Argentina vs Dominican Republic (Scola playing Live now)

Too bad it doesnt work against Kobe

 

It works on Kobe, it doesn't stop him, but it definitely keeps him from going off like he usually does against lesser defenders.

 

Scola is one of the very few international players that actually has good defensive tendencies. It's nice to see that he's taking a note out of shane's book from the pic above.

 

For those who wanted to see the game but couldn´t here is a youtube sumary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNa5yVokSnk

by the way, Scola boxscore was.

30 points on 10 for 19 shooting and 10 for 14 free throws, 8 rebounds and 5 assists.

He played against a bigger frontcourt that usually paired him with a double team of Horford and Villanueva and Horford and Michael Martinez.

Basically scored at will every time he was single covered and scoored plenty of times against those double teams. If Argentina has another inside presense he would have dominated RD inside, but he fought 2 on 1 for the whole game.

 

Who was he holding? Looks like Horford had a beast of a game as well - 24 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists...crazy. I wish I would have seen the game.