Luis Scola vs Drew Gooden

[lurker23]

Which means he improved. With that percentage, he would probably be our best free throw shooter.

I really hope so, but I fear the sample size is too small to make a good judgment either way. Gooden has been fairly inconsistent in FT shooting throughout his career. Here are his percentages (chronologically) in years where he's shot 99 free throws or more:

69.7, 63.7, 81.0, 68.2, 71.4, 72.8, 86.9.

Obviously he's capable of shooting very well, but the question is what kind of streak he'll go on during the playoffs and in clutch time.

As far as "our best free throw shooter," I'll take Manu Ginobili any day of the week, who has these percentages the last three years:

86.0, 86.0, 88.0


Edit: I'll take Roger Mason Jr. too, who has a career FT% of 87.8, and not a single season below 86%.

[waly.mg]

Drew Gooden numbers in 2007 NBA Finals:

12.8 Points, 8.3 Rebounds, 50% FG and 87.5% FT

[The Franchise]

Scola>>>>>>>>Gooden

[Chieflion]

It is good to go to the line more often anyway. Drew Gooden is better than nothing. At least, at least the Spurs got something for almost nothing.

[WalterBenitez]

Simply for the sake of using this image more than once...

Same numbers, Scola looks in control, Gooden gots crazy easily; I think POP can handle him properly.

I think we do a great move signing him, the playoffs are coming and his numbers looks great.

[Fingaroll44]

Stats wise, maybe.

But Scola is better. He's more physical, has a higher basketball IQ and has hair.

LOL. yea...a soul patch on the BACK of your head doesnt qualify as hair

[DaDakota]

Can you guys imagine putting Scola with Manu? Man they have great chemistry together.

Scola is much better than Gooden, who is known around the league as not the sharpest of tools in the shed.

DD

[LockBeard]

Gooden has the Mongol beard thing going on so I expect big things from him in the playoffs.


Once you factor in Manu's chemistry + familiarity with Scola, it's not close when comparing him to Gooden.

[WalterBenitez]

Gooden's beard style should be adopted for SAS!

[Marcus Bryant]

Drew Gooden numbers in 2007 NBA Finals:

12.8 Points, 8.3 Rebounds, 50% FG and 87.5% FT

Good point. Yes, his team got swept, but he showed up.

[Marcus Bryant]

Can you guys imagine putting Scola with Manu? Man they have great chemistry together.

Yeah, there's about 500 threads devoted to that in this forum.

Scola is much better than Gooden, who is known around the league as not the sharpest of tools in the shed.

DD

We'll see. He's better than Bonner and Oberto, which is all that matters at the moment.

[lefty]

Gooden superior to Scola

[Hemotivo]

Scola>Gooden

[lefty]

Drew Gooden numbers in 2007 NBA Finals:

12.8 Points, 8.3 Rebounds, 50% FG and 87.5% FT

And against the great Duncan ! (and considering he had help from Z)

Same numbers, Scola looks in control, Gooden gots crazy easily; I think POP can handle him properly.

I think we do a great move signing him, the playoffs are coming and his numbers looks great.

Pop did a fine job with Stephen Jackson; I'm not worried

[Solid D]

Gooden = REnt-A-ScOLa

[oski1000]

SCOLA >>>> gooden

[peskypesky]

udoka sucks.

[usckk]

Bonner>Scola

[Marcus Bryant]

Gooden = REnt-A-ScOLa

Pretty much.

[it's me]

Gooden = REnt-A-ScOLa

Funny how we let Scola go because “he wouldn’t fit in the Spurs system” and now they went after a guy that (stat wise) we can say is a "Scola clone" and a lot of people here think he will be our savior.

The Scola trade move is getting more and more ridiculously stupid as time goes by….

[urunobili]

It's Funny how wrong the Spurs scouting staff overseas was and that they never saw that coming.
, Even fans,who usually watch euroleague games on TV knew Scola was gonna be a top PF in the NBA,but not the scouting staff....
Was that Scouting staff the sameone who messed up with Nocioni's age????
Makes me wonder.....

dude... Why don't you change your team tag to the Rockets?

[urunobili]

and why don't you change your screemname to UruguayoHomer?

C'mon dude, the fact that I'm spurs fan doesn't make me a blind homer.If the FO or the guys watching players in Europe up,they should try a diferent job. Because obviulsy they can't recognise between good prospects and bad prospects as far as the transition from FIBA to the NBA.

Your original post REALLY made you sound like you need to start appreciating what the Spurs FO have done for you... and probably a so called by yourself Spur fan included...

Think about it dude...

The only way your post is not rocket fan like, is if you were whottt fishing...

let it go dude...

and for the record... i have been thinking of changing my screen name to UruSpur...

[objective]

Scola is much better than Gooden, the comparisons based only on numbers is near a joke and would be like people posting other guys averaging similar numbers to Manu and pretending that they were the same.

[Tully365]

Some day fifty or sixty years from now there will be a great many elderly men in old age homes around the San Antonio area whose constant & obsessive use of the phrase ssscola!....ssscola!......sssscola! will drive nurses crazy.

[Solid D]

Some day fifty or sixty years from now there will be a great many elderly men in old age homes around the San Antonio area whose constant & obsessive use of the phrase ssscola!....ssscola!......sssscola! will drive nurses crazy.

and bent-over, disfigured by Scola-osis.