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Dream Team documentary

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by MisterCreosote, Jun 13, 2012.

  1. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    Paul Westhead?
     
  2. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Yeah, not so sure about that. You had Jackson, Daley and Riley available and you wanted Westhead?
     
  3. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I think is point is Westhead's teams played like he rolled the ball out and let them play.
     
  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    When you are finally allowed to load all your cannons after being forced to shoot BBs for 50 years, you should hire somebody who will use all his ammunition.
     
  5. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    It was quite the national embarrassment winning the gold medal game by only 32 points. Closest game of the tournament so you can tell the team was really hitting the wall.
     
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The Dream Team should never have scored fewer than 200 points or won a game by less than 100 points.
     
  7. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    Starman,

    Seriously, this is worse than some of your vigilante justice rants.
     
  8. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    I blame Laettner
     
  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Ever since the competition has been opened to pros, the primary objective of USA Basketball has been to shave points: to win, but not by enough points anybody's feelings get hurt.

    Predictably enough, this has resulted in keeping games close enough so the US can get beat by opponents who suddenly go on a hot-shooting streak, or when the three members of the opposing team wearing gray shirts and whistles decide it's their turn to make about a 15-point difference in the final minutes of close games.

    If you're ahead by 60 points, none of that shit matters.
     
  10. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Forget it, he's rollin'. :D

    One quibble:

    Outscored them by 8 (62-54) over 20 minutes, not 10.

    And no, the Dream Team did not run off anything immediately afterward. According to Magic, Daly stopped practice to let it sink in and wouldn't allow another scrimmage that day.

    By all accounts, it was the wakeup call they needed. The next scrimmage probably was 50-15. But it wasn't the same day.
     
  11. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Croatia wasn't a slouch, in spite of Kukoc getting crushed. Petrovic was somewhat thought of as the one player in the whole tournament who wasn't intimidated by the U.S. (He had 19 points in the first loss, and 24 in the gold medal game), and they had Dino Radja as well.

    Yeah, I remember something about that. The talk was that the "Select team" the U.S. was leaving behind was the second best team in the world. If I remember right, Bobby Hurley was on the team.
     
  12. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    The select team was: Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, Allan Houston, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Eric Montross, Rodney Rogers and Chris Webber.

    Considering an Olympic roster would have four more players needed and Laettner would have been one, the other three spots could have gone to Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning and Jimmy Jackson.

    Would have been fun to see that group at the Olympics.
     
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