Trade Pau Now, Part (what is this?) 87

In Sunday’s CA, Pau is quoted as saying:

“There are a lot of things going on indoors around this team that fans don't know. And they don't need to know. That's just the way it is. But you always have to respect individual decisions. You might not agree with them. You might not see why. But there's something. That's the bottom line. Just know there are reasons. It's not just because I want to be in a different place.”

So basically Pau says that there are a lot of things the fans don’t know about and don’t need to know about, and the article said that this trade request has been brewing for 2 years.

Here’s my theory. Pau wanted a sign and trade after his max contract deal. He knows that he’s soft and pathetic. The Grizzlies were bound and determined to try and build this team with Pau as its centerpiece, and apparently Pau didn’t like that decision any more than I did. He wanted max money and a trade to somewhere that he could hide behind someone better than he is. He’s weak. He knows it, I know it, and Jeff Wineberger knows it!

This trade request is two years in the making because that’s when it became obvious that Jerry West was absolutely going to build this team around Pau. The only different place he wants to be in is out of the load-carrying role. He wants somebody to hide behind when Kobe elbows him in the mouth and dunks over his 7-foot-useless head. He wants to go Anywhere that he doesn’t have to worry about anything but shooting the ball. He’s too weak to carry the team and he’s too weak to handle the criticism that goes along with it. He can’t hack it as the focal point. Plain and Simple. THAT’s why he’ll never be a superstar, and THAT’s why Memphis needed to trade him at LEAST 2 years ago.