Parker's struggles..

[Malik Hairston]

Parker's TS% is now around 43-44%, an atrocious number, down by approximately 10% from last year..

He's the best player on the team, and his scoring or assisting is involved in over 27% of the team's offensive possessions, thus the team will continue to struggle while he's slumping..Duncan and a healthy/fit Ginobili are the only other players on the roster that can consistently create offense..

Cause for concern?..

[SequSpur]

5 and 1

[bklynspursfan]

Look at his #'s from last year early on they were pretty bad. Not concerned at all, he'll be fine.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/parketo01/gamelog/2012/

[jeebus]

trade his ass. fire pop. get rid of Manu. sell the team. burn down the arena.

[Bill_Brasky]

Parker was sick tonight I thought

[SequSpur]

he was sick..wtf?

[ElNono]

I'm concerned, tbh. Perhaps a package of him and Bonner can land us a rotation big. It's clear at this stage Patty Mills is the better player anyways.

[101A]

2 game winners?

[jeebus]

Maybe we can throw Pop in with the deal too. He's obviously not getting through to the team anymore imo

[ElNono]

Maybe we can throw Pop in with the deal too. He's obviously not getting through to the team anymore imo

Gotta wait till December to land D'Antoni though

[Chris]

He's sick, still the best player on this team

[NickiRasgo]

Sup Malik?

[Malik Hairston]

:lol who is saying trade Parker?..I'm one of the biggest Parker defenders on ST..

Most people here have questioned the offense's struggles, I'm pointing out the source..if the best player on the team struggles, the team will take the same route..

[jeebus]

Gotta wait till December to land D'Antoni though
That's true. Mills running SSOL with Green, Kawhi, Duncan and Big Baby...we would dominate the league fwiw

[ElNono]

That's true. Mills running SSOL with Green, Kawhi, Duncan and Big Baby...we would dominate the league fwiw

Don't know about dominating, but it would be fun!

[thekingrobert]

TP is bored with the regular season rest him til the playoffs

[024]

taking the homer glasses off, tp has been a step slow at the start of the season. obviously this game shouldn't count against him. and unlike ginobili, parker is still relatively healthy so hopefully he can recover.

[Stabula]

Parker was miserable to watch tonight I'm glad he's sick at least there's somewhat of an excuse. My beef is with Pop, wtf was with his rotations? He played Parker FAR too many minutes. He consistently took out Mills when he was blazing hot, he took out Splitter once he started playing well, and he played Blair crazy minutes when he showed time and time again he was a major liability on both ends of the floor.

[Kori Ellis]

Since the Spurs are 5-1 while he's struggling, then when he goes back to normal, they'll never lose another game ;)

Anyway, sample size is too small for stats to mean anything yet. If he has 2-3 hot shooting games in a row, his overall percentage will jump 5 percentage points or more.

The Spurs team has been sick for about a week now, so everyone should just be thankful they aren't dropping games right and left.

[will_spurs]

Don't know about dominating, but it would be fun!

And we would lead the league in turnovers too! Probably have a good shot at the all-time season turnover record.

[TD 21]

I don't know that he is their best player, for the simple fact that I'm not sure the Spurs have one. From '08 on, it's been in a state of flux. Right now, once more, Duncan is clearly their best player and if he can somehow maintain anything close to this level for the duration, then he'll continue to be. No amount of offensive wizardry from Parker and Ginobili can match his all around dominance.

As far as Parker goes, I'm not really concerned. If this continues for another week or two, I will be. But right now, I'll chalk it up to him being bored with the regular season and thinking the team is good enough that he doesn't have to go all out for them to win a lot of the time.

[spurraider21]

With Parker and manu struggling bad we are 5-1. Just wait till they pick it up, which is inevitable

[elemento]

I am more worried about Manu tbhManu is shooting 33%FG with a 44%TS, 16% from 3 and he has the worst PER of the team with 9.6 (Nando is worse but he is not part of the rotation). I don't know what's going on with him but I have never seen Manu playing so bad like this.Both Manu and Parker have to improve a lot. At least it's only 6 games so far. I would be much more worried if we had something like this going on in the end of the regular season.

[Brazil]

Unless I forgot something, TP had one bad game against the clips, he was sick against sac and shouldn't have played anyway. I'm not sure it's time to say that TP is struggling tbh

[Malik Hairston]

One of the worst games I've ever seen Parker play, tbh..

Completely outplayed by a fat PG, in addition to a Westbrook-like 4th..

[TDMVPDPOY]

knick game was in the bag, both of these clowns continue to do alot of stupid shit everytime we have a lead and we cant even hold onto it, i hate fkn hero ball....

[TD 21]

And yet, he was only the second worst Spur. Worst was reserved for the same player it's been for the entire season, Ginobili. It's incredible how bad these two and Splitter (until his own personal 12-0 run in the 4th) have been this season. Considering the fact that they're getting atrocious play out of three of their five best players, they're beyond fortunate to be 7-2 and they're only 7-2 because Duncan has turned back the clock about 10 years. The way this team looks, they can't afford for him to slow down in the slightest, otherwise they're screwed.

[TE]

TP looks tired tbh. I think Felton outplaying him throughout the course of the game caused Parker to go chuckbrook mode. Absolutely atrocious decision making.

[TDMVPDPOY]

TP looks tired tbh. I think Felton outplaying him throughout the course of the game caused Parker to go chuckbrook mode. Absolutely atrocious decision making.

he didnt look tired when he went kobe mode...fkn excuses is all i hear, when are his fans going to stand up and admit his wrong

[Stabula]

Parker continues to miss wide open shots and getting shot blocked by the rim. Shots that he's usually automatic from.

[ElNono]

One of the worst games I've ever seen Parker play, tbh..

Completely outplayed by a fat PG, in addition to a Westbrook-like 4th..

tbh, he saw that 12 pt lead and thought he could look cool and try to even up the ass raping Felton was giving him... backfired badly, tbh

[HI-FI]

TP once again proving him and Westbrook aren't that far apart in BBIQs. I remember when we flirted with Kidd,how badly I wanted that...

[Stabula]

Drunk driving Jason is a fossil but Danny Green's defense on him made him look like he belonged on the all-star team.