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Should Tony Parker take more 3-pointers ?Code:3P% 3PM-A Kobe Bryant .315 67/213 Kevin Durant .347 87/251 Deron Williams .350 84/240 LeBron James .356 67/188 Manu Ginobili .364 112/308 Derrick Rose .364 78/214 Tony Parker .366 15/41 George Hill .366 41/112
Yesterday he was totaly wiiiide open for a 3 and refused to take it.
If he could keep that 3P% with more shots, it would force his defender to guard him much higher and make his penetration game more lethal. He doesn't need to be a great 3 points shooter, he just needs to send a memo to the league that if you don't guard him, he can shoot it.
I did a little search in the 3P% stats to compare other players to Parker and I was very surprised by the results...
Obviously, you don't dare those guys to shoot the 3 without defending them... yet, Kobe 0.315, Deron 0.350...
What do you think ?
Yes plz
No.
If he's wide open or if its a buzzer beater shot, sure.
Otherwise, probably not. He's like Grant Hill - his %'s might look nice but %'s don't tell you what kind of 3 pointers a player makes and both of these guys are really only decent at shooting 3's uncontested. The Spurs team is also filled with a bunch of better shooters FWIW.
Parker will undoubtedly continue to develop his shot as he gets older though just like most guards.
No
he shouldnt even take more 2 pointers.
Tony knows what his strong points are
Leave him alone
As Cane and FalleNxWiZarDx basically said, let him do what he does.
Whenever he takes a corner 3, I feel like it's going in.
No, when Parker takes threes he's feeling it. If he feels he's got a good chance of making a shot he's not going to pass on it.
so you want our most important scorer in the paint to start living by the 3 as well? Yeah, no thanks.
YES!
And even if he misses them!!!
The same way Manu explained a few weeks ago that he HAD to take those 3 (even if he missed most of them) so that his defender repect this threat...
About yesterday's 3 he didn't take, I think it has more to do with the fact that there was still more than 5 sec remaining a he opted to pass to make it a buzzer beater...
you cannot seriously compare Manu's 3pt threat to Tony's
The only 3's Tony has taken is when he is totally wide open. You can't compare that to other players who are guarded at the 3 point line. Apples and oranges.
TP should take wide open corner 3's or any other wide open look he gets. He should not make a point of trying to take more 3's. Just take what is given.
Spurs need TP to drive. He is one of the only Spurs players that actually drives more than he chucks 3's.
Spurs have enough 3PT shooters.
Nobody in the Spurs should take more 3s. They are taking way too many already.
I agree if wide open the following players have the green light:
Bonner, Neal, Manu, Hill, RJ
If wide open and clock running out:
TP, bench scrubs
Never:
McDyess, Tiago, Blair
no!
The Spurs players take too many 3s, as it is.
Living by the 3 and taking more 3 are two things totally different.
Parker is taking 0.8 3-pointers by game this season.
I am talking about 1.3 to 1.5 3-pointers by game. It's not living by the 3 and as i said it, it would make his job more easy in the paint.
Manu is taking 6 3-pointers by game this season.
I would prefer Manu with 5.5 and Tony with 1.3. (instead of 6 & 0.8)
3P% of Manu would be more efficient and tony's game would be more versatile and more difficult to defend.
Win-win situation.
Of course not.
He has plenty of offensive weapons, like teardops, penetration, drive and kicks etc. It's not a must to add a three point shoots at the moment. It's better to know that he can knock down a 3 pointer when he's wide-open, but it's not necessary to shoot more threes.
He took also some last second possession garbage 3-pointers shots.
wrong. Tony doing any kind of jumpshooting is detrimental to the Spurs.
TP's penetration helps open up the shooters on the arc. Now that Tim isn't positioned on the block nor drawing double teams, the Spurs are pretty much playing an outside-in game. If you pull TP out and have him start jacking up more 3's, it will derail the ball movement and produce even more long rebounds. That said, TP is better of putting pressure on the defense by his usual method of getting into the paint, throwing up his various arrrays of floaters and midrange jumpers.
I don't understand the people who are saying that Parker needs only to score in the paint.
Because he never shoots the 3, his defender is always waiting him 2 or 3 feet lower.
The fact that Parker doesn't take 3-pointers is hurting his game in the paint.
And again, I am talking about 1.3 3-pointers by game instead of 0.8.
I don't want him to be a 3 points specialist, i just want his defender respects his 3-pointer shot.
The point is, TP doesn't have a 3pt shot. They cannot respect what he doesn't have.
Seriously SenorSpur, i like you as a poster and I know I am not good at writing in english, but come on... Read again what i wrote.
Because they have more than enough shooters on the arc. That's not to say that TP shouldn't take a 3 if left wide open. He absolutely should. However but to have him start incorporating that shot as part of his regular aresenal would be counter-productive.
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