OT: Scola in the Playoffs

[tsherkin]

Offensively, he actually had a great month of March for us

He certainly did. He was 22/44 from 3 in March, so it was obviously a ridiculous outlier, but it was a good month. ~ 10/4 in ~ 21 mpg on hot shooting. Not anything anyone sane would use as a baseline, but of course at < 30 games, his whole post-break experience was SSS, so that's known. He struggled hard in the playoffs, though, expanding the sample. He was a stain defensively and not a good rebounder, so that was known. Scola certainly wasn't singularly responsible for postseason struggles, though. He was merely part of a broader whole.

[Berserk_Raptor]

Scola overachieved during the first half of the season, then his production was slightly falling until we saw it tumbled totally in playoffs, but hey, you cant expect an almost retired guy to save the season.. Learn to say thank you. Scola rose to the occasion, in fact he gave more than expect, and yes, dont forget we also broke our franchise record with 56 W. Be grateful.

[tsherkin]

Scola overachieved during the first half of the season, then his production was slightly falling until we saw it tumbled totally in playoffs, but hey, you cant expect an almost retired guy to save the season.. Learn to say thank you. Scola rose to the occasion, in fact he gave more than expect, and yes, dont forget we also broke our franchise record with 56 W. Be grateful.

In fairness to Scola, it's not like he was an established career boss from 3. HE was an inefficient post scorer who developed a first-half 3 for us and then normalized.

[Volcano]

Even in the past, it always seemed like he would post these great stats at the beginning of the season, then cool down in the 2nd half (speaking from fantasy experience)

[LLJ]

Too old

[lolwut]

Scola's 1st quarter rampages were a thing of beauty.

14 pts in the 1st quarter
2 pts for the rest of the game

[JJ From Deep]

I hatched a 5k egg and got Luis Scola

[ChokeFasncists]

Thank you all!

[BetterCallSaul]

Thx guys, but why did he have to start whenever he played if he was so bad?

Because Dwane Casey doesn't like to make adjustments, regardless of how obvious they are.

Dwane Casey would have loved to have had a better option. Pat made more sense off the bench and Demarre was injured all year so trying a small ball SL wasn't even an option. Not that I think that small ball lineup would have helped us much either.

Not only that, Scola was passable for his 16mp or whatever it was on most nights, especially when he was nailing open threes.