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
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.
The turnovers cause you to lose control of the game. It was frustrating. We were turning the ball over and giving them the ball back without making them work for it.
It's great. It says that things have been going well for me and this franchise. I've been healthy for the most part and consistent.
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.
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.
We are just not able to finish games right now. We are not playing the way we should down the stretch. It might be a confidence thing.
Unfortunately, we're not machines. Absolutely, we know what's going on.
We didn't seem to feel comfortable. That was the feeling I had during the whole game. We couldn't get to our offense. We couldn't get to what we wanted out of the plays we ran. It really wasn't a consistent offense on our part. We were very sloppy.
We're not trying to slow down. We're trying to keep our minds in a competitive mode. We'll face whoever we have to face.
We were able to wear them out a little bit at the end. Finally we rebounded and made some defensive stops toward the end.
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.
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.