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riverman said:
Scola is made for FIBA play. Didn't he win a couple of MVPs Rasta?
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If he didn't, he should've. He's probably the greatest Argentinian ever, for international play, even more than Ginobili, just for the fact that he's always there for Argentina.

If I could have any player's game now, in my advanced age, it would have to be Scola's, just because it enables him to kick ass still, being slow as molasses and unable to jump over a book.
 
Ayon (currently with Real Madrid) went crazy on previously unbeaten Argentina:

 
Is anybody playing defense? I have to wonder about the overall quality of play when over-the-hill and/or marginal NBA players are lighting it up for 35+ points.

When was the last time Scola scored 35 in an NBA game, 5 or 6 years ago? Barea has been in the league for 9 seasons and doesn't have a single 30-point game. Ayon's career high is 18 points. Sounds like some pretty weak competition when all 3 of these guys are going off for 35+.

BNM
 
BlazerWookee said:
The skill level may be better, but the rules are much, much, MUCH sillier. That stupid-looking ball, for starters...
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I love that they don't have a 3sec rule in the paint or ticky tac goal tending calls
 
riverman said:
I love that they don't have a 3sec rule in the paint or ticky tac goal tending calls
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They can't have a 3 second rule, it takes almost 4 seconds for even the fastest big men to run from one side of that trapezoidal abomination they call a key to the other, lol...
 
BlazerWookee said:
They can't have a 3 second rule, it takes almost 4 seconds for even the fastest big men to run from one side of that trapezoidal abomination they call a key to the other, lol...
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You mean guys like Dirk and Sabonis or even Marc Gasol?
 
Argentina vs. Mexico. Packed house, Ginobili watching: Scola passes Oscar Schmidt as all-time FIBA Americas scorer:
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Argentina vs. Mexico. Packed house, Ginobili watching: Scola passes Oscar Schmidt as all-time FIBA Americas scorer:
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Whoa! Oscar!!! Congrats to Scola. I used to name drop Oscar whenever I'd meet Brazilians. For Yugoslavs it would be Bodiroga.
 
GriLtCheeZ said:
Whoa! Oscar!!! Congrats to Scola. I used to name drop Oscar whenever I'd meet Brazilians. For Yugoslavs it would be Bodiroga.
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You mean Serbians - it stopped being Yugoslavia while he was still a teenager.

Bodiroga invented the so-called Shammgod (or at least was using it long before God Shammgod), and used it on poor old 'Melo:



I remember Sacramento had his rights and kept wanting him to come over, but he never did. Like Diamantidis, some Euro Greats are content to stay just that.
 
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GriLtCheeZ said:
Whoa! Oscar!!! Congrats to Scola. I used to name drop Oscar whenever I'd meet Brazilians. For Yugoslavs it would be Bodiroga.
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No, I meant Bosnian Serbs actually :) They were surprised I even knew who he was.

EDIT: I just noticed he played for the last united Yugoslav team in 2002.
 
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Brought to you by designers of Atari cartridge boxes of the 70s and 80s:

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Venezuela wins!



Pretty good going for a team with no NBA players or even former NBA-ers.
 
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