I would only trade him to Miami for two reasons, he is old, has sacrificed money to play for us, and we reward him by setting up one of the least competitive teams for his third year. I bet if you ask Scola, he would prefer to be traded, even now that he will be focal point of our offense and could showcase himself, he will most likely prefer to win than to be richer. Second reason is that i think Miami is looking for a very similar player in Boozer, and that they have the assets that we might find interesting in young players as Beasley and Chalmers. Anyway, i think Scola is stuck here with a bunch of D-Leaguers to play along cause our half stars are unavailable to play.
Scola is tradeable... Landry is tradeable... however, as a combination at this position I personally feel they are untouchable... We RARELY lost the power forward battle during games last year no matter who we played. These guys are both beasts... Scola is a monster, but I like Landry even better.
I think Hollinger is wrong, I believe he is an UFA at the end of his contract, it was a 3 year deal, nothing more...... DD
Hollinger didn't say anything about Scola's contract. Unless you're disagreeing about restricted FA's being paid less than market value.
Any player with 3 years or less on the NBA is a restricted free Agent. http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q36
Unlike some players Scola has been the heart of the Rockets and players like that you don't trade. Scola deserves to retire a Rocket in my opinion. You can trade anyone else if you can.
Scola has 4-5 years of good basketball left. If you think the Rockets can't compete for a championship in that time frame. Than trade him. Personally this whole rebuilding idea is premature. Rockets should plan for it, but they should also prepare to go down with the Yao era. You get players that are going to benefit from Yao's attention until he is retired. For better or worse we are stuck with Yao until 2011, if he comes back and is even healthy for 1 whole year and posts another 20-10 year, be prepared for another 4-5 years of Yao. Which I am okay with if he is not the #1 option and we have a good backup center. So the team needs to do whatever it can to prepare to have Yao in the plans and without. Scola fits in now with Yao and he will fit without him. Shane and Scola Leadership will help guide our younger players to grow. All young players need this guidance, if we fill the roster with nothing but young players, we are going to be like Memphis.
Man y'all really want to lose this season huh? If we do trade a pf night as well be landry sincehes all bout the money and not winning imo.
He's a good player about to turn 30. I would trade anyone on the team. Scola is a 6m a yr player, do you want to pay him that on a .500 team? If I could get a younger guy with some upside I would do it. Marc Gasol would be perfect in a trade.
This is the team that won 22 straight. Pushed the Lakers to game 7. Played very well without T-Bag or Yao for long stretches. To trade for inexperience and youth or worse, busts. No way. Keep him and Battier.
Pritchard supposedly loves players like Scola. See if he will bite on a scola + package (maybe battier n fillers) for Aldridge and fillers
Ship him while he still has value, and insert Landry in to the starting five. Once Landry develops a consistent mid-range game, he's going to be a force to be reckoned with on the Rockets. I'd take Scola now, but I'll take Carl 3 years from now.
It would have to be a hell of a deal to make me want to let go Scola. Let's remember the circumstances we fell into to acquire him. It'd be a sad state of affairs not to capitalize on that. I'd want to see a 1st round draft pick and/or superstar. None of this in between crap like package Scola for Dalembert crap.
