Tim Duncan
Tim Duncan
Timothy Theodore "Tim" Duncan is an American retired professional basketball player who played his entire 19-year career with the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. Widely considered to be the greatest power forward of all time, he is a five-time NBA champion, two-time NBA MVP, three-time NBA Finals MVP, and NBA Rookie of the Year. He is also a 15-time NBA All-Star and the only player ever to be selected to both the All-NBA and All-Defensive Teams in...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth25 April 1976
CityChristiansted, VI
We learned a lesson here tonight. It was a cheap one because we still won, but we can learn.
We are not worried about the hype. (The Mavericks) are a good team and we know that. We are going to be playing them on our home court and we know that. We are going to play hard and whatever happens, happens.
Those guys are playing the best basketball. This will be a great test for us at this time of the season.
What they have done over the last two games is make us react to what they do, ... They have been aggressive defensively and they have got us back on our heels and they make us kind of counter what they are doing instead of them countering what we're doing.
When he gets into a rhythm like that where he starts going, it's like you want to sit there and watch him play. You get caught up in what he does and that's probably the worst thing that we can do is just sit there and watch him play, but you get mesmerized by what he's doing.
I got a lot of (grief) for that, too. Trust me, I'm getting my share.
I got a couple of shots to go down tonight, and that is good because they haven't been going down lately. It makes the game a lot easier.
We have to attack down low, especially with Shaq out. That's got to be a big play for us.
He was great tonight. He made all of the shots down the stretch and made some great moves. His play down the stretch was the difference in the game tonight.
Whatever happens, happens. We'll be ready for whoever we get.
I don't ever do anything different. I just put them up there and hope they go in. Sometimes it goes good, and sometimes it goes bad, but I just want to give myself a chance.
I don't even know how he got it off, honestly. I think he shot it with his left hand. I went after his right hand, thinking he was going to float it with the time going down like that, but somehow he got it up there and it stayed up there on the rim and went in. It was just a great shot, a great effort by those guys to turn a turnover into a fast-break that quickly and get it to the rim.
He knows his role, and he's sticking to it.
He did a great job on the offensive glass, made some big baskets for them and showed some great touch right around the basket.