What do people think the new-look Washington Wizards?
Tony Parker, Pau Gasol, and Nikola Pekovic. No current 2nd-rounder (something I'm working to rectify) but a pile of picks in the third and fourth rounds.
I don't like Pau Gasol and Pekovic together.
It is the same spacing issues offensively that Pau Gasol has suffered through with Dwight Howard and Andrew Bynum. Both players want the same real estate (low post touches) and Pekovic won't play away from the basket so Pau Gasol will be forced to spend an inordinate amount of time in the high post shooting jumpers. Their individual and combined lack of quickness/mobility defensively will be a negative too.
I love Pau Gasol and I fully agree that he has some top seasons left in him. I like Pekovic quite a bit too but I don't like the two of them together. I don't think they fit well.
Someone like Millsap would've been perfect for Pau Gasol and Tony Parker.
I like Gasol playing at the PF spot a lot more than at center. I think he lacks strength as a center and can be bullied. That's why I wanted to pair him with a bruiser like Pek - let somebody else play bully ball so he doesn't have to.
On offense, the low post is Gasol's territory. I actually don't like Pekovic as much down there. In the post, I see him as a brute-force player without a lot of skill. I like him more as a super-garbage man - set picks, be mobile, cut, crash the glass hard. He's an excellent offensive rebounder, and combined with Gasol's interior passing ability he'll still get his touches. But I didn't draft him to be a low post iso kind of player.