he needs to get inside a lincoln and reflect on how he got to where he is. Bring back some of that tenacious defensive effort he had his rookie season.
Parsons is prone to shooting slumps. i can remember last year for us he had a couple of bad slumps. same flat arc n everything. then he got his shot back n even had that one game where he went unconscious and hit like ten tres in a row in a half. so... he's a pretty bad player right now, but its pretty safe to say its an aberration.
When Parsons went on shooting slumps with us, we excused it because he did other things well. Also he's not our primary scorer. More heat was laid on Harden for our losses. Change in contract means change of expectations. What Chandler should have done was not prove he can be #1 (although he brought this upon himself by comparing himself to Harden) but continue to do the things he has already done. Build his resume slowly. It's deja vu--Trevor Ariza 2009 version. Peter principle. I'm just waiting for the meltdown and the swing at an opposing player. [Only kidding, Trevor] Nothing risked, nothing gained. Admittedly Parsons has to try whether he can be the man. I don't begrudge him that. Thing is he thought the max contract made him the man already, when he really has to prove that on the court, not in the nightclub.
Is it wrong to want to see Parsons struggle this year, run his mouth off a bit about the team woes and Cubans son Dirk after bad losses, have Cuban hate him and trade him in the offseason to a crap small market team? Nah, I need to let it go.
If you are going to a team with Dirk and Monte Ellis you have to understand your not actually going to be option 1 or even 2. If Monte Ellis is not your 1st or 2nd primary scoring option than his existence in a rotation is pointless. If Parsons went there to dominate the ball and be a point forward then great for him. Ariza and Pap are a clear win.
The way I look at it from Dallas' angle is any play that Dirk is on the floor and isn't involved in the outcome of the offensive play is a bad possession. Also option #1 would almost always be a Monta/Dirk P&R. That was virtually unstoppable last year. Why you'd want to run Parsons/Dirk P&R's over that is beyond me.... and I think Parsons is an underrated P&R ball handler. Other than Miami a couple years ago, can we ever remember a time when the team that "Won July" was the same team that won in June?? It seems to me that every single time a team is paraded around for their moves in July and get hype right out of the gate, it always seems to be false pretense. Even the Rockets last year were the ones that "Won July" and were picked by some to win it all, and that obviously didn't work out. All this does is shows me that you should never overreact to what happens in July.
This and the Lin thread isn't just about being butthurt or whatever that they left. These moves are a referendum on Morey, so it's in our best interest that they're ineffective. It's really easy for me to root that they all fail.
Parsons is a streak shooter. 41 games he is a borderline all star player. He got away with this when he used to defend all the time. Now he's streaky at best.
The real referendum is not how the departed players do at their new destinations, but how the Rockets themselves do and whether Morey makes anything out of that "flexibility" that he so obsessively preserved. As for Parsons, I tend to think that Carlisle is right about his weight. I don't like NBA guys suddenly bulking up, even if it is muscle. It often tend to screw with what they do on the court.
LMAO Cubes can't even trade him because Parsons has a player option (which he will undoubtedly exercise) and a trade kicker, which actually increases his salary by 15% should he be traded (although to be fair he would only get 92k or 42k since his salary is already almost 15M which is the max). Which team in the league would pay that much for the services of Chandler "handsome" Parsons?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Feelin' so distant from everyone I've known, To make everybody happy I think I would need a clone. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/thecalm?src=hash">#thecalm</a></p>— Chandler Parsons (@ChandlerParsons) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChandlerParsons/status/531936669088636928">November 10, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Chandler, that's how the end starts.
I hope you guys know that those are song lyrics: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6H41xdJoW6g?rel=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Also, is he talking about his defense? lol
