Who's better, Stephen Curry or Prime Allen Iverson?

TheBomb81 · Post #1 » by **TheBomb81** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 4:00 am

Where would you rank them all-time?

cpower · Post #2 » by **cpower** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 4:01 am

Allen Iverson is rated very low on this forum and I think Tony Parker is a better comparison

pandrade83 · Post #3 » by **pandrade83** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 4:02 am

Steph - this isn't even remotely close.

mihail_petkov · Post #4 » by **mihail_petkov** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 4:07 am

Are you kidding me? lol

mdonnelly1989 · Post #5 » by **mdonnelly1989** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 4:11 am

Allen Iverson by a hair.....

P.S this if we are talking about an alternate universe, because I know you can't be talking about this one.

TheGOATRises007 · Post #6 » by **TheGOATRises007** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 4:14 am

Curry is clearly the better player.

Sublime187 · Post #7 » by **Sublime187** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 4:25 am

Curry by a mile.

picko · Post #8 » by **picko** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 4:36 am

Curry and it's not particularly close. Iverson was an absolute warrior but he was hugely inefficient and it was difficult to build a consistently competitive side around him.

dhsilv2 · Post #9 » by **dhsilv2** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 5:07 am

who voted iverson here?

Post #10 » by **NO-KG-AI** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 6:15 am

I love AI, but Steph by a pretty decisive margin. Allen is extremely underrated here, and overrated by the general public. But there is a pretty short list of guys I’d take over Steph offensively.

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Post #11 » by **fanofthegreats** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 6:17 am

Steph is better.

SpreeS · Post #12 » by **SpreeS** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 6:34 am

wtf? This is stupid, go to topic Realgm TOP100 and check raitings. Nothing change in this department.

29 Curry
58 Iverson

DidUSaySometing · Post #13 » by **DidUSaySometing** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 9:30 am

pandrade83 wrote:Steph - this isn't even remotely close.

it's definitely close. iverson is a top 10 all time scorer

Post #14 » by **NO-KG-AI** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 9:40 am

DidUSaySometing wrote:
pandrade83 wrote:Steph - this isn't even remotely close.

it's definitely close. iverson is a top 10 all time scorer

He absolutely is not. And I have his initials in my name.

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DidUSaySometing · Post #15 » by **DidUSaySometing** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 9:43 am

NO-KG-AI wrote:
DidUSaySometing wrote:
pandrade83 wrote:Steph - this isn't even remotely close.

it's definitely close. iverson is a top 10 all time scorer

He absolutely is not. And I have his initials in my name.

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there's a reason he's 2nd all time in playoff PPG (excluding active players)

The-Power · Post #16 » by **The-Power** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 9:51 am

DidUSaySometing wrote:
NO-KG-AI wrote:
DidUSaySometing wrote:
it's definitely close. iverson is a top 10 all time scorer

He absolutely is not. And I have his initials in my name.

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there's a reason he's 2nd all time in playoff PPG (excluding active players)

Yes, because he played extremely high MPG, played in the playoffs basically only during his prime years, and had crazy USG%. PPG without context is a terrible measure to use. His TS% has been at 48.9, that's horrid efficiency and a testament to him chucking up bad shots left and right. He had his qualities as a creator and his teams rolled with/relied on him in this regard quite a bit, but it doesn't change the fact that Iverson just took a huge amount of shots at terrible efficiency to get to the PPG you hold in such high esteem. That doesn't make him a top 10 scorer of all time – not even close.

DidUSaySometing · Post #17 » by **DidUSaySometing** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 10:45 am

The-Power wrote:
DidUSaySometing wrote:
NO-KG-AI wrote:
He absolutely is not. And I have his initials in my name.

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there's a reason he's 2nd all time in playoff PPG (excluding active players)

Yes, because he played extremely high MPG, played in the playoffs basically only during his prime years, and had crazy USG%. PPG without context is a terrible measure to use. His TS% has been at 48.9, that's horrid efficiency and a testament to him chucking up bad shots left and right. He had his qualities as a creator and his teams rolled with/relied on him in this regard quite a bit, but it doesn't change the fact that Iverson just took a huge amount of shots at terrible efficiency to get to the PPG you hold in such high esteem. That doesn't make him a top 10 scorer of all time – not even close.

his playoff PPG still shows how dominant he was. AI averaged 35.6 PPG at 50 TS% against shaq and kobe in the finals while his teammates only made 6 3s. the 01 76ers starting lineup only made 15 3s in the entire reg season, yet iverson's TS% was still league average.

in 05 after the rule changes he averaged 31.2 PPG at 56 TS% against the pistons (third best defense) in the playoffs

frica · Post #18 » by **frica** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 2:21 pm

Iverson is very underrated but Curry is much better.

HeartBreakKid · Post #19 » by **HeartBreakKid** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 3:19 pm

DidUSaySometing wrote:
The-Power wrote:
DidUSaySometing wrote:
there's a reason he's 2nd all time in playoff PPG (excluding active players)

Yes, because he played extremely high MPG, played in the playoffs basically only during his prime years, and had crazy USG%. PPG without context is a terrible measure to use. His TS% has been at 48.9, that's horrid efficiency and a testament to him chucking up bad shots left and right. He had his qualities as a creator and his teams rolled with/relied on him in this regard quite a bit, but it doesn't change the fact that Iverson just took a huge amount of shots at terrible efficiency to get to the PPG you hold in such high esteem. That doesn't make him a top 10 scorer of all time – not even close.

his playoff PPG still shows how dominant he was. AI averaged 35.6 PPG at 50 TS% against shaq and kobe in the finals while his teammates only made 6 3s. the 01 76ers starting lineup only made 15 3s in the entire reg season, yet iverson's TS% was still league average.

in 05 after the rule changes he averaged 31.2 PPG at 56 TS% against the pistons (third best defense) in the playoffs

It shows that he took a lot of shots...if he was dominant he would shoot above league average. He obviously was not a legitimate 35 point scorer, there's a big difference between his 35 and Michael Jordan's 35.

The-Power · Post #20 » by **The-Power** » Fri Jun 1, 2018 3:51 pm

DidUSaySometing wrote:his playoff PPG still shows how dominant he was. AI averaged 35.6 PPG at 50 TS% against shaq and kobe in the finals while his teammates only made 6 3s. the 01 76ers starting lineup only made 15 3s in the entire reg season, yet iverson's TS% was still league average.

in 05 after the rule changes he averaged 31.2 PPG at 56 TS% against the pistons (third best defense) in the playoffs

As mentioned by HBK, it shows that he took a lot of shots. And do we really want to go down that route and cherry-pick series over the course of a player's career? Because there are a lot of players who had comparable or better scoring series than the one's you just mentioned.

Stephen Curry VS Prime Allen Iverson?