Tony Parker's recent play

[Cry Havoc]

I don't know if I've seen so many Spurs fans so worried about the regular season.

Parker will step it up in the playoffs. I'd rather have a rested team and the 4 seed than an exhausted team with the 2.

[Quiet Strength]

You TP lovers just do not get it.. TP has never had a problem getting alot of shots---in fact he makes sure he gets his shots to the point he becomes a ball-hog. And because he is always looking to shoot, 2 very bad things happen. 1 He almost always has too few assits to be an effective point guard and 2 He holds the ball on the perimeter with no ball movement for too long and then is forced to make a desperate shot or desperate pass.
In short Parker being the main shooter has never translated into consistent wins over good teams, and especially in the playoffs. Good defense and good team oriented offense (pass the ball to an open shooter) is what wins.

The problem is all of the other players cant buy a damn basket and parker seems to be the only player that can create an easy shot for himself. Getting easy shots and making them is much better than bonner and mason and even udoka jacking up nothing but 3's that havent been going in the basket these past few games.

[bobbybob0]

In short Parker being the main shooter has never translated into consistent wins over good teams, and especially in the playoffs. Good defense and good team oriented offense (pass the ball to an open shooter) is what wins.

Fail.

2007 Playoffs:

Tony: 17.5 FGA / Game
Tim: 16.7 FGA / Game
Manu: 12.35 FGA / Game

[roycrikside]

For once, I kind of agree with Kace. I think it's kind of obvious what Pop is trying to do. He is trying to get Manu into rhythm and back to playing 100% and he's trying to quicken the process than it would come naturally because the team can't afford to wait 15-20 games for it happen on its own.

Already, in just Manu's third and fourth games back, Pop has started playing Manu his regular minutes, called a lot of plays for him (more than he usually does anyway) and last game even started him. Why did he start him? Easy. To give him more playing time with Tim and Tony, since that will be the case in the playoffs. I still think Manu will go back to the bench soon, back to his 6th man role, but Pop is trying to do whatever he can to quicken Manu's recovery process.

Unfortunately, this coaching maneuver is costing the team games. Manu had the ball A LOT against OKC, and while he did some good things, it's obvious he doesn't have his legs fully yet. A 100% healthy and in rhythm Ginobili would've gotten like 18 shots and more FT attempts having the ball that much. This current Manu only got 13 shots and had to settle for passing it a lot down the stretch. For the most part he made the right pass to the open guy, and could've even finished with 8-10 assists if guys like Fin, Bonner, Mace, even Vaughn hit open shots, but they didn't.

There's no doubt Tony would've been more productive if he got the ball more, but Pop is resting him a lot, even when he's on the court. I really don't think he gives a about winning and losing at all. He just wants the big three at 100%.

The part about Bowen and Hill not playing, KT not playing until the fourth and all the other questionable moves/non-moves, I can't explain those at all....

[Yuixafun]

^ solid

[Ice009]

i don't think anyone says manu should take less than 13 shots. indeed, as long as each of our big three take the most shots, we're good. though, tony should most of the time take the most attempts. certainly not only 8 shots

but there's no doubt it's better to have manu take 16 shots rather than Fin.

Yep NO FREAKING WAY should Finley take 16 shots.

The big three need to take all the shots. If that is Tony 20, Tim 18, Manu 16 I am OK with that.

[EVAY]

Do you all remember that just before the home game against the L.A. Clippers (the game that immediately preceded the last two games that were so poor) Tony was getting a fair amount of good ink for having scored over 20 points in each of the last 10 or 12 ( I really don't remember the exact numbr of games) outings, and that there were only about 4 or so players who had more consecutive 20+ point games in the league right now? Moreover, the sports guy on woai hinted that it might be possible that if he kept playinglike he was, Tony Parker might actually be the Spurs MVP, replacing Timmy.

When I heard the guy say that, I said that Pop would never allow Timmy to be overshadowed by anyone else. At the game on the VERY next night, Tony got to 18 points and Pop pulled him out of the game for keeps. I SAW Tony go over to Pop and try to talk him into staying in the game, but there were only about 3 minutes left in the third quarter, The Spurs were up big time, and Pop told Tony to sit down. Tony tried to argue once more, and George Hill, (who was going in for Tony) came over and touched Tony on the side as he would when someone was getting in trouble with an official.

So you wanna know what the prob is with Tony for the last two games? He is pissed off. And I don't know that I blame him.

[Pentagruel]

Do you all remember that just before the home game against the L.A. Clippers (the game that immediately preceded the last two games that were so poor) Tony was getting a fair amount of good ink for having scored over 20 points in each of the last 10 or 12 ( I really don't remember the exact numbr of games) outings, and that there were only about 4 or so players who had more consecutive 20+ point games in the league right now? Moreover, the sports guy on woai hinted that it might be possible that if he kept playinglike he was, Tony Parker might actually be the Spurs MVP, replacing Timmy.

When I heard the guy say that, I said that Pop would never allow Timmy to be overshadowed by anyone else. At the game on the VERY next night, Tony got to 18 points and Pop pulled him out of the game for keeps. I SAW Tony go over to Pop and try to talk him into staying in the game, but there were only about 3 minutes left in the third quarter, The Spurs were up big time, and Pop told Tony to sit down. Tony tried to argue once more, and George Hill, (who was going in for Tony) came over and touched Tony on the side as he would when someone was getting in trouble with an official.

So you wanna know what the prob is with Tony for the last two games? He is pissed off. And I don't know that I blame him.

I don't know if he is pissed off per se. I think its clear though that since the Hawks game he has been deferring a lot more to his team members. The thing is, he is getting them open looks and they are just not knocking down their shots. When that happens I'm of the opinion he should just take the game over himself which he seemed more then capable of doing these past few games.

[Bukefal]

Who knows what the problem is, but we sure need him playing like he did before these last two games.