2012 Team USA is the GOAT Olympic squad and its not close

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They make a great case, OP you might be right

Having 2 of the leading Olympics scorers on one team in their prime KD and Melo, along with all the hall of famers
 

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2012 is the most explosive scoring squad of all time. I’ve always said that. The thing they lacked that would hurt them against 1992 and 2024 is they had no bigs. 92 with Robinson and Ewing and 2024 with Embiid, AD, and Bam would be a lot. But the shooting and playmaking on 2012 squad is the best ever.
 

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still funny to me that the most dominant Team USA of the 21st century was lead by Kyrie and Kenneth Faried
 

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People talking about 92 vs this year's team but 2012 would pack up both

You had Bron, KD, Melo, Harden, CP3 all in their primes

Plus Kobe, Blake, DWill, Kevin Love, Russ, and AD who barely got off the bench in those Olympics

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This is very much true.

This was right around the time that America was at the top of world talent and before the rest of the world started producing high level talent more than America

Last 2 American MVPs were Harden and Westbrook (who we all now know to be frauds, and a last desperate gasp of a dying nation ) in 17 and and 18 so the thread tracks

There's a chance this or that team was more talented, but in terms of being the best in the world, this was America's last breath
 
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