The Official Tony Parker Sucks Thread

[timaios]

another disappointing game for Tony..3 assists with 5 turnovers and the usual poor effort defensively..

We can only hope that he gets a few weeks to rest..

I agree, but he had 0 to in the 2nd half, 8 reb and his 16-18 ft shots were good.
At least he was +15 tonight, yesterday he was -28 !!!

I don't know what's wrong with him, it seems he totally lost his confidence. Sometimes he looks lost on the court. It's really weird.

[Josepatches_]

He can't have -28 when we are playing against the Warriors.It's not like he was playing better.Imo he even played worse because 5 TO's for only 3 assists are two much if you are a PG.

In 2010 summer we have a FIBA world championship where TP si going to play because to qualifying was one of the reasons he played last summer.

He had a lot of miles in his legs,a lot of games since he came to the NBA.He's not Kobe and he can live only with his talent.He needs to be fresh and healthy and he is going to need more rest every year.

TD is 33.We will need another franchise player in a few years if we want to be a tle contender in the future.It's time to think if Tony will accept stay here for less money to free cap space or we will have to trade him before he will be a free agent.

And the summer of 2010 it's going to be the key of the next years in the NBA.Lebron,Wade,Bosh..... Right now is unreal,i know,but our team need a big change to be in the elite again.That's true.

It's time to think about it.We can dream that the team is going to play better but we are in December and we are even worse than we were in October.Now it's only TD,TD & TD.

[ElNono]

To be honest, after watching last night game, I don't know that is all physical. He actually had a decent lift on his shot last night, but there's a mental aspect that's not clicking right now. Things like tossing passes at the ankle level, missing wide open layups, miscommunication even with Duncan, and just the overall lack of intensity on defense (I mean, where you don't even raise an arm up when your guy is taking a shot) is alarming...

I really think he can turn it around because all those things are, like I said, more mental than physical. Like Duncan was saying last night, there's a monotonous aspect to the grinding 82 game season, and I wonder if there isn't some of that involved here. Whatever it is, I just hope Tony works it out because we really need him playing well, as much as we need TD and Manu to play well also.

[dbestpro]

2) You have a top 5pg in the league that you've won 3 championships with. Why are so many of you freaking out?

Is funny how this is the argument to support Parker. Like he won the championships all by himself. Did you ever think we lost out on championships because he never learned how to play defense or distribute the ball and maybe we won in spite of him being a ball hog?

Most of didn't mind when our big guys are hurt or you have role players on the court along side Parker, but that is not the case anymore. The holes in his game are glaring. He makes too many bad decisions with the ball and can't play D. His top 5 status is now sorely in question. At this point it looks like he has peaked. If that is thew case and with the talent we have he is no longer the type of PG we need. In fact we do not have a playmaker anywhere on the team even as a change of pace. This is why we still need that 3rd PG and should say adios to Hairston.

[dbestpro]

Like Duncan was saying last night, there's a monotonous aspect to the grinding 82 game season.

The use of the word grinding is overplayed and is nothing more than an excuse to take plays off.

[Chieflion]

He looked like in a loss and looked like in a win. Now, he even lost his focus, does not play defense, can't get to the rim at will compared to last season, resorted to taking bad jump shots, makes bad passes, makes wrong cuts to the basket.

[ego]

The Spurs fans sometimes are stupid. A good trade for Tony
would be to play for LA, Derek Fisher is a good player but old !
It will be funny to see how Hill will play against Tp !

[MB20]

The Spurs are "thinking" instead of "just playing" during games.
The old guys are thinking about getting the new guys involved. The new guys are thinking too much about offensive and defensive sets.
Once they get used to all the changes, I think this team will play MUCH better.

I will still give everybody time to adjust to each other.

[elbamba]

I like Parker but I have to say that I have noticed that he seems to be missing easy layups this year. It seemed like he never missed a layup last year, no matter how impossible the shot, this year I have noticed that he misses 2-3 easy ones a game.

I think it might be that he has not yet fully recovered from his injury. If that is the case they should sit him a week or two. The Spurs are deep enough that it will not affect the Spurs too much to do this.

[ducks]

he had no turnovers in the second half last night
GO TP

[roycrikside]

he had no turnovers in the second half last night
GO TP

His PER is 17.00. That's ing awful. He hasn't been that bad since '03-04.
His turnover rate is by far the worst of his career. He's not an asset right now.

[manustarting2gd]

4-16 from the field.. could care less about his ft's, clanked a load of and1's... icing was the terrible shot in the last 30 seconds of the game... jumper when he had an open lane to the bucket, while were up 2. Great Job TP.

[itzsoweezee]

he's a mental midget.

[Kori Ellis]

Don't bump threads from two years ago. It confuses people. Post in the more recent Parker thread.