Not an issue at all. When Duncan was posting single digit games, I wasn't worried about his offense (his defense, however, has consistently showed signs of the type of deterioration to be expected with age). Yesterday's game is a perfect example. Parker had an off night and Duncan/RJ were able to step up.
RJ and Ginobili are going to have off nights, and hopefully Parker will step up when that happens.
Tony only took 7 shots yesterday. An occasional 2-7 game is nothing to worry about, especially when he went 0-2 from 3 point land. 3 pointers are not his game. He's clearly been toying with the thought of the 3 pointer early on this season, but he's more than earned his share of attempting a 3 point shot or two after he hit a number of clutch 3 pointers in previous games.
So really, considering 2 point shots alone (which is usually Tony's game) he was 2-5 which isn't enough to call it a "bad" offensive game.
I'd be worried and irritated if he forced the issue and ended up going 9-30, but he didn't. He realized that -
1) his shot wasn't falling (and even then this may not have been the case; more importantly is point #2 -->)
2) RJ and Ginobili (particularly early in the game) had the hot hand
and so he deferred his shots to them while still facilitating the offense (9 assists).
It's just the inevitable up and down every player goes through throughout the season.
In 05-06 he shot over .548% from the field, but career wise, he shoots .491%. Meaning the chances of him continuing to shoot over 54%, as he was just two games ago, were not good. He's simply regressing to the mean. I'm not worried about Parker in the least.
It'll eventually happen to Ginobili, as well. I doubt he shoots 47/40/91 on the season. He'll probably come down two percent in each.
Not concerned at all. Most players have a couple rusty games.
The fact that the question is brought up only after two games where his defense hasn't left is stupid. His retort was not flustered.
His defense has taken a big step back the past two or three games. That's most glaring aspect to me; especially when compared to his defensive play earlier in the season.
Either he's injured, or his head's not on right. Either way, something has definitely been amiss.
It's all good, its basketball...Tony will bring it back some time soon
tony is just on a usual up and down games in seasons. I'm sure he will be back soon. I also hope he can dominate with a + on the +/- on the game against GS
ducks forum . . .
I think it's just part of the ups and downs a player goes through. What, a player can't have ONE bad game? Look at Kobe, LeBron and all of the GOOD players. They have off games every once in a while too.
No need to worry...
The Spurs' new offense
November, 30, 2010 Nov 301:20PM ETEmail Print Comments2 By Henry Abbott
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Tony Parker on a solo foray, against multiple defenders, early in the clock.
48 Minutes of has been talking all season about how the Spurs are playing at a faster pace than they used to. And it's true. Their pace is up, and for the first time in the Tim Duncan era, the team's offense is ranked far better than its defense.
Things are changing.
But, as M. Haubs of The Painted Area points out, the exact nature of their up-tempo offense is more unconventional than you could imagine. By and large it's not some clever scheme. It's not showtime. It's not coordinated. The best part of the Spurs' running game is essentially Tony Parker vs. the world, playground style. Haubs writes:
In watching San Antonio, it doesn't even feel like they're looking to run fast breaks as a team, it really just feels like Parker increasingly looks to take off on one-man forays. Usually, TP breaks one of the cardinal rules of transition basketball: he never has the numbers. Really, almost never. He converts at an amazing rate, considering that he always seems to be going 1-on-3 or 2-on-3.
This phenomenon really stood out to me in San Antonio's 103-94 win over Chicago on Nov. 17. I went back at looked at Parker's clips on Synergy Sports for that game. For the season, Parker has been producing about 1.3 points per possessions (PPP) on transition plays, a strong rate. In the game vs. the Bulls, he was credited with 11 points on 5 transition plays (2.2 PPP). I mean, the Bulls are a good defensive team that plays hard - this is a crazy number. Indeed, a play-by-play analysis of the video showed that the Bulls were getting back on defense... but they still couldn't stop Parker. Here's a play-by-play breakdown:
1) 2-on-3 break: TP Bucket
2) 1-on-3 break (4th defender collapses at end): TP Bucket
3) 3-on-3 break (4th defender chases in at end): TP Bucket And 1
4) 2-on-3 break: TP Bucket
5) 2-on-3 break: TP Bucket
Not once did Parker have the numbers, yet he converted every single time. Another thing I noticed is that, on any break above where it was 2-on-3 or 3-on-3, the non-Parker Spurs always looked to spot up behind the three-point line, rather than run to the basket, and were really trailers more than what we commonly think of as active participants in fast breaks.
It really might be the most bizarre fast-break approach I've seen: they have one little guy who gets the ball and dribbles like crazy, as he runs a one-man break which he can finish uncommonly well, even against the numbers, and even though he's not a physically dominating guy -- he essentially can't even dunk in a game! And his teammates don't even look to run to the basket, they're just running to the line.
I think the conventional wisdom is that the Spurs take a fairly conservative approach, but I'm impressed at how Popovich has been open to embrace the unorthodox.
These forays are not just aberrations. Read the whole post and you'll see that while the Spurs have a lot of fastbreak points his year, Duncan has almost none: It's Parker, mainly, with Manu Ginobili and Richard Jefferson chipping in.
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...ack-bad-games/Parker shrugs off back-to-back bad games
..."The last game in New Orleans, I didn’t get a lot of opportunities,” Parker said. “Sometimes, that’s going to happen. You’re going to have games like that.”
...“Maybe they’re a lot more focused on me,” Parker said. “They were trapping the pick and rolls a little bit more last game. They were playing good defense. I didn’t want to force it.”
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