Why Is Allen Iverson Considered To Be so Great? He was a chucker..

Yes, in the all time sense.

4 other human beings in the history of planet earth, in the sol system, milky way galaxy have won as many or more scoring titles as Iverson.

This renders him into a "good offensive player" in the all time sense.

 

Allen Iverson certainly the most overrated star in recent years.

People say he had to shoot, which is true only because no other good scorer could play with him. He was a dribbler who passed as a last resort. All of his 76er teams were bad offensively and won games in a pathetic eastern conference. Michael Jordan, the GOAT, didn't take as many shots as Iverson.

The 76ers traded him and saw no dropoff whatsoever, Iguodala picked up the slack with no problem. The Nuggets traded him and got better. Melo didn't take more shots with Iverson gone, the rest of the team did.

In the famous practice interview, he genuinely didn't understand how he could make his team better in practice, all he cared about was how good he was. That told me all I needed to know about him as a player.

 

Iverson was a lot better than a lot of peopple here give him credit. He could score even if defenses where designed to stop him and he got double and triple teamed.
Also saying that anyone one can take 25 shoots and average 30 ppg is pretty ignorant. Its not easy to get to the line as much as he did, and also its not easy to get so many looks at the rim. He shoot a lot of bad ones, but he created alll those shoots, coz nobody on that team could help him do it. Give the ball to danny green and ask him to shoot 25 times a game, he just wont be able to do it, you have to be able to create and at a very good rate, because his teammates where as bad on offense as it get.

 

Iversons first true robin (to batman) was iggy.....nuff said.

 

Are you serious this game is and always will be about buckets...fancy paints feelings get tossed to the side....its time to man up.

 

No it doesn't. Scoring titles mean very little in an all-time sense. The scoring leader for a given year is often not even the best scorer in that year, let alone the best overall offensive player. There was no year in which Iverson was a top 5 offensive player in the NBA, and no year in which he was the best scorer.

 

As a rookie Allen Iverson scored 40 or more pts in 4 consecutive games.

To say that Allen Iverson never was a top 5 scoring in any season is foolish.

He also had 4 seasons where he averaged over 30 points a game.

 

Whaaaat...so Durant is not a scorer , or overall offensive player?you speak not the truth.

 

Out of the years he averaged 30 points a game name 5 players better than Iverson offensively

 

Again nuff said.

 

That's cool and all, but anecdotal. He was a good offensive player and all, but doesn't deserve to be compared to the actual all-time elites like Nash. And I didn't say he was never a top 5 scoring threat in a season; he was. He was never a top 5 overall offensive player.

I said that scoring titles don't make you an all-time elite offensive player, not that scoring titles preclude you from having all-time offensive impact. In fact it increases your chance of being such a player. Just in this instance, it's not true for AI. Durant is undoubtedly an all-time elite offensive player for his ridiculous efficiency on so many points as a leading scorer, his amazingly great off-ball play, and his developing playmaking talents.

2000-01: Shaq, Kobe, Vince Carter were better. You could make arguments for C-Webb, Duncan, KG, etc. but it's at least arguable that AI was top 5 so I'll give you that.
2001-02: Shaq, Kobe, Duncan, T-Mac, C-Webb
2004-05: Shaq, KG, Duncan, Nash, LeBron
2005-06: Wade, Kobe, Nash, LeBron, KG
2006-07: Nash, Kobe, LeBron, Duncan, Wade

I could list more for every single year except for 2005-06.

 

Durant sat out the last game because he was too much of a puss to go for it. Same with Kobe the year before.

 

He had Stackhouse and Derrick Coleman rolleyes. Webber, Kukoc, Van Horn... Damn, has Philly sucked at management.

Hopefully Hinkie can be good, it's time for that franchise to turn it around.

It's a shame that Iverson didn't get traded to Detroit in 2000, btw. They'd have young Iverson and Ben Wallace, they'd probably still eventually get Chauncey, who's an awesome pairing next to Iverson defensively.
We wouldn't have the 2001. But long term it likely would've been a great thing.

 

Go for the gold eddie eagle

 

nobody likes kobe either, doesn't really take away the career achievements.

 

Let's be serious here, only Laker homers viewed Kobe as better before about 2003-4 (2002-3 was the first year of their careers he was better than Iverson, they were both in their 7th year that year).