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for some reason, I think these mf are gonna have curry's season this year in the top 5. I am dumbfounded as to why a man gets props for shooting wide open 3's all season off illegal picks. I've never seen it before.
Karl "Mail-man-don't-deliver-on-Sunday's" MaloneIt's not "my logic", it's the criteria of the list
for some reason, I think these mf are gonna have curry's season this year in the top 5. I am dumbfounded as to why a man gets props for shooting wide open 3's all season off illegal picks. I've never seen it before.
Nah, 03 Duncan > 13 Lebron. 13 Lebron was moments from being eliminated before he was saved by Bosh and Allen...while a 37-yo Duncan was about to take his FMVP award.
He's a great shooter. He hit ridiculous shots all year long. But you've got to ring for the season to matter, and Duncan's postseason in '03 was dominant.
Laker seasons were not valued that highly so far tbh ...
And i agree timmy was a beast in 2003 but i doubt this is the most objective place to rank his season.
'13 LeBron was being DARED to shoot as if he was Harrison Barnes, Tim was getting triple teamed & dropping triple-doubles while playing in the post.
Lebron was bricking shots so bad and turning it over he literally tried to give that game away, he looked scared.
E-X-A-C-T-L-Y!!! It's precisely why I was surprised that the media went with the accurate narrative. I mean PLENTY and I mean plenty of teams have come back from some insurmountable odds within a game, no matter the deficit or time remaining, BUT they were almost always spawned by heroic/clutch play. Lebron was fumbling and bumbling it just like manu and chucking up threes just praying theyd go in. It was clear he was doing his best impression of a clutch player and wasn't happening. Pop and the spurs simply decided to write the book on "A Milliion and One Ways to Give a Championship Away", written by everyone BUT duncan smh.
This thread's biggest achievement is to make me hate 6 again.
By '03, Tim commanded a constant double team. He had become a superb passer out of the double teams, and he was extremely good about drawing his defender(s) away from the basket, to allow a teammate to get a much easier path in the paint. It's become sort of a clichι that great players make their teammates better, and it's totally subjective. But Tim did it as well and as much as any player ever has.
On the defensive end, Tim was the anchor of a team that held opponents to a .427 FG%. He also averaged 2.9 blocks per game that season, which is probably vastly under-rated, because he was so much more than a rim protector. Off the top of my head, I can't think of anyone outside of Shaq and Hakeem who had the same kind of impact on both ends of the floor, and Shaq simply didn't have the defensive range or versatility that Tim had.
It's probably worth noting that Tim averaged almost 8 trips to the FT line that season, without the benefit of the friendly whistles that some smaller players enjoy. (He just got the living beaten out of him constantly.) If there is anything to downgrade that 12-13 season, it's the fact that he only shot 71% from the line. It's sort of ironic that they are talking about that season, when the previous year his numbers were better, or just as good, in just about every category. It shows the value of winning the Championship in their calculations.
I think that's a pretty fair statement. But I also think that, as highly as Tim is regarded by non-Spurs fans, he's still amazingly under-rated because much of what he meant to those five Championship teams really can't show up in a stat line. It's not all a matter of home-town fans being biased. Unless you watched him night in and night out, it's probably not possible to fully appreciate his contribution.
Season sucked it was all standard-def, it was the Tom Tolbert era.
Yep, ironically our best rebounder was on the bench when all we needed was a rebound..... He would have gotten one of those, to this day I still believe Duncan wills that one out if he is out there grabbing a board over everyone. He was the MVP man, damn..... 2014 I love but that game was tough thinking back, wow.Indeed it does....
Here is their release schedule:
The #HOOP10 results will be shared one season at a time every Monday and Thursday until the project is finished.
August 8th Honorable Mention
August 11th #10 Tim Duncan 2002-03
August 15th #9 LeBron James 2012-13
August 18th #8 Michael Jordan 1987-88
August 22nd #7 - Larry Bird 1985-86
August 25th ?
August 29th ?
September 1st ?
September 5th ?
September 8th ?
September 12th ?
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LeBron shot 75% which is pretty mediocre for a perimeter player.
LeBron shot 75% which is pretty mediocre for a perimeter player.
+1
Folks also forget the 2013 ECF against the Pacers where Roy in' Hibbert was at time the best player on the floor.
Wet-behind-the-ear Paul George holding his own:
21 year old Kawhi having a breakout series:
Unable to score on Diaw:
...meanwhile Tim ended K-Mart's career.
Last edited by Kawhitstorm; 08-18-2016 at 05:11 PM.
They have 1985-86 Larry Bird at #7.
No 6. --- 1970-71 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
the spurs played the nets in the 2003 finalsTim ended K-Mart's career.
kenyon martin was an all-star in 2004
K-Mart was supposed to be the baddest dude in the league aka Mr. Enforcer but Tim sent him w/ his tail b/w his legs.the spurs played the nets in the 2003 finals
kenyon martin was an all-star in 2004
tim duncan was the reigning b2b mvp and kenyon martin was a 3rd year player who had never been an all star at that point. the spurs were favored to win
K-Mart vs. JO:
K-Mart vs. Lakers (2002):
K-Mart vs. Pistons ('03):
But...but...but...Tim emasculated him b/c he was the MVP.
k-mart vs lakers team who's pf was robert horry/mark madsen/slava medvedenko
martin was a good player but lets not act surprised that duncan sonned him
It's not about K-Mart being a superstar but rather the #1 enforcer in the league at that time (Draymond Green at ude but built like Blake) & ending up walking off w/ his tail b/w his legs.k-mart vs lakers team who's pf was robert horry/mark madsen/slava medvedenko
martin was a good player but lets not act surprised that duncan sonned him
Draymond at least had a huge Gm 7 while K-Mart shot 3/23 & had his shot rejected 5 times by Tim in the championship clincher.
+1It's not about K-Mart being a superstar but rather the #1 enforcer in the league at that time (Draymond Green at ude but built like Blake) & ending up walking off w/ his tail b/w his legs.
Draymond at least had a huge Gm 7 while K-Mart shot 3/23 & had his shot rejected 5 times by Tim in the championship clincher.
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