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parker's anomaly happened at the end of game 2 with the 3 long jumpshots under 2 minutes left in the game.

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Any one who has watched Tony Parker for the last couple of years would know that was hardly an anomaly. Parker can hit those shots, and he is a big time player. Dude has a Finals MVP to show for it. Comparing that to what Butler did last night and Hill did in Game 4 is just flat out dumb.

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parker can finish plays and win the game.

3 straight jumpshots out of 18 feet is not tony parker's game. go pull his outside shooting numbers for the past 2 years. hint: it's like 25% FG.

but im sure you knew that.

I wasn't impressed with Butler last night the dude just knocked down open shots. The guy shot good at home lets see if he can repeat but this time with the SPURS playin some D.

If they had been three pointers I would agree with you. I have watched Parker enough to know that he can hit those shots. He took it upon himself to get better at knocking down those 17 to 18 foot jumpshots after the 2004 Lakers decided they weren't going to let him beat them by going to the bucket, and he was forced to take jump shots. I don't need statistics to know that a 3 time NBA Champion and a Finals MVP has the ability to make big shots in an important game.

And Duncan is not going to be the difference maker on offense. Unless Manu is doing what he does, the Spurs will have a hard time winning. Everyone is going to feed off of him. He has to play well.

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3 straight jumpshots out of 18 feet is not tony parker's game

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TP has made a career off of layups and the side dribble jump shot from 16-20ft.

clay....according to 82 games.com, this season Parker only his 26% of his jumpshots in clutch situations. it is not his game. the stats dont lie. stop trying to pretend like tony parker is a jump shooter. this argument makes u look foolish

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TP has made a career off of layups and the side dribble jump shot from 16-20ft.

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http://www.82games.com/0809/08SAS1.HTM
http://www.82games.com/0708/07SAS1A.HTM
http://www.82games.com/0607/06SAS1A.HTM

Yea, it is totally unexpected for Tony Parker to hit jump shots. That is just like two players who haven't really proven themselves to score 30+ points on a consistent basis.

Anyone with half a brain would know that TP can hit those jump shots. And being the player that has proven himself to be, it would be expected for him to hit big shots, in big games if his team needed him to. Way to cherry pick probably his worst regular season in nearly 5 or 6 years as metric for his ability.

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Knightzip, don't bother arguing with Simplebay.

He is going off of a sample size of 3 to make a point he is technically correct on (the law of averages says it's improbable for Parker to have hit 3 outside shots in a row). Using his logic, it is an "anomaly" for any sub 50% shooter to make any given shot.

He is also technically correct that the Spurs need Duncan to step back up.

The bigger point that got lost with his backhanded comment is that Tony Parker playing well and making clutch plays over the course of a game or series is most certainly part of the Spurs "bread and butter". Him making a few key shots down the stretch is much less of an outlier than Butler's 35 in G5 or Hill's 31 in G4.

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I think for Duncan to step up, (offensively anyway), Manu is going to have to play better. I am not saying Duncan can't step up on his own, but when the offense is going through Manu everything seems to click better as a team. But that is just my opinion.

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If that is the case, does it worry you that Manu has not played well the last couple games? I think he is around 10-35.

As a Mavs fan, I am very worried that the big 3 will all have good games on Thursday and make it very tough.

I am not terribly worried that Manu will continue to struggle. He is a true competitor and he should be ready to go for Game 6. He doesn't really have to have a great night shooting either, he just needs to be the facilitator and take care of the ball. I think he plays a huge part in the ball movement necessary for the Spurs to be effective, and he can get other people involved and going like RJ and Hill.

But, it could be that his broken nose is giving him more trouble than he is willingly to admit. We will see what happens in Game 6.

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I was thinking the same thing about his nose. The physical pain along with mental factor has to be hard to play with.

I think the nose has unquestionably affected manu. His shooting is down and turnovers have been up since then. That said, everyone looked like crap last night. Sloppy passes, slower rotations on defense, poor shooting and being passive on offense; they looked like they were just going through the motions.

I don't really know if manus shooting is going to get much better but I do think he will come out much more aggressive offensively in game 6. He pretty much leads the charge in the intensity displayed by the spurs in any given game. The younger guys like hill and blair feed off of that. Jeffersons play seems to also be completely dependent on manu. Jefferson is a complete enigma to me.

I expect duncan to make a few adjustments with haywood being predominantly on him now. If he can revert back to his game performances earlier in the series it will help, but the key imo will be how effective manu is.

Manu needs to lose the bandage. It provides him no protection and probably interferes with his sight lines...

Skip Bayless thinks it's over for the Spurs. Mark it down, Spurs to the conference finals.