infintybeyond wrote:rasta_marley wrote:infintybeyond wrote:I don't think he would be effective. Today's game relies on floor spacing and shooting. Duncan has neither of those. His ball handling is also weak. The rules have changed too to take away iso post ups. Duncan is too much of a post up iso player who can't shoot 3s. That way of scoring isn't really efficient anymore. 3>2.
He wouldn't be able to keep up with today's style of play as it's too fast for him. He can't guard any of today's super athletic evolutionary bigs like Draymond and KD. I think he's more of a center today so I have him below wherever Demarcus Cousins is ranked. He is probably closer to Deandre than DMC as he's a weak shooter and ball handler. The game has evolved too much, superior players and superior athletes. Duncan sucks just like prime Kobe and prime MJ.
Every year people would say the spurs are done this year they are too old, every year the spurs would be right back at the top. Duncan was very very good and while the spurs certainly had some other good players Duncan was the reason the spurs were always a great team.
A player at Duncans level would do just fine today, imagine him on a team like the Rockets, they pretty much only take 3 pointers and close twos, usually in the key. With the Rockets 3 point shooting they would create soo much space for Timmy to operate, and he was frankly not guardable one vs one on the block particularly if he had a little room. The guy was very very skilled.
The Rockets would probably beat the Warriors if they added an unshelfish player like Timmy (I say probably because while on paper timmy, harden, Chris Paul is very op you never know until they play together how they will mesh). He would feast on Golden State, and if ya try and tell me Draymond green is going to stop him or severely limit him... lol no.
Anyway he would for sure be the 3rd best player in the league without me even thinking about it, possibly 2nd or even 1st buut maybe not I would have to watch how the season unfolded.
Anyway my point is that I think he would do very well in this era (which he played in some of just fine lol).
Also uuuh have you ever watched Timmy handle the ball? He actually wasn't a bad ball handler.... and was a good passer.
And ya I would hate to have Prime Michael Jordan on the blazers in this era I mean god that guy would suck soo bad in this era I mean **** man how could he handle dribbling the ball when you have Evolutionary bigs like draymond green dribbling circles around him. I mean how could MJ hold a candle to Draymond green?
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My whole post was a joke. The last sentence should have made that clear.
I'm just echoing the crap I read in the MJ and Kobe threads. People actually believe GOAT level players like MJ, Duncan, Kobe would have to adjust their games to succeed in today's league. These guys are supremely skilled and commanded double teams. You can't double today because of all the shooters on the floor. All 3 would feast on their match ups. All 3 have lead teams to championships with less talent than Lebron's squads.
Back on topic. Nobody today would be able to stop a PRIME Duncan. They haven't seen anything close to that combination of skill level, size, and toughness.
oh I thought you were being serious haha I mean we have people here who would really make comments like that seriously. Well alright!
