Could guards who cant shoot win MVP in today's NBA?

[90sgoat]

Iverson was not a good 3 point shooter, he had a nice midrange shot though.

Until the season they abolished def 3 seconds (2005?) he got most his points of the midrange. He had the Kobe syndrome though. Would start out great, picking good spots, then start taking increasingly bad shots. AI's stats are very misleading in many ways.

[Xiao Yao You]

how can you stop a guy like iverson without hand checking?

let him take bad shots against multiple defenders the same as it was in his day. Basketball IQ is still important in every era as Westbrook has shown

[Real Men Wear Green]

Russell Westbrook didn't win an MVP all that long ago.

[PeroAntic]

Iverson's shot selection is always going to be an issue. DRose was smarter and faster (there is probably no one as fast in the history of the league as prime DRose). Also if you can get between 30 and 35 percent 3pt shooting its not that you can't shoot. This is Doncic's percentage for example.

[ArbitraryWater]

Until the season they abolished def 3 seconds (2005?) he got most his points of the midrange. He had the Kobe syndrome though. Would start out great, picking good spots, then start taking increasingly bad shots. AI's stats are very misleading in many ways.

in what ways?

[TAZORAC]

I love how nobody answered the topic question

[HylianNightmare]

Iverson winning mvp for sure

[3ba11]

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Iverson

2-point percentage in the 6 years before rule changes........ 43.2
2-point percentage in the 6 years after rule changes.......... 46.5

3-point percentage in 6 years before rule changes............. 30.2
3-point percentage in 6 years after rule changes............... 32.2


So it's pretty clear-cut that the hands-off rules helped Iverson's efficiency and obviously the current format of super-spacing would help his efficiency even more.., Iverson was actually an exceptional 2-point shooter without practice and would surely be viable from 3 with practice

[Xiao Yao You]

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Iverson

2-point percentage in the 6 years before rule changes........ 43.2
2-point percentage in the 6 years after rule changes.......... 46.5

3-point percentage in 6 years before rule changes............. 30.2
3-point percentage in 6 years after rule changes............... 32.2


So it's pretty clear-cut that the hands-off rules helped Iverson's efficiency and obviously the current format of super-spacing would help his efficiency even more.., Iverson was actually an exceptional 2-point shooter without practice and would surely be viable from 3 with practice

his IQ doesn't go up and he'd still be taking prayers with wide open teammates standing around watching

[Kblaze8855]

his IQ doesn't go up and he'd still be taking prayers with wide open teammates standing around watching

AI loved passing to people who could play. Or even people who used to be able to play. You actually pull up a 76ers game from those times. He passes it to Eric snow, Lynch, Hill, or whoever who passes it right back. He was playing with subservient people who had few ball skills.

His haters have been talking up Aaron McKie for 20 years as if they can remember anything he did in his 13 year career that wasn’t with Iverson. The good players who played with him got the ball all the time. Post injury washed up Chris Webber was taking more shots next Allen Iverson than prime Dwyane Wade was the same season they won the title. Kyle Korver got more shots both per game and per minute, playing with Allen Iverson than he did when he was an all-star on the hawks. Korver has said over and over Iverson was his biggest supporter because he loved people who could shoot. He would get him the ball over and over and tell him not to hesitate.

Hell washed up Glenn Robinson for the 45 minutes he was there got the ball all day from AI who just backed off and spaced the floor for him





Carmelo Anthony got his career high shot attempts per game playing with Allen Iverson. Largely washed Derrick Coleman was getting the same shots next to Iverson he got his first couple years when he was supposed to be the future of the league on the nets. Jerry Stackhouse went from 20 a game with Iverson to getting less shots on the Pistons than bison Dele. The Pistons didn’t seem to want him taking the shots from their young phenom or their aging vet.

Iverson never hesitated to get competent people the ball. He didn’t get the ball to people who didn’t want the ball or couldn’t do anything with it.

Give him a team full of shooters and scorers in an uptempo league designed for him to prosper he’d love it.

He force fed the few scorers he did play with. He’d have the time of his life in a league that made even mediocre scorers good through spacing and rule changes.