Those 76ers played in a watered down ECF. You're acting like AI had to go through prime Shaq, or prime Kobe, or prime Duncan, or prime ANYBODY other than Vince fukking Carter
Get off AI's dikk. He was nice, but he never went out and consistently beat quality teams. You just bolded all those guys, but tell me what any of those guys besides Jason Terry ever amounted to? Go ahead, I'll be waiting... I didn't say they were "bums," I said they were an "average squad." Which they were. Learn to read.
Dirk's 06 team beat a nasty Suns team that had a prime Nash, prime Marion, and prime Amare. Dirk's 06 team beat a nasty Spurs team that had a prime Duncan, prime Parker, and prime Ginobli (defending champs). Dirk's 11 team beat an LA team that had a prime Gasol, prime Bynum, and a decent Kobe (back-to-back defending champs). Dirk's 11 team beat a Thunder team with an up-and coming KD, Harden, and Westbrook.
DIRK'S 11 TEAM BEAT A HEAT TEAM WITH PRIME BOSH, PRIME WADE, AND PRIME LEBRON. Dirk's team was an underdog in ALL of those matchups, except the Suns, and even that is debateable... Nobody had them going to the Finals in any of those years, and most fans and experts had them losing in the 2nd round to the Spurs in 06 and in the 1st round to the Blazers in 11. Were you even watching playoff basketball these seasons, or were you still furiously masturbating to your Allen Iverson rookie card collection?
Please tell me whatever the fukk Iverson ever did in his MEANINGFUL career, other than beat a goddamn Raptors team that had Vince Carter in the Eastern Conference Semifinals... And don't bother posting some dumbass regular season matchups or stats... I'll be waiting...
And yeah, I totally get that there are a litany of other factors besides just pure talent that decide the outcome of sports. It's the reason why guys like Barkley, Malone, and Marino are ringless. But talent does play a big part, and it was clear to everybody that Dirk literally carried both of his teams, in 2006 and 2011 to the NBA Finals. There was no "luck" or other extraneous factors that played into that. It's clear, in the record and stats, that he played a much higher caliber of both teams and players in BOTH of his playoff runs than Iverson did in his ONE. And he beat them. The only team that Iverson ever played that was on the same level as those teams Dirk faced were the 2001 Lakers squad. And we know how that ended.
It didn't take much to get out of the Eastern Conference back in those days. This is evidenced by the fact the Nets came out and got absolutely demolished by the Lakers. In 2001, it was literally a 3 horse race between a 76ers squad that had AI and nobody else, a Raptors team that had only 2 double digit scorers (VC and Antonio Davis), and the Milwaukee Bucks (who arguably should have won the ECF, but that discussion is for another day). Big surprise that was the only season AI ever did anything in the postseason
Most people were poking fun at it, calling it the LEASTern Conference back in those days, but now AI stans want to act like it was some rigorous gauntlet he went through with his bum squad...
Dirk is only one of 4 guys (others being Hakeem, Bob Pettit, and Elgin Baylor) to average 25 points and 10 rebounds a game in the playoffs. EVER. Not even Duncan or Shaq are putting those kind of numbers up when it counts the most. I'm not saying Dirk is better than those dudes, but are you going to feed me some shyt about how "talent ain't got nothing to do with that"?
Fact of the matter is, Dirk comes up BIG in the biggest situations when his team needs him the most. AI had one miraculous playoff run in an Eastern Conference that was slightly more competitive than your typical NIT Bracket
and was the posterboy for the "thug" era of basketball players. I get that he's going to be more liked and stanned on a
hip-hop site, but it's completely baffling how people can try to argue that Iverson was more talented than Dirk. As Floyd Mayweather always says when being doubted by all the Pacquaio fanboys, the proof is in the pudding. Dirk's career >>>> AI's one playoff run.
......... atleast some ppl have respect for Ivo game and know how much of a talented player he was........
Looks like you got Dirk's dikk all in your month... what did those player ever amount to??? Um maybe they fit the roles they were supposed to fit DUMBASS.........You wanted every member on that team to turn into a HOF because they got to the finals??? Some of them are still playing and have had successful careers
and on here on many occasions. I just don't feel like doing it again. I got shyt to do. You can't force an argument out of me on demand.
