Scola leads team in scoring: Rockets power forward Luis Scola played well on Tuesday as Houston lost at Dallas. Scola missed a double-double by two rebounds as he finished with a team-high 22 points and eight boards. Scola played 35 minutes in the game and shot 9 of 14 from the field. He added four assists but turned the ball over four times. (Updated 03/27/2012)
Injury Report
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Fantasy Analysis
Scola was over 20 points for the first time in his last four games on Tuesday night but is averaging 20.0 per game over his last five contests. That comes with 6.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists, a block and 64 percent shooting. Scola is playing well and should be active in the majority of Fantasy formats. (Updated 03/27/2012).
With Yao Ming out of the picture in Houston, Luis Scola has become the team's interior presence. The 31-year-old will be entering his fifth NBA season coming off a career-high 18.3 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. Barring significant changes under the team's new coaching staff, Scola should once again average over 15 shot attempts per game to allow him to remain within the same scoring range. After playing 82 games in each of his first three NBA seasons, he did battle the injury bug last season for the first time in his career as he missed eight games. Count on him for a shooting percentage above 50-percent from the floor to go with the solid scoring and rebounding. However, he will not offer much else to owners in category leagues, making him more of a mid-round pick. In standard head-to-head formats, he remains worthy of a pick no later than Round 4. The Rockets selected a power forward, Marcus Morris, with the No. 14 overall pick in the NBA draft this offseason, but Morris is expected to shift to more of a small forward role at the NBA level. (Updated 8/28/11)
