unless they trade fish to us for parker =/

the more i look at this the more i think this is a silly trade idea because neither side would do this.

and by the way anyone who thinks the lakers didn’t get the better end of the gasol sway is silly. the trade maybe doesn’t look as bad now but the lakers went to 3 finals and one 2 titels that they wqould not have gotten if they didn’t make the trade. pau also is still better then his brother (i’ve always liked mark but as of this moment pau is still better even if mark is closing the gap) right now today pau is still the better player and was definitely worlds better at the time

lakers don’t do this for a few reasons

1 there biggest strength the last few year (you know when they were the best team) has been their front line. Pau has been the best of the lamar/pau/andrwe combo and the most consistent. if you want to trash him for having a bad playoffs this year thats fair but also keep in mind 1 this was an aberation (he usually is much better) 2 the whole team was falling apart this year (he wasnt the only problem and they were much worse off then anyone noticed at first) and he was probably the lakers best player in the finals last year even though kobe won the mvp

2 unlike many SA fans i dont think tony is that much better if at all then pau talent wise. if thats the case why would la trade small for big. a quality big is almost always hard to get in this day and age so all things being equal pau has more value there. even if tony is a little better the over all quality/quantity at their positions makes it a wash

3 pau is the perfect fit for kobe. he doesn’t care if kobe takes over and almost never complains about his role. even when he does its very mild. not that tony would cause trouble but he does need the ball in his hands all the time to be effective

4 finesse big men (pau is30) age much better then speed first pg (tony is 29).

spurs also have a bunch or reasons not to do this (although i would)

1 loyalty…i don’t see the spurs trading tony unless we are blown away by a deal (why would another team come to us with one) or tony demands out (i dont see this happening either) i would make this trade straight up but the spurs fo wouldn’t…Juts not enough for them to ship parker without another reason

2 we always hear about the spurs system being hard to get use to…everyone does better in the 2nd year. this would be a trade with at least the intention of keeping the window open. if it takes pau a year to get the system, thats one more year on timmy and manu that doesn’t really help us

3 huge hole at ball handler role. with tony gone and nothing coming back in the trade we have manu as the only real ball handler. all year long you could see how bad the offense ran and the scoring drought and sometimes just ugly looking offense run when neither tony or manu was out there. if this trade were to happen the mle and draft and everything else the spurs could do would have to focus on pg or ball handlers (SG/SF possible) and it still looks like it would be a weakness.