"He could be a boxer... that didn't even phase him" - Sir Chuckles, commenting on the Boozer wrist/fist to Landry's grille.
The Rockets were the aggressors and played Utah's style of game.....I liked it.... Now, if we can just get Scola to take on a bit more contact.......although he did shoot 10 FTs....come on Luis you could have had 20 last night. DD
I don't get while y'all are bagging on Scola so much what I saw last night was him working hard to take it into the paint and getting mugged several times with no call. Scola does twist but it doesn't seem like its because he's afraid of contact but that he understands he doesn't have the power to just bowl over a defender and playing the Jazz a lot of the time they just flop. This might be part of the Euro game where due to all of flopping contact is avoided more. Given the way the Jazz are playing I don't think Scola is doing anything wrong. If he just barrelled into them he would probably foul out in the first half. Rather than seeing Scola trying to run people over I would prefer to see him getting more calls. AK47 looks like he's reaching in almost all the time while Boozer is hip checking people. Unfortunately since the Scola can't control the refs I would at least like to see him hit more of his free throws.
