Tony Parker
Tony Parker
William Anthony "Tony" Parker Jr.is a French professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. The son of a professional basketball player, Parker played for two years in the French basketball league before entering the 2001 NBA draft. He was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 28th overall pick in the draft and quickly became their starting point guard. Parker has helped the Spurs win four NBA championships in 2003, 2005, 2007 and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 May 1982
CountryUnited States of America
Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.
I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.
We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.
A lot of teams like to put a bigger player on me. A lot of times, I backed him off but didn't hit the shot. I've got to hit the shots.
Definitely. It was tough in overtime. Maybe we ran out of gas. But we should've won the game before that. We had it.
Definitely difficult to lose him. He was coming back very well. He was starting to play very well. He was playing good basketball so it is hard to lose him again.
I think with Jay Williams, he just needs more freedom. He needs to be able to play and not think. Last year I was thinking too much sometimes. When you?re thinking too much you can?t play free.
I was very, very motivated. I felt like I owed my teammates because I played so bad two nights ago. It was just one of those games. Nothing went my way. So I watched some film with (Popovich) to see what I could do better.
We made some tactical mistakes in the last few seconds. But overall, I am happy with how we played. That's basketball, you win some, you lose some. We should have finished them off earlier.
He got me good. He got me good. I just thought he didn't need to do that because I was right under the basket and I was fouled already and he just gave the extra elbow. I didn't appreciate that. But he knows that he was wrong. I just wanted to make sure I told him.
He looked good at the line to me.
My priority is try to win a championship with the Spurs. Off the court I just let them say whatever they want. I'm used to it a little bit. When I go back to France it's crazy. Everywhere I go it's like a lot of people, paparazzi. So, you just stay with your bodyguard and go into private restaurants and stuff like that.
It was great to find my teammates tonight. Everybody was making shots and Finley was hot so I tried to find him when I could. We were all feeling good tonight.
Before the break, Pop wasn't happy with our offensive rebounding. Now, (Mohammed) is dominating that category.