Don't hesitate to flame me but Iverson can contribute in this team

He can contribute, he's a good person....

but he HAS to dominate the ball to be successful on the court, and he's no longer a guy you want to have dominate the ball. He's having a really tough time transitioning into the sunset of his career (like McGrady couldn't dial his game back last season when physically limited).

I'd rather not bring in another ball-dominating guard, I'd rather not bring in another sub 6-3 SG.

But I wish him well. I could see him doing well on a bad uptempo team like Golden State.

 

AI doesnt play defense

 

While I'm not opposed to this entirely, our time and money would be better spent elsewhere.

 

Not a bad suggestion, although I think he'll play at least a year or two in Charlotte with Larry Brown before calling it quits.

P.S. Captain Jacko + Ellis + Maggette + Crawford + AI = one HILARIOUS mix of ball stoppers, ISO players and ego's that would clash like none other yet make one hell of an NBA Live dynasty.

 

I guess people don't understand percentage shooting.

Iverson is capable of difficult shots but difficult shots isn't the point of basketball. It doesn't matter who scores. The objective is to get the highest percentage look. You also have to take into account the player (as we don't want Chuck Hayes shooting 3s).

Making the opposition shoot a worse percentage is also key. Iverson is not the player that can do this.

 

Gordon already turned down a long term deal for 10M/year with the Bulls and now the Bulls management has said signing him is their first priority this off season so it sounds like they will try to sign him for more than their initial offer. They wouldn't have come close to doing as well in the playoffs without him, he made clutch shot after clutch shot.

Why would anyone want to sign AI after Philly, Denver and Detroit, he didn't make those teams better. I think he'll have a hard time finding a team willing to sign him particularly if he wants a big deal, somebody may want him for the MLE but nobody will give him a 2nd big deal this off season.

 

Have you follow the Nuggets after they trade Iverson with the Pistons? Of course, Iverson is still a good player, but is another ball stopper, why do we need him, I am ok with him if he is asking only $2M.

 

Iverson + Artest + TMac + Brooks on the court at the same time = greatest ball hogging team in the NBA and zero ball movement

BTW, look at all the responses about how Detroit got infinitely worse, and Denver got infinitely better after the trade.

 

I am not hesitating - flame on!

 

Sure and let's trade Yao for Dwight Howard who also consistently attacks the paint and doesn't get fronted and rebounds and blocks shots at ease.. easily catches the ball and dunks at ease.

 

I don't see him being a starter on this team and he has refused to come off the bench.

 

Don't want him. He gave up on his team just like T-mac did. We got one negative nancy on this team already that we are trying to get rid of, we don't need another.

 

If he is willing to accept a reasonable salary then why not. He would probably learn how to play team ball under Adelman. ( Hoping )

 

This team win when they play team ball.