Shaq puts Duncan's double-teams at the heart of Spurs success

ALL BALL BABY!'s fast-starting podcast excerpt asks how far San Antonio could have gone without its cornerstone.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 39,214 views a day, 9.4 times a normal first day on this channel (4,172).

The Spurs without Tim Duncan 🤔

Tracy McGrady thinks San Antonio still makes the playoffs without Tim Duncan. Shaquille O'Neal hears that hypothetical and starts explaining what happens when a defense has to send two players at one man.

That is the basketball question inside ALL BALL BABY!'s new Short, an excerpt from The Big Podcast w/ Shaq intercut with Spurs highlights. It has drawn more than 42,000 views in a little over a day, with an estimated first-day audience nearly ten times the channel's usual Shorts start.

McGrady points to Manu Ginóbili and Tony Parker as evidence that Duncan had exceptional help. Shaq's answer is about how that help got room to operate: Duncan drew double-teams, creating opportunities for everyone around him. "No, I'm saying if you take Tim off the team, they don't have the same success," he says.

The discussion starts with Duncan's 2003 MVP season, and viewers pick up on an important distinction. Ginóbili was then a rookie, Parker was in his second season, and David Robinson was playing his final year. The familiar image of an established Spurs machine can obscure how young two of its central players were.

McGrady later asks who carried San Antonio as Duncan aged, naming Parker. Shaq stays focused on the defensive attention Duncan commanded whenever he received the ball. The excerpt's real dividing line is not whether Parker and Ginóbili were great players, but how much Duncan made their work possible.

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What viewers say

A reminder that in 03 manu was a rookie, tp was a sophomore, and Robinson was on his way out.
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I think San Antonio could of made the playoffs but I’m not sure of a championship
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Tim was always the core for spurs motion offense during those days.
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