USA faces off against Argentina tonight at midnight (Detroit time) on ESPN2. I’m not sure if I’m going to stay up to watch but I’m definitely setting the DVR — not only am I excited to see what Carlos Delfino can do in a starring role (single tear …), I’m also interested in getting a good look at Luis Scola, who you may not be familiar with now but probably will be after this season. Henry Abbott of TrueHoop had a chance to watch a scouting DVD with footage of Scola and he had nothing but good things to say:
– He’s an active big man with size and strength to hang around in the lane, and he’s not slow.
– People leave him open a lot at the free throw line. They shouldn’t do that, because at least in these video highlights, he’ll nail that jumper.
– He will catch the ball in the lane and spin into an array of finishing maneuvers.
– In watching highlights of his teammates, it’s very often Scola who ends up starring. He sets people up to score a bunch of different ways: Wrap-around passes, dumping out of the double team to a cutter in stride, at one point he even attacks the basket on the dribble, draws an extra defender, and makes a perfect shovel pass to an open teammate for a layup.
If you watch the game, consider this your open thread.
Midway thru the 2nd Q liveblog….
- Kobe started great
- Scola looks very good early, hyperactive and smart
- Scola plays a little crazy, picks up 3 early fouls
- Tayshaun rotates in for Carmelo, nice contrast
- Chauncey is ahead of Deron Williams tonight and looking good
- Carmelo got hit with a vicious pick
- Carmelo responds as follows: vicious dunk down the lane, alley oop dunk, outside shot nothing but net
It’s a fun game so far.
Just saw Chauncey knock down a loooooong three pointer. God, I love that man. Damn.
Yo they arent playing argentina theyre playing VISA! Who knew Delfino was from Visa? Or is that some weird shortening of argentina? Those jerseys are ugly though.
I could barely tell Delfino was out there, he didnt really do much at all considering hes prolly the second best player on Visas team next to Scola right?
Scola looks pretty good. I think Houston is gonna be quite a bit better this year, not sure if that will translate into bigtime playoff success but I can definitely see a great season of whooo we are offensively skilledzz to, not just a defensive team ala detroit under Flips first year.
Btw that was a SWEET jam by carmelo in that game. Who knows how things wouldve turned out if we had drafted him but I really like his game.