Better player: Curry or Iverson?

[Lifer11]

What's AI's FG% and TS% that season?

33 PPG on 44% shooting (54% TS) / 7.4 AST on 3.4 TOV / 3.2 REB / 1.9 STL / .1 BLK in 43 minutes?

That's the season you think is better than Wade's?

30.2 on 49% FG (57% TS) 7.5 AST on 3.4 TOV) / 5 REB / 2.2 STLs / 1.1 BLK in 38 minutes?

Wade did everything better except score more PPG despite playing 6 less minutes a game.

So Wade scored a whopping 3 less PPG in much higher efficiency while being better in every other statistical category despite playing way less minutes and you think AI had a better season?

.05% isn't way more efficient bro hate to break it to ya.

 

[Draje]

2005-06 33 ppg, 3.4 to, 1.9 stls, 7.4 assists, 3.2 rebs, ft 81.4%, 3pt 32.3%, fg 44.7%, 43 mpg, 72 games played


Show me a better season from Wade.

Already did. Wade averaged more assists and same TOV, more rebounds, blocks, and scored 3 less PPG while being way more efficient and playing way less minutes.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

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

The stupidity in this fukking post

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Their core was the same and they made it out of the first round

We gonna act Curry wouldn't have done better with that Nuggets roster with Melo?

no the core wasn't the same.

and they didn't have to play the nba champion spurs & west champion lakers in the 1st round like Iverson's teams did. instead, they played cakewalks.

 

[Malta]

Why shouldn't he have been within 5 attempts of Melo? He's averaged more pts for his career, and Melo's career fg% is 45% Iverson's is 42.5%.

His job, as Billups showed should have been to set up the team and put Melo in the best position to score. Instead in typical AI fashion he went the Bubba Chuck way and played iso-ball, look at that full season Melo had with him and compare it to the full season he had with Billups.

 

[Draje]

.05% isn't way more efficient bro hate to break it to ya.

And? It's still much better. The difference between 49 and 44 is the difference between Lebron James and Kobe Bryant in efficiency. It's pretty damn sizable when you're talking about a comparable PPG.

Wade was still better in almost every statistical category while playing far less minutes.

What's your counter?

 

[LV Koopa]

For all the talk of Steph being bad on D, Iverson was arguably worse. Add in the massive gap in offensive ability and AI is way outclassed. Iverson stans won't ever let it go.

 

[Lifer11]

Already did. Wade averaged more assists and same TOV, more rebounds, blocks, and scored 3 less PPG while being way more efficient and playing way less minutes.

Again .05% isn't way more efficient. And Iverson has better numbers than Wade over a longer, healthier career with way less help. It's up for debate who's better, if you can't admit that you don't know basketball.

 

[VegasCAC]

The stupidity in this fukking post

Soft, privileged people usually have less drive in life. Harsh realities

 

[LV Koopa]

His job, as Billups showed should have been to set up the team and put Melo in the best position to score. Instead in typical AI fashion he went the Bubba Chuck way and played iso-ball, look at that full season Melo had with him and compare it to the full season he had with Billups.

AI fans get amnesia when you ask them about the Billups swap and the fukking flip Denver and Detroit's records did

 

[Lifer11]

His job, as Billups showed should have been to set up the team and put Melo in the best position to score. Instead in typical AI fashion he went the Bubba Chuck way and played iso-ball, look at that full season Melo had with him and compare it to the full season he had with Billups.

Billups was absolutely a way better fit with Melo, and Melo was the young alpha of that team, but Iverson's skills were close enough to warrant being within 5 shots a game of Melo.

Ultimately they should've never even been paired together though.

 

[Kang Deezy]

Iverson was a fun exciting player that changed the game... For the worst.

The days of iso ball and selfish shot chucking do not work anymore

I take Curry

 

[Draje]

Again .05% isn't way more efficient. And Iverson has better numbers than Wade over a longer, healthier career with way less help. It's up for debate who's better, if you can't admit that you don't know basketball.

Nope. You said AI had better statistical seasons than Prime Wade and that it's not debatable, you dumbass.

That's not true. Wade's best season us better than any of AI's. Wade is more efficient in pretty much every category while scoring the same amount of points in less minutes.

If Wade can put up almost the exact same stat line as AI but slightly more efficient and in way less time, how is NOT better?

 

[Kang Deezy]

Billups was absolutely a way better fit with Melo, and Melo was the young alpha of that team, but Iverson's skills were close enough to warrant being within 5 shots a game of Melo.

Ultimately they should've never even been paired together though.

If I remember right, he was supposed to be a Celtic for a package built around Jefferson but philly didn't want to trade him in the same division.

 

[#1 pick]

A.I. was the better talent and it ain't close but Curry is a better player and you can build a team around him.