Its time you eat a bowl of crow. he is doing insane in playoffs right now. Especiall the last 3 games. Sure maybe he didn't show up in the fourth for the first 2 games, but his team should be able to hang on You sir are an idiot. Please, we're tired of these threads. Can you just shut your pie hole, just once when the rockets lose?
Let me spell it out to you: 1) Scola is a great player, but he's not the most athletic guy. He's not going to beat anybody off the dribble in single coverage and drive past them to the basket. 2) That means when he gets the ball in the post it's off a pass. The defender is typically standing still with his arms straight up in the air. Throwing yourself into a stationary defender is an offensive foul. 3) Scola's arsenal in the post is the spin move, where he spins around the defender to get to the basket. That's a move designed to avoid contact, not initiate it. And finally, what you said is that Scola "constantly avoids contact". That doesn't sound to me like you meant it only to apply on the offensive end.
You're the guy that said that Scola wasn't the leader because he avoided physical contact. You might have had a point if you wanted to argue that Scola was only a rookie, but 1) what does physical contact have to do with being a leader? and 2) Scola clearly is not shy about banging. I don't know if the Rockets have a genuine floor leader but if not it's clear to me that the player that comes closest is Alston. Also, didn't Landry or Wells single out Alston as the team's motivational leader in an interview a while back?
i said he avoids contact when he shoots layups. what end do you think i imply? how do you shoot when you're on defense? it's not about beating guys off the dribble. like i said, i'm frustrated at his layups AROUND THE BASKET. even when he gets offensive rebounds (and most on this board know what i'm talking about), he would not go into the body of the jazz defenders. lemme give an example of my point. in game 2, he got an offensive rebound and was fairly open for a layup, instead he took one dribble to pump fake the jazz defender (b/c he EXPECTED getting contact), go to the other side of the basket and took an acrobatic layup and missed badly. if you saw the game tonight, a 3 possession stretch to start the quarter will perfectly exemplify my point. when R2K puts up the game, watch the series then you know what i mean.
What you said was "he may be the hardest working mofo we have, but no leader constantly shies away from contact and misses point blank layups." Maybe you should have written "constantly shies away from contact when he's shooting layups"? One more time: Scola's over .500 for the whole season. Don't you think it's a little hypocritical to freak out anytime someone unfairly criticizes T-Mac for having a bad game and then turn around and dump on Scola?
dude is missing L-A-Y-U-P-S. what is so hard to understand about my frustration? i'm frustrated like same people who are frustrated at our F-R-E-E throw shooting. it's the playoffs. we're giving away EASY POINTS. i don't think you understand how many layups he has missed. it's fine if you miss 1-2 a game b/c it's part of the game. but he has easily missed 6-7 layups in every game we have played this series.
Because your frustration doesn't make sense. Scola shot over .500 on the season. He's had a couple of bad games but if the series goes on long enough he'll get back to shooting .500. Everybody has bad games. It doesn't make sense to criticize the occasional bad game. You can criticize bad play over an extended period of time, like the free throw situation. If the Rockets post-season goes on long enough Scola will most likely have enough monster game where he goes 10 for 12. It all even outs--probably to around his season average of .515. These guys aren't robots. They're going to have hot and cold shooting nights, that's just the way it works. Also, Scola may be having trouble scoring but the good clearly outweighs the bad with him. He does a lot of stuff beyond just scoring, and his rebounding was a big part of the victory tonight. And I don't think drawing contact has anything to do with making layups. Drawing contact is good for getting foul calls, but I don't think it's going to help when it comes to making baskets. So your criticism really doesn't make any sense.
