No way.. STILL has a way better shot than Howard.. and definitely not as ugly as Howard's shot. And plus... Scola is from Argentina, so he's always going to be better regardless, haha.
No. Juwan Howard. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/howarju01.html Season Team Lg Salary 1994-95 Washington Bullets NBA $1,309,000 1995-96 Washington Bullets NBA $1,702,000 1996-97 Washington Bullets NBA $9,750,000 1997-98 Washington Wizards NBA $11,250,000 1998-99 Washington Wizards NBA $13,125,000 1999-00 Washington Wizards NBA $15,000,000 2000-01 Washington Wizards NBA $16,875,000 2001-02 Dallas Mavericks NBA $18,750,000 2002-03 Denver Nuggets NBA $20,625,000 2003-04 Orlando Magic NBA $4,917,000 2004-05 Houston Rockets NBA $5,408,700 2005-06 Houston Rockets NBA $5,900,400 2006-07 Houston Rockets NBA $6,392,100 2007-08 Minnesota Timberwolves NBA $6,883,800 2007-08 Dallas Mavericks NBA $1,211,197 2008-09 Minnesota Timberwolves NBA $7,375,500 2008-09 Charlotte Bobcats NBA $928,143 2008-09 Denver Nuggets NBA $51,976 2009-10 Portland Trail Blazers NBA $1,306,455 2010-11 Miami Heat NBA $1,352,181 Career (may be incomplete) $150,113,452
bud and battier may be the worst comparison i have ever seen in my life. try to watch a game or two before writing
Im not reading from his stats. Im reading from how he looks when he plays. He is slower and he just doesnt jump, he seems weaker too - gets bumped and bodied too easily. His moves are still there, the IQ is still there and he will re-gain his shooting form. THATS WHY - At this point in his career he needs to be a contending team, not a team with no direction or identity. Even on the decline, he will flourish in team with a well established coach who as a well established system. He will be surrounded by actual stars and all the players know their game and know exactly how play their roles. Thunder - need a big who can score. Denver, Spurs, Boston could all use him at the 4 and decide to move NeNe, Garnett, Duncan to the 5. All 4 instantly upgrades their front court. One anyone of those teams he is 3rd option at best. He will flourish as a role player and not a main contributor. Scola is no longer physically capable of being our main contributor along side Martin. The only draw back for those teams would be giving up something else of need in return. I would happily take either Aldrich+Mohammad, Splitter or Leonard, J.Green, or Faried+Anderson, with combination of fillers+ picks or TE of course.
Back to the evidence, Scola is great every other night on offense and horrible every night on defense. The truth shall set you free my fellow clutch posters
First: Dalembert is a better rebounder than Chuck Hayes. Thats just a fact through stats and size. Takes away rebounds from Scola who was often dominated at times for them last year next to Hayes. Fact two: Lowry scores more this year and so does Dalembert than Chuck Hayes. Taking away from Scolas touches. Stats regressing is not always about fading physically out of prime. Fact 3: Scola has looked fine at times when he wants to take over games. Fact: 4 its a lockout shortened year where games are closer together. For all intents and purposes ruining any argument of aplayer having an off year due to prime going away. Simply from the nature of the shortened lockout year giving any kind of oddities this year a solid excuse. No drop in his value=conclusion.
Playing with Dalembert should, in theory, help Scola. It forces the other team to put their bigger defender on the C which as a result allows Scola to post up against their smaller big. McHale should also take advantage of Dalembert's 15-20 foot jump shot to create some space for Scola to operate on the post when the matchup is favorable. His usage hasn't gone down, though. His shots attempted per possessions is virtually the same, and his turnovers committed per possession has actually gone up. And it is true that in this lockout season that efficiency is down league-wide. It's gone from 107.3 to 102.3. However, Scola's individual offensive efficiency has dropped far more dramatically, from 108 to 94. Among the 105 front-court players who've played at least 10 games and average at least 20 mpg, Scola ranks 92nd in offensive efficiency (that's the bottom 15%). Unfortunately, even with Scola's play being down this year he has been better than any potential substitutes (Hill, Patterson).
