Xu Jingyu: Howard is the most successful center in the last fifteen years.
Howard dressed up as Superman dunks
Yang Yi : At that time Duncan was still there, and it was 2006 for decades after 2021. Duncan won two championships in 2007 and 2014!
Duncan holds the trophy
Xu Jingyu: You are not right! Duncan is not a center, but a power forward!
Yang Yi: Who gave the definition? Duncan is not a center? Duncan played center after David Robinson retired.
Xu Jingyu: You are wrong, you are swaying and changing concepts. Can you say that Harden is defined as a point guard after playing a point guard, not a shooting guard, right?
Teacher Yang Yi was speechless for a while. At that time, the two sides were arrogant, and their faces blushed. Some netizens said that Yang Yi was full of nonsense. Duncan is officially recognized as the largest power forward in history. How can he be a center? What is Split (officially recognized center)? Duncan grabs the limelight of Garnett and Nowitzki ? Some netizens also said that Xu Jingyu has no access to first-hand official information and is actually just a topic maker. Wang Meng used first-hand information to make Xu Jingyu speechless.
In the end, the two sides did not fight for a reason. I tried to use limited knowledge to interpret the views of both parties.
Let's first look at the main honors and statistics of Duncan and Howard.
Stone Buddha Duncan
Duncan entered as the top pick in 1997 NBA ,He retired in 2015 and played a total of 19 seasons. Won 5 championships, 3 FMVP , 2 MVP, 15 best team, 15 best defensive team, 15 all-star team. The total score is 26496 points (the 15th in history), the total rebounds are 15091 (the 6th in history), and the total blocked shots are 3020 (the 5th in history). This is a bunch of dazzling data. Very few people have achieved such a brilliant history in history. No one has ever been officially recognized as the number one power forward in history by the NBA.
Howard of Warcraft
Howard also debuted as the No. 1 pick. He entered the NBA in 2014 and has played more than a dozen seasons. 8 best team, 6 best defensive team, 5 rebounds, 2 blocked shots. From 2009 to 2011, he won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year for three consecutive years. In 2019, he won a championship as a substitute. In 2009, he led the team to the finals alone, and finally fell in front of the Lakers of Kobe . At his peak, he was a man who only changed James. If it were not for the advent of the small ball era, Howard would have achieved better results.
Looking at career statistics and honors, it is obvious that Duncan has dumped Howard a few blocks.
Let’s take a look at Xu Jingyu’s Howard is the most successful center in fifteen years, right? Almost all of Howard's honors have been achieved in these fifteen years. Duncan's most dazzling honors in the decade from 2006 to 2015 were the two championships. In the past ten years, Popovich has been placed in the center position, O'Neal , Yao Ming and other first-class centers have retired. At this time, Old Duncan used experience and technology to gain the upper hand in the confrontation.This is the genius of Bobo's use of soldiers. In 2007, Duncan was selected as a center for the best team, and defeated the Cavaliers to win the championship that year. That is the year that Duncan said to James a famous sentence in history: The future is yours. In 2014, he also won the title as a center. It is really amazing to be able to rub Bosh on the floor at the end of his career. The most controversial is that in 2012, the NBA officially gave the Spurs center as the Argentine Splitter, but this year Duncan was selected as a center for the best team. Isn't this a contradiction? The NBA official is the most authoritative, how can you make such a mistake? My interpretation is that in 2012, Duncan actually did the work of the center. Although he was a power forward, he always appeared at the center at critical moments. The main data he played that year was obtained at the fifth position. The official statistics are the most authoritative. There is no basketball organization in the world today as detailed and regular in statistics as the NBA. The result of the fourth position and the fifth position is actually what Popovich's formation is outstanding. When the opponent's power forward is of average level, Duncan will be able to beat the opponent to death, which is completely a dimensionality reduction blow. The opposing center is weak, and Duncan can completely crush. Splitter, who is in the center position, often pulls out. Duncan sits at the basket most of the year and makes use of his excellent rim protection ability, supplementary defense, assist defense, and card position to be selected as a center forward. The real data will not lie. In the last two championships of the Spurs, Duncan is still the tactical core and leader of the team, and Warcraft was basically abandoned in the series of the 19/20 finals. If the championship is a hard indicator, Duncan was the most successful center at that time. If you look at the overall data, Howard is certainly better than Duncan in ten years, because Stone Buddha has already delegated the scoring task to Parker, Ginobili and Leonard in the last ten years. .
Is Duncan a center or a power forward? This is another topic of focus. I still try to interpret it with limited knowledge, hoping to make it clear.
Wolf King Garnett
To make this problem clear, Garnett must be brought into discussion.Duncan was rated as the No. 1 power forward in history, Garnett was second. If I remember correctly, Barkley was third and Nowitzki was fourth.
The above picture shows the percentage of Garnett's appearance in the three positions of center, power forward and small forward throughout his career. 1% appears on the third position, 71% appears on the fourth position, 29% on the fifth position, and Garnett plays the fourth position 71% of the time. It is defined as a power forward without problems.
The figure above shows the percentage of Duncan's appearance at center and power forward. 70% of the time is at the fifth position, why not be defined as a center? What are you doing to grab Garnett's history's first power forward! Is Garnett wronged? I said it seemed a bit wronged.
Duncan is defined as a power forward 70% of his time. Is it reasonable? Is it reasonable? Why did NBA officials do this?
My interpretation is that Duncan basically played power forward in the first nine years, and only played center in the second decade of his career. When Stone Buddha entered the Spurs in 1997, the legendary center David Robinson had not retired, so he was positioned as a power forward in the Twin Towers tactics. In nine years, 3 championships, 3 FMVPs, 2 regular season MVPs, the best lineup and defensive lineup, and a lot of all-star lineups. No other power forward in history has won the honor Duncan won as a power forward. .
Look at Garnett's 20 years of playing power forward and winning a championship, a regular season MVP, and a best defensive player . Twenty years cannot be compared to nine years! Is it the second injustice in history? So innocent.
Similarly, the honors Barkley and Nowitzki have achieved in their long careers cannot compare to the honor Duncan has achieved as a power forward in nine years!
Therefore, Xu Jingyu is wrong to say that Duncan is not a center forward. The NBA officially positions Duncan as a power forward/center, and being named the No. 1 forward is affirmation of his historical record at the No. 4 position.
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