Tim Duncan has 5 rings why isn’t he ever mentioned in top 5

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hes a legend but its a whole team over there and great coaching

years of sticking together and building chemistry ... cats cant handle building chemistry anymore
you gotta learn how to win and lose with your team and buy into the coaching

without the entire spurs team you dont see 5 rings


ive been saying it as a Suns fan since day 1 ... how can you tell me suns werent mid and overachieving ... but at the same time tell me all the players are bunk and dont deserve shyt
people take certain great teams and overrate and underrate them at the same time... instead of just saying "yeah they fukking crushed shyt and exceeded expectations"

you cant downplay 1 guy in the system and then still call the system great... it takes the whole team to be on point to build a legacy like that. Manu, Parker, Bowen, Drob, Danny Green, Captain Jack, Patty Mills, Finley, all those dudes who they plug and played, and had individual roles are big time players.
I wouldnt sit here and say Duncan was this massive force that was going to 1v1 end somebodies shyt ... but his career and ability to stay loyal and build a team is definitely 2nd to None. He's easily one of the greats. But like I said, are you gonna not give props to Manu taking his role as a mercenary or Parker guiding the offense and playing underrated D? Cats wanna say Steve Nash is overachieving but then ignore the fact that he played with Tim Thomas, Robin Lopez, Amar'e, Raja Bell, G.Hill with one ankle, Hakeem Warrick, James Jones, Barbosa etc. Just like the Spurs, how can you remain consistently a 50 win team with MVP numbers and not be regarded? people love to pick and choose shyt. Without the team buying in, Nash fails as a career. You cant be this or that without the team backing you. You may be able to plug and play Manu, Parker and Duncan onto new teams and win... but sticking together as a unit is what brought them success. Magic and Bird can be seen as motors for the team, but I look at the spurs as a well balanced machine. All of the players were unselfish.
 

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i always laugh when people post shyt like this, like all you young mufukkas won't be old and wearin diapers in 5-10 years. it's a stupid phrase like most of yalls stupid phrases.
'cancelled'
'mid'
'such n such is a dog'

the young people today are swagless and lame.
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wtf does 'mid' mean? yall come up with the lamest little names and titles for shyt nowadays. he isn't mentioned in the top 5 cause he isn't good enough to be mentioned in the top 5. you don't just get 5 rings and automatically be in there and you don't have to have 5 rings to be in there.
Right he’s not top 5 and it’s not because he’s “boring”
 

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KG was missing the postseason yet again in '07, thats a no...

Arenas at no point was ever better than Duncan, stop it lmao...

Mac was not better than Duncan at any point...

Wade missed half the season in '07, cut it out...

Chris Bosh for gotdamn sure was never better at basketball than Duncan...

Bron, Kobe, Dirk, those guys were Top 5 right along with Duncan. No order, but he was in that class...

Your flawed analysis of Duncan coincides with your extreme support of Bean. Duncan and Kobe were two sides of the same coin, together they were about equally as great as the other...

Duncan wasn't that guy in 07...he was the GUY 99-05

Duncan wasn't in Kobe's league in 07
 

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Easy when you guarded by Derek Anderson & Steve Smith. When Ginobili came :mjpls:

Literally defended by Jaren Jackson, Bowen & Gino through the yrs

3peat Lakers were throwing Horry & the ghost of Horace Grant at Tim

Kob literally had to deal with first team all def Bruce Bowen 4 of the 6x he went against SA

:mjtf:
 

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Ppl also like to overlook big men.

russel, Kareem,Wilt, Shaq, Duncan

were all unstoppable in their prime but it’s not sexy to talk about or debate.

funny enough it’s why Hakeem who had the most “wing like” game with his footwork is so beloved.
This isn't true. All of those bigs are fixtures in the top 10 with Kareem having a GOAT case to most. Russell is the only outlier but there's just as many who value his 11 or more than those who don't.
 

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The man was a center. He played a bruising, slow low post style and was a rim protector. He was 6’11, 250-260 lb. with a 7’3 wingspan and he was strong as fukk. He was stronger, taller, and longer than most PF’s.

Only reason he was playing the 4 was because they had David Robinson. That’s why they was the Twin Towers, two centers.

In that slow, dead ball era the Spurs even had line-ups with three centers with Duncan as the de facto SF closing out on shooters and dropping back in the paint on defense clogging that shyt the fukk up they was nabbing all the boards with the big bodies and punishing the mismatch on the other end. It was Will Perdue-D-Rob-Duncan front court lineups. shyt you could only pull off late 90’s, early 2000’s.

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I remembered this shyt.., it actually happened

And I was the best nikka onn NBA Live 2000 and NBA2K cause it:lolbron:
 
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Cause he was a center that played PF his whole career.

His accomplishments are slightly phony. All he did was take advantage of smaller guys.

Imagine if Hakeem, David Robinson, or Shaq got to play PF
I agree Duncan is a center but the argument can be made that in the late 90s/early 00s most PFs should've been playing C. Gilbert Arenas talked about bigs post-Shaq at 6'10"+ switching to PF so they didn't have to match up with him.
 
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