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Too bad you are omitting one key fact which is a top 5 all time great player by the name of Tim Duncan was playing on the college team hence the reason for the close game.
In a compe ive match
Talk about lack of talent in the 90s...
Too bad you are omitting one key fact which is a top 5 all time great player by the name of Tim Duncan was playing on the college team hence the reason for the close game.
Duncan's team lost to Puerto Rico...
And that Jordan, among others, did not play. The US National team was an indictment of the idea you could just slop together a few great players and win no matter what. It caught up with them. Other countries had players that had played together for years and more chemistry. The USMNBT only won one international tournament over the next decade and they barely won that in 2000.
92 Dream Team DID lose to college kids
92 Dream Team DID lose to college kids
A lot of ppl speculate that Chuck Daly threw that game on purpose.
How do you throw a game on porpuse with that type of squad? Even by playing your worst 5 players should be enough to win by 30.
Don't ask me. Ask Coach K, P.J. Carlesimo, and Lenny Wilkens. They're the ones who said it.
By putting in lineups that made no sense, call timeouts at the worst possible times, give the ball to the Christian Laettner.
None of thay should matter, tbh. Besides, why did he want to throw a game away?
They all matter. Poor coaching can kill a team easily.
He did it to show that the team has to play together and listen to the coach to win.
So he tried to get the squad to listen to him, by getting the squad to lose following his orders? Neat 90's logic, tbh.
It worked. The idea is to let them freelance and do whatever they please, putting in bad matchups so that they could lose. Driving home the point that they have to play together.
The result is that the 92 Dream Team is, and will likely always will be, the most dominant team that was ever put together. Unlike now where players get their coaches to protect them from cyberbullying by the media, coaches actually coached back in the day.
So, was he letting them freelance or asking them to give the ball to Christian Laettner?
92 Dream Team DID lose to college kids
It was the ing Dream Team, the most stacked roster ever assembled, full of grown NBA players in their primes. Any lineup Daly put together should have dominated a team full of college kids.
Timeout management shouldn't have mattered because the Dream Team shouldn't have even been in a close game with a bunch of college kids.call timeouts at the worst possible times
Bobby Hurley was the go-to guy for the college teamgive the ball to the Christian Laettner.
That's part of freelance.
Not true. This entire idea that talent will destroy everything is incorrect. Many cases were a well coordinate group of old farts will destroy young talented players at the local Y. This is not a 1 on 1 contest. We saw that again in 2000 and 2004.
Besides, it was a scrimmage, not caring is a huge thing, it's like how Lebron got dunked on against some random guy and had to confiscate the tape.
Call time out when they were on a run, sub guys out randomly.
Bobby Hurley was the go-to guy for the college team
yesterday's scrubs knowing how to play the game, not like
Besides, it was a scrimmage, not caring is a huge thing, it's like how Lebron got dunked on against some random guy and had to confiscate the tape."they didn't care"
A team of professionals with pride should never just roll over and let a bunch of college kids beat them. LeBron was vilified for the Jordan Crawford dunk incident, but yesterday's stars get a free pass for trying to hide their loss to a bunch of college kids from the media.
And? That shouldn't have stopped them from skull ing the college team.Call time out when they were on a run
So? Every single player that got subbed in from the Dream Team roster should have been able to destroy their collegiate counterparts.sub guys out randomly.
Hurley didn't all over the Dream Team because he "knew how to play the game" better than they did. He dominated because he was too quick and athletic for them to guard. It was literally the definition of "relying on athleticism all day."
The old farts won, if you picked up on that. But also
You have a point, should have confiscated the tape.
a) We are talking about it 25 years after the fact, so I am not sure how that is getting a free pass. They caught plenty of flak
b) They should have confiscated the tape.
Shouldn't but did. As great as
Not really, just like Lebron shouldn't have been dunked on by some random guy, or Kobe shouldn't have lost a 1-1 vs. some random Chinese kids.
Hurley didn't all over the Dream Team because he "knew how to play the game" better than they did. He dominated because he was too quick and athletic for them to guard. It was literally the definition of "relying on athleticism all day."
And no, it wasn't just Hurley, the team did them in.
The old farts won, if you picked up on that. But also
Chuck Daly made someone erase the scoreboard before the media entered the gym so the players' egos wouldn't get bruised by having to answer any tough questions.You have a point, should have confiscated the tape.
What flak did they get?a) We are talking about it 25 years after the fact, so I am not sure how that is getting a free pass. They caught plenty of flak
Shouldn't but did. As great as
Kobe is a product ofNot really, just like Lebron shouldn't have been dunked on by some random guy, or Kobe shouldn't have lost a 1-1 vs. some random Chinese kids.
Hurley actually was known for his speed when he entered the league. Thing is, he got into a severe car accident early on in his rookie season that almost killed him, and he was never the same after that.
No, he just had a favorable matchup againstDid he have a magic potion for that one game?
92 Dream Team DID lose to college kids
Chuck Daly made someone erase the scoreboard before the media entered the gym so the players' egos wouldn't get bruised by having to answer any tough questions.
What flak did they get?
Kobe is a product of
Hurley actually was known for his speed when he entered the league. Thing is, he got into a severe car accident early on in his rookie season that almost killed him, and he was never the same after that.
No, he just had a favorable matchup against
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