Somebody explain why Karl Malone is not viewed in the same league as T.D.?

[Mr. McDowell]

I don't understand this board. In one breath, you have people talking about the regular season doesn't matter, then you have people citing Karl Malone's regular season accomplishments.

Duncan was All-NBA and All-Defense for like 15 straight years and won FIVE NBA titles (in 6 tries). The only argument for Malone would be you like his regular season numbers. He played with a HOF point guard his entire career with a HOF coach as well and couldn't lead his team to the title. I'd say that is pretty damning for The Mailman. He had a contender for years and still couldn't deliver.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

I don't understand this board. In one breath, you have people talking about the regular season doesn't matter, then you have people citing Karl Malone's regular season accomplishments.

Duncan was All-NBA and All-Defense for like 15 straight years and won FIVE NBA titles (in 6 tries). The only argument for Malone would be you like his regular season numbers. He played with a HOF point guard his entire career with a HOF coach as well and couldn't lead his team to the title. I'd say that is pretty damning for The Mailman. He had a contender for years and still couldn't deliver.

Dude, Karl Malone lost to Magic's Lakers & Jordan's Bulls & balled out against both. He would have 5 scoring titles if it wasn't for . He'd have 2 titles if it wasn't for.

Time Duncan played for the GOAT basketball coach in Popovich & had 3 hall of fame teammates in Parker, Ginobli, and Robinson.

Plus, he played for the best organization in sports.

Karl Malone played in Utah. Nobody wants to play in Utah and he stayed loyal

 

[Mr. McDowell]

Dude, Karl Malone lost to Magic's Lakers & Jordan's Bulls & balled out against both. He would have 5 scoring titles if it wasn't for . He'd have 2 titles if it wasn't for.

Time Duncan played for the GOAT basketball coach in Popovich & had 3 hall of fame teammates in Parker, Ginobli, and Robinson.

Plus, he played for the best organization in sports.

Karl Malone played in Utah. Nobody wants to play in Utah and he stayed loyal

Magic stopped playing for the Lakers in 91 (they didn't make the Finals again until 2000). Malone made the Finals in 1997-98. What happened to him all those other years in between? Let me guess, Rockets were better (94-95), Sonics (96) were better, Blazers were better (92), Suns were better (93)?

Utah still had great teams and their star came up short. There is nothing wrong with accepting that. San Antonio wasn't looked at as a winning organization until Duncan made them one. All you have to do is listen to the people in that organization talk about Tim.

 

[dh86]

Dude, Karl Malone lost to Magic's Lakers & Jordan's Bulls & balled out against both. He would have 5 scoring titles if it wasn't for . He'd have 2 titles if it wasn't for.

Time Duncan played for the GOAT basketball coach in Popovich & had 3 hall of fame teammates in Parker, Ginobli, and Robinson.

Plus, he played for the best organization in sports.

Karl Malone played in Utah. Nobody wants to play in Utah and he stayed loyal

Leaves lots and lots of unexplained years. Cant mention anybody that played in the East, when Malone made 2 Finals in 18 years.

 

[PS5 Pro]

No the fukk he is not

Yeah the fukk he was. Malone was similar to LeBron. Like a tougher version of a LeBron. Duncan was a tougher version of Eldon Campbell.Duncan and Stockton would have never beaten the bulls and I doubt would have ever made it to the finals.

 

[tophy7]

Yeah the fukk he was. Malone was similar to LeBron. Like a tougher version of a LeBron. Duncan was a tougher version of Eldon Campbell.Duncan and Stockton would have never beaten the bulls and I doubt would have ever made it to the finals.

Stick to jinxing the Wizards, you don't know what the fukk you're typing about.

 

[PS5 Pro]

Stick to jinxing the Wizards, you don't know what the fukk you're typing about.

Tophy, is that your name? Probably a typo, Toby, sit yo ass down

2things

1.) Idk what I'm talking about? But you are claiming the wizards fate on a basketball court is directly linked to a message board post

2.) LeBron and Malone are incredibly similar. They went to the rack with the same intensity. Karl had a much more reliable mid range jumper that was automatic. LeBron has developed into a decent shooter himself but relies on taking it in on smaller defenders. Malone did this as well but the difference is the league had actual big men in those days.

Going down memory lane, I'm not even sure if LeBron would have been tough enough to be a star back then. I say that because he is from this era and this era is the crybaby era. Fist fights would happen back then and the worst a player would get is a technical
Duncan, same fate. Benefited from the league changing and the system. Shaq doesn't even recognize him as a center because he wasn't in the old era. He is good, durable and rare to find at his size. But ultimately Duncan is a crack free Lamar Odom

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

The bottom line is get a ring by any means brehs. Look how Malone is being slandered for not having one. The man is the second leading scorer of alltime and made a few all-defensive teams yet cats are finding ways to shyt on him because he doesn't have a ring.

 

[Swaggatron]

Tophy, is that your name? Probably a typo, Toby, sit yo ass down

2things

1.) Idk what I'm talking about? But you are claiming the wizards fate on a basketball court is directly linked to a message board post

2.) LeBron and Malone are incredibly similar. They went to the rack with the same intensity. Karl had a much more reliable mid range jumper that was automatic. LeBron has developed into a decent shooter himself but relies on taking it in on smaller defenders. Malone did this as well but the difference is the league had actual big men in those days.

Going down memory lane, I'm not even sure if LeBron would have been tough enough to be a star back then. I say that because he is from this era and this era is the crybaby era. Fist fights would happen back then and the worst a player would get is a technical
Duncan, same fate. Benefited from the league changing and the system. Shaq doesn't even recognize him as a center because he wasn't in the old era. He is good, durable and rare to find at his size. But ultimately Duncan is a crack free Lamar Odom

 

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[Flywin Lannister]

I totally get the rings argument but outside of that why is Karl Malone viewed as that much lesser then T.D. yes, give Timmy D the edge with rings but outside of that he's in the same league as a power forward.

Tim Duncan vs. Karl Malone Comparison

'The Mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays' was a saying back then that alluded to Karl Malone not performing in key Playoffs games, specifically Finals games.

Other than that there's the 'likability' factor.

Tim Duncan was respected by players, coaches and fans alike because if his high level play and personality. He was also loyal, staying with the Spurs his entire career.

Malone was more of a loner, and not specifically much of anything noteworthy in the leadership or personality department.

He joined the Lakers in search of a ring, a failure to do so only further underlined his play in key moments vs the Bulls and Michael Jordan, including having the ball stolen by MJ in a key game, at home - which ultimately cost them the game, the title and a chance at a game 7.

 

[Mac071415]

Lol at these two fakkit haters @Mr_X and @Sccit . Stick to making clipper threads these days. bytches.

 

[Mac071415]

I've said this before.

If it's not for , Karl Malone wins 5 scoring titles, 2 NBA championships and is absolutely viewed as an all-time to10-15 player.

Duncan just lucked into getting on a team, that's the best organization in sports, that has the best coach in the world, a hall of fame big man in David Robinson, and 2 more Hall of Famers in Parker & Ginobli

Plus Karl Malone stayed loyal to Utah. He didn't punk out like Durant did. He stayed there until he was old as fukk.

Utah was never gonna attract any great free agents, so basically him & Stockton were on their own.




Yeah, TD & John Stockton beat Pippen, Rodman, &

Please, Popovich is the best coach of the past 40 years and he played with 3 other Hall of Famers on the best organization in the NBA



Dude, Malone & Payton were 150 years old each.

That's like saying Muhammad Ali was trash because he lost to Trevor Berbick.

So pop was hall of fame status when Duncan arrived? Let's not forget he was 1 game from being fired. Dumbass. Past prime d Rob woth back problems and Parker and ginobili, who weren't even established players till Duncan made them. That's your argument? Duncan made the Spurs who they are today. He's the foundation. He made pop, ginobili and Parker. Just another typical Duncan hater.

 

[Damnshow]

Dude, Karl Malone lost to Magic's Lakers & Jordan's Bulls & balled out against both. He would have 5 scoring titles if it wasn't for . He'd have 2 titles if it wasn't for.

Time Duncan played for the GOAT basketball coach in Popovich & had 3 hall of fame teammates in Parker, Ginobli, and Robinson.

Plus, he played for the best organization in sports.

Karl Malone played in Utah. Nobody wants to play in Utah and he stayed loyal

you are saying as if karl malone played on the worst squad ever and as if tim duncan played in the best squad ever

the 99 championship david robinson was way past his prime, the rest of the squad was meh....tim was easily the leader of that team and they handled the west very easy

the 2003 tim duncan carried his team on some historical level where tony parker was still wayy too inconsistent, had speedy claxton taking his minutes

so if we take away those stacked championships tim still has two titles where he was easily the very much leader of the team

karl malone played with hall of famer john stockton his whole career and sloan is considered one of the best coaches in nba history too. They were losing to the teams worse than chicago bulls. They lost to supersonics multiple times, houston rockets, phoenix suns, portland trailblazers. You name it

Tim in his prime would only lose to prime lakers and he also lost to 06 mavs that went to the finals, before him going past his prime. Think about it. Karl could not take over the games the way Tim Duncan did. Him and Stockton were one of the best duos ever in regular season, but in playoffs they often would come up short because they didnt have go-to moves where a player could single-handedly take over the games. Tim was THAT nikka, watch his 03 run.

 

[Bigtymer301]

I totally get the rings argument but outside of that why is Karl Malone viewed as that much lesser then T.D. yes, give Timmy D the edge with rings but outside of that he's in the same league as a power forward.

Tim Duncan vs. Karl Malone Comparison

You answered your own question......5 rings 0 rings
Kinda hard to ignore......