[SI] Scola, Not Your Average NBA Rookie

nice find good to read about the accomplishments of the most unknown rocket on the roster. hopefully everything works out for the best for scola

 

Thanks! I love reading this stuff about Scola. I still can't believe we stole him from SA. They're going to regret it.

 

I'm getting pumped on Scola.

 

Scola might have the best big game experiences among all Rockets.

 

let's get all the nba players for the 2008 season in one room and have a raise of hands on who owns a gold medal. oop, there's scola's hand.
ftw.

 

I'm gonna make some shirts that say, "Get Scola'd"

or "Scola to the hola"

 

6'8? I thought he was 6'9 without shoes?

 

Thanks. Good article.

 

It's great to read from an objective site like SI, rather than one that's more Pro-Rockets. It says that Scola was in the top 10 in rebounding in the ACB....so he couldn't be that bad at rebounding. The ACB is the best league outside of the NBA...and he was in the top 10. I'm also excited that we got one of the top 2 scorers from the Spanish league...and certainly the top big man scorer. If he can blossom here like he did overseas, the impact will be very noticeable.....we've had some average to subpar guys at that position for a long time.


By the way, can we get some more Scola videos? I really enjoyed those 4 videos that were posted in the "Final Blowout," but I'm craving for more....like the ones against Team USA, the 25 and 11 performance to win the gold, some of his best games with the Tau that show his skills. The more I see of him, the more I see that he is really good and the people that claim he's a Juwan Howard have not really seen him play.

 

Realjad, I tried to download that scout video 1/3 you had that compiles both games against Team USA....but it only plays 2:43 out of the 8 plus minutes....darn.

 

looking forward to immediate chemistry and integrity of the ROX game

 

7,5 rebounds isnt that bad. Im happy if he can get 7 rebounds in 30 minutes and play some good defense.
Lol, If juwan howard was payed 3 million i would have been happy with that but scola brings so much more than howard for more than half the price.

Scola for ROY!

 

They play less minutes in Europe...their games are like 40 minutes....so Scola's averages are for like 26 or so minutes. He's way more athletic than Juwan Howard and the difference between his offensive skills and Hayes will be quite noticeable.

 

There is no standard for measuring height in the NCAA, NBA or European leagues. For example, we list Novak as 6-10. He is 6-10 in shoes and 6-8.5 barefoot.

Personally, I wish the leagues would set a barefoot measurement standard, but everyone wants their players to be the biggest and baddest -- that sells more tickets.

 

It says "BEEF" on the right leg of Scola's shorts in the pic above.

Beef.......uh huh huh huh.

 

How about we use inches or Centimetres? Isn't that standard? We can even go one further and W/S (with shoes) B/F (bare feet).. It's just that teams like to deceive other teams, than players are also trying to deceive teams of their height, that way the don't get deemed as "tweeners".

 

Centimeters or inches would be equally welcome, as long as the player is measured in bare feet. Judging from some of the signature shoes, a player gets anywhere from 1 to 2.5 more inches of added height from his shoes (hence, too many variables on the "with shoes" measurement).

 

I think he'll be a better version of howard with alot better post game Atheletic and passing ability.

 

So his nick-name will be:

S-Cola

Now that's refreshing!