Was the Original Dream Team, Really That Good?

[AVXL]

Don't get me wrong, the Dream team>>>The redeem team. But the overrating of the dream team's "dominance" needs to stop. Those teams were garbage, they did what they had to do.

Stop it. Nothing about The Dream Team was overrated. They were the best team ever assembled. Period. Y'all talk about they didn't have any good competition, but they beat a pretty good Croatian team by an average of 30+ pts

 

[Lakerman0834]

Stop it. Nothing about The Dream Team was overrated. They were the best team ever assembled. Period. Y'all talk about they didn't have any good competition, but they beat a pretty good Croatian team by an average of 30+ pts

Guarantee if you reversed the times i.e. Redeem team was OG dream team) you guys would say that team goat

 

[Texas2step]

I think this team would beat the Dream Team

pg Lebron
sg Kobe
sf Durant
pf Love
c Howard

 

[mastermind]

They were great

However if they played in today's international competition they wouldn't be winning by 30-40 points.

I think the 2008 team would give them a really good run.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Actually, Dream Team II was the squad for 1994...the one with....

That squad you listed would be Dream Team 3, officially.

Yeah I saw Dream Team II beat down some scrubs in Toronto. They played in the World Championships of Basketball or some shyt.

 

[mastermind]

This thread is showing me how little some of you nikkas know about basketball.

You should be beheaded for even trying to say Magic, Bird, and Jordan < anyone. the fukk is wrong with some of you clowns? And why are you acting like every team from the other countries are so good now? Spain was the only legit team and they had six NBA players on their team. Argentina had 4.

And look, I was born the year of the Dream Team. I never got the see them play but I have enough common fukking sense and view of how the sport was played at that time to know that this team was called the dream team for a reason. They had John Stockton coming OFF THE BENCH. Off the fukking bench. John Stockton one of the greatest PGs this league has ever seen, on the bench. If you put the Dream Team against those teams they STILL would've beat them by an average of 30. It gets annoying when guys try to compete with other generations and try to stack todays greatness to yesterdays greatness. I notice it heavily within this generation. Whats ironic is this is the worst generation for damn near everything so why are you trying to compare the two? The Dream Team was also playing rougher tougher basketball compared to todays pampered stars. So they were a tad more durable.

Yeah, the kiddie table is that way>>>>>


Go there and don't say anything

 

[Majestic Pape]

The Dream Team would have the clear and obvious advantage if they had Isiah.

 

[En Sabah Nur]

This brother doesn't sound educated at all

 

[Lakerman0834]

lol by these old geezers logic there will never ever be players better than bird,magic, and Mj

 

[AVXL]

They were great

However if they played in today's international competition they wouldn't be winning by 30-40 points.

I think the 2008 team would give them a really good run.

Maybe, maybe not, but that's besides the point. The point I'm trying to make is that The Dream Team is the greatest collection of talent of all time. They are without peer. No Dream Team since will EVER be worthy of being mentioned in the same conversation as the OG Dream Team.

 

[mastermind]

Maybe, maybe not, but that's besides the point. The point I'm trying to make is that The Dream Team is the greatest collection of talent of all time. They are without peer. No Dream Team since will EVER be worthy of being mentioned in the same conversation as the OG Dream Team.

I agree they were the best team, but I'm not close minded enough to say no team will ever be better. That's bullshyt.


A sidepoint, The 2004 team should have done better but Larry Brown is a jackass and stubborn old b*stard who should be blamed for that failure. There needs to be a campaign to keep UNC coaches out of USA basketball.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

I'm gonna 5 star this thread because the TS makes a valid point.

We all know Jordan, Magic and Bird are basketball icons. But the Magic and Bird from the Dream Team were NOT in their primes. We hear those names and automatically associate them with NBA titles but Magic and Bird were past those days in 1992.

In 2k terms, their ratings would have been mid to high 80s at that point, not the 90+ most of you are thinking of.

And the competition was pathetic back then. The best challenger was Croatia, a team led by Toni Kukoc, a career 6th man in the NBA and Dino Radja.

Now we have international teams with multiple NBA All-Stars on them. The rest of the world has certainly closed the gap, and by a significant amount. Also consider how different the international game is and when constructing Team USA today, that is definitely a factor in deciding who goes. I remember they wanted Ray Allen for his pure shooting because that's a big part of the game. Was Ray the best 2 guard? No but he fit what they were trying to do.

You guys have just convinced yourselves that it was the best team ever contemplated when in reality I can easily conjure a better team just by replacing Laettner with Shaq and putting Isaiah on the roster.

 

[Trip]

You guys have just convinced yourselves that it was the best team ever contemplated when in reality I can easily conjure a better team just by replacing Laettner with Shaq and putting Isaiah on the roster.

huh

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

huh

English mothafukka, do you read it?

 

[Trip]

English mothafukka, do you read it?

the best team contemplated?