A bigger role for Tony Parker with Spurs
NBA News – The San Antonio Spurs want Tony Parker to evolve into more of a facilitator this season.
Parker’s game has been built on being a scoring point guard but he’ll know work to setup LaMarcus Aldridge and Kawhi Leonard.
“It’s been great,” Parker said of his changing role. “I love my role, and I’ll try to do the best I can this year to keep winning games. You know, we won 67 games last year. We’ll try to do the same thing and go further in the playoffs. As long as [Gregg Popovich] is happy, that’s my main job here. I don’t care if people don’t understand my role or all this stuff I have to do now.”
“He’s done that more and more,” Popovich said. “He’s done a great job, just like David [Robinson] did for Tim [Duncan] and Tim did for Manu [Ginobili] and Tony. Now they’re realizing the ball needs to go in different places, and Tony is finding out he’s pretty darned skilled at it. He’s been really great in practice at finding open people.”
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