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doubt it..
Pop just wanted to ball to go to Ginobili and felt that Patty would do a better job stretching the floor.
He carried the Spurs in the first half and played very well on both sides, a lot of energy..
Pop subbed him off with 6 minutes left in the 3rd, and he took him out of the game for key stretches of the 4th..once Parker re-entered, he didn't even look to shoot, at all, he deferred to his teammates..
Is he out of gas, tbh?..
doubt it..
Pop just wanted to ball to go to Ginobili and felt that Patty would do a better job stretching the floor.
Lost the first half by 5, won the second half by 4....
Parker is being what Parker is when he can't score, just that.
Done as an old used condom.
That was the first thing that popped into my head when he came away with that steal in the first half and got stuck in the paint as if he had no energy left in his legs. All of those jump shots in the first half drained him, and Patty isn't helping by giving absolute 0 on offense. Never thought I'd say it, but we're missing Gary Neal right now
He only played 33 minutes...
Out of gas from being babied all season? From playing two games in nine days, one of which he didn't even clear 30 minutes? From one quarter of actually playing like he gave a ? I'm confused.
I said it when he came back from his "various maladies"; he can't sustain. People made excuses for him all season, but if we were going to see the Parker of the past two seasons, we'd have seen it then, even if briefly. The fact that we didn't was alarming.
Today Pop finally reached the boiling point with him. They needed him to step up, lead the team and be what he's supposed to be, which is the best player in the series and as usual when the going got tough, he couldn't come through.
You don't think Parker looked finished, from an energy standpoint?..
He wasn't even looking for his shot in the 2nd half and put his teammates in bad positions when he passed it out, unusual for him, tbh..
Can't even tell you, tbh.... he didn't even try at the end to do much of anything, no shooting, no penetration... that blown fast break could be an indicator, but he got rest after that...
Not sure what's going on in Tony's mind right now... he's not even old...
At least France won the Eurobasket
Well.. The bigger fact is we are not going to win this year. Whether Parker is ed o not..
You think we got a chance to beat Mavs?
Horrible longevity for the Frenchman. Tony should probably rethink those plans about having a 20 year NBA career.
But what I'm saying is, how? With all the rest he's gotten recently. It's not like they've been going every other day for 3 or 4 games and he's averaged around 40 mpg in those games.
It was games 6 and 7 of the Finals all over again. He was in full on defer mode to Ginobili/Duncan, hoping they could bring them home, as if this were the mid aughts.
Because of his injury, I mostly gave him a pass for that last season, but there's no excuse this time. They babied him all season to have him primed for this time of year and he's just not up for it. He knows he doesn't have the legs for four hard rounds and the instant he figured out this round wasn't going to be a cakewalk, he mentally caved.
I think we can still win this series.... if Tony is hurt or something, would be nice to just say it and gameplan accordingly, tbh...
I love Tony, but he let me down in this game...
At least France won the Eurobasket
the Enrique Experiment, such a glorious trainwreck.
We might have had a chance if TP did the reasonable thing and rested up over the summer. Disingenuous of him to make France his number one priority after that garbage performance against the Heat
Spurs still have a good chance IMO, but if they win, next round brings Portland, a younger, more athletic version of this Mavs team..I doubt the current Spurs with a lesser Parker can beat them, sadly..
At least France won the Eurobasket
Tony hasn't been the same since Lebron took his soul in the Finals. Awful regular season in 2014. Disappointing playoffs thus far. I wonder what injury Tony's going to invent this time to cover for his ty performance.
hasn't Tony choked in a lot of playoff series though? we ain't won with him as the head of the snake, just saying.
Tony hasn't been the same since Lebron took his soul in the Finals. Awful regular season in 2014. Disappointing playoffs thus far. I wonder what injury Tony's going to invent this time to cover for his ty performance.
Yeah but the current system Pop runs relies heavily on Tony playing good basketball. Tony's not scoring/passing and is currently getting on by Devin Harris and Calderon. If he's struggling against these two what the 's he going to do against Lillard or any other half decent PG.
Parker could not even be too mavs by himself on the loan fast break he got off a steal
Ya, this was alarming, especially since 1 of those Mavs was Dirk
It's been said many times but TP losing his speed is exposing him as a mediocre player. , even with his quickness, he was a crappy post-season performer. The next couple years are going to be rough for all the Parker fans out there. Aging badly.
Tony's All-Star first halves, and disappearance in 2nd halves is way too common, and extremely strange.
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