Quick Grades: Spurs at Mavericks - Dec. 30

[pjjrfan]

rj>terry tonight

You got that right, big mouth laid an egg, although he gave us a scare with those two 3's but his last miss was way off. The amazing thing about this team is that it seems that the big 3 don't always have to carry the team, the Laker game had Tim and Manu playing badly, this game it was Tony and Manu yet the team found a way to win.

[TMTTRIO]

Manu should come from the bench in some games, limiting him to 15/20 minutes and prove the combo Neal/Hill.

Why? Hill and Neal are doing a great job of carrying the bench. We don't need Manu off the bench. I can understand limiting Manu's minutes and maybe giving him a few nights off but he doesn't need to go back to the bench. They have enough scorers on the bench.

[gameFACE]

Right now the Mavs starters are better than the Spurs but the Spurs bench is way better than theirs. Barkely might be wrong when he says the Spurs are the 2nd best team in Texas. But the Spurs are not that much better. It's really close.

[Obstructed_View]

The third question is a good question. Spurs were outscored by 17 points in the 37 minutes Parker was on the court. In the 11 minutes he was off the court, the Spurs outscored the Mavs by 23 points.

Agreed. Pop was so stupid for playing Parker so many minutes because he was so bad. Why isn't McDyess starting instead of Parker???



Seriously, do you even watch the games?

[Mark in Austin]

I thought Jefferson's effort in the second half was pretty big. Made a very clutch three in the fourth as well.

Agreed. Last year RJ would have stopped shooting. The fact that he stuck with it and made contributions on the court is important.

Also, it has been a while since Parker has made so many bad decisions at the rim. Weird game for him.

[ChumpDumper]

Parker made bad decisions all night in every area. I can't remember seeing him play so consistently awful throughout an entire game. Can't say I'm really worried about it, though.

But trade Parker anyway.

[quentin_compson]

You could tell that Parker wanted to dominate Kidd, but it backfired and made Tony look a bit foolish at times. happens, Spurs got the win anyway, and there won't be a lot of games like that from TP.

[EricB]

Big game- tight game- Bonner sucked. Nothing new. The C was generous.

Hmm, miss the Laker game?

Big game, tight game when he was in...

[EricB]

Parker made bad decisions all night in every area. I can't remember seeing him play so consistently awful throughout an entire game. Can't say I'm really worried about it, though.

But trade Parker anyway.

Parker just had a mentally bad night.