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Parker has peaked a couple of years ago and is going downhill. Homers might blindly disagree but that is the plain truth.
So the excuse not to trade paker cause he is the youngest of the big 3 is pretty erroneous.
Game one basicallly was the series, if Memphis blows that late 7 pt lead they had the Spurs get that game one and their confidence takes a hit with Manu coming back for game two. Game one did the Spurs in, believe that.
Parker has peaked a couple of years ago and is going downhill. Homers might blindly disagree but that is the plain truth.
So the excuse not to trade paker cause he is the youngest of the big 3 is pretty erroneous.
parker peak lol
I do not think he even has peaked yet
Yes, he'll probably peak in a few years once he has lost another step.
I bet he learns to compensate for this by becoming a deadly 3 point shooter. Also, I'm sure he will learn to see the floor better and become a 10+ assist guy. He may even develop a low post game so he can post up the smaller points in the league.
You are talking about the Grizz like they earned confidence soon and ride on that to overachieve till the end against the spurs. If true OKC would have destroyed them. Fact is they played the exact same bb against OKC, they did nothing against the spurs they didn't repeat against OKC. This was not a fluke serie.
The games were not as close as scoreboard indicate, we needed miracles to win game 5.
Your logic is flawed unless you also consider the spurs are better than OKC too.
I do agree TP already reached somehow his pick. Dude is playing pro bb since he is 17 years old, he is playing for the spurs for 10 years. In his rookie season he averaged 30 mn per game at 20 years old. Thats a lot of mileage 750 RS games and 130 POs games
Parker still has a lot of gas left, but he's beginning to be outplayed when it counts the most. The sad thing is, when he went off in OT of game 5, that was an aberration, not the norm as we so deliriously wanted it to be.
this, TP is great, blow up the rest of the team except the big 3, Neal and Splitter. That should be our starting 5. Let's play them for 48 minutes and run them into the ing ground, let's go out like maniacs and just start punching babies and running onto the court with blood and foam streaming from our mouths as we consume newborn hamsters like they're popcorn. this, I'm going to play some Black Ops, I need to kill people digitally.
I agree. There are posters who say he has not peaked but then offer no suggestions as to what part of his game will improve.
But we saw the crash coming well in advance, which made it less painful to many. For me, when they got blown out in Miami and by the Lakers at home I was very doubtful they'd be contending for the championship.Thanks! Though it's a painful reminder of how an amazing season came crashing down so fast.
LOL those are not "posters" it's ing ducks, what do you expect
Passing on the break, defense and 3pt shooting . . . should or will?
I think the Spurs are definitely gonna trade Tony Parker. He wouldn't have been so candid if not. Something is up. And if the Spurs are gonna trade him and get some value, now is the time. I'll be very surprised if Tony and maybe some other players aren't traded to bring in some serious fresh blood.
Tony is being realistic, however I don't see how our chances were that much better this season as opposed to the next. We had some glaring weaknesses, especially in the front court, and will probably address those issues. I think he was projecting as he did after our 1st round ouster in 09. Even with Tim and Manu being 1 year older, it is entirely possible that we become a better team next year. It's going to take some aggressive moves, but it's possible. Tiago and JA being integrated will be an improvement.
I think everyone is hesitant to "buy in" on that one, Phila.
this is probably why so little response. i think most of us think this will not go down.
Don't feel bad. I posted about my conversation with Tiago Splitter at the library and nobody gave a .
I can't remember, tbh.
at least for me
Loved the guy who corrected you about he speaks brazilian on that thread
I think the Spurs if they were playing Spurs basketball woulda played better against OKC than against Mem. Problem with mem isnt their big's defense, its their dominant offense. OKC has two isolation players which the Spurs are better at defending and Timmy wouldn't have been as worn out defending their bigs.
I do not think Memphis is a fluke. I do think the Spurs gave Memphis insane confidence by not only losing winnable games but by looking shaken. Nowhere was that more apparent to me than Tony Parker. If he had not left Battier in game 1, we probably win that game and Memphis isn't as confident the rest of the series. Then in game 3, I think the Memphis players saw Parker suddenly look like doesn't know how to dribble or pass and that helped their confidence soar. With all that said, I think if Tony played like Tony, we would have gotten game 1 or 3 and Memphis wouldn't have had the swagger they had and we would have won in 6 or 7.
Also, if the series was tied 2-2, I don't see Memphis playing with the care-free at ude they had in game 5. Thats why they came back and almost beat us in that game.
You can think my logic is flawed all you want but IMO, Tony Parker's incompetence early in this series just made the Grizzlies that much more confident.
BUT...if Pop had integrated Splitter this season instead of that dumbass Blair or Bonner (who I like as a specialist), I think we definitely win this series.
Seriously I do think he will improve stuff he is always trying to add something to his arsenal but it would be to try to compensate other parts declining. Overall we saw, IMO, the best of TP two years ago and this year too.
In a way, he was damn good this season when the team hit the 3s at high rate, when RJ remembered how to go to the rim and dunk (the alley oops serie between TP and RJ was nice), when Manu carried stuff in the fourth and when our frontline was compe ing.
If somehow he could add a little bit of 3 points shooting it would open up things for him inside and make his life easier in O.
Regarding his D I'm on the TP D is under appreciated bandwagon, he will never be an elite defender but considering his O responsabilities and his physic he is doing a good job to stay with his guy.
Bottom line if the spurs want good return for TP it's now or never IMO.
Btw, as for Parker's performance in the playoffs, I think that was an anomaly just based off of bad timing. All season, he was awesome, and he just ran into a random mental block at the wrong time. I'm confident he will play awesome next year. Unless we get someone who legitimately helps us out (I don't think that guy is Smith...we need a legit bruiser type of player), I think we gotta keep him.
A year ago, you were convinced Parker would be traded and would not re-sign with Spurs.
Nobody is giving a about anything lately tbh ............. we got kicked in the nuts by the 8th ing seed........... and the world is ending on Saturday LOL
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