Body Positioning...Passing...Defense...Ball Control...Unselfishness...Clock Management...Team Play. Watch the Spurs play, really WATCH them, and you'll understand. The Spurs aren't perfect (no team is), but they execute the fundamentals better than any other team in the NBA. The Gators did the same things and it got them back-to-back NCAA les. Flashy plays are entertaining, but fundamentals win championships.
How good would KG be if he were to switch places with Duncan, play along side Robinson, and have a great coach like Pop?
How good would Minnesota have been with a Duncan/Marbury combination?
Marbury is great enough to make any great player suck.
Eh, Duncan instead of KG this season and the Wolves make the playoffs.
what a good take except for the go jazz reference.. what a .
Wilt Chamberlain couldn't hit free throws either, although supposedly he hit them just fine in practice. And I read that Phil Jackson asked Pippen and Grant to go to a psychologist to help them with their freebies, but they just blew it off. I wonder if Timmie has seen one. I'm an Eagles fan, and it seems my boy DMac could use a little guidance there too.
Yea... really bothers you that everyone in the world isnt a Spurs fan right? Let face it, if you're not a Spurs fan its alot easier rooting for the underdog, just like how i was rooting for the warriors against the Mavs... upsets are always more fun.
I liked Duncan's fro.
He is so good because of his ability to post-op (better than anyone else) and face up (drive or bank shot). He's a great rebounder and defender on the other end=complete player. If he could only shoot 3's.
He made one this season!
Duncan is so good at everything he does, with the free throw exception. If he shot 80% at the line he'd be perfect. And there's no such thing.
I'll take him as he is, lousy free throw shooting and all.
Tim is as fundamentally sound as you can get for a 7-foot wonder. The guy impresses me just about everytime he plays. We all love the excitement of a Manu 3-pointers or finger roll...but Tim makes everything happen on the court. The guy is simply the best power forward out there.
don't tell anybody about this but he is from Mars.
Two reasons:
1. Playing alongside David Robinson
2. Patience from the Spurs organization
Work ethic.
Why is he so good?
Great footwork, excellent basketball body (long arms and very very long in general), steady mindset, work ethic, basketball smarts....it is a long list.
The guy is unreal, his career is really going down as one of the all time best.
TD won a le without DRob so scratch that excuse. I don't believe anyone understands how truly great of a player is Duncan. There will come a time, after he has left the game, when a lot of people will get it. Duncan has done this for 10 years and will do it for 5 more. Think about it. He is the greatest power forward of all time. Better than Malone, Barkley, McHale, SJones, etc...
Duncan is so good because he doesn't believe he's as good as he is.
Duke fans used to call him Spock.
Oh, and I believe the record he is approaching isn't consecutive playoff double doubles, it's consecutive playoff 20/10s.
Duncan isn't the fastest, neither the strongest. He is not so athletic and he can barely jump. But he doesn't need all those things to dominate. Duncan has a perfect combination of talent, technique, knowledge of the game and character.
He entered the league averaging 21/11. Today, ten years later, he has an average of 20/10 while playing 5 minutes less per game.
Boring? maybe to some people. But no one can disagree that he ranks among the best players of all-time.
Tim Duncan is unique.NBA regular season statistics
Correct as of 19 April 2007
Season Team GP MPG SPG BPG RPG APG PPG
1997-98 San Antonio 82 39.1 0.7 2.5 11.9 2.7 21.1
1998-99 San Antonio 50 39.3 0.9 2.5 11.4 2.4 21.7
1999-00 San Antonio 74 38.9 0.9 2.2 12.4 3.2 23.2
2000-01 San Antonio 82 38.7 0.8 2.3 12.2 3.0 22.2
2001-02 San Antonio 82 40.6 0.7 2.5 12.7 3.7 25.5
2002-03 San Antonio 81 39.3 0.7 2.9 12.9 3.9 23.3
2003-04 San Antonio 69 36.6 0.9 2.7 12.4 3.1 22.3
2004-05 San Antonio 66 33.4 0.7 2.6 11.1 2.7 20.3
2005-06 San Antonio 80 34.8 0.9 2.0 11.0 3.2 18.6
2006-07 San Antonio 80 34.1 0.8 2.4 10.6 3.4 20.0
Duncan states the main inspiration for his life is his late mother Ione. Among others, she let his sisters and him learn the nursery rhyme "Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest / Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.", which he adopted as his personal motto. Before his mother Ione suc bed to breast cancer, Duncan promised her he would complete his university degree before playing basketball professionally. On and off the court, he states that the three most important values are dedication, teamwork and camaraderie.
Duncan is nicknamed "Merlin," due to his love of the fantasy role playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, and renaissance fairs. An avid video game player, he also acknowledges a certain joy of playing "himself" on basketball video games. Finally, Duncan states if he had the chance, he would challenge NBA legends Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to a one-on-one game.
Honors
In his career, the two-time MVP (2002, 2003), three-time NBA champion (1999, 2003, 2005) and three-time NBA Finals MVP (1999, 2003, 2005) Duncan has collected a number of individual and team honours. As a college player, he was named ACC Male Athlete of the Year, won the John R. Wooden Award and was named Naismith College Player of the Year (all 1997).[7] In his debut year in the NBA (1998), he was voted Rookie of the Year and elected into the All-NBA Rookie Team, made the first of nine NBA All-Star Teams – among them eight First Team nominations – ten All-NBA Teams – among them nine First Team nominations – and ten All-Defensive Teams, among them seven First Team nominations.[3] With these impressive performances, Duncan is one of only four players to receive All-NBA First Team honors in each of his first eight seasons (1998-2005), along with Hall of Famers Bob Pet (10 seasons), Larry Bird (9 seasons), and Oscar Robertson (9 seasons), and is notably the only player in NBA history to receive All-NBA and All-Defensive honors in his first nine seasons (1998-2006).[29] Duncan is one of only six NBA players to ever won ROY and all three MVP awards. The other five players are Wilt Chamberlain, Willis Reed, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Shaquille O'Neal.
Duncan was also named by the Association for Professional Basketball Research as one of "100 Greatest Professional Basketball Players of The 20th Century", being the youngest player on that list.[30] In the 2001-02 season, he won the IBM Player Award[31] and The Sporting News MVP Award[32], becoming the third player to ever win NBA MVP, IBM Player Award, and TSN Player Awards in the same season. In 2003, Duncan was ranked 55th by Slam Magazine in their list of the "Top 75 NBA players of All Time". On February 18, 2006, he was named one of the Next 10 Greatest Players on the tenth anniversary of the release of the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team by the TNT broadcasting crew. Duncan received most points among all nominees.
* He and wife, Amy, were married in the summer of 2001
* The couple had their first child in the summer of 2005
* Created the Tim Duncan Foundation in November of 2001
* Amy serves as the executive vice president of the organization which is setup to serve “the areas of health awareness and research, education and youth sports and recreation” in San Antonio, Winston-Salem and the U.S. Virgin Islands
* The Foundation holds two major fundraisers each year: the annual Tim Duncan Bowling for Dollar$ Charity Bowl-A-Thon and the annual Slam Duncan Charity Golf Classic (since its creation the Foundation has raised approximately $750,000)
* Through the Tim Duncan Character Champions program donates 50 tickets to each game to students who demonstrate integrity, respect, dependability, fairness, caring or civic responsibility
* Member of the NBA All-Star Reading Team
* The winner of the 2001 Home Team Community Service Award given by the Fannie Mae Foundation and the NBA
* Named one of the “Good Guys” in sports by The Sporting News in both 2001 and 2002
* Also supports the Children's Bereavement Center, the Children's Center of San Antonio and the Cancer Therapy and Research Center
* Received his degree in psychology from Wake Forest
* Didn't play organized basketball until ninth grade
* Concentrated on swimming as a youngster - at one point was a top U.S. compe or in his age group in the 400 freestyle - before his local pool was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989
* Known for wearing his practice shorts backwards, a trend he started while in college
* Has two sisters, Cheryl and Tricia
* Tricia was a member of the Virgin Islands swim team in the 1988 Olympics
* Has a large knife collection which includes a three-foot samurai sword
* Admits to being afraid of heights and sharks
* Favorite movie is The Crow
* A video game junkie
Tim Duncan is so good....
Tim Duncan is so good, Seattle is going to lose it's team and rename Puget Sound... "Fundamentally Sound".
Tim Duncan is so good, Boston's sportwriters have a permanent complex and continually write articles about what might have been.
Tim Duncan is so good, Joey Crawford was jealous and tried to get back at him.
Tim Duncan is so good, Jack Bauer wears Tim Duncan pajamas.
Duncan is so good, he'll most likely be enshrined in Canton when he retires. He's a HOF!
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