Harvey: Parker's Challenge Includes Failure

[timvp]

Look at how many people, both sportswriters and ST's most knowledgeable posters, say the Spurs will need Parker to carry the team offensively. Some say he must average 30ppg.

No one that I've seen says that Duncan must score 25ppg and 15 rebounds for the Spurs to advance. Duncan is now almost regulated to the background or ignored in their estimation of what he must do to make the Spurs winners.

That shows how far the Spurs have changed in the minds of most people as to the focus of who is the clutch player who must come through. I doubt most of them even realize how much their analysis of the Spurs and their dominant player has changed.

Duncan is still the heart and soul of the team and their leader because of it. but with Manu gone, Tony is now the dominant player that determines the wins and losses.

Yeah, it's scary but Parker right now holds more responsibility with this team than Duncan probably ever held with any of the Spurs teams. If Parker doesn't play like a superstar, the Spurs don't have a chance. I don't remember a team in Duncan's career that the Spurs had to have a superstar game from Duncan just to have a chance to win a first round game. Maybe in the early 2000's ... but I don't think it was this drastic.

[ducks]

articles like this make me believe this is really tp's team not duncan
I do not care what tp says

[benefactor]

articles like this make me believe this is really tp's team not duncan
I do not care what tp says

What the does it matter? We win nothing if we don't have one or the other. Just shut the up about it already.

[ducks]

if it does not why agrue with me

[benefactor]

if it does not why agrue with me

Because it's not about whose team it is...it's about the team itself. We lose if Duncan has a 6pt, 4reb game. We lose if tony goes 6-25 and commits 7 turnovers. We lose if both of them play well but no one from the bench scores more than 4pts. Everyone has a part that they must play to assure victory...so this BS about who the team belongs to is just what I said it is...BS.

[adidas11]

It is asking way too much for any NBA team to want their point guard (sub 6'3") to perform as a franchise-level player.

By franchise-level, I'm talking about a player that you can build a championship caliber team around, and for that player to perform night in and night out at a dominating level.

The only point guard (sub 6'3") that I can think of who was even close to being able to do that was Iasiah Thomas, and even then, when that Detroit team ascended to a championship caliber team, they had to go for a more balanced attack.

Depending on Parker to score 38 pts a game just to win in the first round of the playoffs (and blasting him when he is not able to do so) is asinine.