People acting like Kobe came out and said this out the blue. The reporter ASKED HIM if they could beat him. He don't care bout them old n!ggas like that.
He said he thinks they could beat them. Which is true. it's ridiculous for people to sit up and act like this team is Angola or whoever they played in 92. They would NOT blow this team out by 40 or some. He didn't say they were better, he said he thinks they COULD beat them, and i don't see why they couldn't.
I don't think this squad will win, mainly b/c they don't have any bigs that can compare, but it won't be a blow out like people think.
I guess ppl only making a big deal out of it b/c Kobe said it. Here's his exact quote.
"Well, just from a basketball standpoint, they obviously have a lot more size than we do — you know, with [David] Robinson and [Patrick] Ewing and [Karl] Malone and those guys," Bryant said. "But they were also — some of those wing players — were also a lot older, at kind of the end of their careers. We have just a bunch of young racehorses, guys that are eager to compete.
"So I don't know," Bryant continued, the trace of a smile beginning to play its way across his face. "It'd be a tough one, but I think we'd pull it out."
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olymp...sa-2012-played-dream-team-163639708--oly.html