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mahinmi needs court time
in euro they play vets over there
so he is not gettign much
like I said last year best to bring him over now
had he been here all year he could do no worse then ely
1- Ludden has said in two of his maibags that Mahinmi will likely be a Spurs next season.
2- Some articles in France says that Mahinmi is on his way out to SA.
3- I've translated last week a french article about Mahinmi about his future with SA : http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost...&postcount=809
Mahinmi is far from being nba ready but what his the best solution for his development : playing in europe or playing in DLeague + Spurs pratice and training ?
For a raw athletic player like Mahinmi, I'm not sure that staying in europe is the best solution.
he should spend a lot of time in Dleague.
mahinmi needs court time
in euro they play vets over there
so he is not gettign much
like I said last year best to bring him over now
had he been here all year he could do no worse then ely
There have been many indications in the press that Ian will be signed this summer -- Bruno just posted two of them. I don't see why anyone has a problem with his not playing much for the Spurs the first year. The Spurs have done this so often, a person would have to be pretty ignorant to think this is somehow a bad thing or undesirable for a young player. Ian will get alot of minutes in the D-League, just look at Mouhamed Sene, Amir Johnson, Patrick O'Bryant and Pops Mensa-Bonsu. Do their teams consider those players complete wastes? Absolutely not.
There are many scenarios where Ian and Scola could both be signed. Arrrrghfan is too myopic to understand that Scola is AN option, not THE option. We aren't saying Ian is better than Scola, just that it's much easier for the Spurs to decide to bring him over at this time. It will also be much easier to keep Bonner and to a lesser extent Ely without blowing the MLE on them like they would have to do with Scola. There are many holes on this team that Scola simply doesn't fill.
It all comes down to $. I personally do not know how much it will take to sign scola, but I keep reading posts that it could take as much as mle. I for one rather treat mahinmi like butler was treated this year and spend the year learning american basketball through playing in the d-league or simply practicing with the spurs. Lets remember that elson's contract is up next year so mahinmi could step right in and take his spot while saving mllions to re-sign him. I also believe that the spurs will carry at least 2-3 young players (1-2 year) on the roster due to contracts being done in 2008 (finley, horry, elson,barry, oberto). This would be the perfect draft and offseason to fill the roster with back-up young players to learn the system and figure out who has long term potential and in the process save millions on FA.
unleash n scola now!!
Scola is probably going to be traded.
It would start by game 30 in any team below .500.
Would play 20 minutes by Game 40 in about any team above.
Including the Spurs.
Thatīs for sure.Scola will never be a Ginobili,as far as popularity,but He can be a VERY DECENT PF for any team in this league.Including the spurs
Thatīs exacly what happened to Walter Herrmann this year.And nobody belived in him,same thing with Scola.
Herrmann was signed for 1.8 million, do you think Scola would do the same?
He would play for free if he has to,but his buyout is killing him.He is not asking for a contract for money to himself,he just need to pay his buyout.thats all.
Lots of the people on this board never watched him play.
They don't have the foggiest idea what the euroleague level is about.
There is no way an NBA < .500 team can even come close to make it to the euroleague finals.
Scola has been one of the best this year in Euroleague.
To think that he would sit watching Oberto or Elson play is simply ridiculous.
It's just too expensive.
That's the basic point.
Screw Bonner, go after Slokar.
[QUOTE=ArgSpursFan]He would play for free if he has to,but his buyout is killing him.He is not asking for a contract for money to himself,he just need to pay his buyout.thats all.[/QUOTE
I think he has 3 mil buyout this year (quoted from page 1), so I am sure the spurs or someone else would give him 2-3 mil, but I ahve a feeling he is asking for his buyout to be payed and to make 2-3 mil. on top of that..
as has been discussed many times previously, he could take out a loan like everyone else to pay it off.
[QUOTE=yavozerb]even if the spurs want to pay his buyout,they cant,by NBA rules they only can pay 500k for the buyout.
So the rest of the money of his 1st yr. with the spurs or any other NBA team, He should use it to pay TAU back.
Sounds good to me..If he was as simple minded as you or I he would already be in NBA..I hope I am wrong but I still think he thinks shouldn't have to pay a dime and is trying to get a larger contract to compensate
It's always been about the buyout and contract with Scola. I don't think anybody has questioned the talent, outside of the typical, "Yeah... but can he play in the NBA?" line that you hear about all foreign players.
I'm not sure why, but I get the growing feeling that we're never going to see Scola in a Spurs uniform.
You would think Scola could reduce the buyout on his own.
Why not tell Tau he is willing to sit out the season? They may be more willing to get a reduced buyout amount as opposed to getting nothing.
Just saw on cnn/si that Tau lost their final game. here are scola's stats:
14 pts (6-11)(2-5 FT),5 rbs, 2 ast, 1 bk in 33 min.
We need help rebounding and Scola does jsut that. i wouldnt mind bringing him in at all.
i dont know how good he would be in the post but after years of people whining about how anyone with a post game cannot coexist with Duncan we suddenly have noone down low when Duncan goes out of the game.
I like the idea of Scola coming in for us.
Cause Scola wouldnt do that to the team who putted him in the International Scenario.The guy is a real pro and I belive after this season,the TAU owners will realize that his time with the team is up.NBA time for Scola,hopefully the spurs.who knows.
maybe some are interested:
Scola has just been voted popular MVP of the Spanish league by the fans. (he got about 60.000 out of 190.000 votes). the fans choice also counts for the election of the official league MVP, so no doubt that Scola will win the official MVP this season. (his 2nd after he also won 2005)
well, we all know now, how much overrated Scola is and that he will for sure be a bust in the NBA, but in Spain there are still some left, who think he is a good player. ridiculous. they should stop watching him week by week and start to learn a bit from the ST.com analysis.
HTF can you be a bust when u havnt set foot in the league yet???
i prefer to have scola over here than ian mahinmi, the longer ian stays in europe not getting any minutes, is not doing him any good.
scola should just accept 3-4million a year, take it or leave it.
maybe by recognizing the irony factor?
I think Scola will be talking to the Tau owners about his future and buyout anytime soon.Itīs clear that when a player is not happy in a team(or league)wont perfom as He should,and I think thatīs what happened to Scola this year.
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