Advanced stat profile: Tim Duncan

[TDfan2007]

According to this site, Tim's only noticeable drop off has been in post offense efficiency. The numbers and the argument seem to make sense. Hopefully Tim gets his post game into gear by the time the playoffs start. The Spurs are going to need it badly.
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Timothy Theodore Duncan

Tim, The Foundation, Big Fun

Role: Big in all seasons, Two-way game without weakness, anchor

This is not the book on Tim Duncan and the Spurs. That subject would require entire sections of the Library of Congress. This is just the extra-heavy pamphlet on what a Tim Duncan season looks like in box scores, and the different ways we have of evaluating players now. If your idea of fun is tables and tabulations, historical comparisons and classifications, then take a load off and get out your slide rule.

Star-divide

I don't think 'advanced stats' is the perfect name for the whole mess of new metrics available to compare NBA players, but using that term at least tells you where to look. In the Advanced table on player pages on Basketball-Reference.com, there's a summary of most of what gets recorded in NBA games, if perhaps in an unfamiliar format. Despite the unfamiliarity, these metrics are still drawn from the box score statistics that have been a part of NBA life for decades.

Whether 'advanced' is the right marketing or not, they let us compare Tim Duncan's from different seasons more clearly. For example, take rebounds and rebound rate:

Keep reading here

[phxspurfan]

Duncan's box score statistics, once you rate them per possession or per opportunity, haven't changed much at all. When you hear Tim's name mentioned, it'll continue to be about his "worst year", single-digit this and career-low that, but it's mostly an effect of fewer minutes and touches. If there's any decline to be found in the statistics, it's in his less efficient and rarely used post game. Considering how steady Tim Duncan is in other facets of the game and how important he still is to the team, I think you can say reports of his demise are greatly exaggerated.

Since TD focuses on fundamentals like boxing out, his rates shouldn't be slowed by advancing age. His minutes, of course, should decline, since his body can't hold up to 35MPG+ over 90+ games. So, basically, in conclusion, he is a basketball god.

[LoneStarState'sPride]

That's a fantastic site they run over there at PtR, btw.

[DMC]

If someone could have convinced Timmy to put some arch in his shots early on, he either would have crapped out or been an absolute terror of the decade dude. He was a terror for sure, but imagine 85% from the line and those 18' jumpers with a nice arc instead of hitting the front of the rim.