The 1992 United States Basketball Olympic "Dream Team"

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Kasz216 said:

amp316 said:

AdventWolf said:

chris212223 said:

MontanaHatchet said:
Is there any team on earth more dominant than the U.S. Men's National Basketball team?

Yes, the U.S. Women's National Basketball Team. lol

Was going to say this, the point spread is even greater.

I wasn't old enough to watch the Dream Team play but many people overrate the team, they were playing very very weak competition. The International basketball scene is much tougher now than it was in 1992. It was probably the equivalent of playing a weak college team for the dream team. Now you have international teams that have multiple NBA calibur players.

I think the Dream Team would beat the current team but for some reason I am thinking the current team would obliterate the 1992 interational teams even more.

The bolded pretty much explains the rest of your post.

Trust me when I tell you that the players from the 1992 team were much, much better on a whole than the current team.  Besides for Kevin Durant and Lebron James, I don't see anyone on the current team giving the 1992 team matchup problems.  I know that I'm not mentioning Kobe Bryant, but that's because he would be up against some guy named Michael Jordan...

I was old enough to watch the dream team play... I mean, if you pay attention to the opposition it shows just how bad that was.

The gap between the oppositions were far greater then the gap between the players.

The current team totally would of oblitereated 1992 international teams even more... if you watch the games... the international teams main weakness was athelteicism... and the 2012 team is undeniably more atehletic.

Another issue that really hurts the Dream Team is the intangibles.

The Dream Team didn't really prepare that much.    The NBA Dream team... pretty much was just playing pickup basketball and running people out of the gym.   The current team has prepaired like crazy, actually have sets and moves, and a are familiar playing with each other.

Individual strength is great, but basketball is a team game, which is why we don't have EVERY gold medal since 1992.

I understand what you are saying about the much weaker competiton and agree with it.  I also agree with you saying that the 1992 wasn't nearly as prepared as this one, but if they were to go up against other and prepared for each other than the 1992 would definitely win.  Jordan, Barkley , Malone, Johnson, Bird, etc. were on the team.  I didn't even get into the huge disparity at center.  Ewing and David Robinson against who?   Exactly.  

I'm not saying that the team now isn't great.  They are, but the entire 1992 team was more than great.  Every one of them are legends and rightfully so.