In fact, when Duncan entered the league, he was already at the end of the four centers in the nineties, in addition to Sean Kemp and Charles Barkley were also at the end of the strong crossbow, Duncan's first year as a rookie was the 97-98 season, and as a result, the best team of this season Rio Rajuwon, Ewing, Barkley, Camp and others were all selected, and the six places in the first, second and third teams were O'Neal, Duncan, Malone, Robinson, Mutombo, and Wenbaker, among which David Robinson is still Duncan's Spurs teammate, So Duncan's opponents are only O'Neill and Carl Malone!
Duncan VS Karl Malone: 3-8 in the playoffs!
In 1998, Duncan was selected for the best team and David Robinson was selected for the best team for the second team, which should be the top configuration in the league at that time, so the Spurs easily eliminated the Suns 3:1 in the first round of the playoffs, Duncan 20.3 points, 9.8 rebounds and 3.8 blocks in the series, David Robinson 20.3 points, 16 rebounds and 2.8 blocks, and their opponent in the second round after advancing was the Utah Jazz.
The Utah Jazz interior line is composed of Karl Malone and Greg Foster, Foster averaged 5.7 points and 3.5 rebounds per game and was a blue-collar player, but after the series started, the Spurs twin towers were not opponents at all, with a big score of 4:1, and the Jazz easily eliminated the Spurs.
It's a pity that we didn't see Duncan play against Olajuwon and Barkleycamp in the playoffs
The next time the two sides met again, it was the 03-04 season, this year Malone was 41 years old, and the Spurs' main opponent at that time was also Shaq O'Neal, and there was not much reference in this round of the series.
Duncan vs O'Neal: Playoffs tied at 15:15!
Spurs 99 4:0 swept the Lakers is indeed a plus point, when the Lakers big forward was JR Ryder, this round of the series Rhett started four games but averaged only 2.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per game, assuming that the Spurs center David Robinson has 80 points of combat power and power forward Duncan has 90 points of combat effectiveness, then the Lakers center O'Neal has 90 points of combat power and the power forward Reid has only 30 points, so that the internal comparison between the two sides is 170 points to 120 points, and the credit comes from the entire Spurs as a whole.
Then there is the 01 Lakers 4:0 Spurs and the 01 Lakers 4:1 Spurs, although the Lakers big forward position is still bad, but David Robinson declined and Kobe Bryant rose, and the Lakers had the absolute upper hand after the rise and fall.
The Spurs were mostly single-defense before '02
Further down is interesting, in order to limit O'Neal, the league began to introduce "defense 3 seconds" in 2002 and allowed "joint defense legalization", which is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for O'Neal, 01, 02 season Spurs most of the rounds are David Robinson single defense O'Neal, and 03 years in addition to Robinson, Duncan, Spurs also hoarded Kevin Willis, Danny Ferry, Malik Rose and other inside, at the same time in those years in the league Dampier, Diogu these power blue-collar workers also began to become valuable.
In the end, O'Neal fell into endless joint defense and packing, as we all know, the most effective way to crack the joint defense is to hit three points from the outside, and in this round of the series, Laker big forward Robert Horry made 0 of 18 three-point shots, yes, Horry, who is good at three-point killing, failed to hit a three-point shot in the entire series, and the Lakers big forward played like this, and the Spurs big forward could naturally wrap O'Neal unscrupulously.
After the implementation of the new rules, the crazy bag clip
Like Yao Ming, Duncan also encountered a good era when the center withered!
We often say that Yao Ming has encountered a good era when the center withered, in fact, this sentence is also applicable to Duncan, although we often regard Duncan as the first big forward in the NBA, but in fact, after David Robinson retired, Duncan has played the interior center position for more than ten years, and the Spurs are Robert Horry, Oberto, Cote Thomas, McDyce, Split, Boris Dio and Aldridge, and these are actually big forward players.
Duncan's real center opponents are only Yao Ming, Howard and Stoudemire, and Yao Ming and Howard have no chance of meeting the Spurs in the playoffs, so only Stoudemire is the only one who threatens, and the two sides have played a total of 25 playoff games in their careers, and Duncan has the upper hand in terms of record and personal data at 15-10.
Duncan entered the league with 109 kilograms, 113 kilograms in the 99-00 season, and gradually exceeded 120 kilograms after facing O'Neal and switching to center, which is one of the reasons why Chris Bosh couldn't bear the twilight years of Duncan in 2013 and 14.
At the age of thirty-eight, Duncan still has no problem with Bosh in his prime
So obviously, Duncan was indeed prosperous in his time, but at this time it was in the end of the inside line, and Duncan completely fell into the disadvantage against Karl Malone, while the peak Olajuwon, Ewing, Barkley, and Sean Camp have never played against each other, and in the final analysis, Duncan has also eaten the dividends of the times!