Graycap23 said:

FWIW, that's a higher career FG percentage than Chauncey Billups.

AlexdeParis said:

.....and a lower WINNING % than Billups.

Unless a point guard is really mature and only cares about winning, having the ability to score is a curse.
If your pg is the number 1 option, it's easier to beat that team. You can focus all of your defensive effort on the top scorer AND the guy who's handling the ball and running the offense.
AI and others like him(Starberry) never figured that out and as a result wasted the chance of being GREAT instead of GOOD ball players.
AI was a great scorer not a great point guard.
But it sounds like AI is already thinking about UN retireing.

joseph8 said:

Ai was never a PG.

Graycap23 said:

Coincidentally, Billups has been on better teams. Wait, that's not a coincidence at all.

AlexdeParis said:

No one cared about Billups until after 2003.

Before them, dude was switching teams like a fairweather fan.

Guess who just came back ... per ESPN.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

No one cares about A.I. 2day.

Graycap23 said:

AI is a future 1st ballot hall of famer. If Billups gets in, it'll be years down the line.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

23,000 shots: missed 14,000
24,000 points, 23,000 points
pityful.

Graycap23 said:

The ball was in his hands all the time, who was he gonna pass it too, Iric Snow, Aaron McKie, Matt Geiger.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

continued.....Tyrone Hill, George Lynch, Larry Hues, Kevin Ollie etc.....

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Exactly,the dude couldn't hit a hooker outside the old Boston
Garden when he came into the league and it took dude what
5 years to become the player people thought he would be out of college.
AI nor Philly has anything to lose by him coming back to the Sixers.
Lou Williams is out for 8 weeks. It's a win win situation for Philly.
As for the AI haters,please name me 32 guards in the league that's
better right now. Crickets.
[Edited 12/1/09 21:14pm]

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Ironically,he worked well with Snow,McKie,and Theo Ratliff during
their 2001 NBA finals run.
He worked well with a couple of players past their prime too
Derrick Coleman and Chris Webber.

phunkdaddy said:

That was my point. That 2001 Sixers team is easily one of the worst teams to ever make the NBA Finals. Iverson and Larry Brown can't get enough praise for pulling off that feat of magic. That's as far from "pitiful" as it gets.
[Edited 12/2/09 3:05am]

LittleBLUECorvette said:

So what is your EXCUSE 4 Denver?

phunkdaddy said:

Better at what? Shooting 38% or winning?

AlexdeParis said:

I won't say their the worst team to make the NBA Finals especially
since you had a New York Knicks team minus Patrick Ewing to make
the finals not to long ago. Remember this Philly team had the best
record in the Eastern Conference that year and were on pace for the
best record in the league until Theo Ratliff got hurt. Dude was having
the best season of his career and may have been the defensive player of
the year. Once it was discovered Ratliff was done for the season,the team
was backed into a corner and had to trade for Motombo.Philly had to change
their philosophy somewhat to accomodate Motombo. Ratliff was probably not
as physical as Motombo but he was far more versatile and faster.
Motombo was slow and lawd once he got the ball in the paint and he put
the ball on the floor,it got ugly. Ratliff knew what to do with it once
he got it in the paint. Had Ratliff stayed healthy, this team would have
been among the best for a few more years.

Graycap23 said:

Both.

Doesn't AI have the highest scoring post season average
behind a recent hall of famer who also never met a shot
he didn't like.
[Edited 12/2/09 6:13am]

phunkdaddy said:

...and that team gave the Lakers their only loss in the playoffs.

A.I. is BACK!!! The Sixers signed Iverson. He is now back with the team that drafted him.

Welcome back, Iverson.

phunkdaddy said:

I don't get this. A.U. doesn't win.....and he can't shoot. Anyone in the NBA can toss up 25 shots a game.

Graycap23 said:

So let me ask AGAIN.....what is your EXCUSE 4 Denver?




.....birds chirping.....

Graycap23 said:

Dan Marino put up lots of stats but didn't win quote unquote "the
big one"but does that diminish his accomplishments on the field and
as a hall of fame player. Should we put Trent Dilfer in the hall of fame?
AI can't shoot? Damn could have fooled me,the guy has been a relentless
scoring machine in the NBA and he can't shoot.
Look at the all time scoring leaders particularly in the post season.
The proof's in the pudding. I guess you have to take a lot of shots
if you're the only consistent shooting threat on your team.
[Edited 12/2/09 6:54am]

phunkdaddy said:

This discussion is about A.I.

Graycap23 said:

Check my edit.

Wow, I know the fans are glad they kept theri Iverson 3 t-shirts. I love AI and I'm VERY happy he's back.
[Edited 12/2/09 14:02pm]

Dayclear said:

I'm happy too. The guy has something left in the tank. I hope he
makes all the naysayers eat crow.

Graycap23 said:

AI's great, but he's a unique player that needs a team built around him, that won't mind him dominating the ball so much. That's why the 2000-01 Sixers had success.

AlexdeParis said:

Lost on all this is Billups meltdown in the Western Conference
Finals.After game 1,his game was virtually non existent. In the
final game they lost in Denver,he committed a flagrant foul against
one of the Lakers players at the end of the game. But we all know
that was AI fault too.