Game Grades: Bulls @ Spurs

[100%duncan]

my parker

give him an A
Open looks
doesn’t matter that he missed them

[RD2191]

Great grades OP, although parker deserved an f for being a got.

[itzsoweezee]

The hockey rotations are just stupid. Leave LMA or KL on with the bench and those leads expand, not contact. Kerr and other good coaches know how to do this. Why won't Popovich learn?

[SPURt]

Does Pau really not see his impact? He's played enough ball to know how to help the Spurs, he should ask to start Dedmon and be the feature of the second unit if he cared about winning.

[$pursDynasty]

During the showtime Laker days I don't think Magic fans hated on Worthy fans. Is this a millennial thing or just an Internet troll thing, smdh. If Bertrans goes for 36 and we win I am happy. Some on ST only care if their fave has the game high and the player they hate, on a team they reportedly like mind you, does crappy. Times have changed.

[GSH]

Whatever Dedmon's overall grade, he was the backbone that stopped the Bulls run and put the Spurs back in charge. The guy's got a pair, and he plays with heart. You can watch the Spurs' body language change when he gets going.

[Seventyniner]

'But but he already said that this is Kawhi's team and he's adapting to a new role' ....In a hot Kawhi/LMA night and Parker taking more shots than the season team-leading scorer.

I don't get it. Parker gets crap for taking more shots than Kawhi, but then gets accused of stat padding when the game was out of reach? Those can't both be true at the same time.

[YGWHI]

I don't get it. Parker gets crap for taking more shots than Kawhi, but then gets accused of stat padding when the game was out of reach? Those can't both be true at the same time.

Don't care about his stat padding...But I guess what people find annoying is that Parker is supposed to be a facilitator for Spurs' two main scorers but he isn't that type of player when he looks for his own shot and the other guys are so hot.

[Cry Havoc]

Thanks for covering for me dude. Great job on the grades.

[ducks]

Whatever Dedmon's overall grade, he was the backbone that stopped the Bulls run and put the Spurs back in charge. The guy's got a pair, and he plays with heart. You can watch the Spurs' body language change when he gets going.

[100%duncan]

Thanks for covering for me dude. Great job on the grades.

Sure thanks for not being butthurt on that Parker criticism

[daledondale]

Thanks for the grades!.

[cutewizard]

kudos!

[bic50]

Whatever Dedmon's overall grade, he was the backbone that stopped the Bulls run and put the Spurs back in charge. The guy's got a pair, and he plays with heart. You can watch the Spurs' body language change when he gets going.

[Thunder1]

Thanx for the grades...

[jermaine]

Lee an Dedmon deserves at least an A.... Maybe I'm judging them off Gasol, but Lee with all those great passed an hustle... Dedmon with his hustle an rebounds an layups...

[Cry Havoc]

Sure thanks for not being butthurt on that Parker criticism

I'm a critic of his as well, I just think it's ing absurd to expect much out of him at this point. He's been in the league for 16 years. A PG that's predicated on speed and penetration after 16 years is going to drop off.

[skulls138]

People like to put others down. It brings them up.

[Perry Mason]

Just watched the game. Good grades except for Parker's. I don't understand this narrative that he got his points in "garbage time". The game was very much in reach when TP made some key baskets. He had a very good game for a 34 year old point guard.

And he was key to the 1st quarter supernova, which the bench promptly eliminated when they came in.

TP gets a B+ or an A- for this game. He was active, moved well, and only got torched a couple times.

[Perry Mason]

Don't care about his stat padding...But I guess what people find annoying is that Parker is supposed to be a facilitator for Spurs' two main scorers but he isn't that type of player when he looks for his own shot and the other guys are so hot.

Having just watched the game, I can't think of a single play where TP forced a shot and had LMA or Kawhi wide open in a clear passing lane. There was zero stat padding.

TP was mostly smart when he went to the hole, and had some very vintage drive and kick plays. Seriously, you guys with your trash narrative. Was he perfect? Of course not, but he did what Pop wanted. Pop was happy. That says something.

[bklynspursfan]

Having just watched the game, I can't think of a single play where TP forced a shot and had LMA or Kawhi wide open in a clear passing lane. There was zero stat padding.

TP was mostly smart when he went to the hole, and had some very vintage drive and kick plays. Seriously, you guys with your trash narrative. Was he perfect? Of course not, but he did what Pop wanted. Pop was happy. That says something.

Exactly. Trolls & haters ignore facts tho. Goes against their agenda

[GSH]

I don't get it. Parker gets crap for taking more shots than Kawhi, but then gets accused of stat padding when the game was out of reach? Those can't both be true at the same time.

It's because some people don't know what stat-padding means, and don't care. They just hate Parker.

The Spurs' lead was just 9 points, with 9 minutes left to play. In the next 6 1/2 minutes, Parker dished two assists to LMA (one for a dunk), and went 4-7 shooting - including a big 3-pointer from the corner. On one of those misses, he was left all alone under the basket but Manu's pass was way off target, and by the time Tony gathered it in he had a bigger defender on him. With a decent pass, that was an uncontested dunk.

Bottom line, Tony kept the pressure on the Bulls in crunch time, and made sure they didn't have any hope of a comeback. The Parker-haters may have forgotten that the Spurs had already blown one 20 point lead in that game, but Pop didn't. He kept the starters in (with Manu in place of Danny) until the 2:23 mark. He didn't do that so that Tony could stat-pad. He did it so that the Bulls didn't have any chance of a comeback. You could fault Tony for going 3-8 earlier in the game, but not for his 4-7 shooting at the end.

Now... sit back and wait for the usual suspects to spin it some other way.

[sasaint]

It's because some people don't know what stat-padding means, and don't care. They just hate Parker.

The Spurs' lead was just 9 points, with 9 minutes left to play. In the next 6 1/2 minutes, Parker dished two assists to LMA (one for a dunk), and went 4-7 shooting - including a big 3-pointer from the corner. On one of those misses, he was left all alone under the basket but Manu's pass was way off target, and by the time Tony gathered it in he had a bigger defender on him. With a decent pass, that was an uncontested dunk.

Bottom line, Tony kept the pressure on the Bulls in crunch time, and made sure they didn't have any hope of a comeback. The Parker-haters may have forgotten that the Spurs had already blown one 20 point lead in that game, but Pop didn't. He kept the starters in (with Manu in place of Danny) until the 2:23 mark. He didn't do that so that Tony could stat-pad. He did it so that the Bulls didn't have any chance of a comeback. You could fault Tony for going 3-8 earlier in the game, but not for his 4-7 shooting at the end.

Now... sit back and wait for the usual suspects to spin it some other way.

A nine point lead with ONE minute is not insurmountable. A nine point lead with NINE minutes to go is absolutely negligible. The team in the lead had better keep the pedal to the metal.

[YGWHI]

Having just watched the game, I can't think of a single play where TP forced a shot and had LMA or Kawhi wide open in a clear passing lane.

and went 4-7 shooting - including a big 3-pointer from the corner.

If you're trying to say that Parker taking 7 shots in 6 1/2 minutes while Kawhi took just 2 in all that time is something good for the team...

If you're trying to say that the leading scorer in a hot shooting night has to take less shots than the point guard who's the 5th scorer on the team...

Well, it's pretty obvious that we don't share the same concept of 'winning formula'.

[YGWHI]

But it's OK.

Since you like Parker taking that number of shots in a quarter, and then call haters the guys who disagree on that...The Spurs should allow Parker to take more shots than Kawhi/LMA for the rest of the season.

I guess you would love it and obviously the Spurs will win many games with that shot distribution.

Good for you, guys! You find a new way to win