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? What does that have to do with anything..
You are wrong, the refs were not calling silly fouls on the paint, Scola scored and Brasil didnt.
His last turnaround fade away jumper on Varejao goes like this.
Scola posted up.
Contact - no call
Goes again
Contact - no call
Scola: they wont call a damn thing
Turnaround 2 points
Brasil out were they belong. Even Magnano canīt fix that.
? What does that have to do with anything..
How do the 7 millions Barbosa is making tranlating into the game today?
Or the 7 millions varjao is making compared to the 0.7 millions Huertas is making?
Who is the basketball player between the three?
I have seen you making this argument everywhere and it is incredibly faulty. Just make your point about the players without using this. It makes no sense.
Bonner is a joke.
3 years of a joke is not funny.
3 MORE years of the same, only older joke is even less unny, expecially when you just watched a player with huge balls.
I'm just saying it's not surprising that a player that makes 3x as much as an NBA player outplayed a player who has never even seen the floor of the best league in the world. it amazes me to see how many people are freaking out or actually think that Splitter is a better player than Scola. Obviously it's not true and the money proves and speaks for itself.
Yet you keep telling the same joke over and over again.
everywhere.. you mean 2 threads?
That chick is so ugly.
didn't you hear? the problem is not getting injured per se, the problem is getting injured playing in anything other than a NBA game. its not about health, its about keeping the bosses happy! I mean seriously, how would you feel, you hire a driver and he crashes his car on vacation. the betrayal! wouldnt it be better for him to crash your car with you in it??!Like those few days would make a difference ...
for those who says that it's good for splitter cause he has less games to get injured.
Well spurs can keep him off the camp - he can get injury there as well
Props to Argentina.
Scola was fantastic. I hope Argentina can win the tournament
It would be nice to see Huertas with a chance in the NBA but I think he has no chance to leave Caja
Check that out.
No, the money proves nothing. Scola has been better than Rudy Gay this tourney and Rudy makes more money.
That argument is so bad. I agree with the player evaluation, but just not that part.
Hill was better than RJ last year, yet RJ made 15M. There are literally hundreds of examples like that.
NBA PM: Best Trade Ever?
Yannis Koutroupis
Hoopsworld
Scola Rubs Salt On The Wound: The San Antonio Spurs typically don't find themselves on the losing side of deals. They've been one of the league's most dominant teams over the past 10 years largely in part to their front office's brilliance and patience. They've managed to win four championships since 1999 all while staying under the luxury tax and making minor tweaks rather than major moves. Limiting spending is a philosophy that has held a lot of franchises back, but rarely affected the Spurs until 2007 when they dealt Luis Scola, the best power forward not in the NBA at the time, to the Houston Rockets. Back then it was something that the Spurs looked at as necessary, but it's something that they really regret now.
After years of failing to reach a buyout agreement with Scola's club overseas the Spurs gave up on trying to add him to the team. They felt with the roster they had in place, which featured a newly re-signed Matt Bonner and Fabricio Oberto along with Ian Mahinmi, that there wasn't room for Scola or forward Jackie Butler. So they traded them to Houston for Vassilis Spanoulis and a second round pick that eventually turned into France's Nando De Colo, who averaged eight points and two assists in the World Championships.
"As an organization we felt responsible to let Luis pursue his dream of the NBA and this was the best opportunity to realize his value," said Buford back in 2007. "With our roster intact it would appear unlikely that neither Butler nor Scola would impact our rotation."
Count that as one of the rare instances where Buford was dead wrong because since finally making his way to the NBA in 2007 Scola has been flat-out productive. Meanwhile De Colo and Spanoulis haven't played a game in the NBA. Scola has yet to miss a game and has steadily improved each and every year. He averaged a career best 16 points and eight rebounds last season and has carried over his strong play to the FIBA World Championships.
Earlier today there was a matchup between Argentina and Brazil that greatly intrigued the Spurs and their fan base. It featured Scola taking on Tiago Splitter, who will be making his NBA debut with San Antonio this season after being drafted by them in 2007. Drafting Splitter also factored into the Spurs decision to trade Scola, so a strong performance by him would have helped ease the pain.
Over the years Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has made no secret about his anger over how things played out with Scola. He once said that it made him so upset that he wanted to spit and he probably felt just as fired up today after watching the show that Scola put on.
Scola continued on his tournament-MVP pace with 37 points, nine rebounds, and three assists. Splitter put forth 10 points and five rebounds himself, but it was very clear as to who the superior player was. Splitter will ultimately determine his worth to the Spurs during the regular season, but fantasies about how great Scola could have been as Spur live on. He had 14 points in the fourth quarter to help lead Argentina past Brazil, further cementing himself as the best player in the tournament.
While San Antonio thinks about what could have been the Rockets are sitting pretty with one of the best power forwards in the league that they got for an absolute steal. Coach Popovich suggested forming a trade committee that could veto lopsided deals when the Memphis Grizzlies traded All-Star power forward Pau Gasol to the Los Angeles Lakers. But in that deal Memphis landed Marc Gasol who has developed into a very solid starting center and the cap space to trade for Zach Randolph, who had an All-Star year for them in 09-10. All the Spurs got for Scola, an ideal player to put alongside Tim Duncan inside, was some cash and two players who will never see the court with Duncan. Looking back there's no question which deal was more uneven and today just helped further illustrate that.
Yes. When there is two threads on the same subject on the front page and you keep using the argument, I classify that as everywhere (where it pertains to this subject).
Faulty logic, or Eddie Curry would be one of the best.
Yeah, cause every human contact Scola receives must be called a foul. Argentina is a great team, no need to throw cheap shots.
Brazil is growing. Tiago and Huertas are both young, we have plenty of room for improve. You must know that since our Under-18 team handed your asses earlier this year.
228 is back!
What could have been? Look at the lakers once they got Gasol.
Habing two bigmen who can score efficiently is very important on todays basketball.
Thatīs what we missed.
Scola is no Gasol, but his game resembles a lot, if Gasol is a A player, Scola is clearly a B- at worst.
man, Scola was a beast!!
thank's spurs for Luis Scola!
--RB
I am not saying that If you make more money you are obvously better. I know better than to say that. I was just pointing out that Scola is obviously the superior player at the moment and that's why he just got a $50 million dollar extension. I am not talking about Rudy Gay or Richard Jefferson or Eddy Curry. I am talking about Scola vs Splitter and there is a reason that Scola makes 10 million dollars a year and a reason why Splitter just signed for only 3 million dollars a year... because Scola is better.
Not to say that Scolaīs rookie deal was the same we gave Splitter.
So by this guy standars Splitter should average 10 points and 6 rebs in his first season and improve to 14 and 9 in the playoffs because those are Scola stats in his first year while being paid 3 millions.
The argument still does not make sense just because you can apply it to your argument in a bubble. Either the logic makes sense or it does not.
Or else everyone could justify everything.
The point is, Scola right now is better. The other point is that this was just one game. They are different players. If we could watch Tiago play his best, he would look a lot better as well.
How does the argument not make sense. You are looking way to hard into what I am saying.
Or else everyone could justify everything.
The point is, Scola right now is better. The other point is that this was just one game. They are different players. If we could watch Tiago play his best, he would look a lot better as well.
Scola is better than Splitter. It is obvious. Everyone that watches basketball knows this... therefore Scola makes more money. I am not saying that this is always the case but it should be and regarding these 2 players it is. That is all I was ever implying. Both just got new contracts... one player was 5 years 50 mil the other 3 years 10 mil.
Sigh
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