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50
TD is a winner. He's done it 5 times. He led that 2003 team of dubious talent to a le. David didn't / couldn't . Forget all that. Who's the better basketball player, in the purest sense?
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5-0 now down 5-1... TD my vote.
from a talent standpoint, David and Hakeem are the two most talented bigs I've ever seen both offensively and defensively...
If physical attributes/ measurements/ athleticism go under 'talent', then i agree. Maybe Wilt is up there due to basically being a freak of nature.
Skill set- 21
Talent- 50
Bball ability-even
tough call, but, I am going with Duncan
Its not a tough call for me. Its 21 and not really close. I give David props for being the better defender, dunker and athlete but that's it. Tim has had better footwork, basketball smarts and commitment to improve. Tim knows the game better and has made his teammates better too.
To his credit, David was a stud who had to shoulder the majority of responsibility on both offense and defense. His challenges night in and night out were much bigger than Tim's. He also went through 5 coaches during his career: Brown, Tark, Lucas, Hill and Pop. In addition, he didn't have the best F.O. and the ownership was ty for the majority of his career.
If David had better teammates around him, he would have had more rings. He turned out to be a much better complimentary player.
TD gets the edge in skill
DRob not quite the skill of TD but he was a far better athlete
David doesn't get nearly enough credit for the player that he was, he was remarkable, and he competed in what I believe to have been the golden age of centers. He held his own and his offensive skill set is completely underrated. If big Dave played today, the rest of the league's centers would not have a prayer of stopping him. That said, still thankful we got TD but I'll always remember the Robinson years fondly, too.
It is a testament to how much we all love DR that we are all trying to pretend as if this poll isn't a flat out insult to TD. Yeah. DR was a better athlete by far, and any aspect of basketball that his athleticism coincided with basketball, he was better. At every other aspect in which pure athleticism didn't rule, Tim was better. If you have them both in their prime, two feet from the basket, with a prime defender on them, who do you want with the ball with the championship game on the line with the last shot. Tim or David? Tim. 10/10. David would brick it off the glass with no touch but at least way too much force, or fumble it while getting awkwardly fouled toward the basket and looking for a call he should have gotten but didn't. Tim would have made it happen in several ways, and did.
David was a triple double machine and even had a quadruple double. The Spurs have the record for greatest improvement in one year when David came aboard. David was a beast.
Tim beats David in Basketball IQ and footwork. However, David's athleticism was dominating.
In their primes, give me David.
Best Year:
David avg 30/11rbs/5ast/2stl/3.3blks
Tim avg 25.5/13rbs/4ast/1stl/ 2.5blks
The ring argument makes Bill Russell the greatest ever. It makes Dwayne Wade better than Lebron.
HE'S A PREACHIN' LIKE A PREACHER MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait how old are you? lol. Aren't you only like 23? You didn't really see either of them play wtf are you talking about
Tough...I go with tim..52-48% close
Then again, Robinson played in a tougher era...malone, jordan, the dream, ewing, mutombo....
I saw both of them play, in person, several times - this poster is right. I've never seen anything like Robinson or HakeemWait how old are you? lol. Aren't you only like 23? You didn't really see either of them play wtf are you talking about
Maybe so, but the point was he is just trying to sound like some basketball guru. The got never saw either of them play, unless he was doing some deep basketball analysis at 5 years old
By that reasoning i can't offer an opinion on the skills of Magic or Bird because I was too young to watch their primes live... Nevermind the fact that there are full taped games of them in the dozens.
DR is criminally underrated by the TD era fans.
Not the same thing and you know it.
So a 25 year old can't possibly have watched 20-30 of taped/uploaded David or Hakeem games? The Internet would explode?
This is pretty easily Duncan. Robinson never had Duncan's ability to score in the post, he was never the passer out of the post Duncan is either. Robinson had a better face up game due to him being a lot quicker and his jumper was far superior, but if I'm down one with 10 seconds left I'm giving the ball to Duncan since I can trust him a lot more to either score or make the right pass from the low post.
20-30 games is a very small sample size to judge a whole career on you ignorant .
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