Comments on: Fresh ink: February 4, 2009

By: Banner

Banner — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:37:27 +0000

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By: Matt McHale

Matt McHale — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:32:46 +0000

Peter Clayton A. Smith — Yeah, you know, it seems to me that the Bulls already had similar pieces (Noah, Thomas and Wallace) and simply didn’t want to take a chance on Scola. (I guess Pax is just more into hoarding guards.) Also, there were serious questions about his ability to adjust to the NBA game, where he would simply be a part instead of The Part. Forget the Bulls, though, what about the Spurs? They could desperately use him right now…but they didn’t think he could accept a secondary role behind three stars. And, at the time, they didn’t think enough of Scola to worry about giving him to a conference rival. Turns out they were way off on that.

By: Peter Clayton A. Smith

Peter Clayton A. Smith — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:03:24 +0000

You know there is one Paxson move, or non-move that I just have never understood, and that was not going after Luis Scola when he had the chance. The Spurs were giving him up for pennies on the dollar, and I never understood why Paxson never seemed to make a move at getting him.

Scola, while not perfect, could have provided the Bulls with a better inside presence than anything they had at the time. Houston got Scola and Jackie Butler from San Antonio for Vassilis Spanoulis, a future second-round pick, and cash considerations.

Sure this trade happened in July 2007, and the Bulls had just drafted Noah in June, and had Thomas and Ben Wallace on the roster, but one would think that having Scola would have been a nice person to pair up with Wallace in the front court. And it is not like the Bulls couldn’t have gone after Scola earlier because it was known the Spurs were shopping him when they couldn’t agree on a buy out for him in 2005, three years after they drafted him.

One would logically think the Spurs would have rather had him in Chicago than in Houston, and its not like the Bulls didn’t have the pieces to match up with the trade that brought Scola to Houston.