http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...ing-hamstring/
“Every time he thinks it’s back, he feels something,” coach Gregg Popovich said before the completion of the sixth of seven double-doubles in 32 days for the Spurs. “He felt it at the end of the Clipper game. He gave it a run (Thursday). You can’t have him doing that so we’re going to sit him. Give it time and if we err, it’s on the conservative side. It keeps coming back and that’s not good, so we’re just going to sit him out for a while.”
Pop telling ST to stfu and eat a
As mentioned in another thread, Pop had said after the Clipper game that he was "scared to death" that Tony was back too soon. The fact is that TP can't do what the team needs him to do (run further and faster and with better cuts than anyone else on the team) when his legs are messed up. He always wants to play, but he doesn't play well when he is hurt so there is no point in doing it.
I agree with sitting him for however long it takes, but I swear the trainers have to make the guy do a long stint of warming up before and during whatever games are left in this season and post season whenever it is that he comes back.
Manu's hamstrings used to be a continual problem, but he has overcome that in the last few years. Maybe it is because he is playing fewer minutes than Tony, maybe it is because his role doesn't involve as much running around as Tony's when he (Manu) is not playing point, but the fact is that Manu's injuries have been more structural in the last few years than soft-tissue injuries, and it seems to me that all of his warm-ups and in-game stretching of those hamstrings has made a contribution to his hammy being a bit less injury prone than in the past.
I just hope that the team makes Tony do whatever it takes to keep his muscles warm during the games (when that hamstring goes out it is almost always toward the end of a game) in order to avoid it happening on a recurring basis.
It is absolutely clear that the team needs Tony functioning at a high level to get where it needs to go. Not only does a well Tony provide scoring at a 50% clip, but it takes so much pressure off of Manu to not be the only real playmaker out there. Cory has improved, but you just have to watch the games to see how much the offense sputters so often when Tony is out, going often into iso mode that is not the characteristic of the team.
get well soon... Hopefully he'll be ready to go for the ASG...
Gotta get him right. Rest him up for the playoffs
Pop is right as much as it hurts right now, we'll go nowhere if he and Kawhi aren't healthy. Better a healthy team with the 7th or 8th seed, than a batter one with the 5th or 6th,
I laughed too.Got me thinking if coaches even vote for any spurs players since we aren't even top 3 this year.
Nono with the digs.
Oh well. MVPatty coming back soon
We should be good with Patty and CoJo. No worries
Parker is just a luxury, at this point, as we saw in the playoffs..when he contributes, of course it helps, but the Spurs don't really need him, tbh..
Mills will return soon, and Joseph(as much as I dislike him as a starter) can be a suitable backup..
The primary concern is Kawhi's injury, and the entire season depends on it..
STFU. This all but proves Pop isn't holding him back. Enrique is just apparently incapable of playing when the slightest sign of pain resurfaces.
Cant wait for Patty to come back tbh.
And no Manu never sat out a ing month with a mild hamstring strain. Noone does not even Derrick ing Rose. It is a day-to-day injury.
Gives CoJo and Mills time to grow more....
Eloquent as always.
When reason cannot advance your argument, try vulgarity.
Brilliant.
Parker should have taken the summer off tbh
You think your' eloquence' makes your post any less re ed? You are trying to justify the fact that a day-to-day injury has turned into a month long thing with Enrique, that's all it comes down to. Noone, not Manu or D-Rose, misses a month with that weak ass 'injury'.
Youre French aren't you?
This. Even if Patty plays 10 minutes to start, that's 10 minutes of Manu and CoJo playing their true roles...as SG's. (or PF's
This. Even if Patty plays 10 minutes to start, that's 10 minutes of Manu and CoJo playing their true roles...as SG's. (or PF's
No, I'm british, as a matter of fact. The reality that I am capable of writing in more than one language does not make me any of those nationalities. I'm not Spanish either.
Look, what I can't figure out is if you really want TP back, why about how he plays then? Parker doesn't have the talents of a Manu, has played more NBA basketball minutes than anyone else on the Spurs team when combining regular season and playoff minutes except Tim Duncan (and he is what, 6 years older than Parker?), and has run (yes run) further and faster than any other Spur for the last decade or so. In other words, his legs are not 32. They are older than that. Everybody knows that Parker's effective play depends on his wheels. When his wheels are sub-par, his game is sub-par. So whether you like it or not, the fact that his game is impacted by injury at this stage of his career is not necessarily a matter of intensity or desire or guts, or any of those things.
Duncan started his NBA career after he graduated college. The college season is not quite as hard and demanding as the NBA. Tony started the pg position almost as soon as he got to the team at the age of 19. He has been playing NBA ball a lot longer than a lot of the guys who used to only join the NBA after college. After a certain amount of wear and tear,
things don't heal as quickly as they once did.
If Parker comes back too soon the same thing will happen that happened this time. What started out as a potentially minor issue gets re-injured, which takes longer to heal than it would have the first time. Pop knew this and didn't want Parker to come back as early as he did this time. Parker insisted, got back in, re-injured it - so now he out for even longer.
Since Parker does not play well when his wheels are in pain, why in the world do you want him to play when he is hurting? THAT is when he hurts the team.
It is one thing to rely on vulgarity to make your point; it is quite another to ignore facts and to simply insist on pretending that you know what any other person's mental and/or emotional state.
I don't know if Parker is faking injury. I can't imagine why he would, but I could be wrong.
You don't know if Parker is faking injury, but you malign his character as though you are certain of it. Moreover, you attack other posters who disagree with you as 're s' or ' ing re s', and malign their character. What a guy!!!
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