA more than JO.
<div class="quote_poster">Mamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Gasol should be able to be had for cheap, if Jermaine doesn't work out...I think Gasol could be possible, I know VC doesn't want to hear that.</div> I really doubt that you would get him for cheap. Gasol doesn't absolutely want out of Memphis. JO wants out of Indiana badly according to the reports. Not to mention he is a better younger player than JO and you would probably have to take some bad contracts to get the salaries to match. I think you would have to trade all 3 of your pieces for him.(Bynum, Odom, and Brown) I really doubt that if the Jermaine O Neal trade doesn't work out that you have a prayer in getting Gasol. I'm assuming that if a JO deal doesn't work it is because the Lakers back out of trading their only 3 tradeable pieces. I don't really understand why Gasol is complaining so much now that they got Iavaroni instead of Fratello. They have Mike Miller and Rudy Gay on the wings and potentially Horford or Wright or Conley Jr to put alongside of them. Not to mention the experience that their younger guys that are deep on the bench have gotten from their PT while tanking. They are a HUGE sleeper for next year and depending on who they get they could be a legit playoff team again next year.
Trade Kobe for Gasol! Well, Gasol had it much worse than Kobe last season, so I don't blaim him for wanting out/wanting big changes.
I'd take Gasol's situation over Kobe's any day of the week now. It was tough on him because they were tanking, because they had such a bad start with Gasol injured. Not to mention their coaching situation. Iavaroni was a great choice for the Grizzlies. They should be a pretty good team next year assuming he can stay healthy.
