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He was MIA in three consecutive closeout games. Game 5 against Portland, Game 6 against OKC, and Game 5 against Miami.
Carried the torch down the home stretch while Kawhi was out the entire second half in foul trouble.
He was MIA in three consecutive closeout games. Game 5 against Portland, Game 6 against OKC, and Game 5 against Miami.
yeah. It's been his MO for as long as I can remember. But I think he has grown up a lot, especially when he told the media to give Kawhi time to grow and not put too much pressure on him so early.
I think this year he was just running on fumes. I expect a big year from him next year including the playoff close out games.
Mavs series should've been over 4-0, it was as simple as TP not ball hogging and feeding Leonard in the post vs Ellis. Instead we got hero ball and it went to 7 games, stats never tell the full story.
This team has a peak with TP as the #1 option, and we've seen the results when this became "Parker's" team after an undeserved Finals MVP in 07. Everyone bought into the false MVP, and the lack of success showed. Sure Parker will get you some wins, but he'll never lead you to a championship, no PG will, it all comes down to them not being big enough.
It means he had LeBron James guarding him, the best defender on the other team. This freed his teammates up to emasculate the rest of the Heat.
Nothing at all he needs to rest to feel better next season, and keep moving the ball in the playoffs.
I think the biggest adjustment for the team this year was relying less on TP. Moving him from the head of the snake made us much tougher to stop. That said without being the head of the snake he's probably more dangerous.
it means the heat were focused on locking him down so other players were able to step up in their roles
I've heard this repeatedly and it is a canard. In the 2003 finals Tony was in his second year with the team 20 years old (maybe he had just turned 21 but it was within a month or so)...remember last year when Kawhi was in his second year with the team and he missed a critical free throw in Game 6 of the finals? It is the same phenomenon. He was in fact too young for the pressure and he was in fact saved by Speedy in that game...but he was the future of the franchise then just like Kawhi was last year. People who rag on Tony and don't recognize that he did basically what most youngsters do at that point in time are just not using their brains.
Tony carried the team all of last year and out us up by 5 points in the last minutes of game 6, and he did it on a grade 2 hammy strain. We didn't win it, but that was not
on Tony. Tony has been the workhorse of the Spurs offense for the last several years and probably will be again next year. He didn't score well in the first half of this year's game 5, and he didn't play as well as Kawhi or Tim or Boris or Manu or Patty. But he did his job.
He was tired all year this year and it showed. But the pg rarely wins a le...or loses it. He has been a finals MVP. He wasn't in 2003 and he wasn't this year. Tim wasn't in 2007 and wasn't this year. Does that mean Tim didn't show up?
It is a team man. Try to understand that. Try harder than you are now.
No I mean what does it mean that the Spurs still won? Can the Spurs trade Tony Parker away and keep Patty as the starting PG for less, and maybe get a good backup for Leonard or a decent big in exchange?
trade
tp for Williams and nets would win 15 or more games
spurs lose 20 or more
I didn't suggest trading Tony for DWill. In fact I haven't suggested anything. I just wonder how the Spurs will see it, that they are viable without Tony... even Vegas saw that.
Bite the hand that feeds..
This is officially a fail thread Parker aint going nowhere that's absurd.
save for game 3 where he shot 4-10 and the first 3 quarters of game 5 he actually shot the ball very well. he did make 7 straight shots in the 4th to bury the heat.
in game 1, 2 & 4 he shot 8-15 (in each of those 3 games) 24-45 (53%) he played pretty well overall.
So a hypothethetical? in that case it means that the Spurs offensive balance was historic one one scored 20ppg over the year or even 18 ppg for that matter. Leonard already has a backup in Ginobili and Green getting a backup SF would mean Marco doesn't play.
7-7 in the fourth quarter of a championship close out. What's your point?
It means we had a deep, healthy team that didn't need to rely on his heroics...
I'm not concerned about him, I think he'll bounce back to MVParker next season. There shouldn't be any age constrains, etc for that not to be the case.
That said, I wouldn't mind having Patty back as insurance...
The spurs have decent bigs. There's nothing wrong with their bigs...
Get over man, TP did not win the MVP this year, he won the last one in 2007. Time to change your avatar picture and start thinking about the Spurs and not only one player..
This is an interesting take. How hard is it to build what the Spurs have. I'd say impossible to recreate it anywhere else, maybe even in SA.
Meaning even without the face of the franchise (so to speak) Spurs win big games, OKC on the road with Tony completely absent and Cory Joseph starting for him. The Spurs model could change the NBA, but I don't think it will because it's too hard to duplicate. Instead of a stacked super team, you have a team of good players who play great as a team and a group of stars who allow guys like Mills and Green to rise and be in the spotlight. That's never going to happen anywhere else.
I'm no TP hater, but the Spurs were up 20ish going into the 4th when he finally started scoring, despite him being 0 for 11. Let's not pretend he rallied them to a victory with a mythological clutch performance at the end of game 5.
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Everyone seems to be talking about Miami as if its one of the two consecutive closeout games he was absent from.
I assumed you meant Portland and OKC?
Because if you're saying he was basically absent from game 5, than that's 3 consecutive closeout games.
been a spur fan since david robinson was drafted
timvp made my avatar leaving it up
tp did more then his share for the le this year
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