Pau Gasol - Point Center

Passing in clearly in the Gasol blood. Marc & Pau are both capable, willing and very good passers. The ability to see the floor and make the right reads as a big man is a great commodity to have in this ever evolving NBA landscape where spread offense is blossoming but to have a 7 footer capable of distributing the rock is flat out special. Pau not only routinely makes the correct decision, but he also puts it in places where only his guy can get it. Pau is an excellent passer and an exceptional player.

[@stevenchhan8722]

Pau + Bynum was a thing of beauty. I miss that duo

[@DiegoLopez-np7bz]

This guy is such a beast!! He'll be a hall of famer when he retires 4 sure.

[@norvinzor]

Lakers retire #16>Hall of fame

[@elfo7]

You were right.

[@carefulapathy18]

pau is soo underrated

[@marcosbueno6146]

true

[@omgmz5019]

It´s just cause he isn´t a highlight player like dwight or howard, for example. You need to look to an entire game to see how good Pau is

[@Doramuotoko]

like dwight or howard? isnt them the same lol

[@bellezayeducacion]

Pau with Spain won practically alone one eurobasket with 34 or 35 years, and was the best one of a world-wide one that gained, that says everything.

[@bemylady1238]

very true bro, one of the most skilled bigman ever played the game

[@armin38822]

Pau makes me love basketball even more.

[@bootch82]

I always love looking back that last fast break play. 4 lakers running the floor on a fast break (back when Pau still had enough pace to do it), Kobe had more smiles than growls, and most of all, that huge smile on Lamar Odom's face.

[@pjj5919]

Pau Gasol is actually a point guard at the start of his basketball career in Spain, so no wonder he's really good at passing and just being a good team player. watching this on 2021

[@abugonapugonamugonarug1653]

😂 this is what happens to a lot of greats. Started as a point guard then they get a 10” growth spurt.

[@Jaimito1981]

Most skilled Big Man in the game imo

[@clo2871]

I took Pau for granted after the 2nd championship smh. He was still so good and impacted the game in so many ways

[@KH-ou4st]

Pau Gasol officially retires, thanks for the longtime memories

[@creussdrey7413]

odom looked so happy in that last play.

[@gregoden6956]

NBA 2k doesn't give this guy enough love.

[@xcvsumextra]

Dylan de Jong nba 2k gives lebron a 99. he should be about 94

[@thecrusher141]

+Carter Stamsta he's a 96 but whatever

[@ericaugusto758]

in 2k 10 - 12 pau was the best PF

[@jespacey]

NBA 2k programmers are filthy casuals that rely on highlight plays only

[@Tdrummer888]

He basically gave Bynum a career with his passing, huh

[@antonytaylor9051]

TripleEightVideos #Facts

[@lukamagicgod]

Bynum is a very good post player

[@chuchonmc]

What center can do this? And shoot 7/8 in 3point? or make 40 points in the final of Eurobasket?

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

pau played PF most of his career, i would say he is still point foward. Jokic might be first true point center

[@makcum1]

@@NostalgicMem0ries Jokic so beast atm

[@cheapuber]

@@NostalgicMem0ries the first true point center was Arvydas Sabonis.

[@israeljimenez9651]

Semifinal, but true.

[@goodstew214]

demarcus cousins

[@714milky]

Future Hall of Famer.

[@CarlosMoreno-xy8wc]

I really love this video, thanks Evin! Big Pau

[@creydadj]

0:07 the infamous Kobe “ayyyyyyyy”

[@basketball_historian23]

Pau's game is one of my favorite to watch he had a jumper from about 16 feet he was great at catching the ball in the post his passing was great to watch and he was amazing at defense and getting rebounds

[@zxxx9852]

that pau in transition is very splendid 😳

[@thegamingturtles3192]

He makes the game fun to watch

[@Tdrummer888]

Oh shit, Pau playing with Aldridge is going to be fucking wonderful

[@jchukwuezi]

TripleEightVideos loool

[@Stormfail]

Josh Chukwuezi feelsbadman

[@jankarlo3798]

before the CP3 PnR pass to Blake Griffin who lobs it to DeAndre, there was the Kobe to Pau lob to Bynum. We had so many easy points from that play. You can even see GSW utilizing that presently and the past couple years with Steph and Draymond PnR, Steph passes to Draymond who lobs to Bogut while rolling to the basket. In short, Pau helped revolutionize the point forward. A young Pau could be developed into a triple double machine if he was the main guy on the team, but he certainly beyond excels as a compliment. You can run so many plays with this guy, high post, low post, PnR, great touch from the post and mid range, his only flaw was perimeter defense, maybe consistency and mentality, but I really do feel that Kobe helped him maximize his potential. Nevertheless he certainly is underrated and deserves to be in the HOF.

[@ramjb]

A guy with his career (it's 15 years in the NBA atm, and he's still got a couple or three more years on him), Rookie of the year, 2 rings, several times All-Star, and that international career with the spanish national team (one World Cup and MVP, several Eurocups and MVPs, and the epic Olympic finals putting *THOSE* NBA teams under real pressure to win), and widely recognized as one of the best big men in the game?. I personally also rate him as the best non-american NBA player ever (tho I'll concede that whoever says Dirk has been better has some good grounds to say so). It's not that he deserves it, Gasol is a guaranteed future Hall of Famer. PS: and if his brother keeps on this track, he'll be HOF too. Only thing Marc is lacking is a ring, but honestly in an NBA where if you don't play in GSW nor the Cavs you're out of chances to win a ring, that's not his fault).

[@jairedlink8710]

ramjb Hakeem Olajuwon would like a word with that. But yeah, Pau is seriously underrated and a definite HOF.

[@Jardermorder]

@@ramjb He's got it now!

[@ramjb]

@@Jardermorder yep, he got that ring, and he's a two times FIBA World Champion now after this summer ;). Another future HOF no doubt ;).

[@jespacey]

he was the grizzlies main guy for 7 years

[@i.g.s4745]

Wenn Pau was younger, in his years in Spain playing with Cornella and later with F.c.Barcelona, many times he played in the point guard position, that helps him to have a better vision, agility, and shoot

[@leeevan6908]

low post, hook shot, mid range shot, long range shot, shot blocking, steals, ball handling, passing, rebounding, wheew!, he can do it all as a 7-footer

[@TeamLilCorey]

Low post hook shot mid range shot long range shot shot blocking steals ball handling passing rebounds he can do a lot at 7ft high IQ basketball player

[@TheBoxingLaboratory]

Most versatile PF ever.

[@Byronic19134]

That 3highLow with Kobe to Pau to Bynum was unstoppable.

[@michaeloc14]

it seems impossible that they screwed up a gasol/dwight duo, so much talent there man

[@ramjb]

+Michael Li it's not that they screwed up the duo, it's that Howard didn't gel with the Lakers. LA has been since Shaq's departure Kobe's team, and it's not a secret that Kobe is dead serious about basketball. Howard never felt at home with the way things worked in LA's locker room nor with the way Kobe understood leadership, work ethics and professionalism. Obviously once the season was over and the contract expired, Dwight left. Quite honestly, it's on Howard. If you want to be an NBA champion you must be serious about it - otherwise you'll end up failing. He's got the talent but I don't think he has the right mindset. Certainly he didn't have the one KB expected, and if you get shunned by Kobe ,you're out of the Lakers (well, at least is how it was until this season now he's retiring).

[@darkdmj18]

+ramjb its actually a lot more than that. the kobe/ dwight thing was a small part of it. jim buss screwed things up. that year they had mike brown as coach i believe and they fired him after like 2 weeks. kobe, dwight and pretty much all of LA was led to believe phil was going to be brought back to coach, but jim buss wanted to do away with everything that had to do with his dads era (jerry buss who died). he went ahead and hired mike dantoni who's style of play (which is basically a running up and down game playing no defense) didn't suit dwights style (who was a big time defensive presence at the time). dwight was also playing with a serious back injury so playing under dantoni would've been horrible for his health. i actually blame that time dantoni was coach as the main reason kobes legs have deteriorated so horribly, but i digress. but when it came time to re-up that summer, howard walked. and personally, i think it was the right move for him (laker fan here). even if he didn't have that "winner' instinct, he's at the very least a defensive beast who u can lob the ball to and at his best he could've been way better than what we were hoping andrew bynum would've become. jim buss has ruined the organization top to bottom, so nobody is coming to LA until he's gone. That kobe/pau/ howard partnership could've been pretty damn special had phil been coaching the team.

[@TheBoxingLaboratory]

It's because we had the wrong coach who didn't know what to do with all that talent. People started blaming Gasol, saying he was soft and everyone just ran with it like a bunch of idiots. We could have done so much more with him.

[@bemylady1238]

i think wrong coach for that duo

[@nonplayerzealot4]

Haha at Utah play at end. I was wondering if you had that. I got that game, that was the play I knew had to be included. Props.

[@cadroy]

nice vid,thanks

[@nicoz8796]

Welcome to Spurs

[@laker1032]

Pau was the first incarnation of the skill that Centers have now, these aren't the bang bang days of Shaq

[@ER_MAGO11_D_D10S]

Uno de los mejores ala pívot de la historia del basket

[@FreeFlow__]

most skilled big man since olajuwon

[@brad7566]

Had me worried that the iconic Pau Guard play wouldn't be in here but you saved the best for last

[@Maison2442]

boom boom pau

[@creydadj]

0:07 the patented Kobe “ayyyyyyyyy”

[@Sam-ky3su]

Magic Gasol

[@bellezayeducacion]

genius! 3:51

[@noOne-pn9nx]

I miss gasol

[@alvaronavarro98]

pau gasol and dwight howard were fire tho

[@Realsaltyveteran]

The og joker

[@Freefluffy47]

how could u dislike this smh

[@_Maxten]

You had the point center and The point Power Forward (Lamar Odom) on the same team lol

[@knee-colayo-kitc104]

When you pass him the ball get it above his head!!!!!

[@bellezayeducacion]

omg 5:07 PERO KOBE DE QUE PLANETA VINISTE!

[@Sendoh32]

imagine if the lakers didnt include Marc in the Pau trade package.

[@Souliban]

underrated cause he is white and european

[@Antelitteram]

clever and unselfish. that simple

[@xxcojo6xx]

Lakers have a history of getting some of the best players in the history of the game and failing to utilize them. Dwight Howard, Steve Nash, Gary Payton, Karl Malone, and I know I'm missing more

[@esvinperez556]

All of those players except for Howard were old as hell when they joined the Lakers.

[@ramjb]

Dwight is far from being even remotely close to "one of the best players of the history of the game". He had the potential but he's wasted it by...well being Dwight Howard. Nash lost more games because of his chronic injuries than those he could play for the Lakers, he was not a cripple when he signed...but was not far off. GP and Malone were far past their prime and they both signed out of desperation in a last desperate bid for winning a ring, and they failed due to many reasons , them being past their prime not being the smallest of them. And even while all of them were excellent players, I wouldn't rate any of those in any top-10 list of NBA legends. On the other hand you have a much bigger list of players, who actually were really amongst the best in the history of the game, and which the Lakers indeed knew how to use. Wilt. Kareem. Magic. Shaq. Kobe....all of whom can perfectly be placed in a top-10 NBA all-time best player list (of course with a fierce debate because out of those 5...it's arguable that some of them don't really belong to said top 10. Much less the names you brought up). Bottom point: I think you're pretty unfair with that assessment.

[@deandrepage1048]

Before Denver Nuggets Jokic arrived on the scene 😎😎😎.

[@Kevinschart]

there is no excuse for pau, howard, and kobe to not be competitive that year

[@vincecarpenter661]

Pau trying to be magic

[@bellezayeducacion]

quién es el 12 de los lakers?

[@dlq137]

Howard

[@tenasjay11]

jokic?

[@controversialmann5345]

Pau>AD

[@JayBond420]

I hope the Lakers can sign him to a 1 year and retire with the Lakers

[@jespacey]

he was better at this than draymond green ever will be

[@Daniel-fj8eu]

2 ads in a row? fk youtube

[@_Maxten]

I wish there was a real starting Point Center In real life. Closest thing today would probably be Ben Simmons or Giannis. MAYBE

[@ramjb]

Well that already exists. Magic. Take a look at how he got his first finals MVP, and which position he was playing in the series...

[@_Maxten]

ramjb yeah but I mean like a regular starting one. Where their actual title is Point Center. I love swingmen and how versatile they are. Magic is one of my fav players ever

[@valorantgddfg334]

this is mostly just him lobbing to howard

[@Deepblackice]

if only Andrew Bynum stayed healthy...

[@danidemiguel8268]

Odom, Kobe, Howard... Everybody played better with Pau on the court.

[@aridho1956]

join Sixers

[@cyrus8752]

Lmao no

[@zxxx9852]

better than joel embiid❤️

[@---wc2zp]

Lakers Pau Gasol is way better than Healthy Lakers Anthony Davis

[@gabrielalvarez8209]

Tim Duncan is still better