Laughably bad Spurs "article" in Dime magazine

[Budkin]

Seriously. What??

WHY TONY PARKER WON’T THROTTLE THE THUNDER IN OKC

During the regular season, only 10 teams kept Tony Parker from shooting better than 50 percent from the field; except, the Thunder, along with the Jazz(?) and Rockets(Pat Beverley), were the only three teams to keep him below that mark after four encounters. In the postseason, though, TP’s been carving OKC up. That all might change once the series shifts to Oklahoma City on Sunday.

So far in the first two games of the Western Conference Finals, Parker is shooting 55.2 percent from the floor and averaging one point per possession on all offensive plays that result in a shot, a turnover, or free throws, per Synergy.

The Thunder have no answer for his high pick-and-roll with Tim Duncan or Boris Diaw. If OKC drops their big back to protect the roll, Parker turns the corner and is in the paint faster than you can blink. Look at the more than 20 percent difference in the restricted area zone between their regular season matchups and the first two games without Serge Ibaka.

http://dimemag.com/2014/05/why-tony-...hunder-in-okc/

[Dex]

I think he hit the nail on the head.

Tony is afraid of the blue paint the Thunder use in he lane. He just can't stand to play amongst those hues.

[Budkin]

What makes it so terrible is that the whole article is based on this season's regular season games and then after he spews all that he adds "(paraphrasing) oh yeah, no Ibaka now but if we can slow Tony Parker down then he won't have a good game!"

[purist]

And Parker's hammy has been at 75%; likely 100% by Sunday

[SanDiegoSpursFan]

I think he hit the nail on the head.

Tony is afraid of the blue paint the Thunder use in he lane. He just can't stand to play amongst those hues.

I'd put my money on a ghost haunting him whenever he's in the city. Can't play well with a ghost haunting you.

[crc21209]

Saw this article earlier. Just awful...

[spurs1990]

The first sentence is chalk full of elementary- level grammatical errors. I refuse to "read" the rest of that drivel.

[jARS mEsH sEt]

It seems like this article was written by some snot-nosed kid just out of college.

[Spur|n|Austin]

Yikes. That's just piss poor "journalism"..

[Solid D]

The first sentence is chalk full of elementary- level grammatical errors. I refuse to "read" the rest of that drivel.

Suggestion: change "chalk full" to chock-full. Chalk is misused here.

[KaiRMD1]

I should have become a beat writer

[BillMc]

I'd put my money on a ghost haunting him whenever he's in the city. Can't play well with a ghost haunting you.

[spurs1990]

Suggestion: change "chalk full" to chock-full. Chalk is misused here.

And here I am eviscerating that author's mechanics. The irony.

Btw, I blame my phone for not catching that idiom misuse.

To quote Richard Marx, should of known better.

[313]

And here I am eviscerating that author's mechanics. The irony.

Btw, I blame my phone for not catching that idiom misuse.

To quote Richard Marx, should of known better.

Should of?

[313]

I should have become a beat writer

tbh

[Whisky Dog]

And here I am eviscerating that author's mechanics. The irony.

Btw, I blame my phone for not catching that idiom misuse.

To quote Richard Marx, should of known better.

Suggestion: Change of to have. Of is misused here.

[DMC]

It's not as bad as the ESPN "Kevin Love to San Antonio?" discussion. Totally off base, makes absolutely zero sense.

[cd98]

I think Love would fit great with Spurs, but we have no assets to get him, and after another year, we won't be as attractive place for winning.