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I have watched him too many years now. He is a whole new animal in the playoffs.
He's just in a slump
He's declining as the season goes on
He's just waiting for the playoffs to begin
This team has 5 players in double figures, with neal and blair also averaging 9 pts. Spurs are just too deep, only so much ball to go around. Duncan doesn't get as many regular touches as he used to, so at times he's out of rythm on offence. Spurs have been beating good teams all season, the rare occasion that lakers finally beat a good team they become unbeatable all of a sudden? lol give me a break.
I have watched him too many years now. He is a whole new animal in the playoffs.
Sort of like last year right? He's 34 with bad knees.... he is in decline.
I'd hope so. He'll be playing more minutes.
hum... maybe a bit of the 3...
OMG bull .
LOL. Great argument.
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/215/tim-duncan
I would like to think he's saving his energy for the playoffs...
Or against LA he finds himself as the 4th best big man on the floor without the power, size, or quickness to do anything against who he's facing.
I think it is a combination of things, he clearly is taking care of himself, and that is by design. Same as Manu taking more 3´s.
Once we change a bit our offense to give him more of the looks he is used to he will be fine. Not 2005 fine, but at least he will be able to put up 15-11 on consistent basis.
Look at the shots he took, mainly midrange and quite sporaic. All players needs some rythm, as of now Duncan enters the game without knowing what role he will play on offense. Almost no pick n roll´s or ost ups for him. And that is fine for me while we are up, and in this strange stretch of games where the refs are letting teams be very physical with us on our own court.
TD as of now, doesn´t know if he will have 5 shoots or 15, in the PO the play is always more inside out focused and that´s where Duncan strenghts prevail.
Hopefully by the time we face the Lakers for the last time in the regular season, we'll have homecourt clinched, and Pop will 'experiment' with Splitter/Duncan starting against the Lakers, just for the of it. Splitter seemed to be doing pretty well against their size, and I have to think he'll do better than 6'6" Blair would.
Last edited by Thompson; 03-08-2011 at 12:03 AM.
That is eye opening. I haven't checked it, but if true, it is amazing that Spurs beat LA twice this season. That is scary bad. But Tim gets the benefit of the doubt until he doesn't get it done in the playoffs.
Tim really pissed me off yesterday. He is essentially a left block player, where he has a nice runner and drop steps to both sides. Yesterday, he went back to a bad old habit - posting up on the right and going middle with his right hand push-shot, which ends up in a perfect position to be stuffed back in his face. It is his weakest move and often gets stuffed. He went to it twice during the 1st Q and, surprise surprise, got blocked both times. He wasn't a factor after that.
He hasn't used it much so far this year, but I wish he'd eliminate that bull shot from his arsenal altogether and have been saying so for 5 seasons now.
He is missing easy he used to make without even trying. Duncan is done I'm afraid. If the dude is coasting, at some point you would think glimpses of pride would kick in. I don't even see that.
If he goes for 17.5 and 10.8 it would be hard to say he's declining, wouldn't it?
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149772
Once upon a time...I doubted him. I will never do it again.
Believe in Tim Duncan.
It's funny...that thread is almost exactly a year old. Ironic.
It's called old age. He's not the same player even from 2 years ago.
We better hope Bonner/Neal/Hill are draining 3's in come May.
Yeah, they're def. not unbeatable. Someone will have to get those bigs in foul trouble though. Duncan will def. have to be a factor.
Duncan is my favo e player, but he's starting to look like Robert Parish in his last year with the Celtics...
that's the reason why the Spurs got Splitter, but sadly, POP doesn't want to use him.
I still think the acquisition of RJ was a bad trade. The 4-year extension contract was an even worse move by the GM.
We should get a better big instead.
Just the quote, hit the link for the whole piece.
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...-will-recover/McDyess: Duncan will recover
Mike Monroe
..."Tim takes everything personal when he has a bad game,” said the oldest member of the Spurs, at 36 just 1year older than Duncan. “He comes in early and works hard. I look forward to him having a big game against Detroit because he always feels like he let the team down, not only himself.
“He’ll come in with a little more focus and play a little harder.”
I think it's actually a combination of all three. Duncan is obviously not the player that he was few years ago, or even earlier this season. He's not giving it everything he has in order to save what he has left for the playoffs. Also currently he is in a slump because when you watch him actually trying hard he's still not getting a whole lot of production. I think the Duncan we'll see in the playoffs will be something like 17pts 11rbs 2blks.
He is not deteriorating, he is somewhat in a slump. Since he does not get as many touches as before he is not in rhythm to all of a sudden become the #1 scoring option when he is being guard by a good defensive player with size.This is why he struggles agains the Lakers, if he had come in scoring +20 the last 10 games that would be a different story.
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