Better player: Curry or Iverson?

[VegasCAC]

never once did i see iverson look shook the way curry did during some of those finals games

A soft player from a rich family like Curry could never have the hunger and drive of AI.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

never once did i see iverson look shook the way curry did during some of those finals games

And yet he still busted ass and led his team in scoring to win the ship.

 

[SchoolboyC]

i'll just say this - i can guarantee


15 years from now there will NOT be a white rapper making a song called

'white curry'

Good lord

 

[LordTaskForce]

Curry by a good margin. Nash & Paul are better than Iverson too, tends to get overrated among his peers because of what he stood for as a cultural icon rather than his actual on court influence or skill.


Curry is one of the best finishers at his position too. He's the greatest shooter to have ever played this game that has learned to finish inside consistently. Not one dimensional in the slightest

If Reggie could break ppl down 1on1 like Steph he might've been better than Kobe. And Kobe wasn't an inneficient player in his prime. Doesn't deserve to be compared to AI, he actually could score on massive volume with solid-great efficiency. Check those PS games vs the West during LA's post Shaq runs

The thing that separates Iverson from Curry and Nash and Paul is that Iverson saved the league in his era (much like Lebron has done now). Iverson changed the way point guards played the game.

For the skill set that Curry has he should be averaging 30 and 10 (not getting outplayed by Monta Ellis his first three years). But I don't think Curry's body can take the abuse (especially the abuse the Iverson endured every game).

Kobe wasn't inefficient but volume shooter comes to mind same with jordan and iverson. 40-45% in the league is decent. 45-47 is great shooting. And 47+ is big man fg stats almost.

Iverson averaged 30+ 5 seasons. That kind of dominance from any player may not happen again. Especially considering that Lebron has only done that twice.

 

[Roadie pipeher]

A soft player from a rich family like Curry could never have the hunger and drive of AI.

you people are not fukking serious..no way you see his progression and still say this stupid ass shyt..

 

[Pdiddy]

All speculation.

All this shyt is speculation

 

[Regular_P]

It's impossible to have a reasonable discussion involving Iverson on this board. You'd think he literally fathered half of you. :smhkobe:

Curry is a much better player than Iverson was. I love people clinging to that '01 Finals run in the terrible east like he didn't shoot under 39% in the playoffs that year. He took 30 fukking shots a game. Curry took NINE less shots this past postseason and averaged about four fewer points than Iverson did in '01.

 

[Brozay]

A soft player from a rich family like Curry could never have the hunger and drive of AI.

 

[the cool]

you Cacs man are so obvious these days

 

[AAKing23]

"OMG Steph shot 48% he's better than Iverson" Ya'll analytic fakkits kill me


Use your damn eyes instead of numbers all the time

 

[MrFantastic]

Big men in AI era >>>>>now

Guards in AI era >>>>> now

Not sure what's so about that statement

 

[SchoolboyC]

"OMG Steph shot 48% he's better than Iverson" Ya'll analytic fakkits kill me


Use your damn eyes instead of numbers all the time

Field goal percentage is analytics now?

 

[erickonasis]

Big men in AI era >>>>>now

Guards in AI era >>>>> now

Cant disagree with that

 

[Noah]

An intangible reason ("had more heart") makes a player better? More heart doesn't excuse Ray Allen clearly outplaying Iverson in the '01 ECF:

Allen: 27.1 PPG, 3.3 RPG, 5.4 APG, .9 SPG, 2.7 TOPG, 46.8% FG%, 50.9% 3PT%, 96.8% FT%

Iverson: 30.5 PPG, 4.8 RPG, 6.8 APG, 2.2 SPG, 2.7 TOPG, 34.4% FG%, 33.3% 3PT, 78.2% FT%

Keep in mind AI took 40 more shots than Allen to average three more points. Allen was noticeably better on both ends (AI played his usual gambling defense) and Ray helped his offense flow quite well (considering how good Philly's team defense was). MIL's efficiency was superior but their volume wasn't.

I'm sure this'll be ignored but AI had an ORTG that was almost 30 points lower than Ray Allen. I understand the disparity in offensive talent even between Allen's Bucks and Iverson's Sixers but 97 vs 123 can't be ignored.

Arguably the biggest reason Philly won is because Dikembe Mutombo came outta nowhere and averaged near 17-16 with 3 blocks and had a higher average game score than AI (meaning by this stat that Mutombo was the most overall impactful player on the Sixers' roster. It's flawed but Mutombo stepped up more than people realized). Was well-known that Milwaukee had a poor front line and Mutombo ate Ervin Johnson-Tim Thomas-Scott Williams alive on the offensive glass (6.4 OREB per game). You guys wanna tell me about more heart without looking at what AI actually did?

And yeah I've watched both Curry and AI extensively (pertaining to OP's topic). AI was never a pure distributor and we saw that in Detroit after the Billups trade when AI played more point, AI wasn't a natural fit at PG and they fell off. You can take the guy with a bigger cultural influence (great thing in itself but topic is about better player) and more influential narratives, and AI does still have a case, but by looking at both Curry at his peak as of now definitely has a case over Iverson. People acted like it wasn't close, which isn't really true.

 

[Millions]

Iverson and it aint klose that's no disrespect to Curry thats just real facts tho...

A.I. heart and toughness in the era he played in pushes him ahead...not to mention how he changed the culture of the league...but thats a whole nother topic...Like dude said AI was driving on dominate big man with no fear...

AI the 3rd best shooting guard after Mike and Bean Bryant...fuk what yall talmbout...

curry not seeing AI in no way shape or form