Bill Simmons on 2012 team vs. the Dream Team

[holidayinn21]

I'd like to know who barkley was stopping defensively?

ewing and malone were jumpshooters.

plus by going small, you'd pull ewing away from the paint, opening up the lane for bronze and the PG's.

 

[Trip]

I'd like to know who barkley was stopping defensively?

.

In that case, who's Melo stopping?

 

[NYC Rebel]

He gonna score over the trailing defender and the center or forward stepping up

Maybe 4-10 times.. Not exactly a winning formula

So then you go against yor OWN point:

He wont be be able to swing it weakside b/c a man us there..

If a defender is trailing, Lebron will find an open man.

 

[street heat]

They Got Out Rebounded by Lithuiana

Nigeria had 13 Offensive Rebounds, Tunisia had 12

Thats alot in a 40 Minute game

nigeria lost by 83 points, honestly who gives a fukk how many rebounds they got ?

tunisia by almost 50... lol

dream team is not controlling the tempo against these athletes

 

[Pack2]

'12 winning isn't impossible, it's just improbable.. The championship game against Spain was an example of how the matchup would go..Leave everyone else out of the discussion and just imagine the '12 team playing the same exact Spain team on Sunday, with everything else being equal, except you replace Rudy Fernadez with Jordan...No Barkely, Robinson, Ewing, Malone or Pippen... Just put Jordan on Sundays Spain team and USA has silver around their neck today...Which is kinda the point of Simmon's piece...

underrated post in this thread

 

[ghostwriterx]

nigeria lost by 83 points, honestly who gives a fukk how many rebounds they got ?

tunisia by almost 50... lol

dream team is not controlling the tempo against these athletes

USA Basketball: Stats >> USA 99, Lithuania 94

Look at that roster...
they lost by 5...

 

[Pack2]

USA Basketball: Stats >> USA 99, Lithuania 94

Look at that roster...
they lost by 5...

come on fam, that roster is LOADED with NBA players!

 

[Panther]

Dream Team not losing with to a squad with Iggy on it lets be reality.

08>>>12 but its not the 20th anniversary so

 

[phillycavsfan]

USA Basketball: Stats >> USA 99, Lithuania 94

Look at that roster...
they lost by 5...

If you're gonna include the Lithuania game then you gotta look at the Nigeria game too.

Is the US team 83 points better than Nigeria? Probably not. If they played again I doubt the game gets that much out of hand. The US were unconsciously hot from long range.

Is the US team only 5 points better than Lithuania? I doubt this too.

 

[MrFantastic]

So then you go against yor OWN point:


If a defender is trailing, Lebron will find an open man.

The trailing man would be the man he just got around.. Unless there are two men in one spot the weakside and top of the key is still sewn up..

 

[mastermind]

Durant is taller, that's about it.

Word, cuz Melo isnt 6'8"? Bron isnt 6'9"? Kobe isnt 6'7"?

outside of the point guards (and only cuz of Magic) the '12 team have longer perimeter players.

 

[ghostwriterx]

Word, cuz Melo isnt 6'8"? Bron isnt 6'9"? Kobe isnt 6'7"?

outside of the point guards (and only cuz of Magic) the '12 team have longer perimeter players.

Bird wasn't 6'9"?
Pip wasn't 6'7"? (most other places have him at 6'8")
Drexler wasn't 6'7"?


1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012 United States men's Olympic basketball team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Durant's actually listed at 6'9"

I thought he was 6'11"

 

[NUPE 1911]

Anyone that think the 2012 team would beat 1992 team really have no idea what they are talking about. That is that. Enough with this dumb subject. 2012 team probably would not even beat the 2008 team.

 

[NYC Rebel]

archive.fiba.com: 1992*Olympic Games : Tournament for Men

6-16
19pts

I was talking about what he did facing jordan in the nba

 

[Malta]

Bird wasn't 6'9"?
Pip wasn't 6'7"? (most other places have him at 6'8")
Drexler wasn't 6'7"?


1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012 United States men's Olympic basketball team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Durant's actually listed at 6'9"

I thought he was 6'11"

Durant's listed height is without shoes, with shoes he was 6"10 and change @ 18 and has supposedly grown since then.

Davis was recently measured at 6"10 in shoes, Durant is taller.