Better Player: Steve Nash vs Iverson

[Element]

Nash on the 01 Sixers probably doesn't even get them to the ECF

Prime AI in today's PnR-oriented, no-handcheck league is a 30 ppg/4 rpg/7 apg @+2-3 TS% player waiting to happen

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

AI by far
he put up 26/7 46% shooting on an offensive system in Denver.........imagine if he had Phoenix and their medical staff which made Nashs career

[HylianNightmare]

ai

[TheReal Kendall]

If I was building a team I would go with Nash.

He embodies what I stand for and like to see on the court.(His defense needs work though.)

[VIP2000]

AI by far
he put up 26/7 46% shooting on an offensive system in Denver.........imagine if he had Phoenix and their medical staff which made Nashs career

If Phoenix's staff and personnel was so good, then why didn't Marbury take them anywhere? And Nash was a 2-time All-Star even before he joined the Suns.

[Cold soul]

lol. Nobody would draft Nash over Iverson. The KKK would draft Iverson over Nash.

As far as we know today and how both their careers played out? Not so sure about that.

[Mure]

Nash and it isn't close.

[Rolando]

The Answer is The Answer.

The votes should be counted because this is a decent question.

[Bigsmoke]

AI cool but Nash is that wigga

[L.Kizzle]

Both were drafted in 1996.

It would have been laughed upon if you compared these guys from 1996-2004.

I like Nash but Nash from 04-08 (or 10 I guess) is not enough to take over Iverson who was balling from his rookie season until he got traded to the Pistons.

[LongLiveTheKing]

AI is criminally underrated on ISH,

But, but his fg %...
Man, if Nash received the defensive attention on offense that AI did, he would of shot a lot worse too. Truth is, AI was the one and only offensive threat on those 76er's teams. Opposing teams would watch game footage about how to stop Iverson, not the team, just Iverson. So AI, against a entire teams defense set out just to stop him, made the finals.

Now Nash, Nash is a great player too, but c'mon. His team was great offensively. The other team would need to stop the entire team, they had players who could create their own shot.

Nash was just another weapon on that team, Iverson was the only weapon.

Not hard to work out people.

A whole bunch of trolls up in here.

*Drops Mic*

The reason they were so great offensively was because of Nash.

[ai9]

the only thing underrated here is iverson's sixers team. people love to bash his team saying "ai took a bunch of nobodies to the finals". they werent a bunch of nobodies. they had the COY(brown), DPOY(deke), and 6th man of the year(mckie). and the rest of the cast was pretty sold. tyrone hill, george lynch, nazr mohammed, kevin ollie, theo ratliff, eric snow, toni kukoc

Nazr Mohammed, Ratliff and Kukoc were traded for Mutombo.

[Stringer Bell]

the only thing underrated here is iverson's sixers team. people love to bash his team saying "ai took a bunch of nobodies to the finals". they werent a bunch of nobodies. they had the COY(brown), DPOY(deke), and 6th man of the year(mckie). and the rest of the cast was pretty sold. tyrone hill, george lynch, nazr mohammed, kevin ollie, theo ratliff, eric snow, toni kukoc

That Sixer team definitely gets underrated/overly-criticized.

They were a very good defensive team and had the right players to surround Iverson with to suit his style.

Their defense was a big part of their success. Which is why they still won games, or were highly competitive, in which Iverson shot terribly.

They won a game against Milwaukee in the ECF with Iverson going 5-27. 5 for 27.

[FatComputerNerd]

This is a really tough comparison since the two were such different types of players.

Both were great at what they did. Obviously Nash was the better pure PG, and better shooter, but AI did almost everything else better, and was a much more dominant player overall IMO.

Also, don't forget his FG % would probably be much higher if his game wasn't largely based on getting to the line so much. He is listed at #14 all-time in the NBA for free-throw attempts. Nash is #201.

[bizil]

I gotta go with AI on this one, even though Nash really put his own EPIC TWIST on the pass first floor general PG. Nash had great handles, great dimes (up there with Magic, Isiah, Kidd, and Pistol Pete in terms of passing flair), and was among the great shooters of all time. But with that said, AI, Zeke, and Tiny are in the own class in terms of little guards (guards 6'3 and under). Peak AI was pound for pound the best player of all time. That pound for pound title basically means who is the best player 6'3 and under. They say West was 6'4 so he doesn't count. But after AI, Zeke, and Tiny, I think Paul and Nash are next in line.