He is top 5. He never played against Wilt and Russell.
Because of his team-first attitude. Tim Duncan sacrificed a lot of stats to help the team, but because he did he also made his fate, connected to his team's. That kind of diminishes Tim Duncan as a Greatest Of All-Time, however it's widely considered that Tim Duncan is the greatest Power Forward to ever play.
Something similar goes for Chauncey Billups, the ego games he played, he averaged 25ppg/10apg/3rpg so he could've been a very prolific Point Guard, but because the Pistons, and later the Nuggets needed an organizer, a distributor, he gave up those stats, to help them win.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.