Marc Gasol has yet to really hit his stride with the Raptors. That needs to change with the playoffs quickly approaching. (Via ArdenZwelling)
outfit, 111-98, hands tucked under his armpits as he iced his 34-year-old knees. He was talking about how much he’s enjoying his time in Toronto, where he now plays his basketball after 11 and a half seasons in Memphis. It’s a great situation, he was saying. A great team, great city, great fanbase.Gasol’s wife, Cristina, is still in Memphis, along with the couple’s two young children. They’re planning to get to Toronto by April, and stay with dad through the playoffs.
He’s certainly had his nights, like the 16-point, six-rebound performance against Brooklyn in his second game with the Raptors, and a 19-point, plus-23 explosion against Portland earlier this month. But there have also been times when he’s looked like what he is — a player who spent a decade doing things one way, and now has to learn new teammates, new systems, and a new role on the fly.
Well, if there is any “best for the team” factor to be found from Serge Ibaka’s Bobby Boucher moment, in which the Raptors centre — incensed following some seemingly innocuous jostling during an inbounds play — tried to cut circulation off to Marquese Chriss’s medulla oblongata, it’s that Gasol will now enjoy a three-game window in which he’ll carry the lion’s share of Toronto’s minutes at the five. Finally, an extended opportunity to find his groove.
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