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Originally Posted by BadBaronRudigor
Nance for most of his career played the three just like Worthy. He was quicker than Worthy, a little taller, better leaper, most spectacular, better shotblocker . . . Worthy was stronger, had better back to the basket moves, more consistent, better court sense on either end. Not sure where you get this Worthy was a dominant scorer thing though . . . even with Magic Johnson, the greatest PG of all time, to set him up, Worthy was never a dominant NBA scorer or even as dominant as Nance in scoring despite Nance playing with shoot first PGs like Price and KJ rather than a pass first PG like Magic. Like Nance, Worthy got into the habit of deferring and never broke out over any long period of time.
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i didn't say he was a dominant scorer - i said he was a go-to scorer, which he was. he was a legitimate first option, who could create his own offense, and who could force doubles. and he was easily quicker than nance - it was often one of his advantages over his defender. worthy didn't defer. he played his role in the offense, which was often, particurarly after '86, and particularly in the playoffs, to be the primary half court option for magic to work around. he took over plenty. nance never broke 20 ppg in the playoffs, once cracking 18, which shows somewhat his limitations (scoring limitations tend to get exposed in the playoffs).