Orlando Magic coach Chuck Daly sounded helpless moments after his team was eliminated in Round 1 of the 1999 NBA playoffs.

"It was pretty much the Allen Iverson show," Daly said. "What he does for that team, I don't even know if they realize it."

Magical all series, Iverson saved his best trick for the finale, scoring 37 points on 14-of-27 shooting and foreshadowing the type of night that would become all too routine in the decade to follow.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, no guard playing in his first playoff series had ever scored more points in a clinching game, a fact that remained true up until two weeks ago, when Donovan Mitchell one-upped Iverson by pouring in 38 on 14-of-26 shooting to dispatch the Oklahoma City Thunder.

But beyond one big moment, how far do the similarities extend, and what might that mean for the Utah Jazz moving forward?

Just as Mitchell showed in that Game 6 vs. OKC that he's unfazed by the moment, he also proved unafraid to fail. Both characteristics are intertwined in his basketball DNA, part of what makes Mitchell uniquely Iverson-esque.

His stubborn refusal to back down was evident in Sunday's Game 4 loss to the Houston Rockets in which he shot 8-of-24, the majority of those looks coming in the vicinity of Rockets rim protector Clint Capela. In fact, 15 of his 21 half-court attempts came with Capela as the nearest defender, the most that Mitchell has taken in the vicinity of any player in any game the entire season, via player-tracking data from Second Spectrum. It's likely no coincidence given the back-and-forth war of words (and finger wagging) between them the entire night.