http://www.fibaamericas.com/noticiasread_us.asp?r=SQUGTJNOOC BAHIA BLANCA - Paolo Quinteros netted 26 points to lead Argentina to a win over Australia 98-78. Before the game the Argentinean Basketball Confederation honored past players who gave it all for their country: Pepe Sánchez, Alejandro Montecchia and Juan Espil. The Argentinean won the first quarter 29-15 led by Quinteros who had 12. The first half finished 55-32 as Diego Garcia netted 11 in the second quarter. Now Argentina will play in the Super 4 starting this Saturday against Uruguay. Argentina (98): Cantero 3, Quinteros 26, Kammerichs 4, Scola 10 and González 10 (SL), Weigand 6, Figueroa 5, J. Gutiérrez 7, L. Gutiérrez 6, García 16, Vay 5 and Pelussi 0. HC: Hernández. Australia (78): Gibson 11, Barlow 5, Ingles 22, Jawai 14 and Baynes 4 (SL), Dellavedova 9, Crawford 3, Nevill 7, Weigh 0 y Forman 3. HC: Brown.
This torunament as well as the Pre-WC tournament will come as great training to Scola as he will be the only star in the argentinean team, with Prigioni and Delfino unable to participate. In this last game Scola showed he was little raough at the begining, this cause him to have a lot of trouble handling double and triple teams from australia who put one 6-11 and one 6-10 on him for all game long, but after few mistakes he stoped trying to score on every posesion and started distributing the ball quite well, the outcome was Quinteros, Garcia and Vay having a lot of open 3 pointers, Quinteros outshined everyone by shooting 5-6 from 3 land. This was great training and will continue to be as he will have to face many double teams this year with us. If Scola learns how to manage double teams in order to give other teams open shots i think we can have hope he will work well as sole option inside for us.
Great point. Scola is the teams best low post threat and having one is very important to free up the shooters. Having a low post threat also gives the team a higher percentage in scoring. Assuming the team can not play the run and gun due to the good defense of the other team, then the set plays must include passing to the low post and Scola is the best at it. ( as of now )
If Utah indeed has serious interest in Scola I say trade him for thier draft pick they have from New York for next year's draft and speed up the rebuilding process. If Scola was younger I wouldn't trade him, but he's 30, and we won't be contenders for 1 or 2 years anyway. Trade him while his value is at a all time high.
I predict Scola will end up with 20 children, 10 boys and 10 girls. He is a double double waiting to happen.
They probably won't do that. I would hate to see him go,especially to the Jazz. I do agree with your line of thinking,we need the NY pick as well as our own.
http://www.fibaamericas.com/noticiasread_us.asp?r=PESVUWBWXH PUR - Marchand Continental Championship Cup starts in San Juan 8/18/2009 SAN JUAN (Marchand Continental Championship Cup) - The II Marchand Continental Championship Cup begins today with two interesting games at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot. This tournament serves as a final preparation for the 2009 FIBA Americas Championship to be played from August 26 to September 6 in San Juan. Argentina, Brazil, Canada and Puerto Rico will make the final adjustments for the FIBA Americas Championship which offer four berths for the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey. On day one Argentina takes on Brazil at 18:00 and Canada closes against Puerto Rico at 20:30. The games will be televised on ESPN Deportes and in Puerto Rico on Caribevision and DirecTv (165). Live stats and news will be available on www.fibaamericas.com. Despite not having the usual stars, Argentina will have a group of young veterans with experience in many international leagues. Luis Scola will be key along with Paolo Quinteros, Roman Gonzalez and Federico Kammerichs. Brazil brings a dream team with NBA players like Leandrinho Barbosa, Anderson Varejao and lethal scorers as Marcelinho Machado and Guilherme. This powerful team has Marcelo Huertas and Eduardo "Duda" Machado as their point guard who will distribute the ball to some priviledged hands. The Brazilians won the cup celebrated in 2007. Canada has high expectations and brings a team that has played together for some time. Joel Anthony and Carl English will lead a talented and dangerous team. Puerto Rico didn't win in the last cup but they hope to exit victorious this time. Carlos Arroyo is still a key player along with Larry Ayuso while new faces like Jesse Pellot-Rosa, Angel Vassallo and Guillermo Diaz will bring prescence on both sides. Argentina: Juan Pablo Cantero and Pablo Prigioni (PG); Paolo Quinteros and Diego García (SG); Sebastián Matías Sandes and Federico Kammerichs (SF); Luis Scola, Leonardo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Mainoldi and Andrés Pelussi (PF); Román González and Juan Pedro Gutiérrez (C). Brasil: Duda Machado and Marcelo Huertas (PG); Alex Garcia, Diego Pinheiro, Jonathan Tavernari and Leandrinho Barbosa (SG); Guilherme Giovannoni and Marcelinho Machado (SF); Alexandre “Olivinha” and Anderson Varejão (PF); João Paulo Batista and Tiago Splitter (C). Canadá: Jermaine Anderson, Tyler Kepkay and Ryan Bell (PG); Carl English and Andy Rautins (SG); Jermaine Bucknor, Olu Famutimi and Jevohn Shepherd (SF); Aaron Doornekamp, Kyle Landry and Joel Anthony (PF); Jesse Young; Levon Kendall and Phil Martin (C). Puerto Rico: Carlos Arroyo, Filiberto Rivera, Christian Dalmau and Guillermo Díaz (PG); Larry Ayuso, Joel Jones and Jesse Pellot-Rosa (SG); Ángel Daniel Vassallo and Carmelo Lee (SF); Ángelo Reyes, Ricky Sánchez and Alex Falcón (PF); Daniel Santiago (C).
I think the showing time is local time. 18:00 should be 17:00 ET. http://www.fibaamericas.com/torneos1_us.asp?t=MJQKDSBEAU 2009 Marchand Continental Championship Cup 8/18/2009 18:00 Argentina vs Brazil 20:30 Puerto Rico vs Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8/19/2009 18:00 Canada vs Argentina 20:30 Brazil Puerto Rico -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8/20/2009 18:00 Brazil vs Canada 20:30 Puerto Rico Argentina
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I think the international rule said, once you play for a country you need to wait 2 years to be allow to play for another or something like that.
What will happen to the front line of the Rockets? The team needs to get bigger and not give up one of its remaining productive player in the front line.
linky dinky 2009-08-19 I hope that everyone is doing great. Well, everything here is going well. My third son, Matias Scola, was born on the 4th of July. He is very likely the last son (ha, ha).... Fortunately, everything went well. About 1 week after his birth, we all returned home from the hospital and his brothers were very happy to greet him. I'm attaching a couple of photos of the Scola brothers. Luis
