Luis Scola now owns an Italian basketball team. Varese, also the final stop in Scola’s playing career, is one of the country’s winningest clubs but has fallen on hard times in recent years. Can Scola bring it back to greatness? 📚 MikeVorkunov
in 2012. When Scott Perry, an assistant general manager in Orlando, took over as Knicks GM in 2017, Arcieri went with him as one of his top lieutenants.
Scola told him he believed the European model for team management was decades behind the NBA, with a shortsighted focus on winning games year-to-year and no overarching philosophy in place. The coach was king, and the decisions stemmed from him. He thought the NBA provided a better construct, and Varese should emulate that.
When Arcieri arrived, Varese was a mess. It fired one coach last January and then another in April, reportedly after he clashed with players. The club had a late-season surge just to finish 12th in a 16 team league. Still, Scola talks openly about how much he has to learn. He jokes that when he was near retirement, at 41, he was quite old for his job, and as soon as he took over as CEO, he became very young for his new one. He tried to ease into it but found that Varese needed more from him.
“I come in relaxed and really just trying to integrate myself with them and not be heavy-handed at all,” Arcieri said. “Like never say ‘in the NBA.’ No. I’ve stricken ‘in the NBA’ — I don’t want to talk about that. I want to understand how they do their jobs. But then at the same time now we’re going to do it a certain way.
The season ended in May, but he was still working on signings into mid-August. Eventually, Varese landed several players with past ties to the club. Markel Brown, a 2014 second-round pick, played for Brase in the G League. Tariq Owens, who was on a two-way deal in 2020, and Colby Ross share an agent, whom Arcieri got to know while in New York. Each wants to get back to the NBA, and Varese was an intriguing choice.
Scola told Brase that the sport needs to be fun and to imbue joy into the team, so he has added music before practice and during drills — an outlier from the Italian norm. Brase has been fluent in this since he was in Houston, growing up in what he calls the “Daryl Morey lab” and using numbers to make decisions. There, he said the team’s analysts were the smartest people in the organization; it became the coach’s job to get the team to play in a way that got the end result they needed.
After practice, he is known to change into his compression shorts and dive into player development sessions with the team’s big men, helping on their pick-and-pop and pick-and-roll games, lathered up from the workouts.
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