Probably Made Up Rumor: Rondo For Pau Gasol?

don’t see how this helps us, now or in the long run. pau is on the wrong side of 30

i dont want a faker here anyways

Pau is getting worse by the year and bradley or moore are not ready to be a starting pg in the nba

Perhaps change it to something like KG+Rondo+JO for Gasol+Bynum?

RR is not going to be in green by next year with all of these rumors

But this trade just does not make sense. We would lose it by far. It would be even worse than Kwame for Gasol. The Lakers would be much better with Rondo, Kobe and Bynum, andthey could always trsde for Howard. We would be old and soft as hell.

If a 27-year old Gasol was traded for a ham sandwich, why should we offer anything of value for a 31-year old Gasol?

Terrible trade!

Pau is 31 and is declining already. Are we going to start our “rebuild” around another old guy? Stupid. This is a horrible terrible raw deal for us no way. Just stop.

Absolutely will not help us now or in the future. I can’t even throw enough strong adjectives to describe how very foolish such a move is. Shutting it out of my mind. DUMB.

People misinterpreting this for its opposite meaning.

he is referring to rondo. like pincus said Mitch is pretty literal. he has moved passed vetogate and looking ahead. not the first I heard that the Lakers FO was interested in Rondo. plus CP3 is more than just a ball-handling all-star. he is superstar pg who can score with the ease.

A talented big is harder to get than a good PG. C’s make this deal, and offer picks to Phoenix for Nash. Pretty nice lineup Nash, Allen, Pierce, Garnett, Gasol.

That is NOT a rumor.

Lakers GM just literally talked about what the lakers would need and love to get, while Rondo is a good fit. Nothing else.

Or am I missing sth?

Danny lately has been suffering from dementia.

Whole lotta words typed for something that makes no sense for the C’s and is about as likely to happen as pigs flying.

I’m probably opposed to this trade, but really, to say that Gasol sucks is ignorant. He’s not having a great year, but that has to do more with Brown’s not using him correctly and Kobe’s trying to set an all-time record usage rate than any sort of decline in his game. Despite the “bad” year, he has a PER higher than anyone on the Cs except Pierce and has an astoundingly good assist rate for a 4 (only KG is better), a good rebounding rate, and a low turnover rate, and he still shoots the ball pretty efficiently. I’m not sure I’d trade for him because of his age, but Gasol does not suck.

In fact, try to imagine a lineup of Bradley, Ray, Pierce, Gasol, and Garnett, with Pierce playing point forward. I don’t cringe at that.

A. Ainge seems very reluctant to take on salary beyond this year and Rondo is a huge value with 3.5 years left on his contract.

B. The logic should be to get younger. The Big 3 are more likely to be traded before the deadline than Rondo (though Rondo could get traded in the offseason.)

We’ve got a young top 5 point guard on a cap friendly contract; this deal just seems bad to me. What’s worse is that it’s the Lakers. I’ll pass.

Only way I’m trading Rondo is as part of a package for maybe CP3, Deron, or Howard.

Big 3 go before Rondo.

Its just the everyday pressure that you might get traded any day now. And added on that the lakers have a new system going on is adding to his “slump”. And yes to sa Gasol sucks is IGNORANT on the decline or in a slump maybe but to say he sucks then you just dont know what your talking about.

I don’t mind trading Rondo if do so can significantly improve our chance of getting banner 18, 19, 20, … but not trading to the Lakers.

The only trade with Lakers I will take is Bynum for MDaniel straight up, may be throw in a second rounder.

But not for a giant wacky inflatable flailing arm man. No way.

I just puked purple and gold!

For several hours tonight, and I want to post again and say this trade is flat out asinine:

1. Exploding a team that’s on a roll chemistry wise with a compacted season would totally discombobulate what Doc Rivers has been building with little or no practice time. As early as last year in a NORMAL season this team could not recover from a similar loose cannon wild-eyed trade that destroyed chemistry.

2. Pau Gasol is not a solution for the present or future. He’s not a guy to build around looking down the road and is not as effective as Rondo in games RIGHT NOW and certainly not down the road. A trade of this non-improving nature in the middle of a compacted season would alienate the coach players and fans leaving them little chance to get it together by playoff time.

3. The only guy I would even CONSIDER adding in a lockout season would be Dwight Howard, no one else is good enough.

3. Trading away our groomed and acclimated guard would be foolish in nearly all circumstances this year. We’ve got something going here right now.

4. Don’t do mid season trades for thrills, don’t just pull the trigger on wild insane trades for the heck of it.

5. Last year we found ourselves in WINNABLE games vs the Heat, maybe we could use a little addition to tip the balance here and there but don’t go nuts, were still right there.

…..Because it’s so anathema to BOTH SIDES. And for good reason imo — the deal would make BOTH sides worse. But it would DECIMATE the Cs…. so fuhgetaboutit…. there is no way in heaven, hell and all points in between this trade ever comes close to reality.

But it’s funny… gotta give it that.

that Danny wants to get rid of Rondo off desperately. I would not be suprised if RR9 eventually asked for trade by himself. Danny’s attitude regarding Rondo is ridiculous if you ask me. You will see that Rondo will not start the next season as a Celtic.

First, Gasol is good, real good. Second, we all love our team right now but it wasn’t long ago there was a ton of railing against KG and how he was a shell of himself. If we are to go far this year we need a serious big, Danny sees this too, I’m sure. Third, who are we pairing with Rondo going forward if it won’t be Howard? Ainge may be looking at the next four years right now approx. Rondo’s window of contract and looking at possibles. If not Dwight then what big? Gasol might be his best option for the next four years. Then he would scramble to match a guard probably a couple of guards to go with him. Fourthly, Rondo is overrated. He is very good but he is not great like a lot of people make him out to be. This team got going this year when Pierce came back and finally got in shape. Pierce is the motor not Rondo. Not the worst rumor out there. This is probably what Donny Marshall was talking about earlier in the year.

Gasol is WAY over-rated and has peaked. Rondo is still improving. Gasol, at this point, does not give us the toughness we need in the paint. He uses length and finess but no one fears Gasol.

The Rondo haters would love to see him go but I don’t think you want a team lacking a point guard going into the playoffs. Rondo makes everyone on the team better. Can you say that for Gasol?

Danny wouldn’t include Rondo in the deal for KG and that was when Rondo was in his 2nd year. I thought Rumors were only for off-season. Did the new CBA contract include a new rule that rumors were okay year round?

1. Rondo is not getting along with Doc.
2. Rondo is not getting along with KG, PP and RA.
3. Rondo is very injury prone.
4. Rondo cannot shoot foul shots reliably.
5. The 2012 draft is very high on point guards and pf’s but weak on centers.
6. Rondo is not getting along with Danny.
7. Rondo is not getting along with the Owners.
8. Danny is convinced he has no shot at Howard.
9. Danny is convinced he can get a PG free agent of suitable quality.
10. Most of the experts on this Blog are against it and we are seldom right.

The point of this deal would be for another trade. Danny would be trying to convert the “Rondo asset” into another type of “asset” as he did with Perkins and Green.

Would he trade Gasol and someone else for DH? Bad example. Would he trade Gasol for another player to trade to the Magic?…yes. Don’t know if he wants DH that bad.

Rondo is NOT the central player in Ainge’s plans. It’s Ainge’s team and he wants to trade Rondo for something else (Chris Paul). Live with the rumors…he’s been shopping him for two years now.

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i.e., something involving a third team or additional parts moving.

Nothing should be considered impossible to happen with Danny, but I would still rate the likelihood of this being true as pretty ridiculously small.