Tony Parker thread..

[Ditty]

Please come back soon MVParker

[unforeseen]

No MVParker, no problem

[Malik Hairston]

Spurs are now 13-4 in the past 2 seasons without Parker..horrible..

[itsamanuthree]

Lol @ "fans" wanting the team to lose w/out Parker so that they can make a case in Spurstalk.

[gilmor]

Spurs are now 13-4 in the past 2 seasons without Parker..horrible..

Last season is abit different from this season. No Tiago and no Mills..

I think right now this team needs production from Enrique more than last season..

Both Manu and Tim cannot put up the minutes they are putting now..

[Brazil]

Lol @ "fans" wanting the team to lose w/out Parker so that they can make a case in Spurstalk.

try this

Lol @ "fans" wanting the team to win more w/out Parker so that they can make a case in Spurstalk.

[itsamanuthree]

try this

Lol @ "fans" wanting the team to win more w/out Parker so that they can make a case in Spurstalk.

Yeah, same thing

[Malik Hairston]

Ugh..

Love TP, but it's been really painful to watch him out there, as of late, tbh..

[midnightpulp]

Ugh..

Love TP, but it's been really painful to watch him out there, as of late, tbh..

I've always said that Tony Parker needs to be 100% healthy to be at/near his best. Injuries tend to reduce his effectiveness exponentially, meaning if he's "90%" healthy he'll be about 50% the player he usually is.

[timtonymanu]

A lot of us have been feeling this way for a while.

Buh he's still a top 3 Spur.

[apalisoc_9]

A lot of us have been feeling this way for a while.

Buh he's still a top 3 Spur.

[taps]

Love TP..

lol c'mon Harlem you've been the vanguard of the 'Trade Parker Cadre' (TPC) Since the Poops mensah-bonsuh days.

[mkurts]

Damn Parker needs to get his together

[TheGreatYacht]

Blame Daye. Parker was looking in MVP form until he got his ribs ed up by that clown.

[EVAY]

Parker looked absolutely terrible last night. Worse than bad. When he was finally taken out it seemed like it was after he came up gimpy after a (nother) turnover. So I suppose that he is still hurt, and probably shouldn't have played last night.

I agree with MindnightPulp's comment that Tony's injuries have an exponentially bad impact on his game. I'm afraid that part of the problem is that he believes that he is supposed to play hurt, so he tries to do it, and he is just not good at it.

We need Tony at 100%. The offense does NOT run as well without him (except when Manu is having a good game and is on the floor - neither of which factors occur with sufficient regularity any more to impact the team's W-L record), and it does not run well with him when he is injured. So I would rather he sit for another week and really get over this damn hamstring thing or whatever it is, than continue trying to 'play through it' and end up looking as bad as he did last night. Because that was UGLY!!

[Hoops Czar]

Blame Daye. Parker was looking in MVP form until he got his ribs ed up by that clown.

Quite it with the common sense. If 90% of those posters chastising Tony Parker actually fractured or bruised a rib, they'd be couch ridden for a month, expecting sympathy cards and asking for morphine shots every four hours but, still expect Tony to gut it out and play basketball at an all-star level. Some people need to get a clue.

[le13]

Quite it with the common sense. If 90% of those posters chastising Tony Parker actually fractured or bruised a rib, they'd be couch ridden for a month, expecting sympathy cards and asking for morphine shots every four hours but, still expect Tony to gut it out and play basketball at an all-star level. Some people need to get a clue.

Completely agree!!!!

But you know about these guys, intelligence is like a parachute, if we do not have it we just crash!! Lol, so I think a lot of these posters already crashed since a long time ago lool

[Malik Hairston]

Why is he playing and hurting the team if his ribs hurt?..Why doesn't he continue to sit out and recover?..What an awful argument..

Of course it must be a severe injury..the Spurs aren't known for being cautious with injuries or anything..smh..

[apalisoc_9]

Hoopz czar

[Harry Callahan]

Why is he playing and hurting the team if his ribs hurt?..Why doesn't he continue to sit out and recover?..What an awful argument..

Of course it must be a severe injury..the Spurs aren't known for being cautious with injuries or anything..smh..

The Spurs baby those injuries for sure and I agree with it. Take last year - Pop decided to sit Tony for awhile due to general weariness. That was a good call. Unfortunately, this year, Patty Mills is not yet in the mix. Once Mills is back and can take some of the burden off of Joseph, Pop will use them both to give TP some necessary rest and/or time off. The ball movement for the team picked up when Splitter, Manu, and Beli were together with Diaw. The team just needs more guys well physically.

Parker runs and runs and runs excecuting this offense. He's got to get that gear going to see the free flowing play of last year.

[Hoops Czar]

Why is he playing and hurting the team if his ribs hurt?..Why doesn't he continue to sit out and recover?..What an awful argument..

Of course it must be a severe injury..the Spurs aren't known for being cautious with injuries or anything..smh..

Why does Manu continue to hurt the team and be 100% healthy? Why does Tony Romo play with bruised ribs while killing the Cowboys chance to make the playoffs? Because he's a compe or . The fact that you had to even ask that question.

It's a bruised rib, not a career ending Jones fracture. He can play with it without it getting worse as long as he can handle the pain. What a terrible rebuttal.

[Malik Hairston]

What the ?..

You're comparing Tony Romo playing FOOTBALL in a 16-game season where every single game matters to a Spurs player playing completely meaningless games in December?..not to mention a Spurs player that doesn't care about regular season stats, and a franchise that babies their players regarding their injuries..smh..

And you're using the injury as an excuse for his play..if he doesn't play, he doesn't risk aggravating the injury, which would be very easy to do in a basketball game(your ribs are always potentially involved in a play)..so, why is he playing?..you think Tony Parker actually cares about games vs. the Lakers in December?.

[TheGreatYacht]

Quite it with the common sense. If 90% of those posters chastising Tony Parker actually fractured or bruised a rib, they'd be couch ridden for a month, expecting sympathy cards and asking for morphine shots every four hours but, still expect Tony to gut it out and play basketball at an all-star level. Some people need to get a clue.

Spot on, tbh

and sympathy cards

[Hoops Czar]

What the ?..

You're comparing Tony Romo playing FOOTBALL in a 16-game season where every single game matters to a Spurs player playing completely meaningless games in December?..not to mention a Spurs player that doesn't care about regular season stats, and a franchise that babies their players regarding their injuries..smh..

And you're using the injury as an excuse for his play..if he doesn't play, he doesn't risk aggravating the injury, which would be very easy to do in a basketball game(your ribs are always potentially involved in a play)..so, why is he playing?..you think Tony Parker actually cares about games vs. the Lakers in December?.

Moving the goal post, per par, tbh . ! Every game matters in football as it does in the western conference playoff race. However, Romo's pathetic play has already cost his team two football games and now ( Redskins), they're on the verge of missing the playoffs.

Regular season stats... Who said anything about regular season stats? Reread my post, tbh. The Spurs have a sub par back up pg in CoJo who has some of the worst court vision I've seen and an injured backup pg in Mills. Belinelli can't even pretend to play pg and Manu is on a minutes restriction and is already on overload. If he continues at this rate, he'll be gassed by the time the playoffs arrive. Don't even suggest KA as backup pg because he's not there yet. He's playing because he can and has to.

I would think it would be much easier to re-injure your ribs in football when tacklers are constantly taking shots at you. I don't see NBA players charging at players head first. If they did, it would be a Flagrant 2 and a probable suspension. Just keep him away from the Spurs practice squad (Ayres and Daye) and he should be fine. Doctors have said he could play through the injury as long as Tony can handle the pain. If he could potentially aggravate the injury, Pop wouldn't allow him to play.

[Malik Hairston]

The Spurs are 13-4 in their last 17 without Parker, he doesn't have to play, at all..Pop sat him out for weeks last year because of an injury/rest..if you believe Pop would allow Parker to play if he had a serious injury, then clearly you haven't been following the Spurs, at all(which wouldn't be surprising, since you doubt them every year)..

And you're actually comparing a 16-game NFL season to an 82-game NBA season? Are you serious? I know you overvalue the NBA regular season, since you do it every year(ex. everything you have said about the Spurs and Heat since 2011), but comparing the QB of an NFL team in a 16-game season to Tony Parker's role in December games in an 82 game season is an absolutely terrible argument and makes no sense, at all..

Nobody compared the risk of injury in the NFL to the NBA, btw..that doesn't have anything to do with my point..the only comparison of the NBA vs. NFL that I made was the value of regular season games in a 16-game season vs. 82-game season..

If Parker's ribs were a serious threat for injury, Pop wouldn't be playing him in meaningless December games, only a complete moron would believe otherwise..