The Suns’ won the amnesty auction
yesterday for Houston Rockets’ big Luis Scola. Scola was drafted by the Spurs
in 2002 and joined the Rockets to start to the 2007-2008 season and has been an
effective player ever since, Scola had somewhat of a weak season last year as
his point and rebounding totals have dropped. With Scola on the Suns’ roster
the Suns’ now have 4 power forwards under contract for at least the next two
seasons, Channing Frye, Hakim Warrick, Markieff Morris and now Luis Scola.
Luis Scola although had a down year
last season still posted some good numbers 15 PPG 6.4 RPG 2.1 APG. It’s safe to
say out of the four power forwards now on the Suns’ roster, Scola for now is
best of the four. Since the Suns’ are officially in a rebuilding mode, second
year Markieff Morris is going to get his minutes; so does that mean someone is
on the move?
That’s
a tough question because both Warrick and Frye has at least two years left on
their contracts and are due a lot of money, Frye has two years 12.4M left with
a 3rd year player option worth 6.8M while Warrick has two years 9.5M
left.
Hakim
Warrick is most likely the odd man out because his contract is a lot more reasonable
than that of Frye’s and also Frye is most versatile in that he can stretch the
floor, plays above average defense, and also can play both the 4 and 5 positions;
but I’m sure if other teams called for Frye the Suns would listen.
The
claiming of Scola makes a lot of sense for the Suns because Scola is a solid
starting caliber player who can be a leader in the locker room, Scola is
fundamentally sound as an offensive player who can mentor second year player
Markieff Morris. It’d be interesting to see what happens the rest of this
off-season as the Suns’ have a lot of decisions to make and this is without a
doubt the biggest off-season for the Suns’ in a long long time.
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