Read where 12-year NBA veteran Tim Duncan recently played in his 1000th NBA game for the Spurs.
Timberwolves coach Kevin McHale contends that, among the NBA's current big men, Duncan is "by far the best.'' And much of his success, argues McHale, has to do with Duncan's basketball IQ.
"He's smart. He doesn't run around. No wasted energy. Things I'm trying to get our guys to do -- basketball's a game of read-and-react. Especially with young guys, they want to 'run' the offense. But the offense doesn't score -- the defensive read 'within' the offense does. Things happen, Tim just stands there and goes (McHale very slowly looks left, very slowly looks right). Then he moves into the open spot.
Believe it or not, that's how everybody used to play. You didn't run on top of each other. You gave everybody space. He's different because, right now, for whatever reason -- either how the game is taught or how the young guys play in AAU or whatever -- it's, 'We're going to go as fast as we can, run around as fast as we possibly can.'
Tim just takes his time. He let’s the defense make mistakes.''
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