phunkdaddy said:

Graycap23 said:

Score at will?

Dude ave 25 shots a game.....for only 26 points.

Any starting NBA player could do that.

Yet it doesn't happen. I suppose you slept walk through the games A.I put up higher numbers and the Sixers still lost because there was simply no talent there kinda like your favorite player when he had to put up with the likes of Brad Sellers and Dennis Hopson.

It doesnt happened because no other player was that bad at shooting.

Graycap23 said:

phunkdaddy said:

Graycap23 said: Yet it doesn't happen. I suppose you slept walk through the games A.I put up higher numbers and the Sixers still lost because there was simply no talent there kinda like your favorite player when he had to put up with the likes of Brad Sellers and Dennis Hopson.

It doesnt happened because no other player was that bad at shooting.

The sad thing is you actually believe that.

phunkdaddy said:

Graycap23 said:

It doesnt happened because no other player was that bad at shooting.

The sad thing is you actually believe that.

You think AI was a good shooter? He was a volume scorer.

The guy took 23,289 shots and missed 13,763 of those.

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TonyVanDam said:

There's a documentary on showtime about him where he(a.I.) says he had MUCH going on in his life at the time outside of bball,(violent death of a close friend and family drama) and with ALL that going on...at a presser y'all talking to me about practice.

I see it ass not to discount practice...but on a personal level, it can get trumped...



Edit: I remember during a Lakers final, fish's daughter had a surgery cuz of some rare disease. Granted...he made the game...but NO ONE... and I mean NO ONE would have faulted him for missing it had that happened. That's his daughter and not his close friend...but I think some of a.I. antics placed an unnecessarily stringent standard on him.
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BobGeorge909 said:

TonyVanDam said:

Disney/ESPN's lousy video editing has nothing to do with it. I remember what Iverson said years ago. I understood it then THE same way that I [KEY WORD: "I"] understand it now that Iverson did not take the value of basketball practices serious. You are more than welcome to respectfully disagree with me. But I still stand by my words.

There's a documentary on showtime about him where he(a.I.) says he had MUCH going on in his life at the time outside of bball,(violent death of a close friend and family drama) and with ALL that going on...at a presser y'all talking to me about practice. I see it ass not to discount practice...but on a personal level, it can get trumped... Edit: I remember during a Lakers final, fish's daughter had a surgery cuz of some rare disease. Granted...he made the game...but NO ONE... and I mean NO ONE would have faulted him for missing it had that happened. That's his daughter and not his close friend...but I think some of a.I. antics placed an unnecessarily stringent standard on him. [Edited 4/18/16 10:16am]

Yeah. Like I said in a following post: Iverson's quotes are taken out of context as he never truly
answered the reporter's question as what his practice habits were (Iverson discursively went on
a rant about how a franchise player shouldn't be asked questions about his practice habits when
he plays harder than anybody else on the floor).

Yet, Coach Larry Brown was on record during this time complaining about Iverson's poor practice
habits, so. . .

duccichucka said:

BobGeorge909 said:

TonyVanDam said: There's a documentary on showtime about him where he(a.I.) says he had MUCH going on in his life at the time outside of bball,(violent death of a close friend and family drama) and with ALL that going on...at a presser y'all talking to me about practice. I see it ass not to discount practice...but on a personal level, it can get trumped... Edit: I remember during a Lakers final, fish's daughter had a surgery cuz of some rare disease. Granted...he made the game...but NO ONE... and I mean NO ONE would have faulted him for missing it had that happened. That's his daughter and not his close friend...but I think some of a.I. antics placed an unnecessarily stringent standard on him. [Edited 4/18/16 10:16am]

Yeah. Like I said in a following post: Iverson's quotes are taken out of context as he never truly
answered the reporter's question as what his practice habits were (Iverson discursively went on
a rant about how a franchise player shouldn't be asked questions about his practice habits when
he plays harder than anybody else on the floor).

Yet, Coach Larry Brown was on record during this time complaining about Iverson's poor practice
habits, so. . .

I watched Iverson and it is clear that the "practice" soundbite was totally taken out of context. And
in same documentary, Larry Brown says that he asked Iverson to shoot it "forty times" a game "be-
cause that was the only way we were gonna win."

The "practice" rant, as revealed by Iverson himself, along with Coach Thompson, was precisely how
I presented it: Iverson was not saying he didn't like practicing, but that the franchise player an-
swering questions "not about the game, but practice" was perplexing. Scoop Jackson indicated that
in the totality of that press conference, Iverson mentioned that he was overwhelmed with grief about
the recent death of his friend and with being bombarded with questions about practice after revealing
this grief to the press, it made the discussion about practice even more frustrating.

The media is horseshit and it's sad that Iverson's legacy gets tainted by dumb ass soundbites and
by those who distort his NBA stats.