Spurs: Moving the ball really well without TP imo

[lefty]

moving the ball
the Heat loves player that try to move the ball, their whole defense is about playing the passing lanes to create TOs since they're undersized
spursfan fapping to ball movement, end of the bench scrubs and so called superior coaching, all useless in the POs

ROFL ty takes

[PlayNando]

TDMVPDPOY with some really good takes in this thread, tbh... Dare I say, per par?

[TDMVPDPOY]

The real ber that prevented team from winning another championship the past years since 07, in my humble opinion, was the absence of a hardcore defensive big alongside Tim. As Tim got older, he needed help at the defensive end more than ever but the Spurs failed to give him even someone of the prime Rasho's caliber. All the got him were either the tattered has-beens like Kurt Thomas and McDyess, or those young scrubs who had just stepped out of diapers. Diaw and Splitter are decent bigs but defense ain't the strength to neither of them, which leaves Duncan still being the only one guy to count on defensively. If the Spurs converted some expiring s into big daddy Tyson Chandler in 10' summer before Cuban did, it'd be fair to say the spurs would've won the 11' NBA MF'N le and would've probably won a few more

since 07 spurs dont have a physical presence down low or a no tolerance thug type of player....

then we brought in jax change everything, till fkn pop decided to ax the clown cause of his ty season which was out of his hand, how can you blame a player who had a broken hand out 1-2 months, comes back not nba ready with hsi shooting touch, then has some family problem that he needed to take time off....comes back was demoted down the bench and role diminish behind other clowns on the bench, and then gets waive....all of that is understandable and forgiveable then what tp did off the court with a former team mates wife...fck him. clown didnt even get punish for that , all that unwanted media attention the club didnt need, just like his fake ass marriage to a housewife turning the spurs into hollywood gossip...fck that clown.

wasted 7 years looking for a backup pg
wasted 7 years looking for a bowen replacement, got one and force him to be a spotup shooter, when its clearly shown kawhi has more upside that is clearly being misused, a player will not develop into something if his not given green light, only a player will improve if they learn from their mistakes, so far kawhi has not made much mistakes cause of his limited role.....

[Baam]

so called? so how do you explain bench scrubs winning a road game against a playoff caliber team?

How do you explain him losing to the heat scrubs? An 8th seed? Or AJ?

[TDMVPDPOY]

How do you explain him losing to the heat scrubs? An 8th seed? Or AJ?

lol they avoiding to answer this

[spurraider21]

How do you explain him losing to the heat scrubs? An 8th seed? Or AJ?

that didnt answer my question, yet it is being called a truth bomb

[Josepatches_]

TP is not our best player

Thruth Bombs

[DMC]

Parker isn't a great passer. He runs the pick and roll well, but he's a scoring PG. He attacks the rim better than any PG in the league. His ability to convert is amazing. With every asset comes a detriment. A player than can shoot the three often cannot drive the paint. A great passer often has a lot of turnovers because they see openings we don't, and often that's because they aren't there. Rarely is there a player who can do it all. You have to appreciate TP for what he can do for the Spurs, and forgive him for what he cannot do. It's often not a free will thing. He's told to use his strengths. If Parker was a pass first guard, he'd be mid level at best.

When Parker is in the game, he opens up the 3pt shooting. So you have a Bonner or Green or Belli out beyond the arc pulling out the defenders, and Parker destroys the bigs in the paint. Defense collapses and the shooters feast. Soon the game is hybrid with defenders working their asses off to cover both and they start missing on the offensive end because their legs are tired. It's the game plan.

[Bill_Brasky]

didn't we suck without TP last year badly enough to have people cliff jumping before the playoffs?

[PlayNando]

didn't we suck without TP last year badly enough to have people cliff jumping before the playoffs?

The Spurs went 6-2 without the Hero when he was out due to injury last March. That stretch included a huge victory at OKC, something we couldn't do with the Hero this year.

Edit - Oh, and we couldn't do it in 2012, either, when we lost 4-2 in the WCF with the Hero.

[Clipper Nation]

The Spurs went 6-2 without the Hero when he was out due to injury last March. That stretch included a huge victory at OKC, something we couldn't do with the Hero this year.

Damn, maybe he really is the French Kirby

[apalisoc_9]

Parker isn't a great passer. He runs the pick and roll well, but he's a scoring PG. He attacks the rim better than any PG in the league. His ability to convert is amazing. With every asset comes a detriment. A player than can shoot the three often cannot drive the paint. A great passer often has a lot of turnovers because they see openings we don't, and often that's because they aren't there. Rarely is there a player who can do it all. You have to appreciate TP for what he can do for the Spurs, and forgive him for what he cannot do. It's often not a free will thing. He's told to use his strengths. If Parker was a pass first guard, he'd be mid level at best.

When Parker is in the game, he opens up the 3pt shooting. So you have a Bonner or Green or Belli out beyond the arc pulling out the defenders, and Parker destroys the bigs in the paint. Defense collapses and the shooters feast. Soon the game is hybrid with defenders working their asses off to cover both and they start missing on the offensive end because their legs are tired. It's the game plan.

This doesn't address the fact that Parker IGNORES kawhi and TD when they ask for the ball in mismatch situations. This happens a lot with Kawhi when he's backing up a smaller defender. You don't need vision to do that, you just need to have the willingness to pass to the ball.

[PlayNando]

Back to heroball. Spurs down 11 at the half.

[spurraider21]

Step 1) make a negative comment about any nba player

Step 2) somebody quotes it and replies with "truth bombs"

to quote AaronY, such is life on spurstalk

[TDMVPDPOY]

all i know is this

2-0 as a percentage is > 19-5

now soon to be 19-6 with parker

[lefty]

It's not over yet


TP will lead us to a heroic comeback win

[lefty]

Tony Romo is playing well tonight

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Idk about Parker. When he's on, he's so good. But when he's off he kind of gets exposed badly.

[PlayNando]

Westbrook humiliated him tonight per par.

[TDMVPDPOY]

what did i fkn say clowns

did you clowns see what happen at the end of the 2nd quarter and start of teh 3rd quarter, hero mode happen that didnt do besides a bigger lead for the okc

that 3rd quarter was nothing more than the tony parker show trading baskets with westbrick that didnt do to the lead...

the guy with the hot hand in the first half marco didnt even get a shot attempt till the last quarter where he only shot it fkn once, yes fkn once..

who was responsible for eatting into the okc lead? the bench in the 4th quarter, till parker came back onto the court with more bull trading baskets for his law of avgs for the season...

attacking the rim getting to the line didnt do besides pad parkers freebie points, didnt do to okc, westbrick just smirks at that pathetic effort with a first step into the lane drives it over his head or a jumper over anyone on the spurs...

[ElNono]

His defense been for a while. Hopefully coasting

[TDMVPDPOY]

His defense been for a while. Hopefully coasting

i dont buy that his coasting or returning from a bruise injury...fck that , he had no problem going hero mode tonight,

[HI-FI]

i figured we would lose this with Parker coming back, trying to prove a point.

[Reck]

I'm going to give Tony the benefit of the doubt for this game.

Coming off a semi-injury, few days off and to top it off you're facing an elite team in the form of the Thunder.

Yeah he gets a pass from me.

[Budkin]

The truth is that the Thunder live in Parker's head, and have ever since the end of Game 2 in 2012.