Now that we have seen a little bit of the season, how does everyone feel about not receiving Chris Bosh and retaining Scola? Bosh: PPG: 17.6 AST:1.8 RPG:7.1 FG%51 20 mil per Scola: PPG:22.2 AST:2.2 RPG:9.7 FG%52.5 10 mil per I am really starting to doubt Morey's ability to judge a player's ability. We almost lost a 20/10 guy for a guy with similar stats but at double the cost... The Rockets IMO really dodged a bullet and Morey should be thanking the Heat everyday.
I can believe that he would score more with the Rockets but it would maybe be 3-4 more points then Scola scores now Not to mention that Scola is a tank and does not get injured while Bosh is wearing a knee brace and has back spasm issues (ie McGrady)
It's not the ON court things that make me happy we missed out on that crazy train. He's ridiculous on the inside.
Averaging 17 (should have more rebs) on a team with Lebron and Wade is not equal to averaging 22 and 9 on a bad team.
Bosh would still be a killer here. Ideally, it would have been Yao, Bosh, and Scola as our rotation of bigs with all 3 guys getting around 30 minutes and Hayes getting a few leftovers when somebody got in foul trouble. Even with Yao gone, Bosh would still be killer with Scola. He would dominate the boards along with Scola and would provide great spacing for our offense. Bosh would be ten times to us what he is in Miami. However, he got his money and a shot at some rings if only Miami can find a dominant defensive paint presence and James and Wade can figure out how to make their games mesh. The biggest problem with Miami is not Bosh. It is James and Wade co-existing and being productive since both of their games are predicated on handling the ball and penetrating.
My guess would be Scola would still have better numbers. Bosh is so overrated. I wasn't part of the recruit Bosh crew, I knew Scola would be a workhorse.
Bosh put up better stats last year as the main guy than workhorse Scola has put up this year. I'd go out on a limb to say that Bosh's first-option numbers would be better than Scola's third-option numbers.
Scola cannot defend/ Bosh can Scola cannot get the ball out of double teams/Bosh can stats do not mean anything dude in this case
Let's say Toronto and Bosh agree to a sign-and-trade package of Hill/Battier/Jeffries/picks. Houston could have marched out a lineup of: Brooks/Lowry Martin/Lee Budinger Scola/Patterson Bosh/Miller And that's WITHOUT Yao.
Disagree. Les wanted to keep Scola BADLY. He would have just told Morey not to sign Brad Miller if it would cost them Scola. In my scenario above, Bosh would have cost the Rockets roughly the same as Hill/Battier/Jeffries combined. If you cut out Miller's $4.4M salary this season, and sign Scola to the same deal, the Rockets would have a LOWER payroll than they currently have.
