Cue the Tom Thibodeau jokes.  Well he’s not the culprit this time but this is not going to make the Bulls’ fans happy.  Pau Gasol recently dropped an impressive 30 points on Poland to give Spain a big EuroBasket win, but there’s more.

Gasol is battling an injury and Spanish team doctors wanted to limit his minutes — but Gasol would have none of it. From Nikos Varlas at EuroHoops.net.

As Spanish coach Sergio Scariolo revealed in the press conference: “The doctors told me that Pau couldn’t play more than five minutes straight. But after the first five minutes, when I asked him to come to bench he told me no. “I will take the risk”, he answered me and he had an amazing game”.

Spain’s leader led his team to the quarter-finals with an extraordinary performance, having 30 points on 6/7 from the three-point range. And while Rudy Fernandez is day to day and may miss the next big game versus Greece in the quarterfinals, Gasol is ready to play: “I never jumped off the boat and I will not do that now. We play against Greece, I will play for sure”.

Shay Marie: Twitter || Instagram

source: ProBasketballTalk