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Manu is barely a year younger than Tim, people! Get it straight! Learn your Spurs' ages! LOL
Parker is 23, right? Would be his first year out of college, right?
Manu is barely a year younger than Tim, people! Get it straight! Learn your Spurs' ages! LOL
dont let the facts get in the way of the haters.Parker is 23, right? Would be his first year out of college, right
Parker did a pretty good job of distributing and breaking the Pistons defense down. I think he'll get better and adjust as the series goes. Billups' offense is a tough matchup for anyone. One good thing is that unlike almost every othr PG the Pistons hae face, Billups and particularly Hunters' defensive pressure doesn't phase Parker in the least. Remember the problems Wade had when Hunter was hounding him.
Did anyone see the move he swiped off Steve Nash? Dribble penetration, draws THREE defenders, dribbles along the baseline, and curls back out several feet from the basket for a 4-6ft jumper?
Pretty cool. Looks like he is quickly picking up on successful moves and strategy, and probably studying a lot of game film.
Parker had a decent night, I was very heartened to see him come back after a bit of a nervous type start. To many times he disapears. Billups got his, but it wasn't Tony's fault, there was few easy baskets for Chauncey, he is just a really good shooter.
I think stats don't show his affect, he attacked the rim the WHOLE night and that was very important. A little more efficient with his layups, and if Bowen could of made 1 or 2 shots and Tony was looking at a 20/6 night.
I thought the same thing as Parker did that, very Nashesque. Parker needs to do that more keep his dribble and move around in the paint finding open space off the bigs interior picks.
You can't take it on Parker! He's one of the holy triangle!
But I have to admit he gets anoying when you see that Manu is red hot, TD waiting, and TP just keeps going arround, trying to make his own. He still have to learn how to be humble and generous sometimes, it worked for Manu.
TP is really great, but he needs to learn to decide.
So if one player is hot others should not try and score either? Sure, you ride the hot hand, but only for so long.
It's a matter of choices. If your hot players are wide open, waiting and even asking for the ball... well... It shouldn't be so hard to decide. He had a good game last night thou, but I'm sure he's gonna get better in this series, we'll need him.
He's getting much better, TP is only 23! But it's his job to keep the ball, and maybe they were trying to do something else, like exploit a low matchup for a foul or something.
TP's confidence is what keeps him going as a leader; when he looses that confidence, he and the Spurs don't play well. The smugness and iness is a good thing, that means that he's not discouraged and is still putting out 100%.
Uh, Parker had an alright game. People are both too quick with praise as they are with scolding. He shot much better than Hamilton and made some key plays. To say he sucked is foolish, to say he had a great game is too.
Billups > Parker last night, but Parker had a decent game after the Spurs performed at the level of Will Smith in the 1st 6 minutes.
How many easy shots did Parker miss?
His bad fg% belies his contribution post 1 quarter team breakdown.
He hit a couple of big baskets in the fourth.
Overall, he had a B game.
BTW, he did better than Rip Hamilton. I guess he sucks too.
As far as Parker's game is concerned, he has A LOT of room to improve, and he is pretty damned good on a lot of nights.
Look for him to be the man in a game or two.
Parker needs to work on making his layups after his hard drives. I would rather see a softer layup attempt from him rather than some of his wild attempts. And I would like to see him pass the ball to Manu more---it seems to me that Manu gets the ball from other players (like Horry and Barry) more frequently than from Tony.
"to work on making his layups after his hard drives."
aka "finishing". Tony's much better at finishing than last night.
NAZR is the guy who really needs to work on his low-block moves. he blows way too many close in shots, or gets blocked, including a dunk last night. he needs some power moves to be drilled into him. Pau Gausol has some great moves.
Yeah I saw it. Do they call 3 seconds anymore?
He got a foot out of the lane. And no, they don't call 3 seconds anymore, you should know this, y'all played Shaq last series.
The master of not getting a 3 sec call was DRob, though. I think he had a couch and a TV set up down there some games.
Seriously, my friends and I counted to 7 several times in that series.He got a foot out of the lane. And no, they don't call 3 seconds anymore, you should know this, y'all played Shaq last series.
The master of not getting a 3 sec call was DRob, though. I think he had a couch and a TV set up down there some games.
Parker stayed aggressive and forced the defense to collapse on him. I'd like to see him cut down on the turnovers, but all in all I thought it was a pretty good night for him. I didn't expect to see him even get into the paint as much as he did. Most of those layups usually drop for him... he might have been surprised as well.
Billups pretty much torched him scoring-wise, but maybe that's a good thing. When Billups feels he can score at will, he fails to get teammates involved. If Billups scoring 25 means Rasheed Wallace only gets 6 shots, I'm fine with that.
Exactly. The same goes for our point guard.
I don't buy that. Billups had twice as many assists as TP and 10 more points on one less shot. The difference was Manu shooting 63% and Hamilton shooting 33%. IMO, Rip tried to do too much...
I give up. Spurs win Game 1 of the Finals, our starting PG scores 15 pts, and people still . You all can all you want about Parker, but look at the other talented teams such as the Rockets and Mavs, even Heat---great teams, potential for greatness, however, one of the main reason they aren't successful--they don't have a good PG. PG's role goes beyond stats such as how many points/assists they have. There are other factors that affect this. What if we had Bob Sura, Jason Terry, or Damon Jones?? Think SPurs could still win??
Parker had an average game, he missed some pretty easy layups and had some bad turnovers---as did Manu, Duncan, and others! Problem with a lot of Spurs fans is that they don't appreciate how good they have it with Parker. The best PG's in this league-the AI's, Marbury's, etc. NEED to score 20+ points and average 8+ assists on their teams because they are the first options. Spurs are lucky to have 3. Parker is so taken for granted around here, that it's not even funny.
Just because I'm a Parker fan doesn't mean that I don't see his faults. I am not saying that he's not inconsistent or a ty FT shooter, etc. I'll agree to that. Problem is people around here expect him to be an Iverson or Nash type of player.
PS This is not in any way a bash on Manu whatsoever, so please don't turn this into a Parker vs Manu thing.
Like I said, Billups pretty much torched Parker on offense. My point is that Billups also failed to get the ball to Rasheed and Tayshaun on the block. He really didn't create any offense for the team except for himself and occasionally Hamilton.
Sure, but at least Duncan got the ball in a position to score more than 6 times.Exactly. The same goes for our point guard.
and we still won by 15!... parker made some key shots though, but didn't have a stellar game.. just think if he did.. we would've won by 25!
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