Wait, so Duncan only had 2 good Finals performances? (1999 + 2003)

[Spurs m8]

B!tch @ss n!gga, I'll body bag you soft POS. You're literally one of the worst posters on here. You give spurs fans a bad rep on here. Punk!

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never even seen you here

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[AintNoSunshine]

You must have forgotten:

2005
Playoffs
23.6 pts 12.4 rebs 2.7 asst 2.3 blk
Finals
20.6 pts 14.1 rebs 2.1 asst 2.1 blk

2007
Playoffs
22.2 pt 11.5 rebs 3.3 asst 3.1 blk
Finals
18.3 pts 11.5 rebs 3.8 asst 2.3 blk

2013
Playoffs
18.1 pts 10.2 rebs 1.9 asst 1.6 blk 35 mins
Finals
18.9 pts 12.1 rebs 1.4 asst 1.4 blk 36.3 mins at 37 years old

2014
Playoffs
16.3 pts 9.2 rebs 2 asst 1.3 blk 32.7 mins
Finals
15.4 pts 10 rebs 2 asst 0.8 blk 33.1 mins at 38 years old

No disrespect to who I still consider the greatest PF of all time, but 2005 is decent to the standard of an all time great. All else is pretty mediocre.

[BigBoss]

OP digging through box scores to deflect LeBron's 2 for 7

[Sarcastic]

In all fairness, Duncan is kinda overrated here. There's a huge thread claiming he's better than Kareem. People have said he's in the top 5 all time.

[rmt]

No disrespect to who I still consider the greatest PF of all time, but 2005 is decent to the standard of an all time great. All else is pretty mediocre.

2013 and 2014 - well, obviously, he's 37 and 38 years old. Although, he played particularly well in 2013 Finals for his age - imo, he would have gotten another FMVP had they won game 6. And in 2014, those last 3 games - the team was spectacular.

2007 - Spurs were going to win regardless - they were just a better team and too experienced to lose - even (imo) if they didn't have Parker. Once Lebron was controlled on the perimeter by Bowen and in the paint/at the rim by Duncan, it was a foregone conclusion. Besides the REAL Finals was vs the Suns where he averaged 27.4 pts 13.8 rebs 3.2 asst 1.8 blk on 52.7%FG.

2005 was fine. The Spurs were playing against one of the best defensive teams ever - a defending champion which, but for a last second shot by Kobe, almost swept the Lakers the year before - better, if you ask me for playing a whole more year together in addition to getting McDyess. The important thing is that they won, and Duncan came through big time in game 7. And just in case, others question his 42%FG in game 7:

Duncan depleted and dissected the Pistons, collecting 25 points and 11 rebounds. He was the fulcrum of virtually every key play down the stretch.

"His complete game is so sound, so fundamnetal, so unnoticed at times, because if he didn't score, people think, 'Well, he didn't do anything,'" Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "But he was incredible and he was the force that got it done for us."

"You follow your leader," Spurs guard Tony Parker said. "Timmy is the leader of the team, and he just carried us tonight."

"He put his team on his shoulders and carried them to a championship," Pistons center Ben Wallace said. "That's what the great players do."

"You could tell when he caught the ball, how much more physical he was, getting in position and bumping and grinding and getting shots and making sure he got toward the rim, so that when people came at him he was in good position to open up a teammate," Popovich said.

"A lot of the shots they made, open shots, came as a result of us having a hard time guarding him," Brown said. "That's why he's such a great player."

"Rasheed was strapped all game," Brown said. "If you don't have your big people with the ability to play aggressively on Duncan, you've got no shot."

http://web.archive.org/web/200902192...SAS/recap.html

[Disaprine]

[Lebron23]

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