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parker needed 55 points to beat the wolves? just throw the season!
Rest of team = 18 pts.
parker needed 55 points to beat the wolves? just throw the season!
i dont' know if to cry or laugh.
Duncan had 30 and 16.
6 of Duncan's boards were offensive.
We haven't had this many trash players since what, 2001?
I don't mind it that much..at least we know Mason is legit, and we now have a very good 4th option on offense..
we just need DEFENSE badly..BADLY..
At least we got that 4th scorer we so badly needed.
Tony Parker scored a career-high 55 points, including a 20-footer at the buzzer to force a second overtime, in the San Antonio Spurs’ 129-125 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night
After Al Jefferson backed down Tim Duncan and sank a turnaround hook to put Minnesota up 116-114 with 2 1/2 seconds left in the first overtime, Parker took the inbounds pass, dribbled right, pump-faked once and let the ball fly. He let a sly smile creep across his normally stone face as the Wolves trudged back to the bench.
Jefferson paused to sit on the scorer’s table before play resumed and just shook his head as if to say, “What more can we do?”
San Antonio won for the first time in four games this season, and picked up its sixth straight win and 11th in the last 12 meetings against Minnesota.
Parker scored six of his team’s first eight points in the second overtime to stretch the lead to four, though Randy Foye made a 3-pointer from the corner to cut the lead to one. The Spurs rebounded a pair of missed jumpers, before Parker finally went to the line with 19 seconds left and made it 128-125.
That gave Parker the highest scoring output by any individual opponent in the Wolves’ 20-year history. Shaquille O’Neal had 53 points for Orlando in 1994.
Parker was 22-of-36 from the field and added 10 assists and seven rebounds.
Well, Parker more than did his part to fill the void, as he’s actually done all four times the Spurs have taken the court in Ginobili’s absence to an ankle injury. Swishing soft mid-range jumpers and speeding to the basket for layups, Parker raised his scoring average to 33.3 points.
You know that's one tired frenchie tonight.
Seriously, this team needs two big things to happen for this to be a contending team:
1) Manu to come back strong and productive
2) Ian and Tolliver to bolster the front court at least to the point where the Spurs aren't giving up damn near 30 second chance points.
I'd also suggest throwing Farmer into Finley's spot (when Finley is playing the 2) and only giving Finley spot minutes now and almost no minutes once Manu returns. Farmer can't be any worse of a defender and surely can bring more energy and athleticism to both ends of the court.
It's all going to start with defense, and this team needs a boosted front court with Ian/Tolliver and Finley to sit the down.
Yeah. I am happy the Spurs finally got their first W, but a little concerned that it took 2 OTs and 55 pts from Parker to do it, very concerned that there's so many players not providing much offense or defense right now (I'm looking at YOU, Udoka, Finley, Thomas, Oberto, Bowen, Vaughn, and Bonner).
But the good news is, Mason is looking like a brilliant, low key off season pick up.
Our offense has been great especially with Tim and RM. The thing I'm still worried about is our defense and I don't think that's going to change even if/when Manu comes back.
If we could fix your first problem, someone next to tim. Then the other problems would fix themselves.
Its not. We just dont have the guys who are quick enough. The guys who used to play like that Bruce are pacing themselves to have something left in the end. And we will need alot of energy in the end, because we wont get HCA. With guys named Fab,Kurt,Matt etc. Your not gonna get better on defense your gonna get worse. And when it comes to making stops it all starts under the paint.
To fix the 1st problem, Ian is the only solution I see this year... not a good sign at all
A win is a win, but that's scary that the Spurs needed 111 points from 3 players to beat a Wolves team.
something is going wrong for us to have such an un-balanced attack
a new "Big Three" in the making...
Last edited by Bender; 11-06-2008 at 08:31 AM.
1 T. Parker, SAS 4 38.8 33.3 13.3-23.5 .564 0.8-1.3 .600 6.0-6.8 .889
2 J. Johnson, ATL 3 37.3 28.0 11.7-21.3 .547 2.0-5.3 .375 2.7-3.0 .889
3 T. Duncan, SAS 4 41.8 27.0 11.3-20.3 .556 0.0-0.3 .000 4.5-6.8 .667
4 C. Bosh, TOR 4 42.5 26.0 9.5-18.5 .514 0.0-0.5 .000 7.0-8.8 .800
5 A. Stoudemire, PHO 5 39.0 25.8 9.6-13.8 .696 0.0-0.4 .000 6.6-7.8 .846
6 L. James, CLE 5 34.8 25.8 8.6-18.8 .457 0.0-2.6 .000 8.6-11.0 .782
7 D. Granger, IND 3 38.3 25.3 8.0-16.7 .480 2.0-5.3 .375 7.3-8.3 .880
8 K. Bryant, LAL 4 33.3 24.8 8.3-18.5 .446 0.5-1.8 .286 7.8-9.5 .816
9 D. Nowitzki, DAL 4 34.8 23.8 8.5-18.5 .459 1.3-2.0 .625 5.5-6.0 .917
10 D. Wade, MIA 4 33.0 23.5 7.5-16.5 .455 0.0-1.5 .000 8.5-11.5 .739
this might be the craziest top scorer list we will ever see.
Tony at#1 and Tim at#3 and still Spurs have the worst team in the Duncan era.
If our defense was usual Spurs level that could be enough points for a 20 point win. Unfortunately our D is some of the worst I've seen in years. We gotta get the D back to Spurs level. That is by far the first thing we need to work on.something is going wrong for us to have such an un-balanced attack
This cannot obviously continue for long. What a useless support crew they have. Front office better figure out something quickly. Apparently $1-3 million or more per year is not enough to motivate those losers.Rest of team = 18 pts.
defense hasn't been horrible... it's the offense that has just 3 characters able to contribute... we need Bonner, KT, Udoka, Oberto, Bruce and Fin to produce something at least...
3 Spurs starters:
73 min, 6 pts, 10 RB, 3 AST
Spurs have not been getting much out of Bowen, Finley, Bonner/Thomas/Oberto (though he's been out so I guess he has an excuse). The lack of production from so many key players is the reason why the Spurs have struggled out of the gates. And it's not just that these players are struggling offensively, they are all struggling on the defensive end as well.
Bonner needs to go back to the doghouse. Period. I have ZERO hope for him. Everyone else, hopefully, mothernature and time hasn't finally gotten hold of them and they have at least one more good year left in them. Otherwise, let's hope Tolliver, Farmar, and Ian come through even a little.
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