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What jump shot? Tony has a jump shot? Could've fooled me.
you serious bro? i've rolled my ankle before and played through it and been fine the next day. they're nothing. your problem is that you might not be wearing a shoe with ankle support. i heard if you're wearing low tops than they can actually sideline you from a game but ive never had that happen to me. you dont need braces or any of that crap. just shoes with ankle support
What jump shot? Tony has a jump shot? Could've fooled me.
Maybe he won't be able to jack up so many shots anymore.
Due to the change in mechanics, wasn't this the year that his jump shot was supposed to come together? With the time he loses due to the injury, that's out the door.
Maybe the problem with his jump shot was that his finger was too straight.
Maybe now his shot becomes Ray Allenesque.
He won't really loss time because of this injury.
If the diagnostic is good and if parker will be able to play 4/6 weeks after his injury, he will loss something like one week of practice with Engelland. The fact that Parker's injury will hurt his shooting training is higly overrated.
Yea it won't hurt his shooting training, because he has already wasted most of the summer. If he ever wants to become more than just a good player he needs to develop a consistant outside shot.
What makes you think he wasted most of them summer?
Parker has already improved a lot. He shot over 45% outside 16 feet from the All-Star break on. Don't think the Mavs series, where he had a badly pulled groin and bruised thighs so deep that he could barely walk, is any indicator of how good he is.
I know much more about Tony Parker than what was shown in the semifinals. He has games where he shoots a high % and games where he can't throw a rock into the ocean. His outside shot is still too streaky. You say he has improved his shot from outside of 16 feet, but what about from 23 feet? He is still a poor 3pt shooter. That's the main thing he should have been working on this summer, not FIBA.
He just got to "FIBA" in July. Spurs were out of the playoffs since May. So how do you know that he hasn't been working on his outside shooting?
Hopefully for his sake he has. But I just don't see him going straight from playoffs to FIBA without a rest. That doesn't leave him much time to have been working on his shot.
He went on vacation for 2 weeks after the playoffs to give time to heal his quads and he's been practicing ever since. Even if he's in L.A. with Eva or anywhere else, he's always practicing. Even when he was training with FIBA, he was still practicing his outside shooting. Last summer, Chip Engelland (shooting coach) even travelled with him to some places.
Hopefully for his sake he has been working and improved his outside shooting. Improving that shot is something he has to do in order to become more than just a "good" player. A conistant shot will help keep the defense honest, allowing him more options.
Well last year, they just began fixing his mechanics. He didn't even have his thumb in the right position on the ball. So hopefully within the next year, his shot will really start to improve.
People will continue to talk out of their asses.
I sure hope that comment wasn't directed at me. If you think that Tony Parker doesn't need to improve that shot of his then you don't know anything about basketball.
On the other hand, part of me just says just ignore it because the majority of the posters here say that you are an asshole.
He is not an asshole. He can sometimes be an asshole, which is totally different. And most of the posters, inlcuding me, like Manny.
How has Parker been playing basketball for so long without a real jumpshot? He needs a coach to help him? Players should just do what works for them (Shawn Marion)
I've said that it won't hurt his shooting training because his injury happen at the less worst moment. He injured his hand just before the WC (You played 9 games in 15 days when you're in the top8, not the best moment) and a 10 days trip in France just after the WC for his sponsors and a charity event (I doubt he would have praticed a lot during this trip). All in all he would have really re-work on his jumpshoot after September 16th that is to say one month after his injury.
And you can work on your jumpshoot even during the season, it's not like working on a drive or trying to gain muscles, sooting training isn't the most tiring training. Parker and Engelland work on Parker's shoot a lot during the regular season (shooting drills, practices, analyse of games...)
The trouble is that Shawn Marion isn't a good jumpshooter. 33% isn't really good (add to that that he is streaky) and Parker could have done that with his old technique. The goal for Parker is to be a realiable jumpshooter and you can't be reliable when your jumpshoot is flat like Parker's former one. Parker's goal is something like 40% for 3P and 80% for FT.
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