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TRADE TONY PARKER... WHAT A ING DUD!
2-15 FG, 6 pts/7ast/3rebs/2to in 32 minutes
Tony Parker 8-14 FG, 24pts/7ast/6rebs/3to in 34 minutes
TRADE TONY PARKER... WHAT A ING DUD!
Remember when Bruce locked DOWN LeGOAT in the Finals?
just another australian posting up australian stats in the nba....nothing to see here, move on along
Great team D by the Spurs TBH
Tony D was good too
truth bomb. spurs play great D as a team and Irving is the one guy they pay the most defensive attention to, while the spurs function like a machine at the offensive end and it makes scoring an easy mission for everyone tbh. tony is a solid player but i'd still pick Irving as the better player anyday
Explain reason why
You always pick the MUCH younger player (with unrealized potential & maturity curve) when the comparison is beetween players in the same level of compe ion. But for THIS season, Tony Parker > Kyrie Irving, and that's the in truth.
Yeah we should surely trade TP for Irvings overrated ass...
Irving confronted OKC's duo the other night and ended up on the winning side. dude certainly has the potential to be a great player and his ceiling is MUCH higher than tony parker's, he might be inconsistent sometimes but that's a fair price for the growth of such a wonderkid. throw tony parker into a ty franchise like the cavs and he would also struggle to make ends meet imho, and if you give spurs Irving right now, NBA = ed
The way I see it Irving's one of the deadliest players in the league but he can stand to improve his playmaking.
great team D? its the in cavs, the only defense they need to play is on irving...
To be fair, he was 2/15 with a season low 6 points. TP did work.
yeah , that's why Irving struggled to perform tonight. spurs D ain't no longer the elite level like their championship years but it's still better than 3/4 of NBA teams. Irving is the only threat on his team, other teams also know that but would still allow him to score at will. spurs deserve some credit for keeping him quiet and honest imho, and it's beyond tony's ability to lock him down one-on-one at the defensive end tbh
i didnt see the game, but i wouldnt be surprised if the spurs just hounded him, no driving lane, no shot no nothing.. but thats just him, thats all
Actually, I kinda laughed when the Cavs announcer tried to make excuses for it and said Tony was only stopping him because he was getting good help defense. . .then Tony shut down Irving on the next 3 possession without help defense, and on the other end, hit a shot in Irving's face, got another wide open shot (missed though), then broke down the Cavs defense by himself to get the game winning assist to Leonard in the corner to put the Spurs up by 1, then again shut down Irving by himself to seal the game.
Tony shat on Irving by himself as well as with using his teammates. That's what a smart basketball player does, and in no way is a knock on Tony Parker's ability to defend or score. Only dumb players don't use their teammates.
Not in exchange for Parker. Irving to the Spurs for NOBODY, or the Spurs' backup PG. . .sure. Irving would be a great backup. Irving for Tony = Spurs get worse. Don't be a clown. Irving has zero chemistry with anyone on the Spurs and is worse on both ends of the floor right now. Maybe in a few years Irving will be better. Right now, he isn't.
A few more PPG doesn't mean when you're on a losing team that plays in the eastern conference.
He took too many contested Js
for sure the Irving tonight ain't the best of him we've seen and he should take it as a price for growth, but it's not like tony parker has turned an elite defender overnight. and i don't think spurs would be stupid enough to decline a tony - Irving swap if they're offered such a proposal. it's gonna take some time for the new acquisition to fit into the spurs system and it'll cause spasm in the short term, but it's not like the spurs had a big chance to beat clippers or miami this year anyway, and it will turn out to be a perfect deal for them spurs in the long run. plus Irving will mature faster under pop's tutorship, and in a few years you'll have a new franchise player to build another dynasty upon.
Tony Parker also didn't turn into a ty defender over night either. He's always been pretty good. Of course, I never claimed he was "elite", as you're saying now.
And actually, a Parker/Irving swap would be a stupid deal to take for the Spurs. "it would take time for him to fit in" is not a viable excuse when the Spurs' window to win is right now. . .not a few years from now. Duncan is 36, Ginobili is 35. By time Irving becomes as good as Parker, Duncan is going to be 38 and about to retire while Ginobili will be 37 and about to retire. Now where did those last 2 years go? Right down the toilet because they would've just downgraded the present for a future that is dimmer than the present is now right Parker.
Also, the Spurs are playing better than both the Clippers and Heat this year. They did last year too. I still hold true to my opinion that OKC only won because of shoddy officiating, and that the Spurs would've been strong against the Heat. I don't think this year will be any different should they meet in the Finals.
The deal definitley isn't "perfect" at all. It slams shut their window to win now for an uncertain future. Bad move for both teams.
Lakers should've called you when they visited Cleveland, tbh
kobe played D on irving not the lakers
I guess it didn't worked for the Lakers... since they lost to the f*n Cavs!
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