<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (austingriz76 @ Dec 13 2006, 08:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Pau Gasol mad ea HUGE difference on offense and defense. He averahed 5 assist and 20 points a game last year. Not to mention around 2 blocks a game which made it scary in the middle for penetrators. Eddie Jones who was probably a better one-on-one defender than Battier has been out and is just now coming back. Dahntey Jones emergence makes up for alotve Battiers defense and B Jacks offense off the bench and Hakim Warricks offense exceeds Shanes offense ALOT. So not even seeing the Grizzlies with there best player healthy and saying they are a terrible team is stupid. Just really idiotic. You cant judge a team as a whole AT ALL unless you see them all healthy together. And yes this is a bball forum where we should debate, but this is a topic about season turn-arounds, not about how wrong you are about the Grizzlies being terrible when all players are healthy.</div>I agree with SunnyD, you completely overrate that team. Gasol will help out the defense with his shot blocking ability, but he is not going to make that defense anywhere near what it was last year. He had smarter and better defensive players around him, than he has this year. Him as one player is not going to make up for an 8 point differential between last year and this year. Your pretending like Gasol was the only one running around on the floor last year, when that was far from the case. Eddie Jones could guard other shooting guards, but he did not have the ability to guard bigger players like Shane Battier can. Battier can guard people from the 4 spot all the way down to the 2 spot. That's alot of versatility on the defensive end of things, something your team does not have this year. You say that Dahntey Jones makes up for Battiers defese, and Jackson's offense off the bench. That is completely wrong though, as he is no where near the offenisve threat, or spark that Jackson is. Jackson's three point shooting was a huge spark off the bench, Jones does not have that spark. Like Eddie Jones, Dahntey Jones can't guard three different positions like Battier can, so I am failing to see where that Dahntey Jones gives you exactly what Bobby Jackson and Shane Battier gave you.And on a final note, you said that not even seeing the Grizzlies with their best player healthy, or as a whole team, and calling them a terrible team is idiotic. But then you said that with Gasol your team would be a top team in the West, so how would you know that? Pretty much your judging your team without seeing them all healthy together, but if someone else does the same and points out the truth, its idiotic?
