Olympic Roster should look like.

[Manu'sMagicalLeftHand]

high? as sober as I can be.

1.Timvp, here is only one problem, NBA rules are far off international ones. Euroleague club' players would be in advantage. Sun game would be less wild, "eurozone" defense is quite a different thing, so 3 point shooting must be lethal to beat that defense. Suns with Quentin would be in same then TAU with Macijauskas (sorry for spelling).

2.Playoff mode means 7 games. I can bet Suns-Maccabi would be at least 40-60, but first games would be cetrainly for Maccabi. Strategicaly Maccabi's potential is something quite different then Phoenix. Believe me, NBA is out of this world b/c of nothing more the financial reasons.

3.NBA having players coming directly in NBA makes them on the top of the world. But they are just athletes for money. So proving every day is the only way a guy can say he is worth playing in the best league in the world. So how many players that are proving themselves in NBA, make themselves open for cross-examination? So best players are the one in NBA, couse NBA is the best, and every player in the NBA is by so elite just for being an NBA player? Seems absurd, doesn't it? That would mean that Darko Milicic is better for being in Detroit the he would be if he played in French league and dominated? Even then one can ask if he would play in Euroleague...

I don't agree with this. If you play under NBA rules, the NBA team would shoot 40 free throws per game because of illegal defence if the Europeans use collapsed zones. Maccabbi, CSKA, Tau, Panathinaikos, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, etc... any European team you name would have major problems moving to a zone, where they can't collapse in the paint. If the European teams move to man-to-man defence, they'll need to play the game of their lives. This slight change of rules is the key, it's underrated. Players like Bodiroga, Macijauskas, Navarro, they would look ridiculous in defence when playing a seven games series against more athletic NBA players.

Don't get me wrong, I do believe that the international game has taken a giant leap forward compared to the early 90's, but under NBA rules the number of international players who could become key factors is not the same as the number under FIBA rules. Ginobili, Parker, Nowitzki, Stojakovic, Radmanovic, Okur, Jasikevicius, Oberto, Scola, Arroyo, etc. They would be very important, because they are very intelligent players, with high basketball IQ, but under NBA rules only a few international superstars could carry their teams for an 82 games season and best of seven playoffs.

[Mark in Austin]

My Team:

Stoudamire
Garnett
McGrady
Redd
Kidd

Foster
Hamilton
Prince
Wade
Artest
Howard
Okafur

[Mark in Austin]

Between Stoudamire, Garnett, Okafur, and Foster, i think there is enough size. Look at the teams that won medals - from what I can recall, this hypothetical team would have more than enough size to match up any of them.

To me, what is critical is the ability to move the ball, hit shots, and be versatile defenders. The most underrated part of the original dreamteam's game was the incredible defense it played. In the past few years, this aspect had had the biggest slippage in the US game. So I'd welcome Camby if he's not injured, but I wouldn't want Miller.