With Allen Iverson now in Detroit and Chauncey Billups at the helm of his ballclub, Nuggets' coach George Karl took a swipe at Iverson while praising the play of Billups, the Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting.

"There are less bad plays, more solid plays," Karl said of the former 76er, who was traded earlier this month. "I think the wasteful, cheap possessions that we used to have 10 to 15 a game, they don't exist very much anymore."

"Sometimes I saw something, but I couldn't get it done on the court because I didn't have a playmaker out there," Karl said.