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Chris Hu on 31 July 2012
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Kasz216 said:
SaviorX said:
adriane23 said:
Besides the sheer amount of talent on the original Dream Team, people forget about how the rules were before 1999. Most of the 2012 players would get bullied out to the perimiter, and since the 1992 team were taller overall, jumpshots would be extremely difficult.

Exactly. The rules have changed in the 20 years since; basketball was defnitely more  pysical and the fouls that are called now require a lot less intensity and force than what  would have earned you a whistle in 1992.

The Dream Team was blowing out teams by 30 to 60!!!! point margins with ease. No, nothing will ever be better than that team. All clutch killers on that squad. The 2012 team maybe has 2 of those.

I assumed they would be playing by international rules.   Which haven't changed really. 

Also, the foreign teams of today would DESTROY the foreign teams of the Dream Teams day.

International basketball has RIDICULIOUSLY improved since then.

I mean... who was even the best Foreign Born player that played in the 1992 olympics?   Vlade Divac?

Back then there were like... 20 foreign players total.   Now they make up 20% of the NBA.

 

Also worth noting... the 1992 Dream Team's entire strategy was basically "Lets use our superior size and atheleticism to grab rebounds and run fast breaks."

The 2012 team, while not as skilled, is far more atheletlic.

I think the 1992 team would win... but not by playing like it did in the Olympics...

 

and I think it'd be close.   In a 10 game series i'd put it at a 7-3/6-4 Split.

Nobody on this years team is close to retirement on the 1992 team Bird and Magic pretty much where already retired.  Still think the 1992 Olympic team was the best the 1972 team was the worst no one of the team was even close to being a hall of famer no wonder they lost to the soviets by one point in gold metal game they really should have lost by more then that.