Bigger heist: Doncic trade or Pau Gasol trade?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:32 pm    Post subject: Bigger heist: Doncic trade or Pau Gasol trade?

Which was the bigger steal?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:34 pm    Post subject:

This team have more holes now… They lost interior and perimeter defense.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:38 pm    Post subject:

You just triggered Screamin A's KWA MAY Brown. AD is light-years better than the Gasol package. I love landing Luka but no comparison.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:39 pm    Post subject:

It will always be Pau.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:48 pm    Post subject:

Lakers don’t have a center. Lakers were contenders then. We’ll have to see how Luka reacts and health.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:50 pm    Post subject:

The Gasol trade had a better outcome. But this trade is far more shocking.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:53 pm    Post subject:

Pau, because he istantly came with 3 Western conference chips, should've been more if lakers trade bynum and artest/odom for Melo after they beat Boston
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:56 pm    Post subject:

Gasol. We still traded AD, Christie, and a first. Gasol we got for a sentient pile of garbage that called itself Kwame Brown. Gasol was also available to everyone. Yet we got him for nothing
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:57 pm    Post subject:

E_Wulf420 wrote:
Pau, because he istantly came with 3 Western conference chips, should've been more if lakers trade bynum and artest/odom for Melo after they beat Boston


Or Bynum for Kidd before 07-08 season.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:57 pm    Post subject:

Luka is a top 10 talent is nba history

this guy is 25 years old and avg 33 9 9 last season and led his team to the finals

DONIC all the way
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:06 pm    Post subject:

LeBron isn't a prime Kobe. so Pau, unless Luka helps us win 2 titles in 3 years.

We moved Kwame Brown and an undeveloped Marc Gasol for Pau.
We had to move Anthony Davis for Luka.

Pau by a mile.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 1:47 am    Post subject:

MJST wrote:
LeBron isn't a prime Kobe. so Pau, unless Luka helps us win 2 titles in 3 years.

We moved Kwame Brown and an undeveloped Marc Gasol for Pau.
We had to move Anthony Davis for Luka.

Pau by a mile.


Not the way I see it. Agree to disagree. Luka by a mile.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 1:53 am    Post subject:

AD is a superstar. Luka is the better player long term, but AD is a legit two way guy. People acting like this is a fleece are crazy. Mavs are likely to be the better team for the rest of this season, imo. Lakers got holes they need to fill.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 1:55 am    Post subject:

This isn't even close. We had to give up AD for this. He's one of the better bigs in the league and leaves us with no defensive backbone in the side.

There has to be a another move coming if we're going to do anything this year...
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 1:59 am    Post subject:

Memphis wasn't a heist. They knew what they were doing. It wasn't done often back then so it was strange, but today, teams dump salary all the time, the incentive is the expiring deal.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:00 am    Post subject:

Gasol was a 2nd tier star.

Luka has a chance to be a top 10 all-time player.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:01 am    Post subject:

There will never be a bigger highway robbery than Gasol for Kwame Brown.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:08 am    Post subject:

We got Gasol for Kwame (bleep) Brown. Kwame. (bleep). Brown. Our team was flailing, and this put us over the top to win multiple titles. Kobe, Pau and the Lakers went on a tear immediately.

Luka is great, but we had to give up AD. Luka is likely better than Pau by a ways, but the difference between Luka Doncic and Pau Gasol is not as big as the huge gulf in talent between Anthony Davis and Kwame Brown with his wooden salad fork hands.

Pau was the bigger heist.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:11 am    Post subject:

Pau because at the time we didn’t give up anything that affected out starting lineup, and he came in and we saw instant success.

I do love this Luka trade though, still in shock.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:16 am    Post subject:

Gasol trade because it's almost like they traded some random guy off the street for a HOF player.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 3:08 am    Post subject:

Don’t disrespect AD like that MF!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 3:12 am    Post subject:

From a pure value standpoint, the recent trade has a good argument. With context applied and the benefit of hindsight the current trade has a lot to live up to. 2008 Lakers were already knocking on the door of contention before Pau then 3 finals and 2 chips. Lakers still need to reshape the roster by the deadline in the summer and then when Bron is done.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:21 am    Post subject:

Bad comparison, the Pau trade may have been the greatest robbery in recent memory

The current deal is still really good value for us, not nearly as much as the Pau deal, but it serves a different purpose
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:31 am    Post subject:

Pau was the bigger heist. But Rob met and exceeded his objectives in getting Luka. Probably a short-term win for the Mavs and a long-term win for the Lakers.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:38 am    Post subject:

Lakers immediately made the finals and won rings after trading for Pau. It’s going to take longer after trading for Luka, even though Luka is a much better player than Pau was.
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