Chris Bosh vs Pau Gasol - who's the better player?

[Human Error]

Chris Bosh
Career: 893 games, 19.2 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 2.0 apg, 1.0 bpg, FG 49.4%
Peak(09-10): 24.0 ppg, 10.8 rpg, 2.4 apg, 1.0 bpg, FG 51.8%

Pau Gasol
Career: 1,055 games, 18.2 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 3.3 apg, 1.7 bpg, FG 51.0%
Peak(08~11, 3 year avg): 18.7 ppg, 10.7 rpg, 3.3 apg, 1.5 bpg, FG 54.4%

I'd go with Gasol. A better rim protector, rebounder and passer, plays bigger than Bosh, and does every other thing just as well as Bosh.

[AirBonner]

Chris Bosh
Career: 893 games, 19.2 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 2.0 apg, 1.0 bpg, FG 49.4%
Peak(09-10): 24.0 ppg, 10.8 rpg, 2.4 apg, 1.0 bpg, FG 51.8%

Pau Gasol
Career: 1,055 games, 18.2 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 3.3 apg, 1.7 bpg, FG 51.0%
Peak(08~11, 3 year avg): 18.7 ppg, 10.7 rpg, 3.3 apg, 1.5 bpg, FG 54.4%

I'd go with Gasol. A better rim protector, rebounder and passer, plays bigger than Bosh, and does every other thing just as well as Bosh.

Gasol easily. Better playoff performer.

[Mr Feeny]

Gasol, comfortably.
He's also a marvelous finals performer. Bosh tended to struggle in big moments. Had a combined 5 points in games 6 and 7 of the 2013 finals including an egg in the final game. 0 points from your big man.

Gasol meanwhile was arguably the lakers' best player during the 2010 finals.

[Human Error]

Gasol meanwhile was by far the lakers' best player during the 2010 finals.

Corrected.

[Mr Feeny]

Corrected.

Fair enough. Not many besides Kobe stans would argue that he wasn't.

[JT123]

Easily Gasol. Much more consistent playoff and Finals performer. There is literally not a single thing Bosh does better than Gasol other than 3 point shooting, and even then Gasol could have been just as deadly if he had really wanted to work on that part of his game.

[Kool Boy]

Gasol

[SouBeachTalents]

They'll give you similar results as s franchise player, and while we never saw Bosh as a true second option, you couldn't be much better than Gasol was '09-'10 as a second option big man

[tpols]

Gasol might be ~5% better, tops. Bosh is very ideal for todays type of game with his best attributes being his KG lite perimeter defense and mid / long range face up and drive game. Gasol is more traditional / old school, mchale like.. there is not much separating these two as talents overall. Gasol has proven to have better longevity but thats about it.

[ArbitraryWater]

Gasol by a mile.. Gasol is top 50 all time caliber, Bosh might be 100.

[SamuraiSWISH]

Bosh is better because even though they're both Flower Forwards, soft as hell, Bosh can at least play defense. Like actually tries. He can move his feet, block shots, and come a little further out to defend pick and roll.

I've only seen Pau play defense for Spain. Not for Memphis. Not for LA, especially 2011. And he certainly never did here in Chicago. He'd catch some blocks here and there purely off length in an ever shrinking big man league. But by no means a dominant force down low.

Gasol's advantage is a little extra length and way superior passing ability. But besides that, starting a team I'd definitely take Bosh. The stats bear this out.

Chris put up better numbers and led a talentless Toronto team no where. Young Gasol had slightly inferior numbers with a way better coach, and way more talent on his roster and led Memphis NO WHERE.

That's why the Heat championships as they stand on LeBron's resume pale in comparison to what he finally did in Cleveland. Which was a ring truly earned. Thus the tears.

In Miami LeBron won with black Pau Gasol, and Dwyane Wade. With HOFers like Ray Allen out there stretching the floor. Team was stacked in a depleted post D Rose knee injury Leastern Conference.

[swagga]

Gasol might be ~5% better, tops. Bosh is very ideal for todays type of game with his best attributes being his KG lite perimeter defense and mid / long range face up and drive game. Gasol is more traditional / old school, mchale like.. there is not much separating these two as talents overall. Gasol has proven to have better longevity but thats about it.

damn lebron did a number on you homie, you done mind****ed son.

[Mr Feeny]

Gasol by a country mile as most posters in this thread have said.

[JebronLames]

Gasol by a very wide margin.

[knicksman]

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