Why Team USA Won't Win Olympic Gold Again 

As an American, I’m happy to see the patriotism in the comments and that’s what’s beautiful about international sports. But I don’t think the narrator is hating, rather ringing the alarm and if an American said the same thing the reception in these comments would be different. we are lucky to have 3 top 15 players at the same time, we needed all 3 to win this year and in all likelihood we won’t have 3 players that good in 2028 and beyond. So with the worlds talent getting better there is definitely reason to be concerned and if we want to win we need to send our best of the best. No more load management!

This the same dude saying a gold medal was more impressive then an nba championship lol

"Team USA was carried by 40 yr olds lol" "The American players have huge egos and terrible mentality" "They don't have proper defense and teamwork" As someone from the outside looking in, what I hear is: "The euros got beaten by 40 yr olds lol" "The euros got beaten by a team from a league riddled with huge egos and terrible mentality" "The euros got beaten by a team from a league that has no proper defense and teamwork" Honestly, the moment the NBA actually tries to build and cultivate teams dedicated for international play, the rest of the world has no chance. Legendary players won't even be needed.

Please. I'm certainly not betting against Team USA in the 2028 Olympics when it will be held in their own backyard!

Well what do you know, "Mr. Euroleague is better than the NBA" is butthurt USA won gold...😂

Never let bro cook ever again , he yapping

Anyone saying Team USA have no chemistry clearly dont watch games 😂

WON THE GOLD FOR THE US & PPL STILL FIND WAYS TO TRY & PREDICT A DOWNFALL 😂

Make a video when a country gets 16 Olympic gold medals in basketball, i wont be alive but you can pass it on my grandson

Bro why u mad 😂😂😂

COOPER FLAGG.. Remember the name folks

This is stupidity. We act like all these European players won’t age. Jokic will be 34 other good role players will be older as well. Edwards, morant, Tatum should all be top 10 players in 2028. What he’s forgetting is the big 3 are all old. All past their past but had some big moments

USA never lost the top spot 😂😂 no one ever thought another country was ever better than USA … remember we sent the C team to Fiba tournament

Ja Morant, Zion Williamson, Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis, Bam Adebayo, Kyrie Irving, Paul George. The USA is in good hands.

“And they had to rely on a 40 year old LeBron…” say it louder for the clowns at the back that can’t see how much weight this man has shouldered for over TWENTY YEARS !

You must be from EUROPE!!!! This will never happen because of the NCAA

the world is happy that they beat usa team B last year. and they got beat by old lebron kd and curry. imagine them in their prime in olympics? not even a fight.

I don’t know, as soon as USA won 2024, I immediately began to wonder “what will we do in 2028?” Probably no Lebron, Steph or KD…though there is a small chance KD could come back if his body will allow it. Lebron has basically said he is done after this one. He said “I can’t see myself being at LA2028.” Though the fact he now lives in LA and it is happening in LA, I’m sure it must be atleast a little appealing to Lebron. And a 43 year old Lebron on the court for one last ride would be quite the story.

Its hella sad how u had to post this so soon after we just won, u had the next 4 years to post this video. But nah lemme drop it as soon as they win gold smh

I actually agree with this assessment that it is not a guarantee anymore that the USA will win the gold medal going forward. USA just squeezed through to the gold with their best team available this time around. Even close to losing against Serbia and France as the Avengers. This is good because it makes watching international basketball more exciting now.

weren't you guys saying we wouldnt find for a few years now ? moving the goalpost already lmfao

Something that concerning the most is the fact for next international tournements KD, LB and curry probably will not play because they are too old and the next gen of USA players are good but not enough to face this international teams. I think this might be the last gold for USA.

Newsflash, USA don’t care about anything but the actual Olympics😭😭 kill that World Cup talk

Anthony Edwards is 23 years old he hasn’t sniffed his prime yet. He’ll only be 27 in the next Olympics Team USA will be in great hands.

You’re overlooking the pool of players that will develop and become the “next” whoever. Cooper Flagg was giving NBA players workout at Team USA scrimmages. Let alone the development of AE, Chet Holmgren, JT. To say they’re not as talented seems a little far fetched. They’re younger and backed down to the big dawgs. In four years they’ll be the big dawgs

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Tied for most FIBA world cups and won 17 out of the last 21 olympics.

I guess I'll stick to calling em world champions 😂 Crazy how they just keep proving it and butthurt ppl still complain.

It would be an embarrassment that they wouldn't win in their home ground for the next olympics

that south sudan game was literally a fluke because USA wasnt trying, literally what happened next matchup?

If salty was a person it would be you smh

The 96 team was just perfectly fine without Jordan, Magic and Bird. No different. Someone will always step up.

Sounds like a salty foreigner to me🤣 good luck to y’all in the future tho 💯 we’ll see

USA all the way keep yapping just watch we still on top😂🥇

This video is 100% accurate. You guys are acting like Serbia didn’t take this years team (arguably a top 3 Team USA) to the wire. A better coach woulda probably seen the game out better in the 4th

We winning gold in 2028 to. Stop the cap. And we didn't even have the best players playing. We won with old heads.

Gotta love how Joel Embum snubbed France, didn't play for Cameroon, and had to get his stupid ass carried by 87 year old lebron. Also, tyrese haliburton ain't getting any minutes GIVE HIM MORE MINUTES

The biggest problem for USA dominance in FIBA tournaments is the fact that USA born players will care more for an NBA championship rather than a FIBA world championship or an olympic gold medal.

Bruh embiid just won mvp and he literally plays for team usa 😭 quit yapping

NBA get rid of the 3 second rule. And have the Center come back to the NBA

USA normally would not send their best players in FIBA World Cup, that's where other countries like Spain, Germany, Serbia, France would have chances

I was thinking the same thing. Everyone is saying USA lost fiba World Cup because we sent our C team. When you actually think about it, that will be our A team with a few changes in 2028😭

Tell me your mad about losing , without telling me your losing lmaoooo America all day boyyyyy 👌🏽

Wow a foreigner saying usa wont win im shocked

The thing people don't understand about team USA, is they're not practicing for more than a few weeks together before facinf teams thats have way more practice and chemistry because a lot of those teams have a core, and coach who know them. If USA took longer, got a dedicated coach. They'd do much better, while our team had so much talent, the consistency wasn't there because eveyone wanted to have their shine. Teams with 3 or 4 superstars and the rest high end role players is the best arrangement.

Very keen assessment. Really appreciated this thoughtful video.

Yeah you reaching, USA got together for a tournament to roll thru teams that have been playing together for years.

0 ball knowledge

same thing he's saying is what they've said about usa basketball for decades. whatever man we'll continue to let those gold medals talk.

Everyone keeps saying the world catching up but yet they can’t beat them

France had an American on their coaching staff slot of international teams star players are American, it’s clear international teams take Fiba far more serious than American players. If Team USA was the full roster of the Warriors minus international players they’d still blow international teams out by 50points not cap.

We still have more star players even wen the ogs gone

lmao... who the fook is this guy?🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm going to keep it real. I half way believe your theory, but we don't technically know since other players didn't play. Curry , James, and Durant. did have to rest somewhat. And others never really got a chance these last few games. Kerr was ragged on by many and he knew that, so he had to win, and he pick the best of the best to go down to the wire with. Antman and crew will be back again in 4 years and their generation will call them the O.G.’s carrying the load.

USA says Bring it.

I actually agree, FIBA is proven to be the real basketball competition. And if Lebron, KD and Curry are not here next competition...I don't see how USAB will be favoured against too rank international teams

5:55 that jab at 76ers is wild, man🤣

Isn't Thor with south Sudan ,was an NBA that player lplayed with the Charlotte hornets?

What doesn’t help is the aau system here in the US we’re stealing our youths chance too. We’re going to see the shift soon if we don’t get our act right.

You would have said the same thing in 2012 with Kobe carrying that USA team to Olympic gold. You acknowledged that the US have star studded talent they’ll mature with the competition in the years to come. Anthony Edward’s averaged around 13 points this Olympics more than Lebron. We have no idea what will happen in the next 4 years

Dang. Very timely video. So proud to be an American today but I told my brother the same thing. This is the last time we can throw our best players together a month before the Olympics and win. We need 4+ year commitments (bare minimum) from guys so that they can play, practice and grow together.

There's a high chance the big 3 won't be there for the next Olympics. That's a pretty big void considering they had to go hero the last 2 games. Jayson Tatum is up next and that's coin flip any given day.

The US will win every gold until the refs take away the 3-5 step layups they are allowed to do while the other teams are stuck at 2.

We don't need Lebron, Steph and KD to win gold again. Because there's a ton of players that didn't even get to join. Don't get me wrong international is harder to score..but now this should show NBA players to take fiba more seriously now

Yes, i know exactly what Team USA is doing. Let me just make a video on a country I don't even live in. 😂

the next dream team would be luka, jokic, giannis, shai, ant, wemby but not gonna happen

FIBA 2026 & LA 2028 OLYMPICS, TEAM USA should have someone (big) to go one on one repeat one-on-one to defend against tbe likes of Jokic, Wembayana, & other foreign bigs; and, strong power forwards & defensive specialists to maintain dominance over the foreign teams. Also Team USA should prepare earlier to establish TEAM CHEMISTRY, speed, & familiarity w/ FIBA rules.

Ok, so your not getting what he is saying. USA will still have THE BEST and deepest team in the world 2028, BY FAR. The world has some what caught up, but no team is close to the spannish teams with the Gasols, Ibaka and all those talented guards. The problem is that even if the depth of the USA talentpool is astronimcly deeper then any other nations, USA relies heavely on their very top talent, supriesingly more then other nations. This was evident in this years Olympics when they were saved by agening superstars, 3 of the best to ever do it. The 2023 team was a C+ team but immensly better then the competition. Tiny Lithuania kind of sent it's B-team as well, but still defeated the US, which eventually lost three time in that tournament. In 2019 the USA really had no chance against France in the world cup, pr Serbia. You could even see the redeem team struggle before that, when the USA was outplayed by Spain only saved by Kobe. The key difference now is that the traditional american big man who once dominated the NBA is almost extinct and replaced by skilled europeans, mostly cause of how the game has changed. Theese guys also used to be key to US succes in the Fiba game. They outrebounded and outmuscled the opponents in the paint and made it possible for USA to heavely rely on transition and individual skill. When they went small ball last year it was just chaos. Look at the top centers in the NBA now and look at the top rebounders. Davies wont be in LA and they will probably not send Drummond. So, if Antman dosen't turn out to be the son of Jordan, a golden generation of international players, like thoose guys France most likely are sending in 2028, actually could, not only win, but embarres USA on home soil. Serbia almost did it a couple off days ago, against the best team ever assembled. Americans need to learn from theese last tournaments and aknowledge that there might be something wrong about how basketball has been taught and coached. The biggest flaws that I can see is off ball defense and the inabillity to play team basketball when the driving lanes are not as open.

Buddy posted when the next 4 years actually come and instead of a predetermined guess okay, literally talking about guys who haven't hit their prime and are just starting in their first Olympics aside of Tatum... chill the hell out burh

Bro doesn’t know about Jalen Brunson, ja morant, lamelo ball, Jaylen brown, Tyrese maxey, Chet holgrem, Zion, Paolo banchero, Trae young or Cade Cunningham

Bro, USA is going to host the next olympics, of course they are going to make another amazing team

2:25 “A nation younger than Lebron James” This nation is literally way younger than even the youngest player in the nba 😂

we here you. the world has gotten better. if the U.S. brings some size they will continue to win. thats the only reason they have had problems in the last 2 world cups.

I just watched the Giannis Antetokounmpo documentary the other day. "I was way late watching ." Watching it made me respect him so much more!

This will be the last... LMAO DKM who said Gelo Ball was an NBA player. Maybe LaVar was right.. DontKnowMuch

in most African countries you start playing basketball at 15 when you're sure you won't have a football career. Everyone wants to play football for now.

It’s ok my friend , Maybe one day Serbia will win GOLD but not this year.. TEAM USA 🇺🇸 If teams from other countries were so good at everything USA lacked, USA wouldn’t have dominated the Olympics for the last 2 decades

The modern NBA players don’t understand FIBA play. Those who played under Coach K, KD, LeBron and Curry know and dominated. They lack FIBA fundamentals, but play the same olympics under NBA rules. The youngins would dominate. It’s like taking a taking Usain Bolt (a career 100m and 200m sprinter) and telling him to run in the 400m within 2 weeks of practice. Yes he will struggle, but given more time he will still win.

We gon have to change to fiba rules to prepare the NXT group if not dont even trip. We wont b prepared and to lose and not win gold 🥇 in our own home wont be a easy 💊 to swallow.

A lot of truth and insights in this video and I fully agree that USA basketball team will not win the championship in 2028 Olympic unfortunately 😢

This man is a hater. But I love this level of excitement for Basketball around the world.

USA still has some athletic studs playing in the nba besides the foreign onslaught the league currently have. As an American league, we need to create more lanes and opportunities to expand the game inside of our own borders. Have more free or low cost basketball camps exhibiting elite skills from current and hof nba and and1 players to push the American game back out of the reach of foreign countries.

Team USA fins teams were there B and C team and bunch of young guys. We need veterans and experienced guys and these fibs games it take one bad game for these teams to beat USA u can’t expect USA to be perfect everytime and we still won golds 8-9 last Olympics. Most of these losses we didn’t even have our best players man it doesn’t matter if they don’t have there best player

dude when the best players like lebron, curry and kd will retire, other big players will take the spot. Remember Ant is only 22 or 23 or something. They are not even in the prime yet. The only one in the prime is Joker, Giannis and luka. I believe that the usa will win next year again. They might not be as dominant because the sport is evolving which is good but they will always find a way to the top.

There is no pleasing some people. You will find something to complain about. All the negative is horrible. Anyone with eyes could see the obvious points you pointed out, so why be the captain of the obvious in this situation. A congratulations is the only thing in order right now. They played hard to win the gold for good old USA but because they WON by 1 point, they get disrespected, picked apart and hung out to die all alone, and not acknowledge for the whole and what of this VICTORY. GO WOMENS TEAM USA (GOLD) WINNERS. I’m with you good, bad, happy, sad!!!

Naa bruh once lebron retire you’ll see the shift . US has the best players & will continue to dominate

This is mostly right. You are off on the analysis of traditional centers. The modern pick and roll game combined with high percentage 3-pt shooting and big men who can drive makes old school centers problematic. We saw this in the women’s game with Griner sitting on the bench

They been saying this stupid shit since 1996. When you assemble all these great American players on one team this is what happens, we get that gold

8:51 I do agree with this line of reasoning. The NBA is a business and started to go away from the way Americans played the game and became so enamored with how Euros played the game. Euros were always known as soft finesse players but the NBA is seen as less physical than Europe now. That’s a huge self inflicted problem that needs addressing. Silver wants that Euro money though so, he’ll promote their players over the locals.

Your conclusion really make sense!

I don’t care where Domantas Sabonis‘ father is from. Domantas Sabonis was born in Portland, Oregon. He was American first before anything else.

Watch out for France if their Young guys Improve its Over.

the NBA is killing the center position. that is the only reason we are struggling.

Stop playing, we never will fall

Embiid is now a proud American. They'll just pluck them early from African camps

Dream team had naturalized citizens to so Embid playing is normal

Yeah, this dude is insane. If he thinks that USA doesn’t have talent, the only differences our talent is still young here. Some of our best talent is still in their early 20s pull your head out of your butt quit making content just for Clickbait.

Dawg You really dislike USA basketball or the NBA that badly huh? You love to keep over stating the significance of a USA close victory or the few times they lose as if this means something more significant when in reality it truly doesn't. I don't know if you know this, but do you know that Michael Jordan has actually lost games in his NBA playing career? I know you must think that cannot be true based off position of being talented and the best player at the time or ever whichever one you want to believe he is. Do you know he actually lost a playoff series in his NBA career? I know you can't believe that. Like I don't think you truly understand how basketball actually works. The USA's men's team in NBA players are not going to win every single game they play on top of that too just because they have the most talent does not mean they're going to win every single time. Based off of your own facts that you presented Jokic, Giannis & Luka should win every single title ever between the three of them because they're the most talented players in the NBA now. You see how that sounds ridiculous because it's more than just simply talent. The USA's men team typically do not compete in tournaments with each other in their off-seasons like international players tend to do. You bring up the fact of their records in the fiba tournaments, but you seem to don't even acknowledge the fact that most of those guys don't play back-to-back fiba tournaments for a reason. Also, you have no idea what potentially can be coming down the USA pipeline between now and 2028 as well as in the future, to simply say, because the three best players on this current Olympic team will not be available that all of a sudden now they're going to not win is so beyond asinine. It's beyond ridiculous because you have no idea what's coming up in the future and that goes for the international team as well. It's like you are trying way too hard to make the Euro teams relevant when the usa are not disrespecting them nor are they not disrespecting their best players like who hurt you dude?

Who invented Debby Downer?

Don’t forget 2006 World Cup. The team was very similar to the redeem team minus Kobe. They lost.

USA USA USA