Scola needs to grow a pair.

Scola is too nice and so is his teammates.

 

Scola's not as stupid as this thread is

 

The only thing I take from this thread is that the Laker's are f***ing b****es.

 

It takes an ultimate badass to not hit back. You kids don't understand that...

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Grow a pair OP...

 

Scola soft? This is the dumbest thread I've seen in quite a while.

Scola doesn't need to react when other try to get physical with him, because he doesn't have to prove his toughness. That's evident by how he doesn't take possessions off and how he works tirelessly in game and in practice. The dude is a machine.

 

The best way to get back is with a win.

 

This. Rockets need to grow a pair.

I'm sure they're buying into what Kevin Love said. "It was only an accident. No harm intended."

So who will be next to shi!t on Scola?

 

Lol scola soft..... you ppl dont know what soft is! just be cause hes not fighting every player that wrongs hims doesnt make him soft

 

JJ Redick came straight to mind, he could own Scola and still not even have to deal with a confrontation.

 

Soft, like Charmin. No one said he needs to start fighting everyone. But to just lay there and take it? My God, even in the TKAM video you saw him step to him, making it known "you better calm down or I'll kick the hell out of you" Scola just lays down and waits until he has permission to get back up.

 

That play defined this team, no toughness at all.

In 2009 when we went past the 1st round in 10+ years, we had one of the toughest players in the league, who had everybodys back.

Metta World Peace

 

Man it felt like I got my face stepped on, I was pissed off. I congratulate Scola though.

Well played fine sir, well played.

 

This has nothing with being stupid. Scola needs to stand up and make sure players know that he is not a push over. Dream would have gotten some pay back right away.

 

Trade for Mozgov. He'll take care of it!

 

This. After that happened, I wish Scola would have demanded the ball on the block a bit more and take it to Love. He had been scoring well prior to that, but only scored maybe 6-7 points the rest of the game?

That is Scola's knock though. Sometimes you don't just keep to script and defer. Sometimes you have to become and stay the aggressor and force them to respect you. That is also why he doesn't get foul calls like that one, attitude.

 

100%

The only thing that bugged me, at least this season, about Lowry was everyone's assumption that Lowry had the fire and passion to be the take charge kind of leader. Then i saw a replay of the Fisher hit on Scola, Lowry had the ball, stopped and just stood there pointing. That's embarrassing. It got me thinking, "if this is the guy everyone says is the leader of the team, just how soft are we?"

Tonight was just another example of how the players just bend over and take whatever happens to them. No, they don't need to run up and start pushing and punching everyone in sight, just walk up, get in their face, let them know we won't tolerate this and if it happens again, it's going down. Instead we got nothing, leaving Love and anyone else for that matter open game to punk the Rockets.

 

Plays like this sometimes happen in the heat of the moment, and it has to do with the physical way in which Scola plays the game. Not because other teams perceive him or the Rockets as "soft".

And you think if Scola retaliated that would somehow dissuade someone from doing something like this from happening in the future? I say it wouldn't. In my opinion, it takes more toughness to keep one's cool and respond to such plays by playing harder and better, than it does too retaliate with a shove or cheap shot.