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#102
#102
IMO, part of the "that guy was an *******" thing is "if I could play with him or him who would I choose?"
 
#103
#103
n_huffhines said:
FT's are such a small thing, and as long as you can shoot about 55% you are doing your team a benefit going to the line.


Career per 36 minutes:
Malone = 24.2 pp shooting .577 TS%
Duncan = 20.6 pp shooting .551 TS%

.....and Malone f-ing played til he was 40 (his last 3 years brought down his averages substantially).

Both Duncan and Malone guarded the other team's PF. They scored from the exact same spots on the floor. They had equal rebounding ability. I don't know what makes Duncan out of Malone's league....
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Duncan was the leader of four championship teams and Malone was none?
 
#104
#104
Dbake005 said:
IMO, part of the "that guy was an *******" thing is "if I could play with him or him who would I choose?"
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This. If you are a jackass of the court, I don't care. On the court is a different thing.
 
#105
#105
zjcvols said:
Duncan was the leader of four championship teams and Malone was none?
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Malone was also going against one of the best all-time teams, along with the best all-time player.

Also, to say he was the leader of all four is a little rediculous.
 
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#106
#106
volinreallife said:
Malone was also going against one of the best all-time teams, along with the best all-time player.

Also, to say he was the leader of all four is a little rediculous.
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:lolabove:

And I'm sorry. Where was he when Hakeem was owning his ass?

Oh yeah, Tony Parker was totally the best player on that team.
 
#116
#116
volinreallife said:
In what way?
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Hakeem: 35 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 4.0 apg on 57% shooting and 2.5 blocks per game.

Malone averaged 30 points, but shot only 46.6% from the field and in Game 4, a potential clinching game, he shot 7-17 from the field with only six rebounds while Hakeem put up 40
 
#117
#117
In the 35 years I've been watching basketball, I've never seen a putative superstar who flat-out wet the bed in big situations like Karl Malone. He didn't want any part of it. It wasn't just that he had the bad luck to go up against Jordan; he didn't want the ball. All the stuff they said about LeBron until this year was true of Malone his whole career. There was one year when Bill Walton, announcing the finals on TV, basically ridiculed Malone for disappearing. "Where is Karl Malone? Where is Karl Malone?"

Duncan won multiple titles, played like a lion the whole time, and morphed into whatever kind of big man his team needed depending on what Popovich wanted to do. Duncan was better and it's not close.
 
#118
#118
I sure as **** wouldn't wanna guard Malone. but I'd rather play with Duncan
 
#119
#119
Vercingetorix said:
In the 35 years I've been watching basketball, I've never seen a putative superstar who flat-out wet the bed in big situations like Karl Malone. He didn't want any part of it. It wasn't just that he had the bad luck to go up against Jordan; he didn't want the ball. All the stuff they said about LeBron until this year was true of Malone his whole career. There was one year when Bill Walton, announcing the finals on TV, basically ridiculed Malone for disappearing. "Where is Karl Malone? Where is Karl Malone?"

Duncan won multiple titles, played like a lion the whole time, and morphed into whatever kind of big man his team needed depending on what Popovich wanted to do. Duncan was better and it's not close.
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Thank you. Plus Duncan was the best post defender for ten years.
 
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