Tim Duncan's inside skill is extremely beautiuful

[Rapper]

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How do you defense a master like Tim?

inside well, jumper well, passing well, most importantly , brain well.

[Slydragon]

I hate YouTube's low quality video's.

Great highlights but I really didn't care for the music.

[Insomniac]

Timmy is solid.

[duncan228]

I watch most games at least twice. The replaying is so I can watch Duncan closer. His footwork is amazing. His timing incredible. His passing and court vision are underrated. His basketball IQ is off the charts.

It's easy to miss some of the more subtle parts of Duncan's game. If you have the chance to focus on what he does it will make it even clearer.

He's simply one of the all-time best.

[Manufan909]

Tim Duncan's a soldier, staying in after his foot messed up.

[Galileo]

Duncan, like no one else in history, makes it look easy.

[Fermixalot]

What I've always liked about Tim, and I've said this a few times, is that he just goes out on the court, goes about his business (20 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assist, 2 blocks) and moves on to the next game.

I think of that Nate McMilan quote, I don't remember it exactly, but he was talking to Oden when he got drafted and said something about the other big men in the league lull you until you go down to San Antonio where Tim busts. your. ass.

First Ballot Hall of Famer. Greatest PF to play the game, one of the top 5 to ever play the game. And he's a Spur.

[duncan228]

I think of that Nate McMilan quote, I don't remember it exactly, but he was talking to Oden when he got drafted and said something about the other big men in the league lull you until you go down to San Antonio where Tim busts. your. ass.

Greg Oden on Tim Duncan:

Everyone's been telling me that as a big man, no matter how much I prepare myself, you learn your toughest lesson when you go down to San Antonio. The other day [former NBA player and Blazers assistant coach] Monty Williams pulled me aside and told me: "That guy down there" -- meaning Tim Duncan -- "has had surgery on his left knee. He can only jump about this high [holds his fingers about an inch apart]. He won't say a word to you, and he will Bust. Your. A--."

[Manufan909]

I love that quote. Can't qait to see Tim bust that ass!!!!:lmao

[BWS-1994]

You don't need to be a genius to figure out the beauty in TD's game.

Sadly, not everyone appreciates it.

[Mister Sinister]

I love that quote. Can't qait to see Tim bust that ass!!!!:lmao
:lmao New soda: Owed.

[peskypesky]

I love you, Timmy!!!

GOAT

[vander]

I can't stand to see him getting old (in basketball terms), I saw on PBS one time that if you switch to a diet of certain exotic vegetables, and maybe fruits too, it can almost halt the aging process, Timmy needs to look into that

[lefty]

Owning Zo at 5:22 :king

[sexinthatsx]

Greg Oden on Tim Duncan:

The Nate McMillan quote is always a good one, but remember this one?:

Artest explained: "I remember one time Kevin Garnett was mushing him, and shoving him in the face; and Tim Duncan didn't do anything, he didn't react. He just kicked Kevin Garnett's a--, and won the damn championship. You know what I'm sayin'? That's gangsta. Everybody can show emotion, dunk on somebody, scream and be real cocky; but Tim Duncan is a ... he's a pimp."

[sexinthatsx]

Oh yeah and while we're on this subject of beautiful... here's a memorable ESPN article:

Watching Duncan is beautiful, not boring

Things that bore me: Reality television, "wacky" morning radio shows, the very sight of Charlie Sheen.

You'll notice that Tim Duncan does not make the list.
In fact, I could list a million things that bore me -- ironing, Stone Phillips, Austria -- without mentioning Duncan.

I could list a million boring sports things -- cricket, free agency, throws to first to hold the runner -- and No. 21 for the San Antonio Spurs still would be nowhere near making an appearance.

I don't just respect Tim Duncan -- everyone does that. I'm entertained watching him play basketball.

I love the bank shots, the drop steps, the efficient post moves, the intelligent passes out of double-teams, the two-hand rebounds, the refusal to force anything. I've enjoyed watching him hang 31 points and 11 rebounds a game on the Dallas Mavericks in a ding-dong series so far, and I can't wait to see him play Monday night against the Mavs in what verges on a must-win playoff game.

This apparently makes me un-American enough that the NSA soon will be listening to my phone calls.

Enjoying Duncan runs counter to a state university-sized school of thought that says the most accomplished player in the NBA is test-pattern dull. Skip and Woody actually agreed on something last week on "Cold Pizza" -- that the Spurs (i.e., Duncan) are boring. And Madison Avenue clearly sees it that way, given its shunning of Duncan as a national pitchman.

Dwyane Wade will put you in a swell pair of shoes. Shaq will tell you how to care for your aching muscles. Even onetime pariah pitchman Kobe Bryant has made a commercial comeback, trading on his anti-hero status.

Just recently I've seen Kevin Garnett portray a platoon leader, a superhero and a standup comic. Funny, though, I've never seen him portray a pro basketball player in June.

Vince Carter is selling a wireless service during the playoffs. That's nice. When the Heat are finished with Carter and the Nets, he should have enough free minutes to call Duncan and ask him what winning a championship or three feels like.

I hear we're all witnesses to LeBron James' ascendance. While I won't dispute that, I'm wondering how commercial America failed to witness the Duncan phenomenon that preceded it.

The two-time league MVP and three-time NBA Finals MVP, the first player ever to be named first-team All-NBA in each of his first eight seasons as a pro, the guy who pushed himself through 80 regular-season games with plantar fasciitis, the perfect teammate, the caring community presence, the ideal face of a franchise? Guess he's too stoic and too solid to sell.

I look around the league and simply don't get it. I see repetitive stories about the anti-Duncans and yawn.

Thin man Allen Iverson and tin man Chris Webber blowing off Fan Appreciation Night in Philly? Shocker.

Overexposed and underprepared point guard Sebastian Telfair playing just 24 minutes a game for a 60-loss team? Hardly the stuff of books and documentaries, is it?

Larry Brown and Stephon Marbury hissing at each other through the tabloids during a train-wreck season? Utter boredom.

Amid this fool's parade, isn't there some love to be found for the Big Fundamental?

Yes. Turns out you can find it from predictable and unpredictable sources.

"I think he's very refreshing," said South Carolina's Dave Odom, who had Duncan for four years at Wake Forest. "What's different is refreshing, and he's different. It's gone 180 degrees now.

"He's fundamentally sound, a fearless, determined champion, someone who didn't feel like he already knew everything, who puts the team first -- those were throwback virtues and attributes. Those were things that made the old Celtic teams great, but today that's not true. Today's game is style over substance. He's the opposite. He's substance over style.

"I think he's appreciated. I don't think he's adored."

Unpredictable? How about Ron Artest, the NBA's Jesse James to Duncan's Wyatt Earp. The combustible Sacramento King told Dime Magazine this season that he likes the way Duncan plays.

Artest explained: "I remember one time Kevin Garnett was mushing him, and shoving him in the face; and Tim Duncan didn't do anything, he didn't react. He just kicked Kevin Garnett's a--, and won the damn championship. You know what I'm sayin'? That's gangsta. Everybody can show emotion, dunk on somebody, scream and be real cocky; but Tim Duncan is a ... he's a pimp."

Only the creative cloudy thinking of Ron Artest could put "Tim Duncan" and "pimp" in the same sentence -- but that's part of the big guy's marketability deficit. In terms of swagger, he's more plumber than pimp. He's as edgy as a sphere.

The closest he's come to being controversial is complaining about David Stern's new dress code (Duncan isn't comfortable without his shirttail hanging out, and he's not a suit-and-tie guy). He doesn't need big-city bling, being perfectly comfortable in the relative obscurity of San Antonio. And he's a lousy self-promoter.

"He doesn't let us into his life," said San Antonio Express-News columnist Buck Harvey. "Probably my first interview with him was as good as my last one. But in this business you can kind of respect that. He isn't trying to get in good with the media.

"My impression, if you were to know him as a teammate and a friend, he wouldn't be boring at all. He's very smart and has a great sense of humor. He just doesn't want to put that out there."

The Duncan we don't see is the guy who came over to Odom's house for dinner last October, the night before an exhibition game in Columbia, S.C. -- and fretted because he didn't have anything nicer to wear than his sweat suit. The Duncan we don't see sat in Odom's living room talking to the coach and his wife for hours after dinner, then dropped by South Carolina's practice the next day to work with the post men on a few drills.

Odom reports that the Gamecock players were not bored by Duncan's presence.

Turns out they're not alone. There might be a peasant revolution underway when it comes to Duncan and his Q Rating.

The latest issue of ESPN Magazine ran the results of a SportsNation poll identifying athletes with the most "cred." It's about as easily defined as porn -- we know it when we see it, to borrow from a former Supreme Court justice -- but it would seem to rank among the highest compliments you can pay a player.

My jaded assumption was that Duncan would rate depressingly low on the "cred" scale. Instead, he leads the league and ranks behind only Tiger Woods and Tom Brady among "SportsNation's most cred-carrying athletes."

I nearly wept. Boring, at last, is beautiful.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2445401

[duncan228]

The Nate McMillan quote is always a good one, but remember this one?:

Yes, I remember that one. Duncan is kind of what I do here. :)

Thanks for bringing it up, it's a good one.

[Fermixalot]

Second to his psychoanalysis, this is my favorite Duncan article of all time.

http://introducingliston.blogspot.com/2007/11/timothy-duncan-wikipedia.html

The Biography of Timothy Duncan
TIMOTHY DUNCAN
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So basically, my dad is like, the foremost expert on Tim Duncan and stuff. You see, they were best friends or whatever and now my dad knows all about him. But not best friends like where they hung out and knew each other and stuff, more like best friends where Tim never really knew about my dad but my dad thought about and talked about Tim Duncan all the time and wore his jersey to my grandma's funeral even though it totally pissed everyone off but my dad was like, "Whatever, dudes. It's the playoffs.". Best friends like that. And since I got banned from Wikipedia (probably because I make out with 50 hot chicks all day) I figured I would post the real biography of Timothy Duncan here.

Biography
Early Life: Tim Duncan's early life was like anyone else's. His mom was a super robot sent back in time to play basketball and his dad was a cloud of thunder and lightning. At first, he was real good at swimming but then this wizard or something told him, "Hey. What's up, homie? Play basketball." Tim stopped swimming because that wizard told him to and when a wizard says to do something you frigg'n do it.



College Life: After that fateful day with the wizard Tim got so good at basketball. Like, real good. You know how when you look at porn on your home computer when your mom or wife goes to the grocery store and then afterwards you try real hard to make sure you get rid of all the evidence? That's how hard Tim was practicing at hoops and he was doing it like, at least twice a week. Imagine that. Also, he was playing the saxophone a lot too, but then that wizard showed up again and was like, "I thought I told you to only play basketball?" and then Tim was like, "No, you told me don't swim." and the wizard was like, "Don't get smart." and Tim was like, "I'm not getting smart, I been smart." and the wizard was like, "Oh, you're a funny guy? Well, I got a joke for you. This guy walks into a bar... you're grounded for two weeks." and I was like, "Awww, mom. That's not fair!" and then she was like, "Tough cookies, Liston."


The Pros: So Tim got drafted by the greatest team of all teams, the San Antonio Spurs and it was so sweet. He was with The Admiral and The Ninja and then he did some commercials for H-E-B. He wanted to win a championship real bad, so then he did. One game he was playing against Shaquille O'Neal (his arch rival- the Mumm-Ra to his Lion O) and there were like 50 Shaqs and he still won because he practiced so much and was so good. My dad said he was the only who got to see the game because he had ordered the delux NBA League Pass that was only offered for that one day and he had to pay like, $1000 for it but it was totally worth it. After that he won a lot more championships and trophies. Then once during the playoffs the Spurs were losing to the Lakers by one with just a few seconds left so my dad said he was going to call Tim Duncan and he went into the backyard and called him. (I didn't see the phone but my dad said it was because Tim gave him a special phone that you can only see if you're heart is pure and my heart isn't pure because my mom makes "eyes" at this guy at the grocery and I "let" her so it's my fault.) Then, on the next play, Tim made a fade away over Shaq from the top of the key and my dad went nuts, then Derek Fisher made a shot and my dad started crying a lot. It was weird. Later the Spurs won more championships.


The Lionosauras Rex: Once, this Lionosauras Rex broke into his home island of St. Croix and all the islanders were too scared to do anything. All of them except one; Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan had to fight the Lionosauras Rex to defend the honor of his family so he did. And he beat him. Standard stuff, really. He also likes Renaissance Fairs and Dungeons and Dragons.



References:
My dad
Me
My cousin Sid

[KidCongo]

I watch most games at least twice. The replaying is so I can watch Duncan closer. His footwork is amazing. His timing incredible. His passing and court vision are underrated. His basketball IQ is off the charts.

It's easy to miss some of the more subtle parts of Duncan's game. If you have the chance to focus on what he does it will make it even clearer.

He's simply one of the all-time best.

Maybe teams should hire you to scout TD.

[Kobe24Forever]

duncan is great, but this video is major gayness, it even makes duncan looks gay, with those injury replays and that music lmao, i bet the video is made by a girl, your beautiful, your beautiful it's true...

[Obstructed_View]

duncan is great, but this video is major gayness, it even makes duncan looks gay, with those injury replays and that music lmao, i bet the video is made by a girl, your beautiful, your beautiful it's true...

Maybe the video was made by someone who's gay and they are sending you a signal, and the reason you reacted that way is because you're actually gay and don't know how to interpret your new feelings.

Or maybe the video was just made by someone that doesn't like rap, and you just completely missed the joke in the title of the thread. Must be all those repressed feelings blocking your reading comprehension and sense of humor.

[Fingaroll44]

Lol

[mrspurs]

Wonder what happened to Timmys off the glass money shot? Wonder why Timmy missed more shots this past PO's then ever? Hopefully he wont repeat from last season. If he does that then we wont go far again. TP was there, Manu was there, Bruce is always there. But Timmy wasnt there. And he knows it.

[Sissiborgo]

Can't guard him..

[gilmor]

What I've always liked about Tim, and I've said this a few times, is that he just goes out on the court, goes about his business (20 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assist, 2 blocks) and moves on to the next game.

I think of that Nate McMilan quote, I don't remember it exactly, but he was talking to Oden when he got drafted and said something about the other big men in the league lull you until you go down to San Antonio where Tim busts. your. ass.

First Ballot Hall of Famer. Greatest PF to play the game, one of the top 5 to ever play the game. And he's a Spur.

This is the best quote I have read since god knows when....

But I can't resist to add.. David Robinson is another HOF Spurs..