Marc Gasol has evolved his game to fit the modern NBA. The once post-centric big man has stepped outside and started playing on the perimeter. Goodbye hook-shots, drop steps, and up-and-unders. Hello pick-and-pops, butt-screen hand-offs, and three-point bombs. The player the Toronto Raptors traded for doesn’t even resemble the Marc Gasol who was originally drafted — and no, not only because the weight loss.
But you never quite forget your first love, and Gasol’s first love was playing with his back to the basket. Now, in the FIBA Basketball World Cup, Marc is grabbing a cup of coffee reuniting with his highschool sweetheart.