[K_Mac]

Love's points are inflated because he's the guy on a bad team. His rebounding however is not. If you can rebound for a bad team, you can for a good team as well. Love has good stats, but he is NOT a better player than Pau Gasol. Love plays little to no defense and he's also not blessed with Gasols height and extremely long arms to play defense at a championship level. Also remember before this postseason Gasol was considered an elite power forward(top 3). Love will never be at that level. If getting Rubeu is this important to Minnesota, the Lakers should demand Love, Flynn(not going to need him anyway if they do indeed get Rubeu), and a first round pick. Gasol for Love straight up is not even close to being even.
I do believe the Lakers need to make some trades and get younger though. The core of the team(besides Bynum) are all 31 or older. Love is not the answer IMO. He's not shown that he has the ability to be a great defensive player and IMO he couldn't be that second scorer LA needs. I'm looking for LA to get Dwight shortly before the trade deadline. They have good players and draft picks to offer Orlando to at least keep them a competitive team.

Agree. I think this is basically what I said, you probably just explained it better.