JSeahawks":vchk86gu said:
TravTex":vchk86gu said:
Thunder are likely to do the usual and wear out Durant and Westbrook. Think they just ran 'em like 47 and 53 minutes in an early season OT game, to get an idea of New Coach Plans for them.
I'm in San Antonio so I have to play homer, but the Spurs really ARE stacked to an unfair degree this year. Kawhi's adding 20ppg to his continued ridiculous defense. LMA hasn't fully figured out what to do with himself in the system, yet. Tony Parker is still crap, but it hasn't mattered much yet.
So yeah, Spurs vs Whoever, Spurs #6.
Surprised to hear you say that about Parker. Is he not well liked down there? I've always thought of him as underrated.
I'm being a bit glib about TP. (Spurstalk probably refers to him more often as Enrique Porker ... )
More seriously, I'd agree that he's spent most of his career underrated but I don't think he's great value at this point. He's been outstanding at times, though has had a pretty sharp drop off. Lots of injury time last season, and was downright terrible in the playoffs (Something like 11pts/3.5assists in the postseason). His defense is rough. Although he looks to have embraced a lesser role so far this season, which helps, last year he'd fallen into a dribble dribble dribble brick pattern that would drive me almost as crazy as Manu's 'Flail about and fling the ball out of bounds' moments.
We're only 4 games in, but he's still sitting at around 10ppg with 2.8 assists. That's just not wonderful production from your 12.5 million dollar starting PG. Patty Mills is pretty close to his line per 36m, for a quarter the cost. BUT, it's working for now, so ... :th2thumbs:
Not like Pop's going to trade the dude. Hell, we're still clinging to Matt Bonner. :lol:
Edit to Add: Just looked at NBA Point Guards by PER. Tony's #43. Gaaaaaah... Mills #28