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Originally posted by <b>John The Cool Kid</b>!
If you're going to claim that Malone is a far superior scorer, like I think its reasonable to, atleast take into account one of the main reasons for that is the zone ruling. That allowed Malone to tackle single coverage much more often than Duncan does.
You cant have it both ways though, Duncan gets doubled much more than Malone ever did, simply because teams can without getting called for it. Malone could pump fake a pass, and defenses would be back to their man.
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the illegal defense rules were changed for the '01-'02 season. the same season that saw duncan's scoring go up from 22.2 to 25.5 ppg, and his fg% go from 49.9% to 50.8%.