As long as Scola is in Houston he will start next to Yao unless you get an elite player. Hill has yet to show he is that. Scola remains the better player by far still.
After Scola's performance tonight, I don't think there's any doubt that Hill should start at PF next season.
This thread reverse-jinxed Scola to 44 points, and jinxed Hill to brick wide-open mid-range jumpers... Great thread. :grin:
LOL, I love this post! I can see it already: Rick the Ruler - "Yeah, nice 44 points Scola, but we are starting Hill next game." :grin:
Do you really think that Hill is going to improve that much in the off season to replace Scola? I hope you watched tonights game. Scola is a skilled veteran, Hill is a very raw rookie. LifeisButaDream, you have more than 1000 posts in two months. Maybe you need to slow down a little bit.
Do you really think that the sea that currently separates the playing levels of Scola and Hill is going to close THAT much in one offseason?
Do you really think that we need AB/Martin/Scola/Yao all on the floor at the same time.You do know that once you go to the other side of court you have to stop people from scoring too
None of Brooks/Martin/Scola are as terrible as people seem to think offensively; they only look so bad because we are a team which is completely without a true center. That's why players keep getting easy layups on us--no rim protection. No player in the NBA can defend a good scorer one-on-one when they have space to move. When Yao comes back, you'll see that all of those guys are average or slightly below average defenders... not defensive liabilities. And with Ariza/Battier on the team's best wing scorer (which is usually their best OVERALL scorer) everything will be fine.
Its going to take yao a few months to get back to 100%.Teams are going to attack him even more then they used to.So are we going to allow this just for the sake of having an offensive only starting lineup?
