Dream Team III 115 China 58 | 07-10-1996 | Team USA Basketball Olympics Team USA Basketball beats China in an exhibition game before the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
@@eelcoblaauw6689 ...he is not underrated. He is the best guard Magic Johnson ever faced night after night after night. His words. Not mine. Look it up.
@@gerrystevens1694 all time leader in assists AND steals, both by a large margin. All I said is he doesn’t even get put in the conversation and should.
Imagine having Shaq and David Robinson coming off the bench at center to back up Akeem. No one team has ever been this loaded at center needless to say.
Commentators are amazing, incredibly informative, accurate, and keep you locked in. Nowadays we got Commentators talking about hotter than fish grease, putting jelly on his shot, and helping you learn very little about the players.
Yeah Hubie Brown is one of my favorites. I mean this game was lopsided but he still made it very interesting. He is so knowledgeable even about the chinese team, it helps me feel engaged.
Chuck leading the Dream team once again in scoring and FG%, he was such a beast, they cut him from the 84 when he was the most dominant player at the trials.
I remember watching this game live on TV and Barkley was the player that impressed me the most his desire to win his intensity and the fact that he was a complete gentleman on court once again he just proves why he’s one of the Hall of Famer’s and one of my favorites As was always peace love and joy to you and yours
the only team who can beat the 92' dream team is the 12' dream team cause lebron - kobe- durant vs jordan-magic- bird the first big 3 is more atletic then the second one....
@@claudioroberto5976 08 Redeem team is way better than 2012. Anyway its not exactly fair to put them up against the 92 team which had 2 of its best players out of their primes (Bird and Magic) before 1992 there was no Olympic squads with NBA players so we'll never know what really could have been if we saw what the 1988 or the 84 squads could have been like.
Vizual Racing Where’s the joke? If each player is playing by their prime form, 2012 has a major edge. Way more skilled in many areas and their ability to play defense is much higher simply because the knowledge on defense was much better compared to 1992 where zone was banned but hand checking was legal. Incorporate zones and ban hand checking and the 2012 team most likely bans the 92 dream team.
He is arguably the GOAT commentator or for sure top 5. Was just watching an old Bulls game where Horace Grant and Pippen were rookies and he was commentating (with a young voice), and his observations were still spot on. Like he didn't grow into becoming a great analyst he already was because he really loves the game.
Watching only the first few mins so far China is stunned by the USA defense but despite that China is nailing a ton of threes and long jumpers to compensate for not being able to get near the basket. There shooting skills are impressive compared to the other countries teams I’ve seen the dream teams play. All of the Chinese players are hitting a lot of tough jump shots regularly with ease so far.
54:50 Sir Charles ! Man when he picks up speed no way would u wanna take that charge! Man ppl tend to forget how good Charles was... 6’6 playing PF Hall of Fame career in an era of the dream team?! W addition of Hakeem and Shaq? And Webber and a Kemp? Fuck man ppl need to give Charles more respect.
Karl Malone gets far less respect, as your post demonstrates: you mention Kemp and Webber, yet fail to mention the guy known as "the greatest PF ever" during this era who also was 11 times All-NBA 1st, on multiple All-Defense Teams, with 2 MVPs and the second most points in NBA history. The disrespect for Malone is unreal.
@@anen9332 IF MAILMAN CATCH BALL IN BREAK U BETTER MOVE AWAY. U GONNA GET RHINO , KNEE ELBOW AND ALSO AND1 SCORING. MAILMAN IS MACHINE. THIS TEAM IS BEST IN HISTORY. THEY HAD 12 SUPERSTARS IN PRIME AND NO WEAKNESS ON ANY POSITION.
@@swaggyjones9875 the whole team was putting pressure full court. you can do this today but it seems team usa today only likes to shoot threes. no wonder france beat them.
@@tobznoobs its coach pops is the problem coach k did that thats why team usa dominated 08 to 16 bcoz of pressure he was part of the coaching staff of dream team
Forgot how incredible Penny Hardaway was. He's like Magic Johnson, but quicker and with better handles. Some of these passes he's throwing have defenders looking like "Where did the ball go?" I think a lot of people forget that when Jordan first retired, the NBA was looking to Penny Hardaway, Shaq and Grant Hill to be the future faces of the league. Its cool to see Reggie Miller in here too. He's a guy who is really known for his clutch shots, but he's really one of the best defenders of all time too. Lenny Wilkins has it so easy. Dream Team 2 was crazy talented.
This team could take on the best players today and still stomp them even though the world has had over 25 years of practice and training to prepare for it
This dream team had the best centers Hakeem the dream,shaq O'Neal, David Robinson got Shaq and David Robinson coming off the bench dang u this teams was so loaded at the center positions that's for sure
When Penny and Grant were healthy they were next level. Too bad they both got hurt generational talent. I laugh when I see Zion Williamson play and people act like he is the best athlete they have ever seen.
@@kennethwilliams6620 both could run and jump exactly like him. They just didn't weigh as much. And they both handles, passes and jumpers. SMH. Hill and Penny were faster and could jump out of the gym.
America West Arena changed to US Airways Center, and changed again to Talking Stick Resort Arena. Was there last week to watch the Suns vs Indiana Pacers.
Exactly. So does the 2016 USA team. 5 player in those team such as Durant, Cousins, Green, Barnes and Klay Thompson have a stints with the Warriors in their NBA career. Except Green and Thomson are still staying with GSW, these day
And could beat the starters 5 xs out of 10 or more I'd bet. Stockton was still elite, gettin rdy to go back-to-back finals. Plus rich , pip, mailman, admiral...would be hard to beat, esp if rich is shooting good
Malone, for instance, was considered a better player than Barkley at this time; the debate between the two was over. Malone was All-NBA 1st Team a record (until LeBron broke it) 11 straight years, while Barkley made the 1st Team five times (from 1993 to 1996, Barkley made two 2nd Teams and one 3rd Team, while Malone was 1st Team every year from 1988 to 1999). And Richmond had already been All-NBA 2nd Team by this time, while Miller only wver made the 3rd Team (Richmond also made more All-NBA Teams overall than Miller). Which indicates how arbitrary some of these lineups are. I especially like this backup roster better for defense: Malone, Pippen, Robinson and Stockton all made multiple All-Defensive Teams. Pippen not winning a DPOY is a travesty. Meanwhile, though Payton and Hakeem are great, great defensive players (Payton having just won DPOY, while also holding Jordan to 36.7% shooting in the final three games of the 1996 Finals), Hill and Barkley never made an All-Defensive Team and were certainly lesser defenders than Pippen and Malone. All that said, these lineups would change from game to game; so, it wasn't as if this was a set starting lineup for the 1996 DT. For instance, when this team played the Select Team in Detroit the starting lineup was Stockton, Miller, Hill, Malone and O'Neal.
You have to understand back then china team doesn’t have the next gen players such as Yao or Yi, they are more physically capable to do the job. But there are some good three pointers gotta point that out
OMG. You are facing one of Hakeem, David or Shaq. You are a bit tired and you look down the bench and see the other two itching to play. Suddenly you realize Ewing is not even here.
Man I would love the dreams teams to play todays competition. I think some of the overseas teams would play really well. With better shooting skill ball movement plays bigger faster guys. They can give them a run for their money they wouldn’t be able to fast break every possession
