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In a word - YES!
Reason: Because of his greatness at both ends of the floor. At this point in his career, he may as complete a player defensively and he is offensively. He can dominate both ends of the floor.
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During ESPN's Game 6 postgame show, analyst Greg Anthony had some words of high praise for the Spurs and in particular their star forward Tim Duncan. He called him "The best power forward that the league has ever seen." He also went on to say that the Spurs do in fact play "sexy basketball" and frowned on notion that their brand of basketball was boring.
At this point in his career, are you buying or selling Tim Duncan being labeled as the best power forward to set foot on the hardwood.
In a word - YES!
Reason: Because of his greatness at both ends of the floor. At this point in his career, he may as complete a player defensively and he is offensively. He can dominate both ends of the floor.
As boring as he is and as much as I can't stand him, I might have to agree. He is unstoppable with that bank shot and forces teams to ty and double team opening up other shots.
Then again, I didn't pay a lot of attention to basketball prior to about '93, so it's hard to compare to players prior to that.
Well, before Duncan, most people would have considered Karl Malone and Charles Barkley 1-2 in terms of the best power forward. Championships aren't everything, but 3 Finals MVPs outweighs any numbers from those 2.
If they get another couple of les and another 3-4 years of this level of play from Duncan, it is quite possible that Timmy could surpass Larry Bird as the best forward of all time.
Nah. Bird's pretty untouchable there. What separates Bird from every other forward in NBA history was the fact that he was better than Horry in the clutch, even with every team throwing everything they had at him at the ends of games. Bird at anything less than top 3 all-time is crazy to me.
Barkley? Really????
If Malone and Bark are the only ones he needs to beat, that's a no brainer.
Although Bird occasionally played the 4, he was a 3 when teamed with McHale and The Chief. Bird was classified as a 3 in most positional rankings during his playing days.
Duncan is a pivot player. Bird played out on the floor.
It wasn't about Bird playing the 4, it was about forward in general when referring to Bird.
TD is hands down the greatest PF to play the game. Anyone arguing that is a fool.
Sorry, I caught it after re-reading K-State's last sentence. I seldom see anyone rank the "best guard ever" or the "best forward ever" any more.
Duncan at his best controls games on both ends of the floor. Larry Legend never came close to that (although he had entire series where he was virtually unguardable offensively).
I think odds are probably against Timmy getting to Larry's status, but it's not completely out of the question either.
This is true. Just thinking outside the box here. I think Tim's already got best PF, and with a few centers and jordan ahead of him he'll probably never grab best player ever, so i was looking for something else that he can claim.
He can claim best player ever out of Wake Forest!
I'm going with this guy:
HE said theres nothing sexier than manu and tony penetrating and gong for layups etc.
What is boring about his game? He does everything well on both ends of the floor. I will never understand how anyone who says they love basketball could have little interest in watching Tim play. This guy is a ing genius out there on the court.
He is damn good, but is so damn boring because he does nothing exciting. Just because a player is good does not always make him fun to watch. In TD's case, he ios not fun to watch. Sorry, just how it is.
If Tim can get 5 champ. rings being the focal point along the way, i think he should be rated over Bird. But that's quite a difficult precondition to fullfill in his next few golden age yrs.
Like what? Give me an example of someone who plays his position that is exciting to watch. Dirk jacking 3's all day long. KG shooting fadeaway jumpers all day long, what tell me?
I think that's a preconceived point of view that many people have and they just ignore evidence to the contrary.
For example, even by sportscenter standards, Timmy posterized Amare pretty good yesterday. What's not exciting about that? I also think a lot of people would agree that a 12 foot bank shot from the wing is more interesting than just a standard jumper.
Yes, Dirk is fun to watch because he scores in many different ways and is a great outside shooter. Amare is more fun because of his physical prowess and dominance. None of this means they are better than TD, but they just provide more excitement to fans. Duncan pretty much backs his way in every time and puts it off the glass or a little hook shot, just redundant. It is also quite boring to watch his eyes almost pop out of his head on every foul call.
Then you are wrong, because I live in Dallas, a city that hates both the Spurs and Suns, and everyone here cant stand to watch Duncan, but still love to watch Amare because of how he scores. And in Phoenix where I'm from, they enjoy to watch someone like Dirk because he scores in many different ways.
I don't really think you can classify any one player as best ever at any position. However, I think you can label a player the best during his era. I think later on if TD wins another championship, people will look back and call this the Tim Duncan era. But other players were also dominant during their times at their positions IMHO.
And Amare posterizes players all the time, not once in a great while like Duncan did that one time.
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