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Good to know he reached out to Nash. That guy always had his ailments well taken care of, until the Lakers broke his back.
Some quotes from Tony Parker's press videos (source NBA.com).
Tony Parker played for France this summer. After being questioned for some minutes after practice, he has to say:
“I just want to feel good,” Enrique said Thursday. “My only goal this year is to be healthy, because I know if I’m healthy I’ll play well.”
“It was hard to accept it,”
“But I had the whole summer to accept it. I have to understand I’m not 25 and if I want to play at the same high level, I have to prepare differently.”
“It’s not like when I was 20 — just come two minutes before practice and just practice,”
“Regarding Eurobasket I felt great, I just didn’t make shots.”
“I’ll do anything to get back to that championship level,” “Just take more time, more commitment, more sacrifice. I’m ready to do it.” AFter playing with him on Eurobasket plus three days of practice in San Antonio Diaw said: “Physically, he looked great, really in shape,”
“Over the course of a career, you have ups and downs,” Tony said. “I just want to put it behind me. It’s a new season, and I feel healthy and ready to go.”
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Good to know he reached out to Nash. That guy always had his ailments well taken care of, until the Lakers broke his back.
I thought the quote was a joke but he was talking about Nash in Phoenix, right? It makes a lot more sense.
Nashs back was already bad when he was in Phoenix.
Only good things you hear from Parker, though. The changes in training regime were necessary, I said it the year before he has to take a page out of Manus book before because Manu had less muscle problems the last two seasons. Parker will have it easier with the Spurs than with his national team as Gobert is not exactly a player that opens the floor for Tony. So, hopefully he stays healthy, then the offense can be pretty incredible after the first few months of the season.
Good take. I'm pretty sure he wont stay healthy through all the Season, but at least he did some changes to his diet and body, minimizing the chance of an injury.
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There's nothing new here. Parker is old, his injuries are part of being old. He may or may not be done.
Realistically, if he accepts his role, there's no reason he can't have a good season and contrubute..if he still believes he can be anything but a peripheral role player, then the Spurs are going to suffer, tbh..
He's still the best ball-handler on the team and the closest thing to an actual PG, would be huge for the team if he accepts a Prigioni role..
I just hope he doesn't cry hamstring at each time he sucks in a game/stretch beacuse the reality is that he'is done more than anything else..I'm sure Manu and TD are dinged up all time but they never reach for the media to talk about how niggling and beaten up their bodies are..Tony needs take the honorable path and sit himself on the bench with fellow cheering teammates instead of disappearing in the locker room to never bee seen again after a disastrous"i-don't-have-it-this-night" half..It is going to be a challenge trying to reconcile Tony's ego with the stark reality of his ability as Basketball player right now..Yes Parker is not a kid anymore, but he could still grow in other departments..
Time to become a pass-first type of PG.
This is the same crap he says before every season starts.
Basically. Last season he beasted for the first 2-3 months but he didn't play Summer Ball tho'. This year he played for France but he's evidently in better shape. Wait and see I guess.
Some posters seem to more content throwing dirt on his grave than hoping for him to have a bounceback season, despite the fact that the latter would make the Spurs even more ridiculously loaded.
tbh, I wish he would stop blaming the "injuries"... Hopefully he doesn't really think that injuries is what slowed him down. He needs to realize he just can't push the machine as much as before, otherwise he will get hurt again. That's natural once you get older. Especially during the grind of the regular season. Now we have personnel that can carry the scoring load, so he needs to have a more cerebral role (like HH said, more of a Prigioni role).
Spurs really need him healthy in that kind of role, so hopefully he understands that and he can have a good season.
Agree, but the Suns' training and medical staff did a fantastic job and kept him playing, at high level.
It's as bad as Pop thinking the same thing.
Given what Diaw considers to be "in shape" - well, let's just say round is a shape.
The thing we have to make clear is that Tony is not Tim Duncan and never will be. He has always blamed his injuries as the culprit for his underperforming seasons. But even MJ declined so I don't know why is so difficult for him to accept it. As you said, he needs to realize he just can't push the machine at the rate he was accustomed 5 years ago.
This. It's one thing to raise concern over a player's performance and/or decline or make a harmless joke about it but why take joy in pointing it out repeatedly and then go on and on about it like it's contributing to anything? This goes for the sudden Kawhi hate too.
Nash also was able to shoot and pass the ball which helps offset loss of quickness.
It's important to note that shooting and passing have known to be very helpful skills for a point guard to have.
The reason we have LMA is to not depend on him scoring playing hero ball, now Parker is irrelevant if he wants to play Prigioni role good, if not I couldnt care less.
as long as Parker is on the floor dribbling and losing the ball, he will never be irrelevant.
He will be irrelevant, an irrelevant pain in the ass dragging down his teammates.
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