Scola thread!

[Knoxxx]

Scola was great, let's keep Manu and pair them up in 2010. Sure RC is looking crazy and we all would like to throttle him right now considering he spent more to get Kurt "The Statue" Thomas than Scola cost. However, we did get TP and Manu from this regime, so I guess you can't hit a home run every time. Rather than lament past mistakes, we need to be scheming for the future.

[duncan228]

The Saga of Scola
Howard Beck

If the reeling Los Angeles Lakers need another scapegoat for their suddenly perilous playoff position, perhaps they can blame Jackie Butler. It takes a few steps to get there, but play along.

Two years ago, the San Antonio Spurs realized they had overpaid Butler, a young center with a short résumé and a shorter N.B.A. lifespan. To shed his contract, the Spurs needed to trade him. To find a willing buyer, they needed to include something of value in the deal.

So in July 2007, the Spurs sent Butler and the draft rights to Luis Scola to the Houston Rockets. Two nights ago, Scola pounded the Lakers for 24 points and 12 rebounds to tie the Western Conference semifinal series at 3-3.

Scola, a star for Argentina’s national team and in the Spanish league, has largely outplayed the Lakers forwards Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom. He is one of the biggest reasons that the Rockets are still contending, despite losing Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and Dikembe Mutombo to injuries.

In Game 6, Scola practically put the Lakers away by himself. He scored the first 6 points of the game, and outscored the entire Los Angeles lineup by 12-3 in the first seven minutes. Houston cruised to an early double-digit lead and never surrendered it.

The hard-nosed, smooth-shooting Scola was highly regarded by the Spurs, but they were never sure how to fit him into their plans — financially or compe ively. At the time they traded his rights, the Spurs already had his countryman, center Fabricio Oberto. They also owned the rights to another promising foreign big man, Ian Mahinmi, their first-round pick in 2005.

So Scola seemed expendable, or at least not essential. Ever budget-conscious, the Spurs were eager to move Butler’s $2.4 million salary off the books. They received an undisclosed amount of cash in the trade. And the one player they obtained — guard Vassilis Spanoulis — was released at his own request, providing another $4 million in savings.

Butler never played a minute for the Rockets. The Lakers surely wish that Scola never had.

[nil.ball]

A big part of the reason I log on here (as a rockets fan) was to read all the Scola thread. To be honest, Houston front office since the dream era was fail sauce, until recently. Scola, Hayes, Landry, Battier, Brooks, Artest, Wafer, Lowry, the entire team you see on the floor right now, non of them was here until Daryl Morey came.

Yes the scrub team that is taking the championship bound lakers to the brinks of elimination is pretty much hand picked by our new GM. Give him some credit (who is this year's exec of the year? stupid nba).

[vander]

Yawn...same as around this same time last year when the Rockets were on the 22 game winning streak. Wake me when something meaningful happens. I realize not totally sucking is always a big deal for RocketFan....but seriously, it's not that big of a deal. Especially in Adelman's system. Brad Miller put up some numbers under Adelman that would put him in the HOF if averaged them for a career...doesn't mean he's not a lump of .

LOL so in order for Scola to be good enough for the Spurs, he has to beat the Lakers, something the Spurs couldn't even do, with basically Artest as the only other marquee player on the team.

No, Whotttt knows that Scola would have been a tremendous asset to our team, and that's why he hates him. whottttt is sick of the Spurs winning and collecting bandwagon fans. He longs to see us wallow in mediocrity so that only the REAL fans stick around and he doesn't have to share the Spurs and these boards with all the bandwagon fans

don't worry whottttt, you will most likely get your wish

[smeagol]

The problem is not how good Scola is, we all know, to some degree, that he is an above average player (even whottt admits this). The issue is the Spurs got for him.


Plain ole' smelly .

[Knoxxx]

What impressed me was Scola v Gasol, whom I view as just below the elite level in the NBA. Scola used his superior weight and smarts to offset Gasol and make him work for everything the last couple games. Scola has basically neutralized Gasol since Ming went out, averaging 16 and 13 to Gasol's 20 and 11. Scola only got 11 and 8 when YM was in. Gasol was going for 16 and 11 against YM. So three games with YM and three without. Gasol had 30 in game 4, but only averaging 16 the rest of the series. If Gasol can't get 20+, Kobe needs 40+ or who is going to score for the Lakers?

The Lakers scared me a lot when Bynum was going 20 and 10, but he looks like a shadow of that right now, and their role players aren't doing it. Really like what I see out of Houston's role players. Their FO has clearly outperformed ours lately.

[JustBlaze]

Scola to Haters: "Tell me how my ass taste?"

[ace3g]

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41-year-old Luis Scola received a standing ovation in what is expected to be his final Olympic game @LScola4 will go down as one of the greatest players in Argentina basketball history.






6:27pm · 3 Aug 2021 · Sprinklr

[SAGirl]

It reminds me of Manu’s last game with Argentina.