Well the differences are, when BG shoots he makes the damn shot. Plus AI is just a bad player to have on your team. He made the Nuggets bad, he made the Pistons bad. Only reason he was good in Philly is because they didn't care if he ball hogged since he was the only guy who could score in bunches.
Whoa, whoa, whoa...
AI did not make the Nuggets bad by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, Iverson helped make the Nuggets one of the best teams in the West. Sure, there were a few chemistry problems, but he helped them to their first 50-win season in 20 years. Iverson just wasn't a great role model in Denver and when they went to the playoffs, they went up against teams that were just flat out better than them. This year, their path was a lot easier, but guess who they still lost to? The Lakers team that they lost to the year previous, so did they really improve?
As for the Pistons, that's a case of a good player in the wrong system. He was put under a rookie coach who really didn't know what he was doing and the chemistry there wasn't great. Detroit didn't need Iverson and because you're trying to make Stuckey/Hamilton/Iverson happy, it was never going to work in Detroit.
And let's clear this up. Iverson is not a ball hog. That's like saying Kobe is a ball hog. Iverson is a player who just needs to have the ball in his hands more than others. If Iverson is such a ball hog, why were Carmelo and Iverson able to both have around 25 PPG while they were in Denver? In fact, since the trade, Melo's numbers have gone down. So, is Billups a ball hog now? Iverson has had somewhere around 7.5 APG until he went Detroit in a system he didn't work under. Iverson just has a scorer's mentality is all.
Someone please explain to me, with logic, how Iverson is such a ball hog?