Flashback: Duncan's team vs Ginobili's team in an elimination game

[Trill Clinton]

A great player is defined by that they do in the NBA and that is all..

try telling that to manu stans

[dbreiden83080]

try telling that to manu stans

The same ones that don't want him to play this summer..

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Feel free to post Manu's MVP pics.

[johnpaulwall21]

so the op basically wants to give the credit to Argentina for our 2014 championship. To point out a blemish in Duncan's career. Also to say that ginobili > Duncan because of the olympics. Anything else?

[Arcadian]

I just wish Duncan went to Beijing or London and scored an Olympic gold medal. It is still one of the better awards for any athlete to represent his country.

Apparently Timmy disagrees with you...Keep in mind, he could have easily won gold in 2008 and 2012, but he simply chose not to participate. He doesn't like olympic basketball and chose to focus his efforts on the NBA.

[anakha]

LOL at amerifats embarassed of losing at their own sport and saying Olympics doesn't count... LOL at losing 02,04,06 back to back, getting embarassed tactically, Europe changing the way their own sport is played and NBA copy catting Euroball

LOl at robdiaz, fat mexican

LOL at US

LOL at testies melting down in only 4 posts.

[TheGreatYacht]

Argen ards are getting out of control... Talking about Mexicans now? This is what I was trying to stop

Lin fans > Argen ards

TBH TBH

/endthread

[dbreiden83080]

Apparently Timmy disagrees with you...Keep in mind, he could have easily won gold in 2008 and 2012, but he simply chose not to participate. He doesn't like olympic basketball and chose to focus his efforts on the NBA.

Resting his body was more important to him by that point than anything else.

[cd98]

2004 team was one of the worst in terms of developed talent. When Marbury is your point guard, you know you're screwed. Hate to say this but Kobe rape incident screwed that team. Kobe and Duncan would have beat Argentina, though Iverson and Marbury would have kept it close with chucking.

[PingPong]

Some of those plays are almost the same you see nowadays in the Spurs. Argentina played smallball too. No dominant center, lots of passing. Another curious thing about that team is a basketball wonder generation coming just after the argentinean volleyball wonder generation. I remember Argentina had their best volleyball team and their best volleyball player of all time, Marco Miilinkovic in the middle of the late nineties. In Brasil after the first silver medal in the volleyball, the basketball almost died. Every tall kid was playing the f**g volleyball. Argentina still managed to build the Golden generation in the basketball. Maybe it's because the volleyball didn't reached the world class level

[DAF86]

lol at all the defensiveness gotry in this thread.

Duncan is the greatest player of his generation, one of the best 5/10 players all-time, nobody is trying to disminish him in this thread imho.

Don't be gots and be happy for the historic moment of the other Spurs legend featured in this thread.

P/S: Imagine if we had that Manu on this current Spurs team. I think he could have won a regular season MVP.

[benstanfield]

Hit job by the refs on Duncan tbh. He was the only decent player on that team that gave a , and he was in foul trouble with ticky tack fouls the entire game.

But it's the Olympics so official corruption is kinda par for the course. That US team should've still mercilessly pounded Argentina, but the rest of the team played like gots besides Tim.

[benstanfield]

Resting his body was more important to him by that point than anything else.

If only certain other Spurs felt this way.

[100%duncan]

cheesy as pizza