Harvey: Beaten down, Parker faces some history

[GoSpurs21]

who went 5-22 and had most of the last month off?

Man up Tim goddamit

[johnny00]

who went 5-22 and had most of the last month off?

Man up Tim goddamit

Are you serious?


I mean you can't be serious.

[Spurgal]

Amen brother.
Can't help but think Eva's publicist saw Tony Parker and the NBA playoffs as a good time for a photo op for Access Hollywood, Entertainment tonight etc.

Exactly! Eva Is on her way to the top and some dumb ass like Parker has to serve as a stepping stone...

[T Park]

What Havey said was right, but Tony isn't the SOLE reason for losing game 1.


Enough talk about game 1, onto game 2.

[cherylsteele]

It's not his fault asshat...the last time he was in the game we had the ing lead.

How the can you blame the guys that weren't even on the court?

I know...iti is like blaming Rasho on the loss because he has healed from a simple sprained ankle.....actually with when Barry went out the table was set for the win.

[boutons]

"Are you serious?
I mean you can't be serious."

Run a lot offensive plays through Tim tonight, and watch the Spurs offense and ball-movement sputter and die, and the Spurs lose.

Tim has plenty of extremely effective ways to contribute and to change the game, but running the offense through Tim as the first option is NOT one of them. Nuggets, their bigs, are playing too physical (maybe more so tonight, they'll be going for the KILL) for Tim to be effective, as Malone did last May. That's true when Tim is 100%, and so much more true with Tim on 1.5 ankles. Power defense trumps Tim's finesse offense.

The bigger problem is not that Tim is stoppable, but that Pop keeps calling plays for Tim when Tim IS being stopped. Stupid, uncreative fricking basketball, trying to knock down a brick wall with your forehead, making the Nuggets interior defense easy, wasting all the Spurs other offensive weapons, who stand around (makes the perimeter defense easy) and watch Tim get beat to .

It's not a matter of Tim manning up, it's stupid play calling from Pop. It's Tim holding the ball too long, and not finding the open man (nobody's open because they're all just standing around while the defense closes off the passing lanes), it's Tim putting the ball on the floor in traffic.

[T Park]

but running the offense through Tim as the first option is NOT one of them.

Running the ball through your best player, what a stupid idea.

it's stupid play calling from Pop

Yeah, in pop, I hate it when he makes Duncan miss two layups, or Ginobili and Parker turn the ball over and miss layups.

Damn't I hate it when Pop does that.

[superjames1992]

Maybe if he would concentrate on basketball rather than scoring with unscrupulous women this wouldn't happen.

Agreed, tbh...

[superjames1992]

Yet, lately, I've been looking at Tony and seeing a guy who starts off games this way--completely focused, driving and dishing and stealing, only to lose focus after a few missed shots or a few bad calls his way. I don't know if it's his age or his lack of compe iveness, but you can almost pinpoint those moments where its like he's almost given up on winning the game.

Troof bombs raining down.........

We saw that again yesterday when Tony had a great first half, then decided to mail it in in the second half.

[Skull-1]

2005?

[superjames1992]

2005?

Same story, different year, tbh...

[Prime Time]

Same story, different year, tbh...

What I hate about Parker is that 90% of the time he passes on an open shot. SHOOT THE ING BALL Tony!!!!

Some things change