Fencer reregistered wrote:Isiah's advantages over Nash, without stats:
Eye test: Best lay-up shooter ever. Nash is close behind, but Isiah is better yet.
Nash efficiency at rim is amazing, almost as good as LeBron's so it's very unlikely Isiah was better here.
Played on vastly better defensive teams, even relative to their respective era. This lends plausibility to the claim that he was a better individual defender.
He was better defender but it doesn't matter much when we are comparing point guards. Pistons weren't great defensively because they had Isiah.