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good pick with gasol (i think). i had my pick narrowed down to him and two others, and was likely going to go the "safe" route and pick gasol. one reason i wasn't thrilled was that his defense leaves a little something to desire, but that's just my opinion.
For the record, your opinion is somewhat wrong.
so, GKA is getting a 7 footer who just before the 1st season, during, and immediately after had a better then average defensive rating and had very good defensive win share rating. what makes people think he's a lousy defender is that oddly this year and last he dropped off badly and turned from an above average defender to a below average one. so, just weird.
im taking this to mean in season 1 or whatever he's pretty good defensively and def will help your team, but beyond that, (like "at 28" or whatever season 2 is) hurts your team defense.