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Well, at least we have Bonner who was a proven player from the NBA who can spread the floor and not some unproven in the NBA, foreign player who would get into Duncan's way.
Thank God we unloaded that Jackie Butler contract with the Scola deal so we had money to trade for Jefferson.
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Well, at least we have Bonner who was a proven player from the NBA who can spread the floor and not some unproven in the NBA, foreign player who would get into Duncan's way.
As the Spurs window of opportunity is as good as gone, it's not what Scola does from now what hurts, but what he could have done for us for the past 4/5 seasons. Those were the wasted years, where a relatively small investment could have paid huge dividends. Now it's too late.
Scola was about $$$ not that bull smokescreen.Well, at least we have Bonner who was a proven player from the NBA who can spread the floor and not some unproven in the NBA, foreign player who would get into Duncan's way.
funny Manu got him to get a twitter account and this is the latest from it.
@rita202109 thanks, i would love to play there too, so bad it didnt work out ,but they still my fav team...after the Rockets of course
I used to not care too much because the Spurs won in 2007. However, I now think the Spurs would have won either in 2006 or 2008 with Scola. We will never know. I can't complain though, 4 championships is more than any Spurs fan could have hoped for after the mid 90s seemed to rob us of all hope.
I hope that Scola hits the Spurs up for 30/15 every time he plays them; they deserve it. Then again, almost every half decent or better PF in the league destroys the Spurs. They make Aldridge look like an All-NBA player.
Oh man ... that is a sad story ..., but it is version of Barbosa's one. so sad
It's pretty sad that the ONE time Holt is willing to spend Pop/Buford waste it on Jefferson/Dice.Oh man ... that is a sad story ...
scolas gonna earn a nice contract this offseason.
It's just Basketball, Manu said, i don't know what the was Spurs management looking at when they decided not to get Scola, he was a tremendous player on Europe, the Argentina NT and on every team he played for in his life, just like Manu but without injuries.
Scola would struggling in the Spurs System just like Jefferson is.I think it's safe to assume that the Scola transaction will go down as the Spurs worse FO gaffe ever...
The jury is still out on the Jefferson gamble...
I wasnt around this board when Scola was traded.
Why was he traded? Saving money? Pop said he doesnt shoot 3's?
Agreed. it was like holt/rc were didn't want to look stupid about the 'never go over the tax' comment during the 03 run.
in no particular order: s jackson, scola, barbosa, splitter, jhoward. anybody else? marc gasol?
But Scola can't rebound!
Scola can't make three pointerrrs, you all know TD can't play with a bigman that can't make three pointerrrs.
For the last time, Barbosa was never ours. He was the Suns pick in a draft day deal. Repeat, and in all caps: THE SPURS PICKED BARBOSA BECAUSE THE SUNS TOLD THEM TO.
As for Scola, if I recall correctly, he wanted a 7 figure deal before he would sign with the Spurs. The Spurs wanted him to work on a contract like Gino, aka the best Argentine player, did.
Scola was about the money, money the Spurs didn't want to spend at the time.
As for Jackson, it was SJax that read the market wrong, not the Spurs. The Spurs offered him a deal that they thought was fair (as the story goes). Jack wanted more money, but no one was offering. The Spurs were not about to bid against themselves like the Wizards did with Arenas.
Spurs FO ups:
Scola trade
Barbosa trade
Passing up Josh Howard
Passing up David Lee
anyone wanna add anything
What was really sad was that half of the board was saying that Scola sucked. Even when he was starting to play good in Houston some of this board kept saying that Scola was awful. Now they don't even show here. And Im not even saying that I was right or anything cause I don't care. Most of us the only thing we were stating was that he was a pretty good player. I'd saw Scola play for many years and it was enough to see that the guy had a great potential to play. His only flaw was his height which was supplied with extreme fundamentals and footwork. Plus he's a smart player (not so rare for an argentine player).
Now he's not here, let's move on cause there's not much we can do about it. Whining will not bring him back. Let's keep trying to improve.
IMO, you can't really fault a team for draft picks in the late first round. It's hard to determine a player's worth when they fall that low. I agree about the Scola trade being absolutely re ed but faulting the team for not having hindsight when it comes to the draft is reaching. That's like saying the Spurs should have used their 2nd round pick, two years ago, on Marc Gasol instead of Marcus Williams. You're basically rolling the dice with picks that low.
Thank you Nathan Explosion, all of you other nin in poops
Yeah, I think also the Spurs had to buy out like half of his Europe contract... or something like that... the Spurs didn't wanna!
So pathetic the way some of you rub one out every time Scola has a good game against the Spurs. I guess the 0 pts and 3 rebs against Orlando in the game before and the 10 pts and 3 rebs against Utah in the game after were really the flukes. It was only the third time all season that he has scored over 25 points in a game and his highest rebound total in over 5 weeks.
Seriously, if you want to get all pissed off because he plays well against the Spurs, fine. But stop the keyboard chode load about how awesome he is. Because he is not. Awesome power forwards do not average only 7 rebounds a game for almost half the season.
Spurs paid Bonner more that summer than it cost Houston to sign Scola.
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