marcusmirx wrote:I think Duncan is the best considering he took the team with lowest market to 3 championships. Moreover, his defense and offense make the perfect combination to build a team around.
Andrew wrote:marcusmirx wrote:I think Duncan is the best considering he took the team with lowest market to 3 championships. Moreover, his defense and offense make the perfect combination to build a team around.
I don't disagree on the latter point, but I don't think taking a smaller market team to a championship is necessarily a sign of greatness. After all, one could argue that succeeding in a larger market in a bigger spotlight under greater media scrutiny and a long winning tradition to live up to is just as as impressive.
Ultimately Duncan will probably go down as the better player in terms of pure basketball ability. However, I think Shaq's dominance and the fact his teams produced a threepeat will probably see him ranked ahead of Duncan when it's all said and done.
1CenT wrote:I think Duncan + Kobe will translate into Kobe being amazing.. winning the MVP year after year... and a team of Duncan + Kobe will beat Shaq + Kobe b/c.... The Kobe who played with DUncan will prob be better...
Sauru wrote:being the 5th best center is probably better than being the best power forward of all time. the center position just has had alot of better players in it. its too bad that malone never won a ring, otherwise people who mark him as the greatest pf ever.
Stan Smith "said", not wrote:Evening. Even-ing. Making things even.
marcusmirx wrote:I think having more money is always useful to build a team.
Also, one the main reasons why duncan is better than Shaq is because he always thought in terms of the team rather than personal stats. Duncan's unselfish personality not only helped him to get along well with his teammates but also in the court by giving more opportunities to players like Tony Parker who is now scoring and taking as many shots as he is.
Sometimes people tend to forget that Parker and Ginobili were picked very late in the draft, especially Ginobili.
I don't think the spurs would have won their last titles without this players as i don't think any of them could have shine as much in another team.
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