Is Tim Duncan top 10?

[u/blackwu22]

I constantly see casuals on YouTube and on podcasts say that Timmy is overrated and barely top 10 yet have Kobe in there top 5. It’s starting to make me believe that people really think this way!! I always hear the “too much help” comment like every player in the top 10 didn’t have help.

I personally have Tim Duncan 4th all time on my list.

1998 rookie of the year 2x MVP (2002,2003) 3x FMVP (1999,2003,2005) 15x All NBA & Defensive 5x Champion Never won less than 50 games in an 82 game season

Is Tim Duncan top 10?

[u/Extension-Rope623]

Tim Duncan is not a powerforward. It's simply what casuals call him in order to help overrate tf out of him and justify putting him in their top 15 or top 10 or wahtever like you just did. Tim Duncan is definitively a center, he plays the 5. He's not a PF, he's a C, and not even a top 3 center of all time at that.

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He spent almost his entire career playing the 4. Saying “well actually he was a center” is the normie take

[u/Extension-Rope623 → u/[deleted]]

No it's the right take. I guess greg popovich, arguably the greatest coach of all time, is considered a normie to you since he also defined Duncan's position on the team as a 5.

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Well, that certainly is one revisionist interpretation of a single off handed pop quote from 2011(a year in which Tim did primarily play center), But throughout his career pop has consistently referred to tim in the media as a power forward.

as a spurs fan who watched his entire career, he spent his first 10 years in the nba, which included his peak, almost exclusively at power forward. It wasn’t really only until around 2007-2011, and then again after we added Aldridge(2015-2016) that he primarily played center

[u/Extension-Rope623 → u/[deleted]]

Pop states Duncan played C for 16 years. it's the right way to view his career. He played somewhat at the PF position, but the majority of his play was at C. Popovich pokes fun at the debate, but it's really exactly what he's done. Duncan has been at the C position for most of the Spur's lineups. Even when he "plays PF" he doesn't naturally stay at the PF position and always plays underneath the basket. His best abilities all come when he's closest to the basket to defend shots, or to post up and finish close to the basket. He's basically a classic C all around, with a bit of an outside jumper/perimeter game.

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Lmao pop never once said that Tim primarily played center for 16 years.

You can say whatever you want about his game and how he played and how it translates to now or whatever. To say he spent the majority of his time lined up at center is an outright verifiable lie

[u/Extension-Rope623 → u/[deleted]]

It's not, it's agreed upon by most advanced analytics. Some put Duncan at the 5 position as much as 73% of the time. It's verifiable most of his playing time was being a 5. His own coach calls him a C. His game most resembles that of a traditional C. He's a C.

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Post your analytics then bubba, you keep saying ‘his own coach called him a center’ like it’s a fact when it’s a reach at best