Many different ways LOL. Dirk shoots jumpers all day for 's sake. He will throw in the occasional drive to the hoop (Not against GS) but 90% of his game is shooting jumpers. Tim has the much more well rounded offensive game. Tim faces up as much as he backs his man down. He goes to the hoop, he shoots the bank shot facing his man up or backing him down. He can give you the hook shot with either hand. The man has the most complete game in the league. This is the problem with fans today. What wins and is what teams needs most is not what thrills the average fan. Guys who give you 1 or 2 cool things to watch but suck at everything else that sells tickets.
He has to since he can't guard anyone in the low block for if he could not posterize people what good would he be?
the good old days, bird/magic only had to play one round b4 reaching the finals
there teams were stackd and more superior to the spurs as compared in talent.
seriously wtf did bird and magic played? and it seems they get all the credit, and the riders are also overrated.
The more you say this the harder i am laughing because it is simply not true. 90% of Dirk's shots are jumpers period.
You close minded Spurs fans are so damn bitter against the past 2 years MVP winners. So many of you dig and scratch for anyways to bash on those 2 GREAT players just because your boy TD didn't perform as well as either of them and get the MVP. NOBODY, and I repeat, NOBODY outside of San Antonio enjoys to watch Duncan, but so many all around the country love to watch Dirk and Nash play. Wonder why. It's because he is so ing boring, good or not.
Duncan is every bit as good as Bird. You imagine Duncan playing with the likes of Parish and Mchale, now that would be ing scary.
And shooting that jumper that well from all over and from the 3 is far more impressive than the short stuff Duncan throws in.
This futher discredits what you have to say. Duncan is very good, but not Bird good. Your comments might be the most homeristic I've seen.
Nash much more than Dirk and your comment about Duncan is ridiculous.
That's re ed.
FIBA sucks.
I wouldn't be surprised if Duncan ended up in the basketball hall of fame when he retires.
Calling a skilled player like Duncan "boring" is a weak argument. Probably the weakest argument possible. I'd say a casual fan can get away with calling him "boring", but anyone that knows anything about the game and what it takes to do what TD does, will enjoy watching it. I don't like TD simply because he so hard to slow down. Being a Jazz fan i hope it suddenly snows four feet in TD's driveway tomorrow afternoon so he can't make it to the arena. I don't like my chances.
LOL so Tim on a team with that kind of hall of fame talent and he is not winning everything that is not nailed down. He has 3 les and has played with 0 hall of famers in their primes.
BTW how is he not as good as Bird? Right off the bat you can't argue that Tim is a better rebounder and defender than Bird, they both have 3 les so tell me how Bird is better?
Maybe you just think it's redundant because you have seen it so much. I mean, it looks like Duncan will be playing into June...again. A time of year where Dirk & Nash have typically been going to clubs and allowing people to take drunken pictures of them.
Dirk is probably staring at his MVP trophy while hurling empty bottles of scotch right about now.
I don't need to tell you how. You are such a homer for the Spurs that nothing will matter, yet so many of your fellow fans would not equate him to Bird.
And all I'm saying is Duncan is boring as to watch for the vast majority of fans, which is a good part of the reason why the Spurs also get less nationally televised games than some of those other teams. Duncan is very skilled and good at what he does, but that does not make it exciting to watch.
Greg Maddux is one of the best pitchers over the last 15 years, but it has never ever been very exciting to watch, not like a Randy Johnson or a Clemens, because those guys might go out there and strike out 20 on any given day, but Maddux will get it done consistently, while often times not keeping the crowd as into it. It's the same type of thing, that's all.
Tangent alert.
Greg Anthony....I remember a looonnng time ago, I even forgot what year and what series, Marc Stein was on the halftime or postgame show as a guest (like a video teleconference thing). They were arguing about who the mvp should be (I think Shaq was in question, so it might've been his first year in Miami) and I remember Greg Anthony and Marc Stein went at it. Not so much Marc Stein, but it seemed like Anthony took it personally that he disagreed and Anthony was mockingly calling Stein and his "esteemed, astute, educated mind" (I'm slightly paraphrasing) out.
And I've never seen them on the same show, segment, special, whatever ever since. But I think Anthony knows what he's talking about for the most part. I just don't know what happened that one time. (I think Anthony did have a valid point though in the discussion, it was just the personal emotion that he showed that was kinda weird. I think there was an underlying issue, maybe a comment Stein slipped out before the show or something.)
Tangent over.
It's redundant because you can basically predict how he will score once he gets the ball at a certain point on the court. Yes, it's frustrating as , but it's predictable, and not easily slowed down or stopped.
Making a statement without context is meaningless. Tell me why he is not as good as Bird other than just because i say so.
You can say that about any player. Dirk must take the same jump shot from the same areas on the court at least 10 times a game. KG he basically dribbles 2 or 3 times into the paint and shoots a fadeaway jumper 90% of the time.
I refuse to continue to argue with someone who believes Duncan is the greatest ever, Parker is the greatest pg ever, manu is the greatest 2 ever, Bowen is the greatest defender ever, and Pop is the greatest coach ever. It is pointless to continue to argue with you when you believe all those things. You are that much of a homer.
I never said any of those things so i guess this is simply your way of waving the white flag, i accept your surrender.
I don't understand how anyone can cite boredom (unstoppable and dominating "boring" talent) as the main crux on the argument against Tim Duncan as one of the greatest players of all time.
He is better than Dirk, better than Nash---not taking anything away from those great players. Don't know about Bird because I simply haven't watched enough of Bird's games compared to Duncan's games. But Duncan is ALREADY way up there on the list of greats.
I recently got his jersey (swingman authentic replica....authentic is too expensive for me...geez...does anyone know how the real authentic jerseys are made? Are the numbers and stuff actual, real cloth??) and I will wear it with pride. Wearing a Duncan jersey is like knowing a great underground band that no one knows or appreciates.
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