>>150177534 (OP)
Threadly reminder that Iverson
>had one (1) deep playoff run in his entire career which was only possible because of blatant refball since the league thought Mr. Cool tats and the big Philly market was a better finals matchup than Mr. Boring Ray Allen and the small-market Bucks. So his only team accomplishment is making it to a finals where he got swept in 5 and the league had to cheat to get him that far
>shot a hilariously awful 42% for his career. For comparison, John Stockton shot 51%. Stephen Curry has a 3PT% equal to Iverson's regular fg%. He scored so many points by just shooting more than anyone else on his team but as you might imagine having your "best" player missing more shots than he makes is horribly inefficient, hence the not winning anything and generally being a playoff afterthought
>and this is the point where people usually say "yeah but his teammates sucked so he had to shoot that much" which is just massive cope because we saw Iverson with a team full of A+++ talent on the olympic squad he "led" to the worst finish in team USA history. He had LeBron, Duncan and Wade on his team and got btfo by Argentina. And he actually shot WORSE than he did normally. He was the team's leading scorer and he shot 38%. If he had bad teammates, he shot too much and missed more than half of them. If he had good teammates, he...shot too much and missed more than half of them. Better supporting players would have just been wasted on him
>Also, he was paired up with Carmelo at one point when Carmelo was one of the league's leading scorers, and instead of making each other better it was awkward and ineffective and he eventually became a team cancer and was told to go home and wait to be traded or released. Again, pairing him up with anyone else good was a waste because he couldn't defer or create plays for other people. All he did was shoot, and, he was a terrible shot. He was Westbrook without the rebounding or passing which is as useless as it sounds.
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