How easy is to neutralize Tony Parker?

[portnoy1]

I'll agree to this...except I'm cheap so I'll just bet box wine

Nice to see Spursfan still trying to compare the effectiveness of our starting backcourt by pitting them against each other.

Manu had one of his best performances as a Spurs in Game 2, which is saying something considering he didn't exactly have his best offensive or FT shooting game. But I think the nature of the situation and the fact that he was coming back from an injury seemed to light a fire in the rest of the team.

Parker goes for 30 in Game 3; book it.

Sincerely,
Church of Tony

If he takes whats given him I'm sure he'll get 15pt and 7/8ast. TP cant hit 20pts worth of jumpers, and thats what memphis will give him. That whole driving in getting layups wont be allowed by memphis unless its in transition. He's just gonna have to drive, stop at the free throw line and kick and trust that everybody will make the right play after that.

[ElNono]

I'll bet wine that TP has almost a career game in game 3 and he leads team to victory.

He is waiting to go off at any minute.

[Obstructed_View]

Parker's in a shooting slump. He's not going to be forever. He's either going to snap out of it soon, or he's going to snap out of it next season.

[pgardn]

this is an important series for Tony going forward because Memphis is pretty much playing him the way LA (IF they play them) will defend him.

They're definitely packing in the paint and giving hard help on the PnR. The screener is coming off open most of the time (Dice, Bonner) and Tony needs to do a better job of finding those guys. His J is absolutely critical these playoffs for him and it makes this team a lot tougher to guard.

I do think that guarding Conley has taken a little bit out of him on the offensive end but he's done a pretty good job of defending. If he keeps struggling then maybe Pop might switch Hill onto Conley and let TP get Allen (doubt it since Hill's mins. usually line up with Mayo's).

I still think that he's going to have a breakout game in Memphis but if he continues to struggle than that's a bad sign if the Spurs are able to advance past this round.

Yep.
The J sets up the drive and vice versa.

We gotta have him. Ginobili is clearly not at full throttle. We are lucky to still be in this one.

[Bito Corleone]

If the Spurs make it through this series, Memphis has shown everyone how to shut down the Spurs. If you stop Tony, you stop SA. This has been the case for a long time and yet many teams have either not been able to pick up on it, or not be able to pull it off.

[Obstructed_View]

Nobody's shut down Tony Parker. He's just playing badly.

[Spurs Brazil]

This series so far is on Tony Parker. He's playing pathetic. If he doesn't wake up as soon as next game this thing is over.

I expected Bonner to choke, Blair play dumb, Pop not playing Tiago but never saw Tony playing like crap and being outplayed by Conley

[TDMVPDPOY]

man some of you clowns have high expectations from parker,

all the memphis is doing clogging up the lane and stayin in front of him..stealing a playbook from the lakers tactic on parker...

then again stupid shot selections and running into defenders and losing the ball

[ElNono]

Exactly.

If it were so easy, he'd have been neutralized years ago and wouldn't have went on to make three All-Star teams, a Finals MVP and an All-NBA team.

Years ago is not this year, it seems...

[Cane]

Parker played A LOT better last year for the fist 3 playoffs games and he was injured.

This has been one of a nosedive for Parker so far, hopefully he can turn it around for the next game...