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He looked like last regular season but had a really nice first round against a healthy top-two way PG like Conley. Not sure if he looks this way now for the injury/age or it's something like regular season.
It's more so about closing than starting when it comes to Mills and really the 3 starters not named Leonard and Aldridge. Those 2 and elite defense guarantee at least being compe ive. The problem is down the stretch, it's difficult to win close games vs elite teams with players who aren't 2-way or exceptional enough on one end to make up for the other.
Gasol coming off the bench has been a desperation move. We're operating under the premise that everything is back to normal next season (however likely that may be, is a different argument), which means Pop can probably pretty well do what he wants and they'll be mostly fine during the regular season.
Anderson will definitely be re-signed and Bertans probably will be too (wouldn't entirely rule out an exorbitant offer sheet though). To make up for the hole at shooting guard and lack of size in the back court period, I could see Leonard and possibly even Anderson (shouldn't, but we've seen it before) playing it some.
I know Parker claims he isn't 100% and hopes he'll be better next season, but they're already trying to phase him out. Think they'd try to convince him it's over before they'd have him end his career as a fringe - non rotation player.
He looked like last regular season but had a really nice first round against a healthy top-two way PG like Conley. Not sure if he looks this way now for the injury/age or it's something like regular season.
Please tell me this is a joke. I posted a photo of a bag of Funyuns but seriously, that would be overpaying. Time to move on. I'd still bring Manu back but not TP.
agreed, but there's no way PATFO don't offer tony a multimillion dollar deal.
TP has been a pretty good solider, I would not be surprised to see him take something like 3/15.
Loyalty contract. Why not? Heck they basically did that for Pau.
Nothing our FO does with these ridiculous contracts would surprise me anymore.
Tony has the same agent as Patty. He is going to ask for at least 3 year / 40 million. I’m not joking. He expects 10-13 million per year. The Spurs gave Manu 14 million last season when the Sixers wanted him. I’m sure Tony will tell them there are other teams that could use his veteran knowledge and experience lol. Pop will give it to him too because the spurs aren’t signing a big name free agent this summer anyway.
If he gets us out of the first round of the playoffs this year like he did last, $10m/year is fine.
If he doesn’t produce in playoffs he should be released
if tony wants to keep playing for the spurs they should send him up to austin and leave him there.
the dude finished this season with a -0.6 VORP
15th best TS% on the roster too...
That's pretty disgusting.the dude finished this season with a -0.6 VORP
15th best TS% on the roster too...
He should retire and move on to his French team while he still has some basketball left in him.
Watching his body language you can tell he is not happy and I think he is realizing he is not Manu and can’t play at the level he needs to be in the NBA anymore.
hopefully no more than 3 years for $9 million...
Sadly he's the invisible man when he's on the court now. The game has passed him by. It's been a great run, though, Tony. Much respect for one of the 5 top Spurs all-time.
Pop played him 6 minutes. Can’t be mad at that.
lets not forget bthat's his first year after the terrible incident of last year...and that he made a great reabilitation, maybe a little hurried up just for the chance to benefit the team.
That said, his level of playing as of now is worth no playing time...so, just out of loyalty and hope, he could be resigned for some more years, but in any case for no more than a minimum contract (that is a good amount of money considering he is a veteran player in his 16th season)...
Lets remember that he is a kind of player that played his entire game on speedness...and that's the first quality players loose 'cause of age and injuries,,,
I like Tony but he should retire he has no lift on his shots and no burst to beat his man off the dribble and his 3 ball and mid shots have been terrible.
Tony is probably done as an NBA guard. He's good enough to play spot minutes as a backup and occasionally have good games, but he's not worth any big money. We'll see if the Spurs really are doing loyalty contracts because if Parker played for Ainge, he'd be walking this summer, but they'd do a video thank-you production for him on Tony Parker night in a random game in November.
Parker did his thing, as long as he wants to and contribute i say go for it, but i wont offer him any real $$ offer.. Maybe pay him in HEB buddy buckets... You know HEB is good for it...
Whatever it is, it will be better-spent money than what they burn with Mills and especially Gasol.
The Spurs would be better off picking up little dribblers from the Pizza Hut midnight basketball leagues at this point than that expired fossil.
I used to think Parker would get a fair loyalty contact just to avoid rocking the boat. It still might happen, the boat is God damn rocking already, and Tony must see it. I'm sure pop loves these guys and never imagined coaching without him. Luckily pop seems to be full in love with aldrdge and Patty.
He has nothing whatsoever left in terms of his game. I would definitely retire. It is not like he needs the money. But if he is that set on one or two more years I can’t see him getting much. Even with the loyalty to the team he’s just not worth much at this stage.
Hopefully he just retires or goes to France to play for Asvel.
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