Houston Rockets: Should The Team Pursue Luis Scola?

The Houston Rockets have one day to go before the deadline of being able to sign free agents — waived or not — to help this team continue to improve.

The Houston Rockets have one day to go before the deadline of being able to sign free agents — waived or not — to help this team continue to improve.

The team was able to complete the meaningful trade of acquiring Lou Williams in exchange for Corey Brewer and their first-round pick for this year.

In addition, the Rockets traded away K.J. McDaniels and Tyler Ennis for cash and for the rights to Marcelo Huertas respectively.

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Rockets have since waived Huertas and now have approximately $3 million to spend on players that are currently off the waiver wire.

There have been many names that have floated around such as Andrew Bogut, Deron Williams, Brandon Jennings, Jose Calderon, Jared Sullinger and even Terrence Jones.

For whatever reason, things didn’t work out with their respective teams and now they have an opportunity to make in impact on another one with the various types of skill set that they provide.

But here’s another name that has emerged in the buyout bonanza.

According to ESPN’s Marc Stein, the Brooklyn Nets have bought out the remainder of former Houston Rockets forward Luis Scola‘s contract, making him a free agent:

This comes as not too surprising as the Nets are trying to get younger and stockpile on draft picks as their elongated rebuilding process continues.

Sometimes I feel as if they’re on permanent rebuilding mode but I eventually think that they’ll be able to field a good team one day.

That time is just not now at the moment.

So you’re saying Scola is available again?

I tell you what — I love me some Scola but at this stage of career, it remains to be seen if he can be of help to what the Rockets currently do.

He can still rebound, score, block shots but he’s not necessarily — or has always been — an elite defender.

That may not be necessary on a Mike D’Antoni team so I think what he has could be enough to help this team.

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He has improved his three-point shooting over the past two seasons — having shot a career-best 40.4 percent in 2015-16 and currently at 34 percent for this season.

He shot them at a high volume in 2015-16, hoisting up a record 161 threes and making 65 of those.

So it shows that he’s capable of providing some help to this offense as well as a bit on defensive front.

As we saw from last night’s game — we need more inside presence as our lunch was getting ate against the Indiana Pacers.

Yes, I know he’s 6’9″ but you know and I know that he’s played a lot bigger than that when called upon having stepped in at center countless times when needed.

We already know that he could be a healthy recipient off the bench if we need to run the pick-and-roll, which was something he was particularly good at.

Although Bogut is the better option, I think the Rockets do need give Scola a hard look to see if he can be brought back in the fold in this new-look team.

I’m not sure where the Rockets are at on this but we’ll have to see before the deadline tomorrow.

By the way, his legendary No. 4 is still available for him to wear.

Scola, 36, averaged 5.1 points, 3.1 rebounds with a shooting line of .470/.340/.676 (12.8 MPG) through 36 games (1 start) this season.

Go Rockets.