Here's the thing... IF modern players are so much better than the 90s plumbers, the increase in international competition should be offset by the increase in NBA talent.
That’s just bad logic. If you’re at the top improvements are marginal. So with other countries only recently investing in the sport to a similar degree as the US the level of improvement would be much greater. Now in Europe you can make a great living as a basketball player, back then you couldn’t, so with this you are getting much more attention from young athletes that see Basketball as a way to be a pro instead of trying to be a soccer player for example. More interest means more quality talent coming to the game. In the US the improvement comes from, training, diet, gear, recovery, etc… This means they have made marginal gains (at a pro level marginal improvement makes a big difference) but still improved. So ultimately two things can be true. The current USA players are better players than their predecessors, maybe just by a little bit but that’s all you need, while other countries have made massive leaps forward compared to their past teams.
This is terrible logic. I will say this. The Dream Team definitely made people from other countries want to learn how to play basketball more. The other countries caught up. That’s all. This video is dumb
That's really really dumb. It's quite as simple as looking at how many NBA players played in 92 and what teams they were on. Look at the individual awards. Yall really hate Lebron that much? There's 3x as many NBA players , 4x as many international mvps, and 3 dpoy ALL international. But yeah let's ignore ALL those facts and just go with the 92' dream team met even competition and they just blew everybody out
@@emilem12 So, you`re saying team USA `24 is better than `92 because they are playing better competition overall? So, by your logic, if team USA `24 had Joker+Luka+SGA+Giannis+Wemby on their team right now, they WOULDN`T be the best ever because they weren`t playing better competition? As that is what team USA `92 was, the best players IN THE WORLD. How does that sound sane to you?
The biggest problem with the team is they all have to cater to Le System which is designed for bron to pad his stats and always have the ball in his hands
It's always been that way.. Imagine having an Olympic team with Curry, Ant, AD, Embiid, Tatum etc and somehow lebron still has to carry.. Basically saying this team ain't good enough😂.. like how bro
@@user-lt1fx2he5s Embiid cannot play with other high level players tbh, bron system actually works and he is facilitating more which is good. We need AD and KD, with Bron, curry and jrue/tatum, that is a solid starting line up. Embiid is what holds this team back(mainly just the starters), not lebron. Just watch the games, it seems like Bron actually saved them a few times from losing and has been extremely efficient. He is play point forward which is what draymond does with steph, but bron is a better version of dray, idk y yall hate bron so much. He dont got to be your fav player, but to ignore reality makes you just as bad as the Bronsexuals.
So you geniuses believe team USA, which was put together weeks ago devised a gameplan to run the ball through LeBron, and Steve Kerr the HC of the GSW and Stephs coach was just "fine" with this.😅😅😅😅😅😅 Damn yall hate is really strong, and dumb
LeBalco fans always move the goalpost. First it was "the athletes today are superior, and therefore the 80's and 90's players wouldn't be able to play in the 2020's"... HOWEVER, 2 of the most unathletic players in NBA history are CURRENTLY dominating the league (Joker and Luka). Now, it's basketball has gotten better worldwide... However, that does not matter IN RELATION (google it) to USA Basketball. In simple terms, if the countries outside of the U.S. have become "better at basketball", THEN the U.S. has also become better as well relative to other countries. There is NO EXCUSE to almost lose to South Sudan... NONE.
@@jeffsamuels2539 Not true Jeff!! The '08 team was an all timer I concur with you on that squad. The rest of those teams are no way!! Did you see '92 in real time, not highlights? It seems as if something is getting lost by just watching clips as opposed to games. You really can't tell the intensity. '92 team simply broke their opponents. I saw them in real time. I watched the pups you idolize now, grow up and become good players in their own rite. We bestow the term Greatness too much, too freely. '92 and '08 were great the rest are pretenders to the throne.
@@brianedmond545 I’m totally in agreement with you. I wasn’t old enough to watch 92 live but I’ve gone back and watched games full games. But when you’re comparing these teams, don’t confuse comparing them to their competition. Nobody is breaking Kobe led USA team.. they are gonna go at it with each other
Yeah. Petrovic, Sabonis, Schrempf and Hakeem were awful players. I have to agree with you there. If I were you I’d take that comment down. Save yourself from the embarrassment.
You play who is in front of you. The media and fans who disrespect the players of the past love to hate on the past teams and compare them to today’s teams. That is ridiculous and disingenuous. You compare how teams play vs the competition they actually play. In 1992 the closest any of the competition got to the Dream Team was 32 points. In order for this years team to be even considered as good as the 1992 team they would need to dominate just as much. Only winning by 4 points and 1 point clearly shows they aren’t as dominant. You play who is in front of you! No excuses and no complaining!
your so dumb basketball was a USA sports back then no other country really cared, now we have countries fully developing people and looking for talent, a USA player hasn't won mvp since 2018 btw
Nick Wrong trying to argue that 2024 is better than 1992 based on the players’ finals appearances is really misleading. What can we expect from him and the rest of the media, though. They get paid to lie and promote false narratives.
We are really comparing 1 team who dominated and beaten teams by 30 points. To a team that's winning barely by 1 point. To saying Tatum is better than Pippen?
its because at the time the sport of basketball wasnt as popular around the world and therefore the rest of the world wasnt nearly as good as the us. now, the world has gotten way better, meaning that its just not fair to compare
@@propthetopofacop bro yall contradictory fake fans say that, okay.. Talent has gotten better but somehow LeBron has to carry this Olympic team.. So you saying that Curry, Embiid, Ant, AD, Tatum etc, they not good enough either lol.. What's new with the LeBron centric Show
Barkley, Malone, Robinson and Ewing would literally f’ AD and Embiid up until they started crying. LeBron and Steph are dribbling past absolutely no one if any sort of defense was still allowed.
Delusional😆 all you 90s bums did was foul hard and call it good D. If MJ, Pippen and literally any 90s star played nowadays they would get swept in the first round.
None of those guys could even run the point are start an offense. They would run to a spot and get doubled or fronted and even if they scored, its only 2 points. The guy they are guarding, outside of AD, would just shoot 3s over them and then dribble around them when they close. The old NBA was so bad at shooting that they had to move the 3 point line in and let the "hall of famers" shoot girl 3s. LOL What, are we amazed now that guys could hit 15 footers, even scrubs can consistent hit 15 foot jump shots. This propaganda that nobody knew that the 3 point shot was worth more is so stupid. Nobody shot the 3 because guys sucked at shooting and would rather work on interior footwork and bank shots than making a 3 point shot.
@user-tp4ii6hs3l 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂 go check what was 3pts percentage in 90's and compare with today. It's literally 1 or 2 percent, hardly significant difference. The only visible difference is amount of 3pts attempts. So you're completely wrong about 3pts shooting. 90's guys would eat nowadays softies alive, they don't play defense anymore.
@@user-tp4ii6hs3lYou're clearly too young to know coaches simply did not permit players to shoot a lot of 3's and if you were a young kid shooting off the dribble 3's the coach would bench you even if you'd hit a couple of them. The idea was simply that the easiest shots are closest to the basket. The idea of it having 'more value' to them simply didnt outweigh the value of people trying to shoot 3's with handchecking(obviously making shooting contested 3's way harder because a 'rip through' would simply be a turnover over having a very skilled big man shoot paint shots or great slasher or midrange shooters taking close shots which by the way, all of them are way more contested in a congested paint with barely any spacing. If what you were saying was true, the 50's wouldnt already have multiple players who consistently shot from 3 even deep 3 area's like Jerry West, Gael Goodrich, Pistol Pete Maravich even though there was no 3 point line. It also doesnt explain why players who were great 3 point shooters in the 80's and 90's like Kerr, Bird, BJ Armstrong, Danny Ainge, Tim Hardaway and a long list of others who didnt shoot more than three 3's tops even though they consistently shot around 40%. Hell Sharif Rahim and Mark Price were one of the two known players who actually shot off the dribble 3's on a somewhat high volume for their prime with about 6 a game, because they had revolutionaire coaches who allowed them. Don't forget, even Curry didnt take more than 5 threes his first 4 years of his career and first attempted more than 8 in 2015 as the best 3 point shooter of all time let alone the rest of the league. Do realize that even the WORST 3 point shooting team in the league right now, attempts more 3's than that Warriors squad not even 10 years later. Thats how long it took for people to realize its value. Around the Warriors and Houston Rockets era and I doubt that pre-2014, players just 'couldnt shoot'.
Sounds like what this team needed was how Coach Daly made the Dream Team realize early in their coming together they were capable of losing and it lit a fire underneath all the players butt to do better.
Dream Team played 9 NBA players while the 2024 Team is slated for 61 NBA players. Dream Team lost to a college team 🤣🤣 Keep living in the past about a Dream Team that beat local CYO teams from other countries. Silly Jordashians
@LL-zm9go did bro not watch the video what your displaying right now is kinda of almost like cult behavior where it doesn't matter how much evidence is presented you just keep your wrong opinion and have purely biased opinions based on what you prefer sad times for humanity man truly is a shame to see a human this way
@@LL-zm9go The dream team was more than Jordan. Each of those players would still be a factor in todays NBA, while many of todays NBA players would seriously have a hard time adjusting without all the handholding and free passes players today gets. I am a Jordan fan, because I grew up in the ERA but there's nothing I said in my post that even eluded to the idea that either team is better than the other. It was just well noted that until Coach Daly showed the team they could work together, they didn't gel. This current team looks like they need that sort of lesson to help glue them together. So before your sensitive little pettiness starts spamming other post, please learn to actually read what's written and understand it.
The excuse-making is hilarious. If you took Team USA and put them in the NBA, you would expect them to blow out everyone and set the new record for regular season wins. That they can't blow out what are essentially minor league teams just shows that the NBA players have no heart.
@@TheDondajonhon46 Nah he's got plenty of false equivalencies and logic going on here. It basically amounts to a big ole nothing burger or watching a 10yr old explain science. And considering that 15/20 of his videos are shitting on Bron he's suffering from Bron Derrangement Syndrome heavily. Without bringing up Bron his videos don't get good views and he can't pay rent.
They think that post says the US should be struggling, but in reality it says American players aren't as dominant as they were in the 90's. But somehow this team of less dominate players is better than the dream team?
The Dream Team ['92] being BETTER THAN 'team usa' ['24] IS a 'no-doubt' , non-debate JUST LIKE Michael Jordan being BETTER THAN Lebron James IS a no-doubt, non-debate.
@@HimisfearWhen you assemble the greatest team in NBA history, they're supposed to make their competition look like scrubs. Imagine discrediting a team for their un-matched dominance LMAO
The 92 dream team will ALWAYS be the greatest collection of basketball talent ever assembled. They could beat ANY team in the history, present or future of basketball.
@@xfanatick7972the legends do not get disrespected, the new gen is the one that gets disrespected. This whole video and RUclips channel is case in point. He drama farms you brain rotted Lebron haters and does nothing but spread negativity. Made this video when team USA is completely undefeated as of right now. It's ridiculous
Not only are USA Basketball 2024 squad struggling with certain international teams, but they had a very, very tough time with the USA Basketball Selection Team led by Cooper Flag.
Ikr. How are you better than the dream team when some NBA bench players, rookies/2nd year players, and a HS almost beat you. It'd be different if it was a one-off and it was just USA not paying attention one game or Kerr (who sucks as an intl coach imo) sorta throwing the game. But '24 USA has actually only had 1 quality, dominant win despite ridiculous talent advantage over every team they face. They haven't scored over 110, have failed to crack 100 a couple times, and the teams they've faced haven't seemed to struggle scoring imo.
I have been arguing all along that if we had a time machine, and this '24 team faced the '92 Dream Team, the Dream Team would wipe the floor with today's players. First, who would guard Michael Jordan on today's team? Nobody. You would have to have to double team him. Even if you put Lebron on him, you would still have to double MJ. He was just that damn good. And who would you double off of? Larry Bird? Magic? Shit, you don't want to leave anyone on the starting 5 open for a shot, cuz they can all knock down jumpers. Dream Team is taller/bigger than today's USA men's team. They clearly have a height advantage with Robinson, Ewing, Malone, Barkley, Magic, Bird, etc. They had a basketball IQ advantage, as MJ, Pippen, Magic, Bird, and Stockton combined have a greater level of b-ball IQ than the entire today's Olympic roster combined. Do you even want to compare the number of NBA championship rings the original Dream Team had? MJ - 6, Pippen -6, Magic - 5, Bird - 3. I'll just end there. I don't even want to bring up # of MVP awards in comparison. The Dream Team played better defense. MJ and Pippen were defensive monsters. Ewing, Robinson, Barkley, and Malone...no big guy wants to be defended by any of those dudes. Barkley and Malone would be dishing out elbows to your ribs all day long. The Dream Team would simply out rebound this year's team. Cuz they work hard, they box out, they understand that rebounds wins rings or in this case, gold. The Dream Team's bench is just amazing. Once the first team comes out, you gotta deal with: Stockton, Malone, Pippen, Ewing, and Drexler. C'mon man, that's like an All Star starting roster, right there. Off the bench!
I would hope that that 92 team would be the 2024 team with the most talent on the 2024 team being 30 something or older like you guys have to stop with the stupid LeBron is 40 you’re talking about Jordan and 92 in his primeI would hope a prom. Jordan could be a 40 year-old LeBron but I doubt it.
@@powert4612 Fun fact - Jordan ranked 9th across the league in PPG at 39 years old. Lebron ranked 13th at age 39. Pace of play. And Jordan played with broken ribs and bad knees. And had been retired for 2+ years. And playing a new position (SF) when positional basketball was still a thing. And as I remember watching him as a Wizards fan, he did not slack on defense, even if he wasn't the defender he used to be.
NBA media will prop up this era to desperately try to stay relevant, but any basketball fan with a common sense knows that '92 team would be a 50pt favorite against these snowflakes
Literally every fact and stat disproves that. Basketball players are immensely better at basketball now than they were in the 90s. 90s team would actually be losing to these modern foreign teams. Also imagine still being the fox news cringe kid that uses snowflake in 2024.
We live in an era where shooting and effort matter more than ever. Every Olympic team has NBA talent and the gap between a 6th man and superstar is much smaller, ie...whether you can make 3s or not. It doesn't matter how skilled you are at the rim, that is only 2 points...a much less skilled guy can then dribble down and hit a 28 footer for 3 points. Posting a guy up and watching his amazing footwork, only 2 points. Open 3, is worth 3 points.
You couldn’t be more wrong and most of you people allow y’all feelings to cloud your judgement. The whole world plays basketball professionally now, compared to when the Dream Team played. Your logic makes no sense. The best 3 out of 5 players in the NBA are Foreigners. Jokic, Shai and Giannis. Dream team lost to a College team. So please stop the cap. They not beating anybody by 50 points.
The LeHgH team is in the easiest group, Kerr stopped Wiggins from playing in the Olympics, Canada is in the hardest group and they complain about everything. They can be the nightmare team because they are most unlikable USA basketball team since Melo played.
@@Josh-sk5xd so i'm not alone in not caring to root for team USA this year? something about this squad just rubs me wrong. They all play individual ball and the chemistry is so superficial
@@victormendieta102 No brother you ain’t alone. This U.S.A. Olympics is unauthentic & narrative driven with propaganda & it seems like the Refs are trying to rig it for USA to win it. It’s all seems fake! The whole “best player on team USA” & the whole “Lebron is the flag bearer” is total nonsense & full of hypocrisy, propaganda, & false narratives. Completely unauthentic. I’m not tuning in.
The first dream team would beat this team but it would be closer than that. You need to realize that most of the first dream team players are over 60 years old.
Chuck Daly engineered the '92 team to lose to the select team. Chuck knew what he was doing, he got them primed to see that even they could lose.He didn't even play Mike in the second half. The '92 team was mentally tougher than any team or individual player in the game right now. The OG's some of whom have been watching basketball before some of you were born we can see mental fortitude and how many of these current players would crack under the intensity that '92 had in droves. These players are anointing LeBron as the best on the team, that alone shows me there aren't true Dawgs out there. In '92 everyone was out to prove that they were the best.
@@kingroy2045 a specialist isn’t *only* good at one thing, a high level specialist is good at a bit of everything and amazing at one or two particular skills. Take Magic, a playmaking and passing specialist, he could score if he wanted to and could rebound well given his height, but his specialty led him to be one of the greatest ever.
During last year's exhibition games to prepare for FIBA, everyone clowned the B or C team. Now they're hyping up our A team stuggling against Austraila, South Sudan, & Germany. There are no longer any standards and it looks like Team USA 2028 is COOKED.
When a 40-year-old basketball player who is clearly past his prime is dominating the games and saving you, it's easy to say your team is nowhere near as good as you think it is and basketball as a whole is not as high quality as anyone wants to believe...
good video...this USA team is not even better than the 2000 or 2012 team smh, so PLEASE don't compare this team to the 92 Dream Team, let alone, the 96 Dream Team, or the Redeem Team...stop it 5 lml rotf. This USA team should blew South Sudan out the water smh. It's no way South Sudan shoulda had the lead with just seconds to go smh, c'mon yo
@@Vancouverallday I can see that happening if the team doesn't take this seriously. I think they're missing that true alpha. Kobe was the clear alpha on the 08 Redeem Team. I still see them winning the gold, but it's prob gonna be a lot of close, down to the wire games, based off what they displayed in the exhibition games smmfh. That was embarrassing, besides the Serbia win
@@Classicbasketballdvds yah, I do see them not taking this seriously. Hope Canada will take advantage of this limbo american team lol. But yah I do see both things happening cuz both things are very likely with this USA team
@@Vancouverallday I'm rooting for the USA cuz I'm American, but I hope they don't collapse like in 04 Athens, but I can see the happening again, so it wouldn't surprise me smh
@@Classicbasketballdvds I feel you man. For me X factor is Antman. I think he coming off the bench....he'll be the player they need as the 6man or starting
The problem with team USA is that there is no defense nowadays in the NBA compare to FIBA standards... they can do 100pts, but teams will do 99. I still think they are the better team but do not expect a +20 difference in every game.
@@student99bg among a ton of other BS excuses . Almost like south sudan, because half of the players didn't really grow up in south sudan, seems that now it was an NBA-filled powerhouse. Man, these people.
Two things can be true at the same time. The world is catching up and we have not done enough to improve ourselves. Offensively we are great but our defense has become a forgotten piece.
The '92 Dream Team would still be heavy favorites if they played in this year's Olympics. US Basketball has simply regressed and FIBA rules shows how much better it is than NBA.
1992: The rest of the world had only 5 players totally in the NBA 2024: The rest of the world now has 125 players totally in the NBA Seems like quite a big difference, no disrespect to the Dream Team....
Context matters. 1992: the standard was high it was harder for the rest of world to get in NBA. 2024: NBA standard drastically lowered more players from the rest of the world got in with extra higher minimal salary.
@@Tippotipo Other than Cold War fears, there was no such standard. In fact, most of the active players during that time were part of a much larger draft than we have today. Of course, every era has their Chuck Nevitt type player that only plays a few minutes. But those 10 round drafts with spectacle picks aren't a thing anymore. Guys really have to be the best in their class now - and they still might not make it. Think of Luka Garza from Iowa. NCAA player of the year, but bottom of the draft. Being All-Conference doesn't even give you a shot anymore (RJ Davis(
What I think doesn’t get talked about enough is that international teams run some great offensive sets with lots of movement, meanwhile we’re very pick and roll and iso heavy. Imagine if our teams would run some Dan Hurley-esque sets we would get back to beating teams by 20+ every game
That has always been the case for the US National team, it is just that usually the US players are individually so much better than everyone else that they manage to win regardless. This year, well, the US has sent great players on paper, but they are also old.
@@student99bgSo you are basically making his point and the point I been say this whole time. International players are so much better now. Am I reading this correctly
I know yall some Jordan glazers and I don’t even care for bron but them dudes at the end of their career and they’re playing against way better competition no matter how you try and slice it
@@tyronelorenzovalentio3414 possibly, they still didn’t play against elite competition like this year team will, they didn’t have to play against anyone as good as Joker, Giannis or Shai,
Another big point of context that media and fans of the 2024 team don't bring up is that in the 92 Olympics, the Dream Team wanted to send a msg to the other countries in the world that they could not touch us. And with the NBA being way tougher back then, overseas players getting into the league wasn't as guaranteed as now bc overseas wasn't the tougher play style like it is now. Because the league has softened up its rules so much now thanks to Adam Silver, it really causes an issue where not only talent wise has the world caught up, but overseas is much tougher than the league now so Team USA isn't really battle tested in terms of physicality. They have no mental edge on other teams.
@@andrewcook1246 That's circular logic. You are proving that today's US team is just as good as the 1992 dream team by saying that in 1992 competition was bad and in order to show the competition was bad you assume that the 2024 team is as good as the 1992 dream team. I am from Europe, I know how good those Croatian, Lithuanian teams were and I know that Brasil was on a similar level to them too. Before 1992 the US would send their best college players to the Olympics and FIBA world cups. They would always get beaten. So, tell me, if you think college players are better than the teams from the rest of the world why would they always get beaten which in 1992 forced the US to say enough is enough and start sending NBA players to the Olympics?
@@AlbundyvsTheSMV Then why did the college players that US sent to represent them prior to 1992 lose every single time at almost every Olympics and at almost every world cup? The reason why the 1992 dream team was formed is because the best college players that the US had were not enough to win. This is not a matter of opinion, this is a matter of fact.
Here we are a week later and not only is the US team playing against more NBA level talent than in 92. They are now winning by 30+ and 20+ so maybe this video is just full of 90’s nostalgia and this team really is just better than the dream team 🤷♂️
They are trying hard to make us watch the games kkkkkk , other day some anchor on a sport news was saying how good Curry it’s yeah he’s a great shooter but not better player compared to Stockton, if you saw he play you know what I’m talking about “actual games not highlights “
South Sudan won that game, and it's only because the LeRefs bailed Team USA out. Germany almost beat them, so Team USA been exposed, and the whole world has seen it. What are they going to do against France with Wemby and Gobert? This is international basketball, so they can literally just camp out in the paint. Team USA is not winning gold, and Embiid was right to call them out and put LeBron on blast.
The 1992 dream team competed against only 9 NBA players on the Olympics. Today’s USA team will face 61 NBA players! The competition is a million times better today. Plus; todays dream team players can pretty much all dribble and shoot 3’s. 92 dream team had mostly big men who were great, but could not shoot because it was mostly an inside game anyways.
Quality over quantity. 5 of those 9 players are in the hall of fame. The 92 team averaged 117 points a game with very few 3 attempts. Mostly big men?? lol are Jordan, Pippen, Drexler, Magic, Bird, Stockton big men?
In 1992 players around the world just started going to the NBA. Prior to the 1990s players from many European countries weren't allowed to do it and also the NBA didn't want foreigners. That doesn't mean international players in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s weren't as good as today, it just means that back then the rest of the world had their best players playing in their own countries. The reason why they didn't play in the NBA had nothing to do with their skill level. I know it is hard to believe, but back then countries had their players play in their national leagues and countries had almost only their own players play in their national leagues. That was true for the American national league (NBA), that was true for most national leagues around the world. Taking foreign players into your league (or allowing your citizens to play in national leagues of foreign countries) wasn't a common practice. The world began to change in the early 1990s and countries started to allow players to leave and to accept foreigners into their national leagues en mass.
@@rackball5858please name me the 5 HOF Famers. I bet none of them are better than the top 5 international players in the league now. Jokic Doncic SGA Giannis That’s 4 of the 5 best players now Wemby
I would never cheer against Team USA, son of a Vietnam vet, am literally watching a Thunderbirds F-16 airshow right now, but hope Steph, KD, or AD saves the day for Lebronze. Dream Team > .
Bleacher report top 50 greatest NBA players all time 1. Michael Jordan 2. LeBron James 3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 6. Shaquille O'Neal 7. Tim Duncan 14. Kobe Bryant
@@StoneCold2k57 copypasta bot, I never mentioned Kobe. BUT Kobe, like Mike, never lost an Olympic/FIBA game. LeBron could barely get on the court in 04, took a bronze L, no chip in 06 FIBA, and was nearly left off 08 Olympic team by Coach K, Colangelo per Woj.
Exactly, I for one think Lebron is so overrated. Started the jumping from team to team mess. I root against him every time. But this channel is becoming a dump fest for Lebron(or current players) hate mail.
@@AlbundyvsTheSMV You can't call a guy overrated who was proclaimed the king before he stepped on a NBA court and is the Alltime leading scorer and top 4 in assist And if you think LeBron started the switching teams your sadly mistaken. I'd advise you use google a bit more. Players have been switching teams at least 50 years before LeBron. Hell a superteam was created against him, that forced him to create one of his own (KG, Pierce, Allen ring a bell). He was kinda the first to make a spectacle of it.
@@simonhowell4486Nah to me Lebron is more of a Great GM then he is a player. He is still a top 5 player of all time. I don’t care about stats. Never did I go by the eye test personally. Lebron always founds a way to get in a good situation or bandwagon a team. Jordan, Kobe, Dirk, Curry other greats built their teams. Lebron is a GM. I don’t respect a lot of the moves he made. I can’t blame a lot of these people for not liking Lebron(as a player) He is the main reason why players try to form super teams. KD is a product of Lebron. And I’m not mad at him for joining Golden State. He said Lebron made a super team with the heat. Lebron joined a super team team in Cleveland. I’m going to one up him and join the warriors. And other players have followed suit because of Lebron.
Comparing any us team to the 92 team is unfair. The rest of the world was decades behind the nba in that time. The opposing players were in awe of the 92 team. That factor is nonexistent. The best players in today's game arguably are foreign. You cannot compare the 92 team to any team from 2000 on because the competition alone is far better than any team that 92 faced.
lmao competiton nowadays is infinitely tougher than competition back in the 90's, USA can no longer just sweep their way to gold via 40 point leads, literally the top 5 players in the league right now are international players, that by itself should justify why competition today is tougher than it is back then
Bullshit!! Even the euro players in the league said themselves that their league is tougher than today’s NBA!! Want more proof?? Look at the drafting of Bronny James!! That wouldn’t have happened back then! Easily the worst basketball player in the history of NBA!! You young goofy dudes are clueless 😂😂😂
BS!!! Today’s NBA is soft af!! Even the euro players said their league is tougher and more 90’s style basketball 🤡 Need more proof on how soft and hot garbage on today’s NBA just look at the drafting of the absolute worst basketball player ever Bronny James 🤦🏾♂️😂😂😂🤡
My working theory is that not everybody in the media raving about current players over older ones actually believe what they’re saying. They’re not trying to convince “the old heads” of anything. It’s all just business marketing. You want to sell the product that’s currently on shelves. That’s it. You want to get people who are just getting into basketball to buy tickets, season passes, merchandise, etc. You do that by keeping the rhetoric focussed on the current roster. If anything, the pushback just drives more engagement with the product. Newer fans can not only look at the current product but go digging into NBA archives to look at older games. Maybe it even increases the value of vintage merch by driving up interest.
1992: Dream Team faced only 9 NBA players 2024: Team USA will play against 61 NBA players Competition has increased drastically and old heads can't seem to understand that
Meaningless comparison meant to elevate Lebron yet again. The reason about 61 NBA players are mainly because of lowered NBA standards. Let remind Puerto Rico beat team USA All-Star in 2024 with 0 NBA player.
Do these sports annalists know that there was hand checking back in 1992 which allowed teams to play physical defense? When the dream team played against Toni Kucoc MJ and pippen wouldn't even let the man breathe. Last year playoffs the Celtics played a little bit of 90's defense and shut KJ and Kyrie both down in the series.
The 1992 team lost against NCAA players, now this was set up by Chuck by limiting MJ's time and barely makings subs to teach the lesson that they could actually lose. They met again under normal conditions and won decisively.
Two things- 1 Lebron and company could not win gold until Kobe came in. 2 the elite players from the international pool play with fundamentals which American players lack. This is why they are dominating the game.
Luka stated it clearly. It’s easier over here. US born b’ball players come up through a system that coddles them from the moment they show promise. Swagger (arrogance) is touted as a virtue, and stat lines are cherished above all else.
The narrative is always that the European teams play together and the US cobbles together a team. The obvious solution is to have the NBA Champion for the year of the Olympics get to play. Maybe substitute people off the bench for other stars but have a core nucleus of a team that knows how to play together. Now it’s just too political. I will actually be pleasantly surprised if the US doesn’t fold in this games. The South Sudan game was scary. And then Germany wasn’t much better. One or two plays go the other way and this team would have dropped both.
I think the issue is we need to stop using all super stars. We also need to stop calling role players, role players, and call them team players. They provide a synergy that superstars can’t replicate.
People forget why the 1992 Dream Team was created 1) The college basketball players were playing against the best European PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS IN THE WORLD. People want to say oh they didn’t have to play against any NBA players. 2) In 88 college basketball players loss to The Soviet Union 82 to 76 and that’s when and why the dream team was formed. 3) Remember best European PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL players in the world who played with and against each other all the time. The game was based on 1980 and 90’s Physicality so the European PROFESSIONAL had a advantage over young college players. And that changed when the us was allowed to let NBA players play in the Olympics ( remember we had to petition to get our best to play against their best) 43 points a game avg. win by the NBA best.
I think that 92 dream team would have won in todays game, but definitely not by that much either, maybe the average would be in between 10-15 points. Which is still better than current Olympic team. But if Larry bird would be on his prime, and the 11th player was not a college kid, then it would probably won by much more. Like 20+ points on average. They won by 44 on 92, with an injured Bird and college kid. Not to mention Barkley was the top scorer. MJ was not by any means playing at 100% all games. He was not challenged, if he was I can only imagine the average to increase past 50 ppg.
The NBA has been playing random basketball since the late 2010s, that's why players can have a long career. Many professional players can't even run and execute an offensive play. All they know is screen and shoot 3s, random basketball.
The world has improved but no team in the world still cannot field a group of players like the USA still does. Before the 2010's, international players made more money outside in the NBA and were still not coveted as today.
Love the breakdown. In terms of international performance, it’s crazy to me these pundits calling the 2024 team better is absurd. One of the monumental factors when playing internationally is mental fortitude, like the times the US has met the Soviets/ Russian hockey teams that on average was better teams. Talent doesn’t matter if you can’t play as a team and most of the guys on the roster probably thinks themselves better than any coach out there. The Euro Football Cup comes to mind where the “best” team has lost the finals plenty of times because it’s a team game and chemistry and teamwork wins championships. Not talent. The Dream Team is by far the best team whereas talent on the rosters will always be up for debate.
Here's the thing... IF modern players are so much better than the 90s plumbers, the increase in international competition should be offset by the increase in NBA talent.
Exactly!💯🏀
That’s just bad logic. If you’re at the top improvements are marginal. So with other countries only recently investing in the sport to a similar degree as the US the level of improvement would be much greater. Now in Europe you can make a great living as a basketball player, back then you couldn’t, so with this you are getting much more attention from young athletes that see Basketball as a way to be a pro instead of trying to be a soccer player for example. More interest means more quality talent coming to the game. In the US the improvement comes from, training, diet, gear, recovery, etc… This means they have made marginal gains (at a pro level marginal improvement makes a big difference) but still improved. So ultimately two things can be true. The current USA players are better players than their predecessors, maybe just by a little bit but that’s all you need, while other countries have made massive leaps forward compared to their past teams.
This is terrible logic.
I will say this. The Dream Team definitely made people from other countries want to learn how to play basketball more. The other countries caught up. That’s all. This video is dumb
That's really really dumb.
It's quite as simple as looking at how many NBA players played in 92 and what teams they were on. Look at the individual awards.
Yall really hate Lebron that much? There's 3x as many NBA players , 4x as many international mvps, and 3 dpoy ALL international.
But yeah let's ignore ALL those facts and just go with the 92' dream team met even competition and they just blew everybody out
@@emilem12 So, you`re saying team USA `24 is better than `92 because they are playing better competition overall? So, by your logic, if team USA `24 had Joker+Luka+SGA+Giannis+Wemby on their team right now, they WOULDN`T be the best ever because they weren`t playing better competition? As that is what team USA `92 was, the best players IN THE WORLD. How does that sound sane to you?
The biggest problem with the team is they all have to cater to Le System which is designed for bron to pad his stats and always have the ball in his hands
It's always been that way.. Imagine having an Olympic team with Curry, Ant, AD, Embiid, Tatum etc and somehow lebron still has to carry.. Basically saying this team ain't good enough😂.. like how bro
@@juliuscaesar6994If I were Coach Kerr I’m starting Steph at the Point, Ant at the 2, Tatum at the 3, AD at 4, Embiid at the 5
@@user-lt1fx2he5s Embiid cannot play with other high level players tbh, bron system actually works and he is facilitating more which is good. We need AD and KD, with Bron, curry and jrue/tatum, that is a solid starting line up. Embiid is what holds this team back(mainly just the starters), not lebron. Just watch the games, it seems like Bron actually saved them a few times from losing and has been extremely efficient. He is play point forward which is what draymond does with steph, but bron is a better version of dray, idk y yall hate bron so much. He dont got to be your fav player, but to ignore reality makes you just as bad as the Bronsexuals.
So you geniuses believe team USA, which was put together weeks ago devised a gameplan to run the ball through LeBron, and Steve Kerr the HC of the GSW and Stephs coach was just "fine" with this.😅😅😅😅😅😅
Damn yall hate is really strong, and dumb
@@juliuscaesar6994like how is bron carrying this team but can’t get the lakers past the first round.
Chris "Klutch Sports" Broussard is a disgrace.
Clutz sports
He was my favorite analyst… total sellout
LeBronze Medal
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@@Says_me Once he stopped hanging out in barber shops and only went to ladies hair salons he lost all his sports knowledge
LeBalco fans always move the goalpost. First it was "the athletes today are superior, and therefore the 80's and 90's players wouldn't be able to play in the 2020's"... HOWEVER, 2 of the most unathletic players in NBA history are CURRENTLY dominating the league (Joker and Luka). Now, it's basketball has gotten better worldwide... However, that does not matter IN RELATION (google it) to USA Basketball. In simple terms, if the countries outside of the U.S. have become "better at basketball", THEN the U.S. has also become better as well relative to other countries. There is NO EXCUSE to almost lose to South Sudan... NONE.
Somebody with common sense. But unfortunately common sense isn't so common
Rockstar = true statement
Every heard of Larry bird yall sat dumb shit and luka isn't dominating anything
@@JDay-j8zI’ve heard of him. White guy that could DUNK. I’d take that guy named Bird over Doncic everyday of the week.
@@JDay-j8zLed league in scoring by a lot, top 3 in MVP voting, led his team to Finals... I'd say that means you're one of the best, factually
Dream Team never even used a timeout. No comparison
@@blaketurner4527 that speaks to the competition.. 2012. 2008 and 1996 all in the same class as dream teamm
@@jeffsamuels2539 The Dream Team still clears those teams.
@@sportjames23 I respect that but don’t hate me for taking 2012 in 7
@@jeffsamuels2539 Not true Jeff!! The '08 team was an all timer I concur with you on that squad. The rest of those teams are no way!! Did you see '92 in real time, not highlights? It seems as if something is getting lost by just watching clips as opposed to games. You really can't tell the intensity. '92 team simply broke their opponents. I saw them in real time. I watched the pups you idolize now, grow up and become good players in their own rite. We bestow the term Greatness too much, too freely. '92 and '08 were great the rest are pretenders to the throne.
@@brianedmond545 I’m totally in agreement with you. I wasn’t old enough to watch 92 live but I’ve gone back and watched games full games. But when you’re comparing these teams, don’t confuse comparing them to their competition. Nobody is breaking Kobe led USA team.. they are gonna go at it with each other
Easy 92 had Jordan in his prime. It's over.
And way worse competition. Let's be fair. The world has way more nba and top basketball talent than in the 90s
Facts remember chris webber and grant hill destroyed the dream team when exhibition game happened 😊
Yeah. Petrovic, Sabonis, Schrempf and Hakeem were awful players. I have to agree with you there.
If I were you I’d take that comment down. Save yourself from the embarrassment.
@@malikwilson7387A Scrimmage 😅 nice Casual Talk....
😂 Nice irony comment 😂
You play who is in front of you. The media and fans who disrespect the players of the past love to hate on the past teams and compare them to today’s teams. That is ridiculous and disingenuous. You compare how teams play vs the competition they actually play. In 1992 the closest any of the competition got to the Dream Team was 32 points. In order for this years team to be even considered as good as the 1992 team they would need to dominate just as much. Only winning by 4 points and 1 point clearly shows they aren’t as dominant. You play who is in front of you! No excuses and no complaining!
Say it again mister
your so dumb basketball was a USA sports back then no other country really cared, now we have countries fully developing people and looking for talent, a USA player hasn't won mvp since 2018 btw
LeDream team looks good on paper but half the team is over 35. Meanwhile almost the whole dream team was in their prime.
Nick Wrong trying to argue that 2024 is better than 1992 based on the players’ finals appearances is really misleading. What can we expect from him and the rest of the media, though. They get paid to lie and promote false narratives.
I can't even call that false. Anything Nick says is just stupid
He's delusional 💯😡👎🏾Nick you're Wrong
Bird wasn't even good anymore it was 92💀 the game wasn't global dumbass no shiy they would whipe comp 😂
Once he stopped hanging out in barber shops and only went to ladies hair salons he lost all his sports knowledge
Hell, this 2024 team ain't even better than the 1996, 2000, 2008 or 2012 teams.
We are really comparing 1 team who dominated and beaten teams by 30 points. To a team that's winning barely by 1 point. To saying Tatum is better than Pippen?
If I may correct you on one thing 😅 they won by 44 points on average, not 30.
@Kebren9 even better makes the 24 team look even more irrelevant
its because at the time the sport of basketball wasnt as popular around the world and therefore the rest of the world wasnt nearly as good as the us. now, the world has gotten way better, meaning that its just not fair to compare
@propthetopofacop that sounds like an excuse just in case they loose and don't win a gold medal.
@@propthetopofacop bro yall contradictory fake fans say that, okay.. Talent has gotten better but somehow LeBron has to carry this Olympic team..
So you saying that Curry, Embiid, Ant, AD, Tatum etc, they not good enough either lol.. What's new with the LeBron centric Show
The goal post being pulled across the field is hilarious LOL
I know, right!
Barkley, Malone, Robinson and Ewing would literally f’ AD and Embiid up until they started crying. LeBron and Steph are dribbling past absolutely no one if any sort of defense was still allowed.
Delusional😆 all you 90s bums did was foul hard and call it good D. If MJ, Pippen and literally any 90s star played nowadays they would get swept in the first round.
None of those guys could even run the point are start an offense. They would run to a spot and get doubled or fronted and even if they scored, its only 2 points. The guy they are guarding, outside of AD, would just shoot 3s over them and then dribble around them when they close. The old NBA was so bad at shooting that they had to move the 3 point line in and let the "hall of famers" shoot girl 3s. LOL What, are we amazed now that guys could hit 15 footers, even scrubs can consistent hit 15 foot jump shots. This propaganda that nobody knew that the 3 point shot was worth more is so stupid. Nobody shot the 3 because guys sucked at shooting and would rather work on interior footwork and bank shots than making a 3 point shot.
@user-tp4ii6hs3l
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂 go check what was 3pts percentage in 90's and compare with today. It's literally 1 or 2 percent, hardly significant difference. The only visible difference is amount of 3pts attempts. So you're completely wrong about 3pts shooting. 90's guys would eat nowadays softies alive, they don't play defense anymore.
@@user-tp4ii6hs3l LeBronze can't shoot from 15' so what are you talking about? 😂
@@user-tp4ii6hs3lYou're clearly too young to know coaches simply did not permit players to shoot a lot of 3's and if you were a young kid shooting off the dribble 3's the coach would bench you even if you'd hit a couple of them.
The idea was simply that the easiest shots are closest to the basket. The idea of it having 'more value' to them simply didnt outweigh the value of people trying to shoot 3's with handchecking(obviously making shooting contested 3's way harder because a 'rip through' would simply be a turnover over having a very skilled big man shoot paint shots or great slasher or midrange shooters taking close shots which by the way, all of them are way more contested in a congested paint with barely any spacing.
If what you were saying was true, the 50's wouldnt already have multiple players who consistently shot from 3 even deep 3 area's like Jerry West, Gael Goodrich, Pistol Pete Maravich even though there was no 3 point line.
It also doesnt explain why players who were great 3 point shooters in the 80's and 90's like Kerr, Bird, BJ Armstrong, Danny Ainge, Tim Hardaway and a long list of others who didnt shoot more than three 3's tops even though they consistently shot around 40%.
Hell Sharif Rahim and Mark Price were one of the two known players who actually shot off the dribble 3's on a somewhat high volume for their prime with about 6 a game, because they had revolutionaire coaches who allowed them.
Don't forget, even Curry didnt take more than 5 threes his first 4 years of his career and first attempted more than 8 in 2015 as the best 3 point shooter of all time let alone the rest of the league. Do realize that even the WORST 3 point shooting team in the league right now, attempts more 3's than that Warriors squad not even 10 years later.
Thats how long it took for people to realize its value. Around the Warriors and Houston Rockets era and I doubt that pre-2014, players just 'couldnt shoot'.
Sounds like what this team needed was how Coach Daly made the Dream Team realize early in their coming together they were capable of losing and it lit a fire underneath all the players butt to do better.
Dream Team played 9 NBA players while the 2024 Team is slated for 61 NBA players.
Dream Team lost to a college team 🤣🤣
Keep living in the past about a Dream Team that beat local CYO teams from other countries.
Silly Jordashians
@@LL-zm9gothis sorry team is nowhere near the 92 dream team winning by single digits in 3 games straight just stop
@LL-zm9go did bro not watch the video what your displaying right now is kinda of almost like cult behavior where it doesn't matter how much evidence is presented you just keep your wrong opinion and have purely biased opinions based on what you prefer sad times for humanity man truly is a shame to see a human this way
@@LL-zm9go The dream team was more than Jordan. Each of those players would still be a factor in todays NBA, while many of todays NBA players would seriously have a hard time adjusting without all the handholding and free passes players today gets. I am a Jordan fan, because I grew up in the ERA but there's nothing I said in my post that even eluded to the idea that either team is better than the other. It was just well noted that until Coach Daly showed the team they could work together, they didn't gel. This current team looks like they need that sort of lesson to help glue them together.
So before your sensitive little pettiness starts spamming other post, please learn to actually read what's written and understand it.
@@LL-zm9goSo how come this team USA always needed a 4th quarter comeback to beat South Sudan? Or Germany?
It sounds like Team USA just needs "more help."
Just needs more help is the story of Lebron’s career
After that 1 point win, the #1 excuses maker/narrative shifter LBJ was heard saying he preferred that tight game because. Lebron
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The excuse-making is hilarious. If you took Team USA and put them in the NBA, you would expect them to blow out everyone and set the new record for regular season wins. That they can't blow out what are essentially minor league teams just shows that the NBA players have no heart.
Huh this comment is stupid
Basketball doesn’t work like that. It’s still only one ball. Your logic doesn’t make sense.
They actually don't have goalposts. It's like arguing toddlers.
I feek the same about this channel and Uncut Dope's whiny ahh voice
@@andrewcook1246He's backing up his videos with facts, research, and logic. Atleast he's not a soft emotional tool, like 95% of Lebron fangirls
@@TheDondajonhon46 Nah he's got plenty of false equivalencies and logic going on here. It basically amounts to a big ole nothing burger or watching a 10yr old explain science.
And considering that 15/20 of his videos are shitting on Bron he's suffering from Bron Derrangement Syndrome heavily.
Without bringing up Bron his videos don't get good views and he can't pay rent.
Petrovic would be a HoF'er if he hadn't died...
Petrovic ended up getting inducted
peja..... Esq ❤
There is only one Dream Team. 92.
They think that post says the US should be struggling, but in reality it says American players aren't as dominant as they were in the 90's. But somehow this team of less dominate players is better than the dream team?
my man the dream team had it easy in the Olympics because no olympic team had any nba players
@@jaydenmadden6986 did you even watch the video?
@@jaydenmadden6986 did you even read my comment? This is a very low IQ response
@@sparkyfister yah i one idiot fr 😂😂😂😂
@@jaydenmadden6986 do you speak English?
The Dream Team ['92] being BETTER THAN 'team usa' ['24] IS a 'no-doubt' , non-debate JUST LIKE Michael Jordan being BETTER THAN Lebron James IS a no-doubt, non-debate.
92 team would have been up by 50 at half time against South Soudan.
The South Sudan in '92 was not as talented as this year's team so the USA in '92 played absolute scrubs in comparison
@@Himisfear just say you’re stupid enough to think the 92 team would actually lose to any of these garbage teams
They probably would though, they have beaten better teams by over 30
@@HimisfearWhen you assemble the greatest team in NBA history, they're supposed to make their competition look like scrubs. Imagine discrediting a team for their un-matched dominance LMAO
@@Himisfearno not all actually
THEY NEVER make these BETTER COMPETITION EXCUSES in NOTHING but BASKETBALL..I WONDER WHY 😩😩
Because the popularity of basketball skyrocketed after the 2000s
The toughness of the 92 dream team alone would destroy this team. They could not play that intense style of basketball they would quit.
I think that team would have to get rid of christain and add 2 wings get rid of a big maybe add thomas
2024 team...please...ain't even better than 2008 team
@razkable
Not even better then the 2012 team
@@razkable Imagine Dream Team assembled in 1988 instead of 1992.
@@LouSeph and FIBA rules don’t change like nba 😂😂😂😂
Note the influx of bots and jock sniffers.
The 92 dream team will ALWAYS be the greatest collection of basketball talent ever assembled. They could beat ANY team in the history, present or future of basketball.
@@beaniemac I got 2012 in 6
@@jeffsamuels2539 nope
NBA is the only sports where they disrespect and tear down past legends. They don't do that to NFL and MLB players. They allow them to be great
Literally the most toxic sports community you can find. Also hating on the national team while participating in a major tournament is pathetic lol
@@xfanatick7972that's lebrons trademark
That just started happening during this soft ass era headed by the queen and his sheep. It wasn't like that before.
@@ijamorris that’s this LeSexual group of fans. Never happened before. Yeah guys always hyped up their eras but never this level of utter disrespect
@@xfanatick7972the legends do not get disrespected, the new gen is the one that gets disrespected. This whole video and RUclips channel is case in point. He drama farms you brain rotted Lebron haters and does nothing but spread negativity. Made this video when team USA is completely undefeated as of right now. It's ridiculous
Not only are USA Basketball 2024 squad struggling with certain international teams, but they had a very, very tough time with the USA Basketball Selection Team led by Cooper Flag.
Ikr. How are you better than the dream team when some NBA bench players, rookies/2nd year players, and a HS almost beat you. It'd be different if it was a one-off and it was just USA not paying attention one game or Kerr (who sucks as an intl coach imo) sorta throwing the game. But '24 USA has actually only had 1 quality, dominant win despite ridiculous talent advantage over every team they face. They haven't scored over 110, have failed to crack 100 a couple times, and the teams they've faced haven't seemed to struggle scoring imo.
Cooper cooked 🍚 ad and embarrassed embid 😂
I have been arguing all along that if we had a time machine, and this '24 team faced the '92 Dream Team, the Dream Team would wipe the floor with today's players. First, who would guard Michael Jordan on today's team? Nobody. You would have to have to double team him. Even if you put Lebron on him, you would still have to double MJ. He was just that damn good. And who would you double off of? Larry Bird? Magic? Shit, you don't want to leave anyone on the starting 5 open for a shot, cuz they can all knock down jumpers.
Dream Team is taller/bigger than today's USA men's team. They clearly have a height advantage with Robinson, Ewing, Malone, Barkley, Magic, Bird, etc. They had a basketball IQ advantage, as MJ, Pippen, Magic, Bird, and Stockton combined have a greater level of b-ball IQ than the entire today's Olympic roster combined. Do you even want to compare the number of NBA championship rings the original Dream Team had? MJ - 6, Pippen -6, Magic - 5, Bird - 3. I'll just end there. I don't even want to bring up # of MVP awards in comparison.
The Dream Team played better defense. MJ and Pippen were defensive monsters. Ewing, Robinson, Barkley, and Malone...no big guy wants to be defended by any of those dudes. Barkley and Malone would be dishing out elbows to your ribs all day long. The Dream Team would simply out rebound this year's team. Cuz they work hard, they box out, they understand that rebounds wins rings or in this case, gold.
The Dream Team's bench is just amazing. Once the first team comes out, you gotta deal with: Stockton, Malone, Pippen, Ewing, and Drexler. C'mon man, that's like an All Star starting roster, right there. Off the bench!
I would hope that that 92 team would be the 2024 team with the most talent on the 2024 team being 30 something or older like you guys have to stop with the stupid LeBron is 40 you’re talking about Jordan and 92 in his primeI would hope a prom. Jordan could be a 40 year-old LeBron but I doubt it.
@@powert4612 Jordan is far more skilled than LeBum ever dreamt of being.
@@justinchan6043 only teams that competes with dream team are 96, 08 and 12 which was the best team since 92
@@powert4612 Fun fact - Jordan ranked 9th across the league in PPG at 39 years old. Lebron ranked 13th at age 39. Pace of play. And Jordan played with broken ribs and bad knees. And had been retired for 2+ years. And playing a new position (SF) when positional basketball was still a thing. And as I remember watching him as a Wizards fan, he did not slack on defense, even if he wasn't the defender he used to be.
You forgot to mention Mullin
Nearly losing to a country that doesn’t even have indoor courts should be concerning, sounds to me these guys are the plumbers and firemen
NBA media will prop up this era to desperately try to stay relevant, but any basketball fan with a common sense knows that '92 team would be a 50pt favorite against these snowflakes
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Literally every fact and stat disproves that. Basketball players are immensely better at basketball now than they were in the 90s. 90s team would actually be losing to these modern foreign teams. Also imagine still being the fox news cringe kid that uses snowflake in 2024.
We live in an era where shooting and effort matter more than ever. Every Olympic team has NBA talent and the gap between a 6th man and superstar is much smaller, ie...whether you can make 3s or not. It doesn't matter how skilled you are at the rim, that is only 2 points...a much less skilled guy can then dribble down and hit a 28 footer for 3 points. Posting a guy up and watching his amazing footwork, only 2 points. Open 3, is worth 3 points.
Easy fifty
You couldn’t be more wrong and most of you people allow y’all feelings to cloud your judgement. The whole world plays basketball professionally now, compared to when the Dream Team played. Your logic makes no sense. The best 3 out of 5 players in the NBA are Foreigners. Jokic, Shai and Giannis.
Dream team lost to a College team. So please stop the cap. They not beating anybody by 50 points.
The LeHgH team is in the easiest group, Kerr stopped Wiggins from playing in the Olympics, Canada is in the hardest group and they complain about everything. They can be the nightmare team because they are most unlikable USA basketball team since Melo played.
I like it! “The NIGHTMARE team”
They are definitely the least favorite U.S.A. team imo. I don’t even want to watch them nor will I.
@@Josh-sk5xdbunch of divas, divers and arrogant pricks all in one team.
As cheater Lebron is there, there is joke only
@@Josh-sk5xd so i'm not alone in not caring to root for team USA this year? something about this squad just rubs me wrong. They all play individual ball and the chemistry is so superficial
@@victormendieta102 No brother you ain’t alone.
This U.S.A. Olympics is unauthentic & narrative driven with propaganda & it seems like the Refs are trying to rig it for USA to win it. It’s all seems fake!
The whole “best player on team USA” & the whole “Lebron is the flag bearer” is total nonsense & full of hypocrisy, propaganda, & false narratives. Completely unauthentic.
I’m not tuning in.
The first dream team would beat this team by 30
No sweat
The first dream team would beat this team but it would be closer than that. You need to realize that most of the first dream team players are over 60 years old.
Chuck Daly engineered the '92 team to lose to the select team. Chuck knew what he was doing, he got them primed to see that even they could lose.He didn't even play Mike in the second half. The '92 team was mentally tougher than any team or individual player in the game right now. The OG's some of whom have been watching basketball before some of you were born we can see mental fortitude and how many of these current players would crack under the intensity that '92 had in droves. These players are anointing LeBron as the best on the team, that alone shows me there aren't true Dawgs out there. In '92 everyone was out to prove that they were the best.
Barkley (your Olympic and NBA MVP that year) and Magic didn't get many minutes either. Bird was injured.
This is the problem wit tryna make everyone generalists instead of having a team of specialists that compliment each other
Easy peasy
how valuable would you really be if you could only be good at one thing?
Good point. You can bring the defense, hustle, intensity every night, but if you rely on shooters, a bad game means a loss.
@@kingroy2045 a specialist isn’t *only* good at one thing, a high level specialist is good at a bit of everything and amazing at one or two particular skills. Take Magic, a playmaking and passing specialist, he could score if he wanted to and could rebound well given his height, but his specialty led him to be one of the greatest ever.
During last year's exhibition games to prepare for FIBA, everyone clowned the B or C team. Now they're hyping up our A team stuggling against Austraila, South Sudan, & Germany.
There are no longer any standards and it looks like Team USA 2028 is COOKED.
What’s going on with Squidward‘s hair?!? Goddamn hippie! 😂
This team is nowhere near the 1992 dream team just barely winning by single digits in first 3 games just stop
We all know wht happens when Leblame James leads team USA
Lebronze
@@johnjack902beat me to it lol
When LeBronze is on TEAM USA, the likes of South Sudan and Puerto Rico ALWAYS have a shot..
@@Starias5 Puerto Rico always has a good national team though
LeBron simply doesn''t have enough help 😂😂
All the teams have to do is just play full court defense on this Team USA.
When a 40-year-old basketball player who is clearly past his prime is dominating the games and saving you, it's easy to say your team is nowhere near as good as you think it is and basketball as a whole is not as high quality as anyone wants to believe...
This U.S. team is easy to root against.
bad american.
lebum could have knocked a south sudan player cold in the 4th quarter and get no foul
good video...this USA team is not even better than the 2000 or 2012 team smh, so PLEASE don't compare this team to the 92 Dream Team, let alone, the 96 Dream Team, or the Redeem Team...stop it 5 lml rotf. This USA team should blew South Sudan out the water smh. It's no way South Sudan shoulda had the lead with just seconds to go smh, c'mon yo
I see 04 type of finish
@@Vancouverallday I can see that happening if the team doesn't take this seriously. I think they're missing that true alpha. Kobe was the clear alpha on the 08 Redeem Team. I still see them winning the gold, but it's prob gonna be a lot of close, down to the wire games, based off what they displayed in the exhibition games smmfh. That was embarrassing, besides the Serbia win
@@Classicbasketballdvds yah, I do see them not taking this seriously. Hope Canada will take advantage of this limbo american team lol. But yah I do see both things happening cuz both things are very likely with this USA team
@@Vancouverallday I'm rooting for the USA cuz I'm American, but I hope they don't collapse like in 04 Athens, but I can see the happening again, so it wouldn't surprise me smh
@@Classicbasketballdvds I feel you man. For me X factor is Antman. I think he coming off the bench....he'll be the player they need as the 6man or starting
The problem with team USA is that there is no defense nowadays in the NBA compare to FIBA standards... they can do 100pts, but teams will do 99. I still think they are the better team but do not expect a +20 difference in every game.
when zion came into the league, you'd have thought he'd be been there too. Crazy how much talent they have if they buy into being a team.
so awesome of you to come on the show today with AOH, SNFR, and HOOPGOD!!!!
Lebron fans will always try to play revisionist . I am trying to come to peace with the fact that it's like arguing against toddlers
They are already saying Lebron didn't have enough help against South Sudan, KD didn't play
@@student99bg among a ton of other BS excuses . Almost like south sudan, because half of the players didn't really grow up in south sudan, seems that now it was an NBA-filled powerhouse. Man, these people.
The fact that the NBA media is so comfortable flat out lying to your face is beyond disrespectful
Two things can be true at the same time. The world is catching up and we have not done enough to improve ourselves. Offensively we are great but our defense has become a forgotten piece.
No, the US just sucks
The '92 Dream Team would still be heavy favorites if they played in this year's Olympics.
US Basketball has simply regressed and FIBA rules shows how much better it is than NBA.
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LeBlame , LeRoid , LeChoke , LeCharge
One team is in the Hall of Fame. The other team will never have that privilege Case close.
There it iz😅
1:39 Not Mr. Garvey after that failed pass 😂😂 made me spit out my Gatorade, that was perfect
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1992: The rest of the world had only 5 players totally in the NBA
2024: The rest of the world now has 125 players totally in the NBA
Seems like quite a big difference, no disrespect to the Dream Team....
Context matters. 1992: the standard was high it was harder for the rest of world to get in NBA.
2024: NBA standard drastically lowered more players from the rest of the world got in with extra higher minimal salary.
@@howsittastes Please show me the side-by-side comparisons and analytics to back that up.
@@Tippotipo Other than Cold War fears, there was no such standard. In fact, most of the active players during that time were part of a much larger draft than we have today. Of course, every era has their Chuck Nevitt type player that only plays a few minutes. But those 10 round drafts with spectacle picks aren't a thing anymore. Guys really have to be the best in their class now - and they still might not make it. Think of Luka Garza from Iowa. NCAA player of the year, but bottom of the draft. Being All-Conference doesn't even give you a shot anymore (RJ Davis(
Great video. The Original Dream team in their prime, it's not even close.
What I think doesn’t get talked about enough is that international teams run some great offensive sets with lots of movement, meanwhile we’re very pick and roll and iso heavy. Imagine if our teams would run some Dan Hurley-esque sets we would get back to beating teams by 20+ every game
The international teams play with fundamentals and also play defense. These are two things that are lacking in the NBA and our players.
That has always been the case for the US National team, it is just that usually the US players are individually so much better than everyone else that they manage to win regardless. This year, well, the US has sent great players on paper, but they are also old.
@@student99bgSo you are basically making his point and the point I been say this whole time. International players are so much better now. Am I reading this correctly
I know yall some Jordan glazers and I don’t even care for bron but them dudes at the end of their career and they’re playing against way better competition no matter how you try and slice it
You play who's in front of you and you dominate
The 92 team is the best team of all time simple
@@tyronelorenzovalentio3414 possibly, they still didn’t play against elite competition like this year team will, they didn’t have to play against anyone as good as Joker, Giannis or Shai,
Another big point of context that media and fans of the 2024 team don't bring up is that in the 92 Olympics, the Dream Team wanted to send a msg to the other countries in the world that they could not touch us. And with the NBA being way tougher back then, overseas players getting into the league wasn't as guaranteed as now bc overseas wasn't the tougher play style like it is now.
Because the league has softened up its rules so much now thanks to Adam Silver, it really causes an issue where not only talent wise has the world caught up, but overseas is much tougher than the league now so Team USA isn't really battle tested in terms of physicality. They have no mental edge on other teams.
Only thing exposed is the level of competition. An AAU team can beat 70% of the Olympic teams from 1992.
Croatia, Lithuania and Brasil from 1992 would easily beat this South Sudan team
@@student99bg Judging that they lost by 40pts to a comolparable US team I doubt that
@@andrewcook1246 That's circular logic. You are proving that today's US team is just as good as the 1992 dream team by saying that in 1992 competition was bad and in order to show the competition was bad you assume that the 2024 team is as good as the 1992 dream team.
I am from Europe, I know how good those Croatian, Lithuanian teams were and I know that Brasil was on a similar level to them too. Before 1992 the US would send their best college players to the Olympics and FIBA world cups. They would always get beaten. So, tell me, if you think college players are better than the teams from the rest of the world why would they always get beaten which in 1992 forced the US to say enough is enough and start sending NBA players to the Olympics?
@@andrewcook1246agreed a AAU team would probably beat any team the DreamTeam played
@@AlbundyvsTheSMV Then why did the college players that US sent to represent them prior to 1992 lose every single time at almost every Olympics and at almost every world cup? The reason why the 1992 dream team was formed is because the best college players that the US had were not enough to win. This is not a matter of opinion, this is a matter of fact.
dream team and “underrated” in the same graphic is insane lol
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS SONG
Nobody is mentioning defense, todays nba doesn’t invest in it
USA has the most current top 75 players OAT and are barely beating teams like South Sudan💀 Is the top 75 list partly a bust??
Yall don’t understand the importance of fit and chemistry
Dame is in it. 75th list and beyond is a joke
@@InstanturBut Team USA has the “GOAT” and the best player on the team he should be able to lead by example and play defense.
@@user-lt1fx2he5s the US no longer is the only country that has nba or near nba talent. The days of complete dominance is over.
@@InstanturThese people know this but they hate leads them to post nonsense and move the goalposts
Here we are a week later and not only is the US team playing against more NBA level talent than in 92. They are now winning by 30+ and 20+ so maybe this video is just full of 90’s nostalgia and this team really is just better than the dream team 🤷♂️
They are trying hard to make us watch the games kkkkkk , other day some anchor on a sport news was saying how good Curry it’s yeah he’s a great shooter but not better player compared to Stockton, if you saw he play you know what I’m talking about “actual games not highlights “
Sounds like you're only watching highlights
I like basketball so I watch it, idc whether today's players are better or worse than those in the past
Curry, 4 rings Stockton 0. And I believe Stockton is the best PG I ever seen play. Curry is a transcending talent. More dominant player.
@@AlbundyvsTheSMV 3 rings gifted by Lebron.
Team USA would not be so horrendus if steve kerr just stopped starting embiid and replaced him with bam and ad
Kerr is such a bad international coach
South Sudan won that game, and it's only because the LeRefs bailed Team USA out. Germany almost beat them, so Team USA been exposed, and the whole world has seen it. What are they going to do against France with Wemby and Gobert? This is international basketball, so they can literally just camp out in the paint. Team USA is not winning gold, and Embiid was right to call them out and put LeBron on blast.
If FIBA you really think the refs cheated for Lebron
The dream team is way better
By a country mile
The 1992 dream team competed against only 9 NBA players on the Olympics.
Today’s USA team will face 61 NBA players! The competition is a million times better today. Plus; todays dream team players can pretty much all dribble and shoot 3’s.
92 dream team had mostly big men who were great, but could not shoot because it was mostly an inside game anyways.
Quality over quantity. 5 of those 9 players are in the hall of fame. The 92 team averaged 117 points a game with very few 3 attempts.
Mostly big men?? lol are Jordan, Pippen, Drexler, Magic, Bird, Stockton big men?
In 1992 players around the world just started going to the NBA. Prior to the 1990s players from many European countries weren't allowed to do it and also the NBA didn't want foreigners. That doesn't mean international players in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s weren't as good as today, it just means that back then the rest of the world had their best players playing in their own countries. The reason why they didn't play in the NBA had nothing to do with their skill level.
I know it is hard to believe, but back then countries had their players play in their national leagues and countries had almost only their own players play in their national leagues. That was true for the American national league (NBA), that was true for most national leagues around the world. Taking foreign players into your league (or allowing your citizens to play in national leagues of foreign countries) wasn't a common practice. The world began to change in the early 1990s and countries started to allow players to leave and to accept foreigners into their national leagues en mass.
@@rackball5858please name me the 5 HOF Famers. I bet none of them are better than the top 5 international players in the league now.
Jokic
Doncic
SGA
Giannis
That’s 4 of the 5 best players now
Wemby
I would never cheer against Team USA, son of a Vietnam vet, am literally watching a Thunderbirds F-16 airshow right now, but hope Steph, KD, or AD saves the day for Lebronze. Dream Team > .
Bleacher report top 50 greatest NBA players all time
1. Michael Jordan
2. LeBron James
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
6. Shaquille O'Neal
7. Tim Duncan
14. Kobe Bryant
Bleacher report has Kobe #14
PPG: LeBron
RPG: LeBron
APG: LeBron
SPG: LeBron
BPG: LeBron
FG%: LeBron
3pt%: LeBron
FT%: Kobe
TS%: LeBron
PER: LeBron
WS/48: LeBron
VORP: LeBron
MVP's: LeBron
FMVP's: LeBron
Rings: Kobe (Best player on 2)
LeBron better player then Kobe
Field goal%
LeBron 50.6%✔️
Kobe 44.7%
Points scored career
LeBron 40,474✔️ (1st all time)
Kobe 33,643
LeBron 1st all time points
Kobe 1st all time missed shots
Total 3pointers made
LeBron 2,410✔️ (8th all time)
Kobe 1,827
Total Steals career
LeBron 2,275✔️ (8th all time)
Kobe 1,944
Total Blocks career
LeBron 1,111✔️
Kobe 640
Defensive win shares
LeBron 80.71✔️ (10th all time)
Kobe 50.66
Assists Leader
LeBron 1✔️
Kobe 0
Career highs
Kobe Bryant 28-46 fg and 7-13 3pt for 81 points vs Raptors 27-55 record
Career highs
LeBron James 22-33 fg and 8-10 3pt for 61 points vs Bobcats 43-39 record
Playoffs game winning buzzer beaters
LeBron 5✔️
Kobe 1
2010 NBA finals
Game 7
Lakers 83 Celtics 79
Kobe Bryant 6-24 fg and 0-6 3pt for 23 points
2013 NBA finals
Game 7
Heat 95 Spurs 88
LeBron James 12-23 fg and 5-10 3pt for 37 points
Shaquille O'Neal 3 finals mvps best player on Lakers 3peat and Kobe Bryant a sidekick like Pippen 6 rings
2011 NBA playoffs
Mavericks 4 Lakers 0
Kobe got swept with home court advantage and favored to win series
LeBron 16-6 wins owns Kobe in 22 career meetings
Kobe Bryant 44.7% fg only 32.9% 3pt most missed shots in NBA history isnt even top 9 player all time
You worship a R apist Kobe Bryant congrats
@@StoneCold2k57 copypasta bot, I never mentioned Kobe. BUT Kobe, like Mike, never lost an Olympic/FIBA game. LeBron could barely get on the court in 04, took a bronze L, no chip in 06 FIBA, and was nearly left off 08 Olympic team by Coach K, Colangelo per Woj.
Lebron has never won a Gold Medal without KD or Kobe. KD always win MVP for team USA. Lebron has never won MVP for team USA😂😂😂
Yall should just drop a video and say, "i hate LeBron and everything LeBron" then end the video. These 5-20 minute video are dumb and a waste
Exactly, I for one think Lebron is so overrated. Started the jumping from team to team mess. I root against him every time. But this channel is becoming a dump fest for Lebron(or current players) hate mail.
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You can't call a guy overrated who was proclaimed the king before he stepped on a NBA court and is the Alltime leading scorer and top 4 in assist
And if you think LeBron started the switching teams your sadly mistaken. I'd advise you use google a bit more. Players have been switching teams at least 50 years before LeBron. Hell a superteam was created against him, that forced him to create one of his own (KG, Pierce, Allen ring a bell). He was kinda the first to make a spectacle of it.
@@simonhowell4486Nah to me Lebron is more of a Great GM then he is a player. He is still a top 5 player of all time. I don’t care about stats. Never did I go by the eye test personally.
Lebron always founds a way to get in a good situation or bandwagon a team. Jordan, Kobe, Dirk, Curry other greats built their teams. Lebron is a GM. I don’t respect a lot of the moves he made.
I can’t blame a lot of these people for not liking Lebron(as a player) He is the main reason why players try to form super teams. KD is a product of Lebron. And I’m not mad at him for joining Golden State. He said Lebron made a super team with the heat. Lebron joined a super team team in Cleveland. I’m going to one up him and join the warriors. And other players have followed suit because of Lebron.
Comparing any us team to the 92 team is unfair. The rest of the world was decades behind the nba in that time. The opposing players were in awe of the 92 team. That factor is nonexistent. The best players in today's game arguably are foreign. You cannot compare the 92 team to any team from 2000 on because the competition alone is far better than any team that 92 faced.
lmao competiton nowadays is infinitely tougher than competition back in the 90's, USA can no longer just sweep their way to gold via 40 point leads, literally the top 5 players in the league right now are international players, that by itself should justify why competition today is tougher than it is back then
Yes they can...they playing euro basketball..you can't beat euros playing euro style in an American game..
The top 5 still can't lead the team to gold if the USA plays a physical brand of basketball that euros can't compete with and we know they cant
Bullshit!! Even the euro players in the league said themselves that their league is tougher than today’s NBA!! Want more proof?? Look at the drafting of Bronny James!! That wouldn’t have happened back then! Easily the worst basketball player in the history of NBA!! You young goofy dudes are clueless 😂😂😂
BS!!! Today’s NBA is soft af!! Even the euro players said their league is tougher and more 90’s style basketball 🤡 Need more proof on how soft and hot garbage on today’s NBA just look at the drafting of the absolute worst basketball player ever Bronny James 🤦🏾♂️😂😂😂🤡
@@Iceman24424 Can't take 12-year-olds who use emoji's seriously, sorry little buddy
My working theory is that not everybody in the media raving about current players over older ones actually believe what they’re saying. They’re not trying to convince “the old heads” of anything. It’s all just business marketing. You want to sell the product that’s currently on shelves. That’s it. You want to get people who are just getting into basketball to buy tickets, season passes, merchandise, etc. You do that by keeping the rhetoric focussed on the current roster. If anything, the pushback just drives more engagement with the product. Newer fans can not only look at the current product but go digging into NBA archives to look at older games. Maybe it even increases the value of vintage merch by driving up interest.
The dream team 92 played against 9 NBA players, the 2024 team USA will play against 61 NBA players.
It’s an all star team
You realize Jordan led an all college team that beat the all nba all stars 8-0
and 0 from South Sudan
Save the narratives nobody cares
You do realize Euro players. Like Sabonus and other didn’t want to play in the nba? Dirk had to be convienced to come to the nba by Barkley.
When I was a kid we would say No Cherry Pickin right before the game. Apparently, Lebron never got that memo!
1992: Dream Team faced only 9 NBA players
2024: Team USA will play against 61 NBA players
Competition has increased drastically and old heads can't seem to understand that
Meaningless comparison meant to elevate Lebron yet again. The reason about 61 NBA players are mainly because of lowered NBA standards. Let remind Puerto Rico beat team USA All-Star in 2024 with 0 NBA player.
Lebron with the Derrick Henry stiff arm ☠☠☠☠
😂😂😂
Do these sports annalists know that there was hand checking back in 1992 which allowed teams to play physical defense? When the dream team played against Toni Kucoc MJ and pippen wouldn't even let the man breathe. Last year playoffs the Celtics played a little bit of 90's defense and shut KJ and Kyrie both down in the series.
The this team faces more NBA players argument is only legit if they're going to blow out teams by 40 or 50 every game.
The 1992 team lost against NCAA players, now this was set up by Chuck by limiting MJ's time and barely makings subs to teach the lesson that they could actually lose. They met again under normal conditions and won decisively.
Two things- 1 Lebron and company could not win gold until Kobe came in. 2 the elite players from the international pool play with fundamentals which American players lack. This is why they are dominating the game.
Smh why are they just skipping the 08 and 12 team and going straight to comparing them to the dream team like the other teams didn’t exist
The 1996 USA Team is the best competition to the 92 team.. severely underrated team!
Luka stated it clearly. It’s easier over here. US born b’ball players come up through a system that coddles them from the moment they show promise. Swagger (arrogance) is touted as a virtue, and stat lines are cherished above all else.
Nothing modern “fans” and “media” love more than stats without context. Every argument they make falls apart with context 🤷🏽
The narrative is always that the European teams play together and the US cobbles together a team. The obvious solution is to have the NBA Champion for the year of the Olympics get to play. Maybe substitute people off the bench for other stars but have a core nucleus of a team that knows how to play together. Now it’s just too political. I will actually be pleasantly surprised if the US doesn’t fold in this games. The South Sudan game was scary. And then Germany wasn’t much better. One or two plays go the other way and this team would have dropped both.
The biggest problem is the current American players are just scorers that don’t play defence
I think the issue is we need to stop using all super stars.
We also need to stop calling role players, role players, and call them team players. They provide a synergy that superstars can’t replicate.
People forget why the 1992 Dream Team was created
1) The college basketball players were playing against the best European PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS IN THE WORLD. People want to say oh they didn’t have to play against any NBA players.
2) In 88 college basketball players loss to The Soviet Union 82 to 76 and that’s when and why the dream team was formed.
3) Remember best European PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL players in the world who played with and against each other all the time. The game was based on 1980 and 90’s Physicality so the European PROFESSIONAL had a advantage over young college players. And that changed when the us was allowed to let NBA players play in the Olympics ( remember we had to petition to get our best to play against their best) 43 points a game avg. win by the NBA best.
MJ in ‘84 with his college teammates was beating Magic and other NBA stars in exhibition not pulling 1 point win vs South Sudan.
I think that 92 dream team would have won in todays game, but definitely not by that much either, maybe the average would be in between 10-15 points. Which is still better than current Olympic team. But if Larry bird would be on his prime, and the 11th player was not a college kid, then it would probably won by much more. Like 20+ points on average. They won by 44 on 92, with an injured Bird and college kid. Not to mention Barkley was the top scorer. MJ was not by any means playing at 100% all games. He was not challenged, if he was I can only imagine the average to increase past 50 ppg.
The NBA has been playing random basketball since the late 2010s, that's why players can have a long career. Many professional players can't even run and execute an offensive play. All they know is screen and shoot 3s, random basketball.
The world has improved but no team in the world still cannot field a group of players like the USA still does.
Before the 2010's, international players made more money outside in the NBA and were still not coveted as today.
Love the breakdown.
In terms of international performance, it’s crazy to me these pundits calling the 2024 team better is absurd.
One of the monumental factors when playing internationally is mental fortitude, like the times the US has met the Soviets/ Russian hockey teams that on average was better teams.
Talent doesn’t matter if you can’t play as a team and most of the guys on the roster probably thinks themselves better than any coach out there.
The Euro Football Cup comes to mind where the “best” team has lost the finals plenty of times because it’s a team game and chemistry and teamwork wins championships. Not talent.
The Dream Team is by far the best team whereas talent on the rosters will always be up for debate.
The 24' team would need 30 players full rotation to guard the 92 dream team