Chapter 792
Lamar looked at Luis Scola who was squatting in the corner of the arena, feeling like the end of the world was coming, and he sighed in his heart. He wanted to have a good talk with Scola and he knew exactly what Scola was thinking during this time, but he didn't know what to say.
And Lamar feels that for a player to be truly mature, he should not rely on others, but can only rely on himself.
Scola sensed Lamar watching him, but he didn't dare look up to make contact with Lamar's gaze. Half of him didn't want to be convinced, he felt that if he could have the same opportunity as Lamar and meet a boss who appreciated him, he would definitely not do much worse than Lamar. It's a pity that there is no such person in the Knicks.
The more he thought about it, the more discouraged he became, and Scola simply got up, walked to the locker room, packed his bags, and left alone without even informing anyone.
With one man missing from the gym, Van Gundy soon discovered: "Can anyone tell me where Luis Scola is?"
Lamar practiced shooting with a blank face: "He's gone!"
"Gone?" Van Gundy asked suspiciously: "Lamar, what do you mean by that? What do you mean by leaving? Who allowed him to leave before the training was over? This is a violation of team discipline, I will punish him severely!"
"That's right, yes, and he doesn't seem to be a Knicks player anymore from today. ”
Lamar's tone was flat, as if he was saying something that had nothing to do with him, he was completely disappointed in Luis Scola and a player who was not determined enough was not what he needed. Maybe this is also Lamar's fault, he shouldn't have brought Scola into the NBA so early, after all, Scola was nearly 30 years old when he joined the Rockets in his previous life, and his mental quality was absolutely first-class.
Luis Scola is devastated about his future in New York, and there is also someone in Los Angeles who is worried about the team.
In the two games in China, although the Lakers performed quite strongly, they put a lot of pressure on the powerful Knicks in Shanghai, China. Although the cooperation between the five superstars in the team is not tacit, it is no longer a problem.
In particular, Kobe Bryant and Joe Johnson's partnership on the outside complements each other well. The arrival of Karl Malone has also largely solved the problem of Shaq O'Neal being alone on the inside. The addition of Gary Payton not only improves the team's firepower on the outside, but also shares the pressure of Kobe's organization and defense to a certain extent, so that Black Mamba's physical strength is guaranteed.
In addition to the main players, the overall strength of the bench broke Jackson's heart. After leaving Coat-Thomas, the Lakers' interior line, whether rookie Medvidenko, Mbenga, or George, is capable of taking on the Lakers' interior line during rotation time. As for the outside line, in addition to Fisher and Rick Fox, Luke Wharton is also a little capable.
That was the case in Beijing. When the game came to the end and the Lakers were in urgent need of a critical moment to chase points, the physical strength of the team's two major stars on the inside had problems, and Jackson did not have a reliable bench player at his disposal.
Originally, Cott Thomas was a good choice, but in order to get Joe Johnson, Coatt Thomas had already been sent to Phoenix by him. Now there is only one rookie left in the team, Medvidenko, who still looks a little inside, at least enough height. Replenishing the team's bench depth before the start of the season has reached the point where it is imminent.
But the current environment in the league is like this, and the players with a little bit of strength are all locked in the safe of each team, and it is very difficult to get a strong substitute through a trade.
As soon as he thought of this, Jackson couldn't help but scold his mother. Look at the high-quality inside lines in the hands of the Knicks, and then look at the three melons and two dates in their hands, why is the world so unfair?
For the sake of the team's substitutes, Jackson's hair was about to fall out. And in New York, Luis Scola has also reached the point of a showdown with the team. He didn't want to wait any longer, even though most of the jumbled thoughts in his head were made up by himself.
Scola is clearly a bit of a persecution paranoid, feeling less and less in the team, with everyone treating him as a dispensable character. It was a blow to his heart, and he wanted to define his position, and while it was a bit unrealistic to compete for a place in the main team right now, at least he wanted more and more consistent playing time.
When Scola's agent relayed his thoughts to Van Gundy and Lamar, Van Gundy only thought that Scola was crazy, and that it was unreasonable!
Lamar, on the other hand, felt a wave of disappointment, and he had imagined that Scola would be able to get himself out of that paranoia and persevere. He could feel that Scola was a little less of Davis's star fan, but he had more potential. He's always wanted to develop Scola as a Davis-type power forward, but that doesn't seem like that anymore.
Young Scola didn't want to spend his years in obscurity with the Knicks anymore, and the current Knicks simply couldn't meet his demands.
Just as Van Gundy and Lamar were angry and disappointed about this incident, Luis Scola, who had been carried away by his own delusions, once again did something to isolate himself from the Knicks.
"I don't think I have a future with the Knicks, they don't see the sparkle in me. Maybe in their minds, I'll always be just a young player with a bit of potential, always will! And then every game they give me a minute or two of garbage time, and I feel like it's a drain on my youth, and I don't want to go on like this. ”
"I don't feel like I'm offending anyone, I'm either going to let me go or I'm going to get playing time, it's that simple! ”
Although Scola kept saying to reporters that he didn't want to offend anyone, his actions had actually angered everyone. No team will allow for instability within themselves, especially at a time when the team is in a great environment and everyone is fighting for a championship.
Luis Scola's approach is even more intolerable.
"He must be punished, he must be punished!" Van Gundy looked irritated by Scola's unintelligible remarks, "He doesn't even know what he's doing! This bastard's head has been burned, and since he doesn't want to stay here, let him go." No, you can't just let him go so easily, he's provoking the Knicks' dignity, and he's going to have to pay for it! I'm going to put him in jail!"
According to Van Gundy's idea, Luis Scola still has two years left on his contract with the team, and the second year is still a team option, and the total value of the contract is only more than one million dollars. Luis just wants to leave, and he has to wait until after his contract ends. During this period, Scola can only be with the bench, no, or can only be suspended by the Knicks, and Van Gundy will definitely not give him the required playing time, let alone attention.
2 years, even a genius will be abolished at that time, not to mention Scola who is not very talented, even if he really leaves the Knicks, how many people will remember him?
But as soon as Van Gundy's opinion was raised, Lamar rejected it. Although very disappointed in Luis Scola, Lamar still did not want to see a talented young man ruined because of these things.
"Jeff, since he wants to leave, let him go. We don't really need a player like that, he's really talented and he has a good chance of developing into a good player in the future. But now he is obviously too impetuous, such a player is not what we need. If there is a suitable trading plan, let him go. ”
Luis Scola is such a small shrimp into the player transfer market naturally can't stir up much turmoil, and those teams will not be so hungry no matter how crazy they are to expand their squads.
Besides, there were so few bright spots in Scola's rookie season, almost none. So much so that when the Knicks broke the news that Scola was going to be traded, people didn't know that there was such a number one on the Knicks' team.
However, it is not completely unnoticed, such as Jackson, who is in dire need of a substitute inside lineman, and after getting the news that Scola may be available, he immediately found a lot of videos of Scola in Argentina.
After some research, Jackson was pleasantly surprised to find that Scola was not only not a meaty and self-sufficient Argentine dwarf mule in people's eyes, but really had some real potential.
Scola isn't very fast, but it's very impactful when combined with his strong body. Shooting needs to be improved, but the mid-range shot near the free throw line and the long shot in the bottom left corner are still worth looking forward to, and there are also feet under the basket, although the defense is not very good, but there is also a small cleverness of the South Americans. Such a player was about to be swept away by the Knicks, and Jackson simply felt that luck had befallen him.
It's just that there is still a very important question to continue to solve, whether the Knicks will let Scola come to the Lakers?
The Lakers are the Knicks' strongest contenders this season, and Lamar and Kobe Bryant have an inextricable rivalry. It's really too difficult for these two teams to have a normal player trade! The Knicks just keep Luis Scola and scrap him, and they won't let him switch to the Lakers.
Go directly to the transaction request, probably Van Gundy won't even look at it. After hesitating for a while, Jackson decided to call Lamar, the Knicks' real owner, directly. 2k reading web