My first instinct watching him is he has to be injured. But no way Pop would be playing him right no if so. So my second instinct is he has lost all his quickness and is done. And without speed his game is aging like Iverson's did, allstar to liability overnight.
I wanted Parker & Kidd together, since I was never sold on Jermaine O'Neal and hated the thought of signing Olowokandi or Nesterovic with all that capspace. I was always sold on Parker though after that great series he had against Payton his rookie year. In retrospect Parker was easily the better of the two considering Kidd got hurt a year or two later and was never the same again.
The worst part about Babar is that his weight gain doesn't give him a useful size advantage like you see with Kyle Lowry and other effective fat players, tbh..
Parker is 6-feet tall and has a small frame, the excess weight literally doesn't provide him with any advantage..he's just a short, fat, slow PG with limited court vision, an inconsistent jump shot and a huge ego..
Of course. That moron would say something re ed like that.
Who knew it would be Tony that gave out first? There was talk of Pop retooling with this guy after Manu and Tim retired
ugly numbers
makes sense. it would've been cool to have had both.
The excess weight shows, Parker lose the 10-15 pounds ASAP!
I always said the summer of 2003 was the misstep from having a Jordan Bulls dynasty.They could of had 5 les in 6 year span.Not resigning Jackson due to Jacko and his agent and not even getting a decent free agent,despite winning the championship with young core and ample cap space.Damn San Antonio.They couldn't even land Lamar Odom who was classified as a B level free agent then.
Negele Knight and Chris Witney? Wow, we are going old school. What about Mike Bratz and Sweet Pea?
How are we going to dump a 3 year $44 million contract. There are some stupid owners and GMs out there, but none that stupid.
We can't.
That is why Pop is giving Porker big minutes to try and shake off his funk and sooth his wounded ego.
What else can you do ? as he may be he won't play for free
I'm here tbh
Unfortunately Parker is probably done... he had a good run. One can hope he can turn things around but there are no signs whatsoever of that. He had a couple of ok games lately but it seems it was a moment / spark stuff than real progress.
He is obviously trying but his legs are not here anymore
what part you don't understand Enrique ?? Last year he was bad and we won it all. Just bench Enrique and make him a backup PG he shouldn't play more than 15 minutes a game.he's definitely having a tough time. if he doesn't turn it around, spurs are ed
This is a serious and non-sarcastic question: If you truly believe that Parker was bad last year and we won anyway, and if you truly believe that the Spurs are a better team without him (I'm not questioning anyone's analytics here - if the numbers show we are better without him, then we are), then why can't we win with him playing so poorly this year?
I am not defending Tony at all. I don't hate him like some do in here, but I am totally baffled by how a player's shot ability has disappeared so completely so rapidly. He does in fact look just terrible out there, and I, along with most team fans, would love to see some other pg run the team as a starter.
The question remains, though, that if Parker was always unimportant to the team's success, why is his lack of value this year such a contributor to the team's losses?
It seems only fair to note, as others have, that the entire TEAM, excluding only Tim, has 'lost their shot' this year. Everyone's three point shooting percentages are way down from last year and that cannot be wholly attributable to Tony's undeniable decline. When NO ONE can find their shot, something besides the dramatic decline of one player must be included as the causal factor(s).
At this point I would LOVE to see Tony only play 15 minutes a game. LOVE it. But it does seem that if we could win without him playing well last year we could win without him playing well this year.
We are not winning because Enrique is playing like 30 minutes a game? DIdn't you see the Spurs stats without TP? We trail the Warriors without him.
Yes, I did see those, and I referred to my acceptance of those in my original response. I don't question those. That is why I said that I would love to see him only play 15 minutes a game. What I can't figure out is HOW it is that if we didn't need him last year we can't win with him playing poorly THIS year.
RIP Parker. Pop, get over yourself and Parker and play lineups that are effective and want to win. Tony's place is on the bench now. Sucks watching Tim have to put up with this.
Patty Injured the first half of the season, Splitter injured half of the season, Belinelli not being as good in regular season as last season. Pop with his bad rotations lineups, this is why we can't win him playing poorly.
FTW % is worse than last season..
3PS % is worse than last season..
Also, notice that Manu came off the bench last couple of games with TP in, which means no second unit ball movement (Mills should play with Manu)
What´s scary is that this team has 7 million committed to Diaw, 8.5 to Splitter and 15 to Parker for next year.
Clearly the 3 worse players on the team right now. And they command nearly half the NBA cap.
Bad move there by the management.
Agree with this, entirely. Pop's feud with Green has really cost us I think.
Boris and Tiago both played international ball this summer so that might be having an effect on their overall decline. Back-to-back Finals trips with no rest in between is exhausting.
On Tony, I agree with you. It made no sense giving him that extension while he still had a year remaining on his current contract. If they had let him play out the year, we could have avoided that cancerous $45 million. Starting to think that TP threatened the team - told them if they don't give him an extension, he'll play for France. Spurs obliged and Tony rested the summer. If true, it's de able on Tony's part.
Perhaps he's afraid to be explosive until it's time to risk injury. Parker is a warrior -- that's one thing I strongly disagree with most people here on.
I think he'll try to be the old TP during the playoffs -- he'll either soar or get injured. Either way, it will have been the right decision.
the ? TP is never better during the playoffs, he's a regular season player. Also, he's not a warrior.
inb4 Ringo with the truth nukes..
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