1. Tony Parker was the starter on a championship team as a 19-year-old rookie. Playing for a coach who's even harder on rookies than McMillan. Bayless would have to go a long way to be a poor man's Parker. Who is twice as quick as him, and actually a PG, even if a shoot-first one. 2. Roy is not the "rich man's Ginobili". Roy is the poor man's Ginobili. It constantly amazes me how people underrate Ginobili. Go back and watch the 2005 finals and watch how Ginobili should have been the MVP. I guess they're both injury-prone. But Ginobili is much more creative than Roy, and probably a better defender.
".....and the rest of the team sucks to!!" Please, no quips about how LaMarcus is soft or Greg's injury prone? Sometimes I wonder when I read this board if there's any sunshine in some of the posters lifes. (BTW, I think Bayless could hang with Parker in a race. Just saying....)
Just because some people attempt to temper expectations and make a good faith attempt to honestly evaluate the team, its coaching, players and management without overstating strengths and minimizing weaknesses, doesn't mean we're bitter or down on life. C'mon. Some of us want this team to win a championship and have no loyalty except to the success of the team, with little or no loyalty to any of the individual constituent parts except insofar as those parts contribute to the larger goal of a championship -- I'd like to see the team trade Brandon, Oden, LaMarcus or anybody else on this team if they thought it would get them closer to a championship.
Both guys are very quick. Both guys like to finish in the middle. Bayless draws fouls better, but Parker does everything else better. I don't think Bayless will ever be nearly as good as Parker, but it's not hard to see how he can play that same type of role where he pushes the ball up and if nothing's there he gives it up to others to get the half court offense moving. Ginobili also played about 25% less of the time that season than Roy did last year. He was pretty phenomenal in the playoffs for that one year (24.8 PER) but again he played 6 minutes fewer per game than Roy did last year in the playoffs, and Roy had an even better PER (25.9). Ginobili is a better defender and more creative, but he's also easier to guard one-on-one and he can't be relied on for big minutes, and he's never been "the man" on an NBA team. Other than that one playoffs, I think you'd have a pretty hard argument to make that Ginobili is superior to Roy. I'll concede that at times they were pretty equivalent, but Roy is by no means a "poor man's Ginobili."
But you have a FABULOUS beard! And, besides, you're standing next to a guy whose (more famous) sister is a supermodel.
Not in the summer in Vegas, they aren't. I was sweating like Al Sharpton in a hot-wing eating contest.
Oh, and the two things Jerryd needs to work on this summer: His arms. He needs to spend at least two hours a day dangling from a pull-up bar with weights strapped to his ankles in order to lengthen those stubby little arms as much as possible.
with or without shoes actually I'm not really joking as I want to know whats what. In that photo he looks taller then you, but then it was taken from a low angle and single photos can be deceiving. What would you put his barefoot height at? STOMP
Petteri is 6-5 with shoes and Portlanders just won't believe it. He looked that tall to me in his 1st summer camp. Then he returned for his 2nd one and Pritchard said, "You've grown!" No he hadn't. Everyone wanted to remember him as Sergio's 6-3 height, but he isn't. Now, this thread corrects everyone's false memory once again. I don't see why it's hard to understand. He's about an inch shorter than Rudy but wider and heavier, so he'll be able to drive inside, unlike Rudy. He is not the outside shooter that Rudy was in Europe, but is better than Rudy has been shooting lately. He's a conventional PG with court vision, unlike Bayless, and a couple of inches taller than Bayless. His problem is that he may have to play SG because of lateral quickness on defense, the same reason as Rudy, and he's a good but not great shooter.
good grief dude... is following a link so tough? An actual measurement had him 0.25" taller then Bayless not a couple inches. Now it seems (according to someone who actually met him face to face w/a pic to prove it) that he has grown since and yet you're sticking to your nonsense going against actual measurements and multiple observations by those in the organization to talk shit... nice job! STOMP
All those measurements were wrong and my eyes were right. When we can all those trainers who caused our injuries, we should also fire all those biased guys with the rulers who are just trying to make my boy Petteri look like a squirt. Then we go after the guy who doles out the Gatorade.
