Reply With Quote
TD rules!
Tim is a very important guy, even though he was not good in game 3 and game 4. We know that Tim is a good leader and he know how to win the game. We should support and believe Tim, right? Nobody is perfect in every game.
TD rules!
No, the pistons outplayed the spurs three days ago, but the scoreboard tells us who outplayed who on father's day.
Who are the spurs gonna get to bail them out once big shot bob retires? they've already been bailed out by the last two great finasls role players. bob and kerr. they might have to resign sjax to get that back. perhaps they could sign fisher. at any rate.....
GO SPURS GO!
The time will find the man.
Do I sound like Phil Jackson?!
No, Phil would have charged $100,000 to impart such "wisdom."
He crumbled down the stretch, but of course the spurs are nowhere close without him.
After getting punked in game 3and4 he came back strong with 19 boards, 6 offensive. IN my eyes his legacy is only getting starting. Highly impressed with his come back performance. He's showing that he'll probably carry the spurs on his back in the 4th the next game.
I hope like in that Tim accomplishes what he ALMOST did in 2003, I hope he drops a in QUADRUPLE DOUBLE and cements his name amongst the greats of all time in these finals....a Legend Born!
Keep taking it to the hole, be a beast on the boards, and make some big shots down the stretch is really all that's needed.
Lets just hope he doest concentrate on big stats in the next game but finish the pistons in the next game.
Ok I am going to be 100% honest here. I bashed Tim Duncan for pretty much the entire fourth quarter in Spurs chat. I knocked him for being a choker. I called him out for missing freebies.
Now that I have had time to sit back and think about the game and watch lots of film I think Tim was just down right exhausted in the fourth. He has the defensive player of the year leaning on him, pushing him and geting away with just about anything for three quarters. I think thats why he was leaving his FT's short and he short armed his put back. The guy just had nothing left in the tank.
Normaly I would call that choking. Tonight however I am taking the optimistic side. The guy left everything on the court tonight. He gave his best all game long until late in the fourth he just had nothing left to give. It was the fact that Tim carried us all night that allowed big shot Rob to be the hero. Had Tim not brought everything he had to the table tonight Rob's 3's would have meant nothing.
Tim Duncan, I apologize to you. After as much heat as you took in the last two games it would have been easy to crawl inside your s . It would have been easy to defer to Tony, Manu and anyone else tonight. You didnt though. You sucked it up and brought your A game.
For gods sake people, 26 and 19! All anyone has done the last two games is talk about how great Ben Wallace has been and Tim Duncan DESTROYED Wallace tonight. The man is not over rated. The man has been playing basketball for over a year straight. The man deserved to be carried for one quarter.
The man WILL carry this team to its 3rd world championship on Tuesday!
Tim Duncan, you are THE MAN
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Duncan tonight: 26 pts, 19 rebs
Ben Wallace: 13 pts, 12 rebs
R. Wallace : 12 pts, 5 rebs
And, you stupid Detroit fans said TD is over-rated? Remember, TD was playing with 2 bad ankles. 2 Wallace(s) NOT every match 1 TD?
i think i just ended up the thread on realgm with my defense about duncan
td = mr.consistency
come on man, this guy has been playing for 3 years straight with no summers off as well as 2 recently injured ankles. i think we can cut him a little slack for being a bit tired at the end of a very very long couple of years. as far as i know, the only person on the pistons who has made that sort of commitment timewise is larry brown - he is probably also paying the price for his olympic commitments healthwise at this time.
He still manages to lead his team and get his MVP numbers...
I think he's a miracle worker.
In the game 3 pre-game, Stuart Scott said that Ben Wallace had GUARANTEED that Tim Duncan would not have more points and rebounds than him and Rasheed combined ... over the next 2 games he got away with a of a lot on Tim by way of pushing, bodying up and hacking ...
They were doing all of it today, making life for Tim .. but he gave it everything he had ... how many times today did he miss, then get the rebound and go at it again and get the points ... dunked one, got an And-1 another time, tipped in other people's misses ... he did a lot of good things ... and a lot of bad ones starting from the 4th qtr onwards .. but the good outweighed the bad easily
No. End of story.
Through 5 games of the NBA Finals against the team with the best interior defense in the league, he has been the best Spurs player.
..and he is at best 80% fit.
Amazing.
Tim Duncan did his job and Horry did his.
TEAM.
Yes, he missed FTs, but it is not like he does not miss FTs all the time. He will miss them again, he is less confident in his FTs than any other part of his game. In the grand scheme of things, I would take Shaq, Wilt Chamberlain and TD on my team in a heartbeat even though all three of them are not good FT shooters.
Overrrated??? No freaking way. Do you even watch him play??? He is not only one of the best rebounders and scorers in the NBA, he is one of the top 3 defenders in the league as well.
He admitted that he choked at the FT line, he said that Horry bailed him out, he knows everything that people are saying about his screwup, but he is still the best player in the league, and is is NOT overrated.
ing ditto.
I love labelling a dude with 2 championships (hopefully 3 soon), 2 Finals MVP, 2 MVP, I don't remember how many first team All-NBA, defensive teams, and All Star teams with 5 missed FTs and a couple of dumb mistakes. I also love forgetting the fact he scored the game winning layup vs. the Sonics, how he destroyed the Suns and the Nuggets, how he sucked in the Pistons defense, sacrificing his own stats for the good of the team. Sure he is overrated.
And isn't it funny how Duncan is overrated because he can't win w/o the Admiral, but then the Admiral rode Duncan's coattails to two championships?
BTW, Horry is great, but I doubt Wade would do all those antics, he seemed to have his feet on the ground most of the time, can't fault him for being young, good, and the media jumping all over him. But if it was Sheed who did it .... hmmm ... oh well, I still like Sheed, the dude is fire.
and it's funny how you just came in here and changed the subject of how Duncan is overrated (some about his legacy, which is what?), got your arse handed to you on a silver platter and is now changing to another subject because you can't argue the first one.
And it's even funnier how you are going to get your ass chewed on this one too because the Spurs (along with most of this board) had the utmost respect for the Pistons and understood that the first two games were not normal games for the Pistons.
Duncan overrated??? Hun take a good look in your own back yard. Overrated is that chest thumping RasheedNONguaranteed that has yet to show his questionable talents in this series.
I fundamentally disagree with the idea that Timmy is overrated -- he's clearly one of the top 3-5 players in the NBA (if only because he's lifted his team to 3 Finals).
Timmy has also been a big-time performer in the tightest moments of Finals games in other years. He has been dominant in each of the Spurs le-clinching games, including his duel with Sprewell in 1999 and his near quad in 2003.
So, those who wish to point to 1 game and claim that he's an overrated player, we'll see . . . If one game can undo 8 years of greatness and clutch play in big situations, will you admit that the legacy is intact if Timmy has a great performance in Game 6?
I have no idea why people are so bent on tearing Timmy down.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
