Iverson Is the Most Overrated Player in NBA History

[SilkkTheShocker]

the ones that call him overrated didnt watch him play. end of

basketball isnt played on paper or 82games.com

You forgot the part about Iverson being "pound for pound" the toughest little man in the game ever.

[NumberSix]

Meh. There are worse players rated higher.

[Kblaze8855]

I hate when people who dont seem to know shit about history talk about such and such being the most ____ in history.

And for all the hate AI gets...he won more than a lot of the HOf and led worse teams to more success than most people who shot better than him.

What good did Adrian Dantleys 30+ a game on 57% even do for the Jazz teams he led? Gervin get more out of his 33 a game on 53% shooting than AI got? No. Bernard King? Charles barkley?

Nope.

When you win as much or more than people shooting high percentages despite less help to do it of what relevance is your field goal percentage?

Chris Paul, Steve nash, Jason Kidd, or just about anyone takes 30 games of Kukoc, 68 games of Tyrone Hill, 57 games of theo Ratliff, Geiger, snow, non one good season Mckie, Billy Owens. rookie todd Mac, Kevin Olie, and Lynch to 50 wins and a playoff series win he would be praised for getting more than the sum of his teammates parts.

Its as if 48 wins and making the second round isnt good enough with just about to retire Keith Vanhorn, Kenny Thomas, Snow, 10 years past his prime Derrick Coleman, Brian Skinner, and Greg Buckner.

Really....

Jason Kidd can win like 42 games with a healthy Vince Carter doing numbers and Jefferson(who missed some games but no more than AIs help always missed) plus a grabbag of role playing nobodies....


AI wins 43 games with Marc Jackson, Kyle Korver, Kenny Thomas, old Big Nasty, rookie Iggy doing 9ppg, and 21 games of post injury Webber who was traded for Kenny and Corliss...


Kidd makes others better and AI is holding his teammates back.

I guess he needed to get more out of washed up Glenn Robinson in the 42 games he had him before he went to the spurs for 9 games before he retired....

He had the remains of Glenn Robinson for 20 minutes with Kenny thomas as his second option most of the season.

That makes AI a loser.

Oscar Robertson takes all NBA first teamer, HOF bound, Jerry Lucas, and an additional allstar and isses the playoffs.

Oscar is top 15 all time and AI is the most overrated ever.

Players nobody will complain about take more than AI had to work with and get less out of it all the time.

But the forever hated on only brought up when some idiot wants to hate on a modern guard by comparing them Allen Iverson...

Is the most overrated of all time.

Not Pistol Pete who did nothing at all but get the greenest light ever from his dad/coach to score 40+ in college before winning less in the pros than Marbury despite some all NBA teammates....

No. Allen Iverson.

Plenty of players nobody has anything negative to say about took teams of stars and didnt win as much as Iverson did with role players....

But hes overrated.

Not them.

He is. even though hes one of the most hated on players ever.

AI should have gotten more out of teams that had Kyle korver and the other Marc Jackson as second and third options. But its fine when a guy who shoots 50% for his career never has a team that poor and doesnt even win a playoff series.

Yea.

Sounds reasonable.......

[ripthekik]

OP was still a child in the early 2000's. Fact.

[gasolina]

Not to discredit Kblaze's post... and I love Iverson so much.... but his style of play made it really hard to find players that gel with him.

He did get the short end of the stick by getting most of his teammates THAT WORKED WITH HIS STYLE OF PLAY on their last legs (Tyrone Hill, George Lynch, old ass DC, Mutombo)

[FreezingTsmoove]

Iverson made losing cool as long as you look good doing it. And again the "tough player" excuse is weak. No one is questioning his heart. Just his practice habits, innefficiency, and lack of team success.

You dont get as good as he got at barely 6ft by not going hard in practice

[SilkkTheShocker]

OP was still a child in the early 2000's. Fact.

Didn't you just say you were still in school last week? You were still taking weekend trips to the Sandusky house when the 01 Finals happened.

[AlphaWolf24]

The thing that irked me about AI is...


he always acted like henever had any great teammates.....and if he id he always said he could win multipleTitles too..

then wen e did get reat teammates he ***** and moaned and became a cancerous...

[coin24]

OP was still a child in the early 2000's. Fact.

This.

Anyone that actually watched iverson play wouldn't say that shit. Silkkthe****** and hank are the 2 worst posters on here. What do you expect from lebron Stan/supposed heat fans

[TheFan]

wow... amazing how life changes... remember when it was 2001 finals and you had the entire world rooting for Iverson and the Sixers.

Every game you had the commentators reminding you how many injuries Iverson has at the moment, how much heart, soul and love for the game it takes to overcome the pain and play...

Now everybody hates Iverson... what a journey...

[noosaman]

wow... amazing how life changes... remember when it was 2001 finals and you had the entire world rooting for Iverson and the Sixers.

Every game you had the commentators reminding you how many injuries Iverson has at the moment, how much heart, soul and love for the game it takes to overcome the pain and play...

Now everybody hates Iverson... what a journey...

I don't remember this at all. I do remember Shaq elbowing Mutombo repeatedly in the trachea and getting away with it.

[Meticode]

Before anyone says anything, no I am not Silk.

[QuebecBaller]

Don't feed the troll...

... he's able to feed himself

[coin24]

wow... amazing how life changes... remember when it was 2001 finals and you had the entire world rooting for Iverson and the Sixers.

Every game you had the commentators reminding you how many injuries Iverson has at the moment, how much heart, soul and love for the game it takes to overcome the pain and play...

Now everybody hates Iverson... what a journey...

This

The people that hate iverson only started watching bball when he was traded to Detroit or after.. Probably never even watched him play

[SilkkTheShocker]

This.

Anyone that actually watched iverson play wouldn't say that shit. Silkkthe****** and hank are the 2 worst posters on here. What do you expect from lebron Stan/supposed heat fans

So what you are trying to say is that you are a crying ass bitch that has no argument at all, got it.