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Give up this kind of idiocy.Devin Harris completely ouplayed Parker in every facet of the game. Problem with Tony is that he generally seems play really well against the weaker teams or when we have large leads. When the game is tough, he seems to wilt. Last night, his lanes were shut down and he couldn't lay anything up even when he finally managed to force his way to the rim due to Diop & Dampier. So he started chucking jumpers and you can tell he still doesn't have confidence to hit them on a regular basis under pressure. On top of that Devin completetly abused him with layups, jumpers, passes, etc. I can understand if TP's offense was off sync but his defence (or complete lack of) was non-existent and was the main reason why we got killed in the opening two quarters as Devin or Terry kept on losing Parker easily and made assists or jumpers exposing Spurs defence.
If TP can't stay even with Harris (never mind outplay him), Spurs are going to have major problems with Mavs come playoff time if they should play against each other. What's worse, it looks like Devin's jumper has improved hugely this year so TP can't even lay off him anymore and basically Devin is taller, faster version of TP and perhaps with even a better court vision/assist PG. He is actually learning to become a REAL PG which TP has yet learned to do.
I have always said that if TP's penetration game isn't working for whatever reason (typically when defence has good shotblockers and pack the lane), TP has to hit the jumpers OR play as a REAL Point Guard by facilitating for others. Even though he got 8 assists last night, I didn't feel that he broke the Mavs defense or really made crisp passes like Nash or Kidd to open up players.
I hope it was just one off night but I have seen this picture before when TP gets shut down both on offense and defence and his willingness or compe iveness wilts.
