Quick Grades: Spurs @ Blazers - Dec. 13

[will_spurs]

It was rediculous when the commentators were comparing Parker and Lillard's rookie season implying how much better player is Lillard, Parker being 29-30th pick at the time and Lillard 6th. No matter how re ed you know the 6th overall pick is going to produce right away, while the 30th pick will be a project. Lillard has a long way to make several all-star teams, win 3 'ships and one finals mvp.

Compare Lillard's season with Parker's at same age (22) and this evens out a lot more. Many people conveniently forget Parker was 19 in his rookie season. By age 22 (2003-2004) he already had a ring and was playing much better. I wish all the best to Lillard and he's having a great rookie season on a crappy team so far. If he ends up with half the career Parker had, I'm sure he'll be happy already. If he does the same or more, he'll be in the HoF

[maverick1948]

Fatigue doesn't throw cross court passes that only Tim Duncan on a 10 foot ladder would have caught. Fatigue would have been a shorter and lazier pass picked off for a dunk. The defense needs to shore up better, way too many drives down the lane with little help defense allowing Portland to score easily.

Those 10ft high passes werent the only bad passes he made.