Without saying a word in public Gasol has been one of the stars of the hiatus, generating considerable buzz with his ‘skinny Gasol’ look. His teammates remain impressed as the 35-year-old looks to be well under his 255-lb listed weight.
Whether that could translate into a punchier scoring role for the Spanish centre remains to be seen. As valuable a defender, passer and screen setter as Gasol has been since joining the Raptors at the trade deadline prior to their championship run, he’s only scored 8.3 points a game with Toronto. Two seasons ago he scored 17.2 per game for Memphis and he put up a career-high 19.5 points a game in 2016-17.
Nurse -– who says he’d like to lose a few pounds himself –- says in talking to Gasol it was the routine afforded by the lockdown that was an early feature of the pandemic that helped the big man’s cause and leaves little excuse for the rest of us. “I did ask him about what was the key, what’d you do, and he just said ‘Man, it was consistency,’ it was just again with the situation we’ve all been in in the last four months, you take out the games and all the long road trips and the late night flights, and all the things that factor in making fitness and nutrition a little harder, take all those out and he just said it was a consistent rhythm, eating at the same time every day, and eating very healthy obviously, and all that stuff.
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