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Two missed shots leave Parker vexed
Mike Monroe - Express-News
Spurs point guard Tony Parker approached Sunday's game against the Orlando Magic intent on atoning for his performance against the Magic on Dec. 18, when he missed 14-of-17 shots in a 90-78 loss.
Had it not been for his 21st and 22nd shots in Sunday's game, Parker might have departed the AT&T Center satisfied he had accomplished his goal.
Instead, he was equally aggravated. His 31 points, on 13-for-22 shooting, were spoiled by critical misses in the final 53.9 seconds of a 105-98 loss.
Adding to Parker's pique: Both misses were on shots he typically makes, a teardrop runner and a three-foot layup.
“That's my shots,” Parker said. “The teardrop is my shot, and it didn't go in. Then the layup went short. I do those shots every day.”
Either shot could have been a game changer had it gone in.
Parker's first miss came at the end of a fast break that started when Manu Ginobili picked off an ill-advised cross-court pass by Magic guard J.J. Re with just under one minute remaining.
Parker drove the right side of the lane and floated his teardrop runner, but it bounced off the side of the rim and was rebounded by Orlando's Hedo Turkoglu.
Parker got a second chance to trim Orlando's lead to two points when Re missed a 3-point attempt with 38 seconds left.
Spurs forward Tim Duncan rebounded Re 's miss and fired an outlet pass to Parker, already at midcourt. Parker got past the Magic defense all the way to the rim, but his layup dropped off the front of the rim and was rebounded by Dwight Howard.
“Sometimes that happens,” Parker said. “That's basketball, and I can't worry about that. It just meant it was not our night.”
Parker outscored Orlando's outstanding point guard, Jameer Nelson, 31-22, but it was Nelson who made the biggest shots for the Magic, a 3-pointer with 2:18 left that gave his team a 100-96 lead, and a 16-footer with 1:27 remaining that put Orlando ahead by six, 102-96.
Questioning calls: Asked to comment on officiating that had appeared to vex some of his players, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich repeated an oft-heard Spurs dictum:
“We don't talk about calls,” he said. “There are a lot of things you can control to win a game. They played better than we did and shot the ball better. It had nothing to do with the referees' calls.”
Well, sometimes the Spurs do talk about calls.
Unprompted, Duncan referenced the officiating in describing his frustration about the loss.
“It was definitely up there,” Duncan said, describing his level of frustration. “A lot of things not going our way, and one of them, mainly, obviously, the officiating. I didn't think it was very good.”
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Parker also had an open jumper w/c he airballed.. very strange. I guess he'll be having another sleepless night tonight thinking about those misses the hopefully come out motivated to play against the Lakers.
Can people around here stop saying BOOK IT.
The only thing that should be booked around here is the posters.
ing idiotic saying.
Maybe we not talking about TP misses if Roger and Matt show up to play. Maybe...........
Can people around here stop saying BOOK IT.
The only thing that should be booked around here is the posters
ing idiotic saying.
Are you the forum moderator?
Parker clearly ran out of gas as he was fantastic in the earlier periods. I really feel the perimiter defense in this game was absolutely dreadfull, and it was the complete downfall of the team. Roger Mason's performance was quite worrisome as in his horrible mental error doubling Howard with the shot clock down and leaving Re open.
So Matt gets 4 shots and Roger gets 4 shots. How do you explain that? How do they should up when they don't get any shots?
It happens when your point guard takes 22 shots (led the team in shot attempts).
I'll admit that I thought the officiating was pretty crappy last night, but they missed calls on both sides. That's how it goes sometimes.
I still wish Tim Duncan would learn that the refs don't take lightly to being called out.
Parker had a decent game, but his defense in Nelson both times this season has been ATROCIOUS.
Parker cost us this game if you ask me, missing one gimme which would have changed the entire game (the other floater from the baseline was just a TERRIBLE shot with little chance of going in) and playing horrific defense, whether it was pick and roll D, or isolated, Nelson abused him which is flat out unacceptable. I really hope Pop blasted the out of Parker at some point after the game for his mental errors (which included not running the offense properly on a couple possessions).
This team is VERY predictable when Parker is ball hogging many possessions he's out there. Why does Manu create off of one pick generally while Tony needs the ball for 20 seconds and 3-4 screens?
I'm no Tony hater, and generally agree with him taking the most shots and dominating the ball. Last night was not one of those nights, despite a 30+ point performance, since he didn't wrap it up and played horrible Defense.
you have to be either a stupid asshole or a Tony hater to say such a thing after this game.
oh, well, thank you to make it clear.
actually his defense was good during 3 quarters
Howard scored 24 at 75 % and grabbed 14 rbds (5 offensive). Nelson scored 22 at 39 %, but yes the defense on Nelson was the worse aspect of our overall defense.
dunk it next time.
Parker missed two layups on possessions where we HAD to have a score. He drove into the teeth of actually damn good transition defense on the second one and just threw up a reckless teardrop from the baseline, with no chance of a call, a bad angle, and I'm fairly sure the reason he tossed it so high was because it was definitely in blocking distance from Dwight Howard (no DVR sadly).
The first attempt at the rim, which was simply short despite very little defensive pressure, was just sad - plain and simple. Again, I'm no Tony basher, life goes on, but it's a fact he took the W upon himself the last
minute or so and failed miserably.
Sonic21, you give thisand say he played good D for 3 quarters, well the game is 4 quarters son. It was in the fourth quarter Nelson scored 12 and had momentum, and that's when we needed Parker to step it up. He was tired is NO excuse, not with the rest he had. Besides, he certainly had enough energy to drive to the paint and throw up two horrible layup attempts.
I was just thinking, its actually funny the ^quoted poster says what they did, because no matter which way you view it, Parker lost the game for us. Let me presume Kace's stance: Parker is the only reason we were in the game in the first place, and did play pretty good D through the first quarters. It only made sense for him to take the load on his back at the end. He does get to the paint twice but he missed badly on both, and Nelson just went off finally in the fourth.
^ That scenario still means he cost us the game, so in reality, you're only sugar coating it by saying this as opposed to simply saying "Parker cost us the game."
Look, at least we don't have to play Orlando again this season.
Last edited by z0sa; 01-12-2009 at 02:33 PM.
why did you quote me? i was agreeing with you, he played good defense overall except when he was tired at the end.
As much as I love Paker and his game he still is not a CLOSER. Bottom line. When he can be depended upon to close out games consistantly than he will be elevated to another level.
i know. i was just agreeing with you and adding that little precision: we are ed in many games by the opponent's bigs. basically every low post star has been shining against us, not to talk about the help defense from our bigs on outside scorers.
he's clutch all season, i knew the hater would jump at the 1st occasion to bash him.
ok, my bad
man, some of you are stupid..Tony Parker is clearly a closer, he's been one of the better clutch players all year..
Tony Parker is shooting 57% in clutch time this year..
Clutch time stats say otherwise.
Tony is clutch. But he's also selfish. I don't know how many times I yell at the TV when he goes up against 2-3 defenders in the paint and misses badly. He definitely should've pulled it back last night on those 2 closing possessions. But he didn't.
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