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Q. What's the secret to dominating on the post? Shaquille O’Neal: I think it's my fault that the game is being played the way it's played now, because when I was dominating the post, they tried to bring in centers to bring me out from the post. ‘Okay, he's good offensively. Now, let's make him play defense and let’s pick and pop.’ And then we're all products of our generation. So, I grew up watching guys that dominated the post. But you look at Nikola Jokic, he watched Dirk Nowitzki and Dirk watched Kevin Garnett and they all watched Tim Duncan; a 6-11, 7-foot player that could pop out and shoot the jumper. So it's my fault that guys are playing soft, that’s what I call it. The key to dominating the post is just making your opponent quit, bringing the force like I used to, try to elbow you in your face on purpose to see if you can handle it. So now that I know I got you going like that I got the advantage.
Will Hardy: I still have seared in my brain this this mental image of Tim Duncan in his last season in San Antonio, shooting jump hooks on the gun 45 minutes before a shoot around of game like 40 of the season. He's shooting three-foot jump hooks over the net with the gun in his last season. And then you're going, that's unbelievable, that that guy still had the want to and the awareness and the presence of mind to say like ‘this is my process and I have to practice these little bunnies to start my day.’ At that point obviously in his career, his routines were his routines. And my hope is that we can help our young players for each person build their own routines of what helps them prepare to play and prepare to win at the highest level.
“Like I said before, the hardest guy for me? People would think it was Shaq physically, but no, it was Gasol,” Milicic recalled on the “Luka i Kuzma Podcast”. “Whenever you think you have him, he somehow twists out. He always finds a way to turn on you, Pau was just tricky. I loved guarding guys with less brain, like Dwight Howard. With those guys, you know where you are. Pau was smart; he always had counter-move.” “Not to mention Tim Duncan, who was a force,” Milicic added. “I faced Dirk in a lot of situations too, and he’s just fascinating. I didn’t play much, so in situations when you’re not playing, you’re mostly relying on defense. You think, ‘Look at this lanky guy, man, there’s no way, bro,’ and just when you have him, he’s above you every single time. It’s amazing how he gets his shot off — that fadeaway is impossible to guard, bro. He and his mid-range game were impossible to defend.”
Out of the 64 players in the tracking era that have 30K minutes played: only Tim Duncan and James Harden have been a net positive on the court in EVERY single one of their seasons
Richard Jefferson: Players can get coaches fired in the NBA. If you allow that humility as the best player, it forces everyone else to fall in line. Pop knew. Pop would cuss Tim Duncan out first and then go down the line. Tim would just be like: “You’re right.” So what was I or anyone else going to say? His leadership style was that he allowed himself to be coached the hardest. That will always impress me. Tim received that day in and day out because he wanted greatness for himself and he wanted greatness for his teammates. That’s true selflessness.
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Sam Smith: The Bulls made offers: Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Eddie Jones, Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter, literally every single one. And they ran away, fast. They just ran away from playing after Michael Jordan. (…) While all these other great players ran away from the Jordan shadow, Kobe Bryant ran to it. He was like the firefighter running to the fire. He was the policeman who ran toward the 9/11 terrorist attack. Everybody else was running away for safety, and he was running toward it.
Russell Westbrook has reached yet another incredible NBA milestone. With his eighth point in the second quarter of the Kings' game against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night, the star point guard reached a total of 26,498 career points, passing Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Tim Duncan (26,496 points) for 17th on the NBA's all-time scoring list.
Which guy on that list would you be most excited to join? Draymond Green: So just for the inner kid in me that was a huge Kobe Bryant fan, who watched him dominate the league, my favorite guy on the list is Kobe. But the guy who resonates the most with me is Tim Duncan, because it wasn’t so much about athleticism with him. It’s more the brain than the athleticism.
A new documentary celebrating NBA and San Antonio Spurs legend Tim Duncan made its debut earlier this week at the Austin Film Festival. Titled “The Boy from Saint Croix,” the film explores Duncan’s formative years, his enduring basketball legacy, and the powerful influence of his Caribbean roots that shaped his life and career.
Manu Ginobili: I was at The Boy From St. Croix premiere last night at the Austin Film Festival. Hope you get to watch it soon!! Brilliant work by multi-Emmy winner Scott Duncan... Tim's bro!! Very cool! 👏👏
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Filmmaker Scott Duncan, the older brother of Tim Duncan and the director of new documentary “The Boy From St. Croix,” joined the Standard to talk about the film. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below. Texas Standard: Well, your brother, it’s no secret, is someone who kind of avoids the spotlight – as well as any superstar effectively can, that is. I imagine being family helps with getting access, but was it difficult at all to get him to agree to this project? Scott Duncan: I think it was the right time, and we both felt it together. He had retired, and time had gone by. It had been on-and-off just casually documenting, obviously, his career, knowing it had been filmed a lot, obviously, with NBA Entertainment as well. But, you know, the time was just right. He retired. He could actually take a step back and look back and start to go through the memories, go through thoughts, watch his kids grow, you know, enjoy his career. So it was really the right time together. And, you know, he agreed, gently. And I said,”it’s gonna be an amazing process.”
Oh, was it? Was it great? It was absolutely magical just to even, for ourselves, to talk about things maybe we never spoke about and let him just talk about ideas – thoughts, memories, go down his own memory lane from finally taking a look at his whole life and career and growing up and family and Virgin Island life from just a moment of, like, take a pause. And he could reflect and the structure of the film was to just be like, let Timmy talk.
Kevin Hart: I need your Top 5 of all time. Victor Wembanyama: That’s hard to say, I can give you a starting five. Hart: OK give me a starting five. Wembanyama: Stephen Curry, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Tim Duncan and Shaquille O’Neal.
Pablo Torre: "The conspiracy out there, you know, is that: Why would he take so much less? Mark Cuban: He wanted Tim Duncan money. He was at his age. And remember, the cap — I went back and looked — was $58 million three years in a row, right? It wasn’t going up at all. And it was: How do you manage your cap?" "And Tim Duncan had done a three-for-30 deal. And I vividly remember having the conversation. He’s like, 'I’d like to get Tim Duncan money.' I’m like, 'D, okay — cap stayed flat. Here’s what we want to—' And he was like, 'Okay.'" "And then the next year — 2016 — when the cap went up, we were able to pay a lot more.