32 years ago today The Dream Team won gold after beating one of the best teams to never win gold in Croatia by 32

[DraymondT]

Team had prime Drazen an All NBA level performer who was shootin 39% from 3 and averaged 25 PPG in the 92 games. nikkas talkin bout Bogdan Bogdonovic he a poor man Drazen who was makin All NBA teams months after these Olympics

Dino Radja who was a 17/9 on 50% player in NBA even peaked at 20/10 and a great defender

Toni Kukoc who was champ and MVP in many other leagues includin Euroleague and who won titles in NBA as the 3rd option a few years later, also revolutionized the game wit his skillset at his size as a big, and some very solid role players. They had 4 HOF on that squad

Lil bois talkin bout this Serbia team that was down 24 to a mid Australia team dkm LOL this Croatia team was better and GOAT team beat the shyt out em by 30 2 times. They went 6-2 and was winnin games by 10, 20, 30.

 

[UpAndComing]

Crazy. I was about to make a similar thread OP. Charles Barkley was on Paul George's podcast and said the same thing




21:50

- "I see people on TV say that in modern day the Olympics has 60 something NBA players on non-Team USA teams to the competition is toughter. They are full of shyt"
- "Has the international game gotten better, 100% percent. But they are still not better than the United States. You take away Jokic, Giannis, Luka, SGA, etc. We still got the best 10-12 best NBA players in the NBA. We got Tatum, Holiday, White, and Haliburton coming off of our bench!"

It's a corny argument using the number of NBA players in the Olympics on the other teams. It doesn't tell the whole story. It wasn't up until the late 90s/early 2000s did it become customary for foreign players to make it to the NBA as their goal. Dirk Nowitski mentioned ironically it was the Dream Team that made him want to play in the NBA. There were alot of talent overseas that never played

You had guys like Oscar Schmidt who was one of the best basketball players ever who never played in the NBA. And of course everyone knows Arvydas Sabonis was a basketball legend when he was younger in his prime and came to the NBA 10 years too late

1992 Dream Team >>>>> 2024 team. Easily

 

[DonB90]

In all fairness the Dream Team didn't have Kerr as head coach

 

[Standing on business]

Howd you mention Bogdan but conviently leave out Jokic

 

[HabitualChiller]

Jokic alone is leagues better than any player on that Croatian Roster. With him on the squad, Croatia probably loses a close one.

What'd he have? Like, 28 & 15 assists at the 5?

And you don't have anyone with a great 3PT shot, so he barely has to leave the paint?

The current USA squad probably shyts all over the Dream team.

 

[MikelArteta]

the game has changed the 3 is the great equalizer

 

[CHICAGO]

Jokic alone is leagues better than any player on that Croatian Roster. With him on the squad, Croatia probably loses a close one.

What'd he have? Like, 28 & 15 assists at the 5?

And you don't have anyone with a great 3PT shot, so he barely has to leave the paint?

The current USA squad probably shyts all over the Dream team.

JOKIC AVERAGED 18 & 7
IN 3 GMS VS USA
BUT HES SUPPOSED TO PUT UP
28 & 15 AGAINST
DROB AND EWING?







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[UpAndComing]

Jokic alone is leagues better than any player on that Croatian Roster. With him on the squad, Croatia probably loses a close one.

What'd he have? Like, 28 & 15 assists at the 5?

And you don't have anyone with a great 3PT shot, so he barely has to leave the paint?

The current USA squad probably shyts all over the Dream team.

the game has changed the 3 is the great equalizer

I'm confused by these posts

- Larry Bird
- Chris Mullin
- John Stockton
- Clyde Drexler
- Charles Barkley
- Jordan


All of them can shoot 3's

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

There's levels... let's just be happy with the gold. We almost lost. Kerr is a disaster. Nobody can match the '92 team

 

[GilSho]

Jordan shooting the second lowest percentage behind Laettner on that team is crazy though

 

[G-Zeus]

Crazy how people refuse to watch how the old heads play


Just make things up with stats ..

It's on YouTube

 

[Mister Terrific]

Dudes playing in YMCA over 40 league t-shirts probably sponsored by pup and suds. Dude cut his own sleeves off lol



Compare a time when there were 2 foreign players in the NBA to 49