Where are all the young, talented players from Argentina? It seems like all the ones recently in the NBA are either retired or getting close to it. Delfino, Ginobili, Scola, Prigioni, Herrmann (someone please sign him again please), all these guys are old. I admit I don’t follow international basketball all too closely, so maybe there is a huge pool of Argentine talent ready to just explode onto the NBA scene?
Luis Scola isn’t getting any younger. There is no fountain of youth to return him to the player he was in Houston, where he routinely terrorized defenses with savvy post moves. The Pacers hardly even try to use him in that manner, though they did tonight, only because the Heat have a serious bigman shortage.
The attempts by the Suns to turn Coka Scola into a stretch-four ruined him forever I think. He can barely dunk against the weight of unreasonable expectations.