Parker is on a better Defensive team, he is not a good defender at all. Parker is on a greatly coached team, he is not a great floor general. The spurs are a machine at this point. They have an awesome organization and have done the best job out of everyone in the league in assembling complementary talent. If you plug Gilbert into the Spurs, you’re honestly are saying that the Spurs wouldn’t be better? wow…

My logic is if I’m going to compare players who play the same position I swap the teams and concentrate on ability. One guy has to take over the other is allowed to. Gilbert has that Kanye complex, where people $%!%ed on him when he was coming up, so he is like “they can’t tell me nuthin!” He will eventually mature and focus on a Championship, but if he thinks Washington is grabbing a Chip with their current team, he would have to Avg 40ppg a game. Love his “swag” and parker has never been tested.

I hate to bring Kobe in this, but it’s funny how much people are promoting Parker, but I haven’t yet heard the mummers that he is only a Champion with Duncan, like you heard with Kobe. People treat Kobe as if he doesn’t have a Chip, but Parker is all of the sudden that dude?!? That takes me back to the Olympics. Parker’s presence doesn’t equal success. They couldn’t secure a TOP 7 spot. They lost to Sovelnia twice I believe. I a game that they needed they lost by 14 points, while being up in the 4th quarter. Parker didn’t step up the D, He didn’t put his foot on the gas on offense, he didn’t rally the troops and drop a bunch of dimes…he couldn’t do anything but watch and concede this:

“Basketball is weird sometimes. We had the game, we were up by six or seven points in the fourth quarter and then we were hit by eight 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and they killed us…We are young, I’m 25, everybody can come back…But it’s very disappointing, you don’t have a lot of chances to go to the Olympics and that was my second and we didn’t make it so I’ll try again.”

He has game and is indeed a dynamic and gifted ball player. He is a winner. He is not the same caliber talent as Gil.

Oh and yes Gil is so selfish he plays on a team where two other guys get enough shine to be considered All-stars, where he encourages and pushes guys like Deshawn and the incoming rookies to step their game up. He is very selfish. Never heard any call guys like Gil and Iverson selfish while they are playing with them or afterwards, because they no the truth. They weren’t even in games until guys like this turn it on and carry the load. If these guys passed the whole game they would be treated like Kobe in a Game 7 or Tracy in the first round…WTF! Why don’t he just takeover?!?

It’s not even worth it…

sure u work for the nba? cuz really your arguments damn
as u can see im not the only one who thinks parker is better

It is my OPINION that Gil is a chuck, not only because he has to put up a lot of shots in order for his team to have a chance, but also because he’s just a selfish player. All his statements are about his numbers, and how many buckets he’s gonna drop against coaches he doesn’t like. Not about leading his team to the finals.

If you put Gil in a Spurs uni, he’d be forced to change that cuz one man ball doesn’t work in Pop’s system. (Not to mention the fact that he plays negative defense). Manu said it best, “If you don’t play D, Pop won’t play you.”
However if you put Gil’s killer instinct into Parker, he’d be a serious problem. I do admire Gil’s work ethic…he’s self-motivated. I just wish he were more team oriented.

want one example of that bulls lose jordan they win 55plus and make it to the second round now thats a stacked team.

duncan has a dynasty (yes dynasty if the 80′s celtics were are dynasty so are these spurs) with the worst talent compared to all other dynasties in nba history. thats why duncan is great

and dont tell me minny loses the same amount of games with duncan instead of kg

just watch your boy do nothing with allen and pierce on a weak conference.

the nash thing well lets just say he always goes deep

if lebron took a really bad team to the finals garnett should at least make it out of the east with two other allstars

I give him credit he is a great winner and he does work hard…i wouldn’t try to take that away from him. His J is much improved and he made people pay for playing off him. Gil is a more physical player on both ends and as stated is the better all around player, if we still use numbers as a measure. No one asked the question who is the Top 5 winning point guards…It’s top 5 – to me this means ability, maybe to others ability means being a champion, but again if that’s the case Bowen is the best SF in the league, Ginobli is the best SG, Oberto is the best center, Duncan is indeed The best big man to ever play the game (because I know many fans like to exclude players they weren’t able to acutual watch or use in a video game), and Tony Parker is just untouchable. Oh yeah don’t forget, Robert Horry is the God of active player…

Championships are won by teams…stop using it to promote a players ability. I respect an Iverson, LeBron, and others who make it to the Chip literally carrying their teams through injury and getting beat up by the press. I can’t say that parker has that in him. He has had a charmed experience (with exception of his first year under popavich). I will never hate on a winner, but I’m all for guys that play through adversity and keep showing up. different strokes for different folks I guess.

France had a talent heavy team in the Euro Chip and Parker’s team got knocked out…Am I right? So what’s the rationale there? If duncan was on that team they would have own it all? He dropped 31 and his team still lost by 14 to Solvenia and no one brings this up? To me the Olympic competition is more of a measure of his leadership and takeover potential and he hasn’t show much. In 2005 he avg 12pg and 2apg a game in Olympic comp on a team where clearly he is the best player. Please explain his Olympic short-comings as the best player on a talented team.