I wish you were right about parsons but you couldn't be more wrong. He's a Lou deng, nic Batum and frankly both those guys I'd trade parsons for right now. He's a good player and is maybe even the heart of the team but your totally underselling harden and over hyping parsons alot. If parsons was a lock down defender I would be down to pay him big money right now but the reality is he's actually worse that harden most of the time. He benefits prob more than anyone from playing with harden and being able to get open looks from three and lanes to slash to the hoop. I'm actually under the impression that while parsons is good enough IMO to stay on the team for the long haul. I think it would be in the rockets best interest to package him in a deal to upgrade the wing defense. If we had a 3 and d player at the 3 we would be a better team IMO. Parsons is fixing to get paid and IMO I think will be overpaid and I don't want it to be the rockets that do it.
What Parsons is today he is not going to be tomorrow. His current game is good. Probably better than Haywood. And Harden is a great scorer. There's no doubt about that. Harden is the best player on this team. What I am trying to say is that Parsons's limit hasn't been reached. The way he is improving is SCARY. You don't get praise from Greg Popovich lightly. Parsons is still developing. But he's developing at an eye-opening rate. I wouldn't post this unless I felt 99% sure.
Eh? No. He often guarding opponets best player or switch to Harden assignment bacause Harden fail to defend. He's not elite defender but he's way brtter than Harden defensively
Parsons can run the break, he can catch and shoot, and he can make the next play. The only thing in my opinion that is stopping him from being a superstar is his ability to take his man one on one. In isolation he is not a great player(not saying he isnt good but not great). Inorder to consider yourself an allstar in this league I feel as if you have to pose a mismatch for your opponent at all time and force the whole team to help when you are in a one on one situation. Kobe, LeBron, Durant, Melo, Harden, Westbrook, Irving, TParker...all guys who can destroy the opposition in a one on one situation. Thats where you make the big bucks!!!
If all NBA players were thrown into a draft pool .... what round would Parsons be picked in?? I figure somewhere in the second round.
Or you can run off a billion picks like Reggie Miller .... and shoot the lights out. Tony Parker isn't a physical mismatch like the others you list ... he's a great ball handler & decision maker but far from a physical mismatch. My point is that you don't necessarily have to be a physical mismatch like the guys you listed ... but you have to do something very very well.
"When he's out, we have a more balanced attack," Parsons said of Harden. "We run our sets and get the best shot available. When he's not there, we don't go one-on-one as much." LOL
Someone made the comparison to Lamar Odom, and I think that's pretty fair - so as much as LO was/is a star is probably about where CP is/will be, give or take.
Exactly. Very nice player to have on a team. Plays hard, rebounds, score in transition, good shooter...end of the day can't create of the dribble for others. The league is loaded with guys who can score as spot up shooters, every team has a couple guys who can create fior themselves, but not many who can also create for others out of half court sets by themselves. Right now he is beginning to show some ability to get his own shot but still fairly limited in that aspect. Lots of his off the dribble begins with a teammate drawing his defender a little and then kicking it to him. Thus giving him the fake then drive that isn't there when you just ask him to do it from the top of the key with the play starting with him.
I really don't see why not. San Antonio has everyone drinking the kool-aid on Kawhi Leonard being the Spurs' future and I honestly don't see it. If I were to have to decide on Leonard or Parsons, it would be Parsons hands down. Imagine if he had a teaching coach like (Phil) Jackson, Popovich, (Doc) Rivers or Adelman. Most of his improvement (IMO) comes from what he does in the offseason to work on his game (just from vids I have seen). I recall Kobe approaching GP during an All-Star break on how to play d, and of course with him applying his work ethic and will to being a better defensive guy he became all league. Parsons seems like his has that work ethic. Had he made the USA team he would then be around those types of players that he can learn from.
how quickly we forget how terrible he was when he was the focal point of the defense on those last 2 possessions a few nights ago.... when he can do all this with the opponent's best defender guarding him instead of harden, then we can talk...
He has to get used to it. You expect a guy in his 3rd year to be able to beat double teams when he rarely has experienced them? Parsons is one of the tallest wings in the game. When he learns to beat that doube (if teams try it) dude will be amazing since he can see over the defenders.
OP, you mean Parsons who had his inbounds pass intercepted tonight and who had a TO and was trapped in our last play vs MEM a few nights back?
