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Parker crushed by Austin Rivers
Leonard destroyed by Matt Barnes
Splitter castrated himself
Green played like he was still in Cleveland
They all helped to sink the team, but it was Parker who had issues the longest - he has been AWOL since 2013
Parker's been since Eva, and consequently the world, found out he was trying to (did ) Mrs. Berry. I haven't liked him much since then. s team wives, s on his own team to foreign media and doesn't bother to do anything else that might be helpful when he's having a bad shooting night. that guy.
That's not to let the future of the Spurs franchise off either. He picked some really awesome times to not be amazing/miss FTs/etc.
Parker crushed by Austin Rivers
Leonard destroyed by Matt Barnes
Splitter castrated himself
Green played like he was still in Cleveland
They all helped to sink the team, but it was Parker who had issues the longest - he has been AWOL since 2013
I'll believe this if I ever see the Spurs win a playoff series where Kawhi is our leading scorer.Lets get this out the way.
No Kawhi =no playoffs and even then maybe a guaranteed first round sweep if we do make the playoffs. ]
No Enrique= we win more games during the season, we get a higher seed, we beat any first round opponent and we beat the clippers if we meet them. We go on to our next Finals.
And by AWOL you of course mean being an All-NBA, coach-voted All-Star in 2014 who also happened to lead the Spurs in scoring and assists throughout the regular season and playoffs right?
If Parker even had a below average series the Spurs easily win. It's kind of tough to win when one of the supposed stars on the team completely no shows the entire series.
Lol, and I'm sure you would have been happy to post, "see, we don't need a good Parker to win."
Parker was the 4th leading scorer, 2nd in assists, and still shot better from the field than guys like Ginobili and Green. If Parker scores 23 instead of 20 in G7 then we win. If Leonard scores 16 instead of 13 we win. If Mills doesn't go 2/6 in a closeout game, then we win. There are lots of ways to win.
No, I would have been happy the team won the series. I don't care if Parker carries the team or not, but the team can't have one of its stars totally stink it up and expect to beat a quality team.
3rd worst OffRtg and worst DefRtg on the team. 6.3 PER, 38.6 TS%, 2nd worst WS/48 (-.066). Those are awful numbers for a starter, let alone one of the star players on the team.
Wow, off by a whole 0.2 points in a series he shot 61% in.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...14_finals.html
Of course...that's why at some point you're going to need the next guy like Kawhi to step up. Parker's been carrying this team offensively for a long time now. He's been our leading scorer in 8 of our last 12 playoff series (18.0, 18.4, 19.9, 24.5, 22.5, 22.3, 21.5, 21.0). And he's not going to average 25/5/3 on 57% shooting like he did in the 2007 Finals every series. He's not going to average 30/7 on 52% shooting every playoff series like he did against Phoenix in 2008. He's not going to average 29/7/4 on 55% shooting like he did against Dallas in 2009. He's not going to go for 25/10/4 on 53% like he did in the WCF a couple years ago. At some point he's going to have series where he's not putting up 20/7 on 50+% anymore...no one can do it forever. That's why we need guys like Kawhi to step up eventually and carry us home like Parker has for so many years when Duncan's production went down.
He was close to being our leading scorer in one series we won...I'll give him that. But what we need is someone who's clearly our best offensive option. Think about this...in the 2009 playoffs, here's how much Parker was carrying the team: the second and third highest scorers on the team didn't COMBINE to match Parker's scoring. That's something that's never going to be asked of Kawhi. We're just hoping to see him step up offensively and carry the team now that the torch is being passed. We're not asking him to do what Parker was having to do in 2009.
Parker doesn't need to carry the team, but if he's going to start he needs to put up starter numbers. He didn't, it happens, I just hope this isn't the start of the end for Parker and it really was the injuries otherwise the team will need to find a new starting PG if they hope to succeed in the future.
I'm actually impressed the team was able to compete as well as they did all things considered because they really didn't play that well and the Clippers are one of the top teams in the league.
Well that was Parker's 8th season and the Spurs lost in the 1st round. The fact that we already have that type of expectation out of Kawhi, who is only in his 4th season and was never supposed to be an offensive star is sort of amazing and shows how much he has progressed.
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