NBA.Tatum buries the champions
On
June 14, 2019
,
Marc Gasol
was proclaimed
NBA
champion
in
Oakland
with the
Toronto Raptors
.
He flew to Canada and after several dances, chants and lots of beer, he became MVP of the team's celebrations.
The pivot rested for a few days and traveled to Spain to make his debut with the national team on August 9 in the preparation games for the
World Cup in China
.
He flew with Sergio Scariolo's expedition to the Asian country and on
September 15, 2019
completed the summer double by winning the World Cup.
He repeated as MVP of the celebration on the way home, took a few days of vacation and packed bags back to Canada to start the Raptors preseason less than a month later.
From Toronto he embarked to Japan, where the NBA played a small
preparation tour
in which he debuted on
October 10
, and played his first official minutes of the 2019-2020 season on 22 of that month against the Pelicans.
Oakland, Toronto, Spain, China, Spain, Toronto, Japan and Toronto
.
A round the world without rest to lift two titles.
"How
much will all these trips, championships and celebrations influence Gasol's fitness this season
?" Some Toronto media asked in October.
The answer, almost a year later, is summarized by the statistics of Spanish, who turned 35 in January.
This season Marc has accumulated
the fewest games
(44), the
fewest minutes average
(26), the
worst shooting percentage
(42.7%) and the
worst points average
(7.5), rebounds (6, 3) and caps (0.9) throughout his career.
Hamstring
problems
left him in dry dock for too many weeks, and the break from confinement didn't help him regain his best form.
In some
Raptors that reached the Playoffs with the second best record in the league
, Marc has been the seventh player on the roster.
He has started all eleven Toronto games, including seven against Boston in the Conference semifinals, but his minutes
have barely exceeded 20 per night
, he has only scored six points on average and has not been on the court during the important moments of the parties.
A totally different role from the weeks that made him NBA champion in 2019, when he added 24 minutes (including vital ones), nine points, six rebounds and almost four assists for the ring.
A regular performance, the result of the fatigue accumulated the previous summer, the physical problems of these months and a
style of play that banishes the most traditional centers in the NBA
.
Marc, over the years, has been able to extend his reach to the line of three, organize the team's attack from the paint and be key in defense, but without a state of form that touches 100%, he suffers.
In these circumstances and with the Raptors eliminated, now
weeks of decisions
await him
until the opening of free agency
, which he arrives with the need to find a new contract.
Nobody is going to put on the table
the 25 million
a year that Toronto paid him, and more taking into account the economic losses generated by the pandemic, but he will have options, although their numbers force him to lower his financial expectations.
A circumstance that can help to show interest in him teams that will aspire to the ring and that cannot offer big contracts, like the
Celtics or the Warriors
.
The
continuity in the Raptors
, although neither party discards, is complicated.
The Canadian franchise will renew
VanVleet
, which charges 9.3 million a year, and the money left by Marc and
Serge Ibaka
(who also ends their contract of 21 'kilos' per year) is compensated by the execution of the renewal of
Pascal Siakam,
star of the team, which next year will earn 29 million.
"I will try to be as positive and constructive as I can with myself and I will continue working", he summarized, who is already waiting for offers.
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