Pau Gasol
Pau Gasol
Pau Gasol Sáezis a Spanish professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. He is a six-time NBA All-Star, and a four-time All-NBA selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team. He has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies, one of only two non-American NBA players to win that award. He is the...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth6 July 1980
CityBarcelona, Spain
CountrySpain
They double-teamed me almost every time I got the ball. Obviously, I'd like to have a better shooting night, but give their defense credit.
They do play off me and challenge me to take that 15- to 17-foot jumper and make it. Once I make a couple, they will have to do something different.
This organization has shown from the beginning that they believe in me, and I am looking forward to being a part of an organization dedicated to winning,
It means that it's possible. It means we have a chance until we lose again. We've been trying to take it one game at a time all series long. We've got to fight like we did in Game 3.
It's a really bad ending that nobody wanted.
It's all very positive. If Mike would get that, and me making All-Star team, it says how well we're doing collectively. We wouldn't be getting any individual awards or respect if collectively we weren't doing a good job.
It's the usual thing with him. He likes to run his mouth. I said something back and he went crazy. That's fine.
I took it hard to the rim. I knew I had enough time to make a move or even change directions if I had to. I made a tough shot and we got a great win here.
It was good the way we shared the ball tonight and made shots.
It was frustrating. We were turning the ball over without making them work for it. It was really an intense game for a while, and we had a very good chance to be right there. We lost it for a few minutes, and we paid for it.
You think about it. We thought about it before the game, but not while you are playing. They beat us the first two here. Now we get hope to get them at home.
They started doubling and we kind of stopped running plays for the post-ups. We kind of got lost a little bit. Especially in the second quarter, we got out of our game for a few minutes and that really cost us.
With this kind of incident like we had, it was hard to be 100 percent focused. But we found a way. That's what we've been doing.
I just took the day off to get my legs back and get my knees back. Whatever it takes to do that, I'll do. I'm not too worried about it. We'll see what happens (tonight).