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I watched the Dream Team Do entary, and they showed the games back then.............it was like the gotdayum globetrotters. No look passes, alley oops at will, behind the back passes.......confetti thrown into the crowd and . The Dream Team whooped ass without even breakin a sweat...winning games by an avg. of almost 40pts. Its like they had no challenge what so ever. Imagine if they would have put in a half assed effort. This 2012 team (no friggen way Im callin em dream anything....other than they are dreamin if they thing they could beat the Dream Team) would lose by 25pts easily to the DT. Just Sayin...........
Now that being said............Durant and Lebron are beasts. They could have made the Dream Team. Replaced Laettner and Mullins.
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there weren't NBA players on the other teams back then
you could put the Gasol Bros on the USA team and Spain would still be a tougher opponent than anyone the dream team played
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Actually there were...........maybe not as many. But the fact still, the DT was in cruise control. No effort. I was laughing watching them play.
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There is a reason the Dream Team whooped up on teams so effortlessly... the compe ion mostly were of the quality of high school basketball teams, and perhaps worse in some cases.
Spain on the other hand is quality enough to be a solid NBA team, probably a playoff team in the NBA even. They have a very high quality front line of both Gasol's and Ibaka, as well as quite a few other NBA level players in Fernandez, Calderon, and Navarro.
Argentina is no joke either with their share of quality NBA players on the team.
I still think Dream Team would win against 2012 in a 7 game series, but it would be a hard fought series. To think they would win by 25+ each game easily, you are a ing moron.
Also, keep in mind that these are teams playing with international rules and styles... 2012 IMO played the international style better than the Dream Team did. The Dream Team were simply too big and good for anyone (due to lack of compe ion) and could force their style on anyone. But with the compe ion this team faced, at times they had to play an international style of ball, and with all the shooters and passers that the 2012 team has, I'd say they are a better "international" style of team.
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I will give you ONE team that was easily as stacked as Spain. I dont even need to look at any other..........Croatia had NBA players on the team back then. Toni Kukoc, Drazen Petrovic,Dino Rada, Predrag Danilouic, Zarko Pasparj........and they still got their asses kicked by 32 in the gold medal game.
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what a ing dumbass you are
Kukoc was a decent player, Petrovic had potential but never fully developed, and then of course had his most unfortunate accident.
but not even remotely comparable to this Spain team
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The Spain team is overall better but Petrovich would easily be the best player on this current Spain team.
Best? Arguable, and I won't take issue with that at all.
Easily? Certainly not. Pau can definitely make a good case there.
Not to mention, there is only one glaring weakness with the 2012 team, and that's their interior defense, which is mainly due to the fact that Dwight and many other big men either refused to play or were hurt and couldn't play.
Spain had two legit big men post scorers that could hurt 2012. I don't think Petrovic would have had nearly as much success as they were able to have, with guys like Lebron, Kobe and Iguodala chasing him around.
guys are ing stupid if they think 2012 team would have a chance to beat the dream team under FIBA rules imho. under NBA rules they may have a chance since the current NBA rules favor monkey balls and under such rules mobility is more important than size. nonetheless here's olympic games we're talking about where FIBA rules are applied instead of NBA ones, and where you definitely have a huge advantage if your bigs are better than the opposing team.
2012 team's interior D is pretty weak and coach K did nothing but worsening the situation by playing bron/melo in the paint, how he managed to convince himself to use such a midget lineup is still beyond me tbh. TC is like their only battling big by FIBA standards and yet he was underused as boozer on the previous olympic. if you got a team of similar overall talent level that has some quality bigs (like the dream team) , the 2012 team would get curbstomped anyday of the week
team US just be too good for spain to ever have a chance beating, though they put up a good fight
you gotta be sarcastic otherwise we don't see how 2012 team plays the international style better than dream team tbh. its true that spain is a tougher opponent than any team the dream team faced & curbstomped in barcelona but the dream team would've still beat this team with a comfortable margin like 20pts or something, as opposed to having a tied game after 3 quarters. i think if the refs didn't blow that many bull calls and the espanol bigs could play the rest of game w/o carrying 3 or 4 personal fouls, the game would've probably been a one-shot game that could've gone either way imho. it was an unconvincing win for team US tbh
TC and Love are like the only players on this team who primarily play PF/C in NBA games imho, there's no defensive 3sec rule in FIBA games IIRC so the bigs can stand right there clogging up the lane and make life much tougher for the slashers. US got really lucky to escape with da gold and i ain't being an america hater or something like manny, drachen, gaycob1983 and other dip s tbh
All I can say is the 2012 Dreaming team will complain and whine about the Physical play of Dream Team.
You are talking about a team with Michael Jordan on it, who got more phantom calls than any player in NBA history.
And I'm not sure how that affects the outcome...
Are you kidding me? The refs were bull both ways. They were calling some serious garbage against US, including a number of and-1 plays for Gasol in the second half that didn't help the US either.
No way this current team would match up well with the Dream Team.
Obviously the Dream Team would manhandle them in the paint. But even the perimeter matchup is close. Jordan and Pippen are two of the best defenders in history. No one on the current team could guard Jordan. Stockton and Magic are probably better than this team's PGs. The bench for the Dream Team was much better as well. Most of the Dream Team players were in their prime.
The 2008 team was better than this current team. They would matchup well with the Dream Team.
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