Not even a fan of Kobe but I never understood what you expect a top athlete to say when asked a question like this. They are born competitors so do you expect him to answer "Yea we would probably get destroyed by those guys". I'd take what Jordan said about it creates good conversation and just leave it at that.
Jordan Laughed at Kobe's Claim
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Miami was playing small ball playing guys out of their natural positions to try and create mismatches on the perimeter. It worked against a team like the thunder who're similiar because they're perimeter oriented as well. Miami's "5" Bosh is a PF playing C to create the mismatch. Their normal 5's "Anthony, Pittman" can't shoot outside the paint. The point is any team can go "small" and play guys out of their positions to have 5 shooters on the floor. Against a team like the dream team with actual bigs they would get shytted on offensively, and would get dominated on the boards. Playing nba 2k style is nice against teams like the thunder, but wouldn't work against those teams back then.
Because they have none that's why. Today's strength is perimeter guys so they loaded the teams with those kind of players. Our only true superstar C, has a bad back and not playing. Bynum would be good but he didn't want to play. Other than those 2 it's meh
cornercommission2k12
so this were u dudes went
this shyt is laughable.
the whole reason bron bron and melo nem went out there and got bronze back in the day was because they thought they could out athlete and out quick those teams over seas and they got they ass beat. and what did the management do there after, go find some guys with size because they were getting killed on the glass. so please stop with the argument that rebounding and size is not a necessity.
bottom line is the size is not the only factor here. the wings were better then too. stop bringing up magic and bird like drexler mike and pip wasnt there. time has really made people forget how great clyde drexler was, he got to the finals with a hole lot less than kobe and lebron had with them when they won it all. and those dudes aint in jordans league as far as intangible, his first step, his mental toughness not even close. young kobe maybe but this kobe not even close to a 29 year old mike.
now some one amuse me and tell me who stops karl malone or barkley in the post? who stops jordan on the perimeter? who keeps ewing and robinson off the glass and not dominate the offensive glass? who playing a better point than stockton or magic?
why do we act like jordan and pippen arent 2 of the greatest perimeter defenders in the history of the league?who on this dream team is closing a game better than a 29 year old mike? why people acting like pippen wasnt the best small forward in the league at the time?
this is not a debate, mike should have laughed cause its laughable. did anybody watch those games with them dudes in 92? how cohesive and together them dudes played? this usa team forever plays like they need more practice.
the whole reason bron bron and melo nem went out there and got bronze back in the day was because they thought they could out athlete and out quick those teams over seas and they got they ass beat. and what did the management do there after, go find some guys with size because they were getting killed on the glass. so please stop with the argument that rebounding and size is not a necessity.
bottom line is the size is not the only factor here. the wings were better then too. stop bringing up magic and bird like drexler mike and pip wasnt there. time has really made people forget how great clyde drexler was, he got to the finals with a hole lot less than kobe and lebron had with them when they won it all. and those dudes aint in jordans league as far as intangible, his first step, his mental toughness not even close. young kobe maybe but this kobe not even close to a 29 year old mike.
now some one amuse me and tell me who stops karl malone or barkley in the post? who stops jordan on the perimeter? who keeps ewing and robinson off the glass and not dominate the offensive glass? who playing a better point than stockton or magic?
why do we act like jordan and pippen arent 2 of the greatest perimeter defenders in the history of the league?who on this dream team is closing a game better than a 29 year old mike? why people acting like pippen wasnt the best small forward in the league at the time?
this is not a debate, mike should have laughed cause its laughable. did anybody watch those games with them dudes in 92? how cohesive and together them dudes played? this usa team forever plays like they need more practice.
The only weak spot on Dream Team was at PG. Lets be real Isiah should have made it over Stockton. Besides that Dream Team would destroy 2012 version. The only team that could give "Dream Team" problems is the 2008 version possibly.We will never know
you cant downplay that stockton/malone tandem like that at the same time tho
I agree with everything here except the first paragraph.
Injuries and people leaving at the last minute forced us to get rookies like lebron, melo, and wade who were not ready to play international basketball. They just finished their rookie seasons and were put into a difficult situation.
If we had our original 2004 team, we would of blew the competition out.
Look at who the squad was missing.
Tmac -
Vince -
Kobe - colorado
KG
Ray - got married i believe
Shaq - think he got hurt
We had to play guys like richard jefferson and other middling talents with duncan and ai at the last moment and it cost us.
cornercommission2k12
so this were u dudes went
im not denying any of that, what i am saying is the fact we even went over there and thought we had a shot at winning it all was because we thought we would out athlete and out quick the competition over there. remember before that year they came back with the bronze the world still saw overseas as far behind the usa in basketball. what happened when they got there was they soon realized teams with more chemistry and who was killing them on the boards were giving them fits, and they basically turned that team into a all jump shooting squad that couldnt get it done.
so what do we think arguably the greatest team ever put together would do to a team with so many holes in it like the one over seas now?
they basically turn them into a jump shooting team and who is talented enough to carry team usa over the dream team while on the other end the dream team is killing them from the inside and the outside? it just dont compute.
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I Got Game
You're touching on my point, yet missing it entirely at the same time.
Yes 1992 had better bigs. The 2012 squad wasn't made to play against the 92 squad. They were made to play against 2012 international teams that lack those types of low post bigs. So comparing 92 to 12 is difficult because they were built in such different fashions due to the differences in the way the game is played.
He then proceeded to say only Kevin Love would make the 92 team
He didn't say that did he...
and that's the fukking game you idiot
you think STD, Bron, Rose... going to get points in the paint with Hakeem, Drob, Ewing, waiting the paint to fukk them up?
12 squad would be made jump shooting team with MJ, Pippen guarding their ass locking these soft nikkas down. nikkas thinking they 12 gonna start 5 guards against the Dream team? like Drob couldn't run the floor all everyday?
cornercommission2k12
so this were u dudes went
real talk, dudes let the fact hakeem embarassed david robinson convince them that david robinson was a scrub or something. david robinson was dwight howard, before dwight howard, and the admiral had a potent offensive game.
ewing was a beast on the glass, and a sweet touch on his 15 ft shot and was a great shot blocker. people forgetting how great patrick ewing was.
and who to say that the dream team would not realize that this current team is trying to run all day on them, so magic and stockton slows the game down and makes it a half court game, in which the current team usa would have no shot in hell in that game.
and how many opportunities would team usa 12 have to get on a fast break when mj, scottie, bird, barkely, malone, ewing, robinson, drexler, stockton and chris mullin shot at or around 50% from the field for they careers?
meanwhile kobe, lebron, melo and durant are only great playing one on one ball, i mean can these dudes even play well enough together this season to get a gold medal now?
92 dream team played like a complete team. go back and check the footage.
ewing was a beast on the glass, and a sweet touch on his 15 ft shot and was a great shot blocker. people forgetting how great patrick ewing was.
and who to say that the dream team would not realize that this current team is trying to run all day on them, so magic and stockton slows the game down and makes it a half court game, in which the current team usa would have no shot in hell in that game.
and how many opportunities would team usa 12 have to get on a fast break when mj, scottie, bird, barkely, malone, ewing, robinson, drexler, stockton and chris mullin shot at or around 50% from the field for they careers?
meanwhile kobe, lebron, melo and durant are only great playing one on one ball, i mean can these dudes even play well enough together this season to get a gold medal now?
92 dream team played like a complete team. go back and check the footage.