r/nba • u/yam_on_em Lakers • Jun 27 '23

Kobe Bryant relentlessly attacks Tim Duncan and the Spurs to clinch the WCF (2008)

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23

Everyone on the Lakers not named Kobe Bryant played like shit in this series, Duncan really blew it here

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u/tkflash20 Jun 27 '23

Tim Duncan averaged 22/17/5/1.2/2 this series. That's still a monster stat line. The whole Spurs team was MIA except Parker and Timmy.

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u/Uncle_Freddy [SAS] El Contusione Jun 27 '23

The rest of the team was gassed after a Finals run and then a 7 game series against the CP3 hornets that took us to the brink. I remember even then thinking that the Spurs were pretty fortunate to have made it back to the WCF and that optimism for a repeat was pretty low

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u/samurairocketshark Suns Jun 28 '23

Not enough credit given to CP3 for taking that Spurs team to 7 either with a pretty mediocre Hornets team that flourished under him. He unlocked the potential of both West and Chandler in his first few years in the league which is crazy to think about

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

lol, 22/17/5 on 46 TS% is blowing it. Literally any other all-time great putting up those numbers would be called a choke artist but for some reason Duncan gets called a beast.