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You guys are seeing T Dunks, not Tim Duncan.
duncan228, well I'm probably just as bad with my Manu collection...
You guys are seeing T Dunks, not Tim Duncan.
It's a harmless obsession.duncan228, well I'm probably just as bad with my Manu collection...
It keeps me happy, keeps me distracted from things in my life that would otherwise make me unhappy.
Like I said, Duncan fascinates me. I love watching him play, the two and a half hours of game time are my escape. Like everyone does, I've got stuff in my life that's not fun to deal with. Duncan takes me out of that. I see nothing but good coming out of that. It's not avoidance, I deal with the I need to when I need to. But come tip off I disappear into the game and forget everything else. It works for me, it makes me better able to cope with the that is hard to cope with.
D Rob was my role model growing up...but even I, at a Christian school with the word "Christian" across my football jersey, said things I regret in the heat of battle, and even on this forum. But online forums is where I get that out. oops, lol.
-Mars
it frustrates me everytime people starts a thread like..."trade Duncan, Duncan plays like Chris Webber, or Duncan is old" when ShaQ is older 4 yrs ago and some still call him the most dominating player in the NBA. Sometimes I'm like
Fixed...
C'mom duncan228....don't ing forget to type in your next post in this ing thread....
You need to watch a game between the Spurs and the TrailBlazers during the '99 regular season... Big Dave went OFF on a ref... I mean bad. He got thrown out in the 4th. But the best part is that the Spurs were down by like 20 before he got thrown out and then they ended up winning the game
Some of you need to realize you have no idea what type of personality NBA players have simply because you watch them play a game from a distance.
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My bad it was in the '99 '00 season...
Game Story
PORTLAND, Oregon (Ticker) -- The San Antonio Spurs took the loss
of their "Admiral" very personally.
Tim Duncan's go-ahead jumper with 36 seconds remaining capped a
furious late rally as the Spurs responded to center David
Robinson's ejection by running past the Portland Trail Blazers,
89-85, in an emotionally charged rematch of last season's
Western Conference finals.
Referee Bennie Adams made a questionable offensive foul call on
Robinson as he battled in the paint with Portland forward Brian
Grant with 3:16 to play. The normally reserved and congenial
pivotman went into a tirade, bouncing the basketball and making
accidental contact with Adams, who slapped him with a pair of
technicals.
"Dave getting kicked out of the game was an appropriate
response," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said. "You don't
see David do that very often. When he gets that angry, it's for
a reason. This was a special game for us. It was very special
and we kept fighting through all the adversity."
"When David Robinson was ejected, we kind of thought it was
over," Grant said. "It's a tough one to lose because we know we
put our hearts into it and we had the effort but they turned it
up and we couldn't score when we needed one."
Robinson trudged off the court, kicking a chair on his way to
the locker room. Trailing 82-75, the Spurs appeared to refocus
their resolve and went on a decisive 12-0 burst.
"I try not to let the officials get to me or get me out of a
game," Robinson said. "I thought some of the stuff was pretty
blatant and I had to say so. I'm proud of the guys, though."
Duncan, who had 36 points and 15 rebounds, made a nifty
between-the-legs dribble before beating the shot clock with an
18-footer from the left side that swished through the net,
giving San Antonio an 85-83 lead with 36 seconds remaining.
"Tim hit that fallaway and hit his free throws," Robinson said.
"He really played great. I don't mind some of the calls going
against me. Late in the game though, you have to let the
players play. I was in the locker room jumping up and down
though."
"I wanted to be more aggressive tonight and it started on the
glass," Duncan said. "That's where the effort was. This is a
huge win for us. We need road wins badly, especially with the
playoffs coming. They are a very talented team and they still
have a better record than us. But this was a big confidence
builder."
Robinson finished with 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting and seven
rebounds in 29 minutes for the Spurs, who have won five of their
last six games to move one-half game ahead of Phoenix for fourth
place in the West.
Scottie Pippen scored a season-high 25 points for the Blazers,
but followed his teammates' lead by virtually disappearing down
the stretch.
"Good teams find a way to win down the stretch," Pippen said.
"It was a good lesson for us to learn that we need to find a way
to execute down the stretch."
Portland has struggled mightily since having its season-high
11-game winning streak snapped and has lost four in a row at
home for the first time since February 1996.
The Blazers were swept by the Spurs in last season's conference
finals. They appeared on the verge of their third straight win
against San Antonio this season before faltering in crunch time.
"It was a very disappointing loss for us," Portland coach Mike
Dunleavy said. "It compounds the issue of what we are going
through. I don't see our guys panicking. Naturally, we want to
win every game but this is not as critical as the playoffs."
Avery Johnson scored 14 points for San Antonio, which fell
behind by as many as 11 points in the fourth quarter and was
down 82-75 with 3:37 remaining after Rasheed Wallace buried a
21-footer.
Stoudamire's technical free throw made it an eight-point bulge
before Duncan made a running jumper and two free throws around a
20-footer by Johnson to cut the deficit to 83-81 with 1:44 left.
After a turnover by Pippen, Duncan drew a foul from Wallace and
knotted the contest with two more from the line with 1:18 to go.
Duncan's go-ahead jumper was followed by two clutch free throws
apiece from Johnson and Mario Elie as the Spurs walked off the
Rose Garden floor with a hard-fought win.
San Antonio shot 48 percent (33-of-69), held a 43-32 advantage
on the boards and overcame 17 turnovers.
Wallace scored 17 points, Grant 11 and Steve Smith 10 for the
Blazers, who shot 40 percent (33-of-82) and committed just eight
turnovers.
Robinson scored 10 of the Spurs' first 15 points and he and
Duncan combined for 26 in the first half, giving San Antonio a
43-40 lead.
Portland appeared to gain the upper hand in the third period,
outscoring the Spurs, 26-18, to pull ahead, 66-61, entering the
fourth quarter.
Greg Anthony hit a free throw, Pippen a 20-footer and Anthony
followed with a 3-pointer as the Blazers opened a 74-63 lead
with 9:33 to play before the Spurs mounted their comeback.
"I usually don't challenge our guys," Popovich said. "We know
who we are. But tonight, hopefully it's a good sign for us.
Consistency is the thing we're after. We had it the entire year
last season and we're just finding it now."
"When you are in a funk, you find ways to lose games," Anthony
said. "It was not good execution. It was not good court
awareness and Duncan made tough shots. You are up 10 points
with four minutes to go. If you are executing down the stretch
and scoring, you put more pressure on them. We never put any
more pressure on them at that point."
great game, is just a word so people should relax.
My problem was that, well I am fascinated with Tim as well, so every game I was lucky to see I was watching what Duncan was doing on the floor.
How he gets to low block, how he passes, how he runs, how he uses both hands to take adventage on offense etc.
It's pretty dfficult to make a recap what was going on on the floor and how everybody else were playing, were they switching on D or not and things like that.
Then it happend few weeks after that game ...
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