Mentioned and discussed in another thread, but I wrote this out, THEN noticed that thread. But this deserves its own thread anyways. Houston is clearing cap space for Dwight H. and company... Apparently teams can submit blind bids to the league office as part of the amnesty waiver process, and the player goes to the highest bidder. Scola would make a huge difference for us. $3.33 mil per year for 3 years is the minimum bid.
If gotten cheap he could be a very good trade chip as well, anyone know how soon he can be traded if picked up on amnesty waivers?
I go back and forth on this one. He would be 32, 33, and 34 while playing for us. That is a lot of years on his body since he has been playing since he was very young. But on the other hand he has never had (or needed) athleticism to be effective. But I agree with those of you who say he is a duplication of what we have and we really need one more "Bigger" body. Since it will take IMO over 5 million a year to win the bid, I guess my final opinion would not to sign him.
Dallas is going to go after the amnestied players, but I wouldn't be surprised if Olshey threw a low to medium bid at 3 or 4 of the top ones and sees if any sticks - it would be consistent with his style so far.
I'd for sure put in the minimum bid, but agree I'm becoming indifferent to it at about $5million per year so that would be about the cap of my bid. It depends how highly the Blazers value him. Yes we already have LaMarcus, Hickson, Freeland, but I think all three of those guys will get minutes at center. I don't expect Leonard to be ready at all for minutes, he was second team Big 10, the NBA is going to be a ridicuosly huge jump for him. Over an 82 game season we will need more than 3 rotational bigs, when one of them is out with even just a minor injury all of the sudden we have no backups. Scola is a legit rotational player and we are in a talent acquisition phase so it is definetely an appealing addition. Clippers had CP3, Mo, Bledsoe and Billups at PG last season but that worked out fine for them in the end. With Scola we'd have a similar crunch at PF, hopefully it would end in a second round appearance for us as well
Not sure if this photo of him is really old or really new, but he cut all his hair: http://hoopshype.com/players/luis_scola.htm
With our history of bigs with injury, I'd definitely be on board with signing him. Especially now that Hickson and Freeland are locked in. (I can see either of those guys saying WTF? to this signing.) You'd start Aldridge at center, use Scola at PF, and hope we outscore guys (because we won't out-defend or out-rebound them). Leave it up to Hickson, Freeland and Leonard to earn their minutes/starting job. I wouldn't break the bank, though. I'd go $6 mil or so/year, because even at that price you can trade Scola whenever you want. That's still a pretty good deal. Really, between Hickson, Scola, Freeland and Leonard combined we're probably still paying less than Tyson Chandler made last year. Always nice to have a stockpile of cheap bigs.
he hurt his knee yesterday? should fit right in. Luis Scola requested the change and went to the locker room. According to the doctor Diego Grippo Dr., made a bad move and forced the right knee joint. Pain on the inner side and an MRI performed in Buenos Aires. http://www.cabb.com.ar/noticia_ficha.php?id=5946
Larry Coon just said amnesty waiver period is 2 days, so we should hear who got Brand by the end of today or tomorrow morning. If Dallas gets him I don't think they put in more than minimum bid on Scola if any.
Can't help but think this is staged to scare off everyone but who he wants to end up with. The timing is unbelievable.
We need another Spanish speaker to keep Claver happy when Mrs. HCP is unavailable. (Sorry, HCP, couldn't resist jumping on the Mrs. HCP bandwagon. At least I'm just jumping on the bandwagon and not her.)
I dunno. We have Hickson, Freeland, and LMA at PF/C already. Does Scola play the 3 well? We need a backup for Batum.
