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Even I would look good as a center on a team with Nash. stoudamire: [ ] center [x] pf

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so what you're both saying is we can't take a small sample size to determine relative skill? shocking.

Amare 42 points 11 rebounds; Gasol 23 points. Right now, Amare is almost twice as good as Gasol!

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If you think Kwame Brown benefits as much from a teammate like Kobe as Gasol does, I don't know what to tell you. Kwame would be garbage if his teammates were all all-stars. Gasol would look like a hall of famer if his teammates were all all-stars. I mean it's easy to have great numbers when your team is average 124 points or something every game.

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Stephen Tu, I suggest you look up the word "hyperbole". You see, when I said I would look good at forward if Kobe was on my team, I didn't actually mean that literally. It's one of those devices people use in conversation to emphasize a point they're trying to make. I know it's confusing! And I don't understand how you could possibly say X is better than Y right now conclusively. Gasol is better at some things. Garnett is definitely better at defense and as a team leader, despite his physical decline. Does that make either Garnett or Gasol objectively a better player? No. And it would be silly to try to say one is better than the other since they have different strengths and different roles on their teams.

Why do you keep comparing Gasol to Kwame Brown? I just said players like Kwame made the Lakers a garbage team. Gasol is undeniably a great player. Gasol definitely owns Boozer, but one could make an argument that any of the other PFs listed by bb79 are just as good or better than Gasol. Perhaps not right now, but definitely their careers are as good or better. And he's clearly not one of the best 2, so I think somewhere between 3-7 is pretty close to accurate, as far as PFs go. How can you say being on a good team is usually a pre-requisite for those honors and then say he's clearly in the top 15 because he has those honors? Given that he was on the 3rd team, there's a pretty good chance if your first claim is true that the second claim is not. If his numbers are pretty much the same, as I already said, don't you think it's likely that your first claim has more to do with his success than the latter?

And also, if you look at his career numbers at LA and at Memphis, they're almost exactly identical. His FG% is up at LA (not surprising; he's not double teamed) and his assists are up (also not surprising). Otherwise his numbers are pretty much exactly the same. To what do you attribute his recent successes if his numbers are unchanged?

Uhh. Pretty much everyone still called Kobe one of the best players in the league as he was breaking a bunch of scoring records. The rest of the team was garbage and the Western Conference had a lot of really good teams, so I don't see your point. Kobe had the second most MVP votes (behind Steve Nash) in the year they lost in the first round, and he won the MVP the next year. I don't even like Kobe, and I know you can't compare a guard and a forward easily, but to compare a bad team with Gasol to a bad team with Kobe is LOL. The bad team with Kobe still made the playoffs! In a good conference! And Stephen Tu, Top 15 for sure!? Come on... Pau Gasol: 2× All-NBA Third Team selection (2009, 2010) 3× NBA All-Star (2006, 2009, 2010) 2009 and 2010, hm? What a difference playing on a good team can make.

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Try putting Gasol on a team that doesn't have Kobe, Wade, or LeBron, and I think you'd be singing a very different tune. Imagine if he played on a team where the opponents could double team him. He'd be good, but top 3 is a bit lol Oh wait! That actually happened! And then he got traded to the Lakers! He went from like the 8th best PF to top 3 in your mind. Shocking.

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would you care to explain where you got those numbers? lol

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Maybe he meant top 10 power forwards in the NBA. Gasol is def a top 10 PF!