Not to discount his ability, Bron is a bonafide demigod, but he'll be 43 years old next Olymipcs. I'll crap my pants if he's still playing. His beard gonna be looking like Santa's by then 🎅🏿
@@SnuggleKingHS most of the team were placed in a pool of players up for "consideration" while some were just straight up asked if they wanted to come play for the team and were given a roster slot immediately
@@blowc1612It was a well recognized fact that Curry wanted to be on the team as due to Covid and injury he had yet to play in the. Olympics. Bron had nothing to do with Curry being on the team. You can apply the same to Durant as he was close to becoming the all time scorer so his desire to be on the team was understood. Edward performance in the world championships guaranteed that he would also be on the team. The only Bron did is made sure that he was the first one to jump on social media after the USA team failed to win gold in the world championships. The media jumped on Bron being first as him being the incentive for others to commit when they hadn’t even been given a chance show their interest other than the obvious Curry and KD. Bron strategized that being the first on social media would imply everyone who followed him and expressed a desire to play was because of him when in fact it was because they just wanted to represent their country at the Olympics and bring gold home. Noah Lyles had nothing to d with it either as his point was specifically about NBA championship teams that announce themselves as “world champions” which is not the same as the USA Olympic team winning gold.
The BEST thing about this all?? USA is starting to finally treat the Olympics as a serious and important championship to win and the best players will want to play in the future.
@@theislander4310 USA always send best team to Olympics and B or C team to world cup (reason USA have same amount off world championship like country that does not exist for long time Yugoslavia )
@@dzonikg We don't care about their country not existing for a long time. We have the best players in the world. Move on kiddo those sneak disses don't work.
I hope we keep it up. As an American, I’m getting really into international ball and I don’t think I’m alone. I’m actually excited for FIBA and I’ve never said that before
As someone who watched the original dream team, they NEVER EVEN CLOSE went up against a team as good as Serbia, Germany, Canada or even France. The Serbia game was the greatest international game i have ever seen. Going into the fourth, I said to my friend the only way for the US to win this is if they are perfect on defense and offense. To have a perfect quarter. And it happened.
No knock on dream team but at that they didn’t have to deal with the 3 pt nearly as much, I don’t see them beating some of these Olympic teams and that’s no knock just shows that people got better but dream team definitely set some standards
@@yungtato244yeah this is what I try to tell people. Like the video said Serbia was 50% from the three point line in the first three quarters and they weren’t shy in taking those shots. The defense of team USA was also pretty good on those three point plays. The dream team just never had to play anything like that.
Your bronze is golden? You lost? Your bronze is bronze. Our gold is golden. Better luck next Olympics. You had one of the luckiest shooting performances in Olympic history. Less skill more luck. And your country proved that in the 4th quarter. Your team has been playing together collectively for like 6 years now. Still blew a 13pt lead with 10 minutes left.
Killing it. Great video again. It’s so refreshing to see a basketball channel that just talks about what happens without needing to always talk shit about something
@@jasonvoorhees310 To be fair, he's just comming out of winning 2023's MVP and this year's championship, and is now playing in the Olimpics in a team with the biggest of names in it. If I were him, I'd feel like at the top of my game, at my peak, and yet... Getting not one but TWO DPNs in this huge tournament with so many eyes on it... That would feel soul-crushing.
You would have morr views if you didnt repeat the same thing multiple times. Just 3 minutes in and i heard steph curry bailing them out 4 differemt times. Like brah show some analyzing skills with commentary . Cause you just stay yapping the obvious in different ways
@@iGucik, it ain't that big of a deal, and if you are going to make a big deal about it, at least make sure you have correct spelling to make it so people take you more seriously.
@@iGucikhere’s an idea get a damn attention span. This video is 8 minutes plus you can watch it at higher speed. If that’s too challenging for you that’s a you problem. The rest of the world shouldn’t have to cater to your goldfish level attention span
Gotta love the comparison to how many ppl live ina country... So then why isnt China and India literally win everything... or why is Serbia only good at baskeball and probably 1 other sport lol everyone country should have at least 1 specialty. But cool for ppl to see a population differences i guess
Yeah , Serbia got gold in Tenis , pistol shooting , waterpolo playing for gold and bronze in basketball , but population difference impacts the medals ofc it does ..thats why China and USA are number 1 and 2 in total medals ..your US education is showing up with this stupid comment
Basketball is not even the biggest sport in Serbia. Football is. They are ranked third in water polo and also FYI they have one of the Goats of tennis in Djokovic. I'd say that's pretty good for 6 million people and absolutely relevant. China has great individual athletes and India... Most of these western sports are not popular there. Race genetics also play a role despite the popular opinion to deny this
@@radovanstojanovic2020 What the other guy said, “Stop discrediting his teammates” Who played above what they’re capable of whereas Jokic was playing piss poor, and getting shut down. That 0-6 from 3 cost Serbia an upset.
That's a bad take. Bogdan and company shot there way in this game. Nikola facilitated amazingly and rebounded amazingly but was shut down when embid defended him.
What we saw was the USA coaching team fuk up and have to get bailed out by great basketball players who stopped listening to their play calls to win the game.😂
@smithgov 😂🤣😂 with your commentary on my post if I'm a flea what does that make you? 🤭 The players said it themselves in interviews USA coaching staff have nothing to do with that come back. The players just went out there and played ball and bailed out the bad coaches.
The best bet for a go ahead bucket with seconds on the clock is Durant , even Carmelo wanted the ball in his hands becaue he can shoot over anybody, Imagine it was France and wemby is guarding who’s the best bet to get a bucket over wemby , it’s Durant.
@@lovehandle5956 Bad calls ? Dude .. there were so many uncalled double steps on USA side ( almost every single time embiid got a ball ) with every single player on the court and off the court together with the coach signaling and asking for a check that its not even funny , not to mention that Lebron crying whole match without getting a tech. following that insane call for a foul where they tripped eachother making a 3 pointer Jokic getting a tech and ball to the side .. naa not bad calls for both sides
The Serbian roster even with Jokic would struggle to even make the play in. They needed to shoot lights out for 3 quarters to even be competitive. Would like to see if they could keep this up for 82 games
Why it is pointless? If you have 333 mil against 6 that is 55.5 times greater pool for picking players. Not to mention resources. It does not state that USA win is less valuable, just that what Serbia consistently does is even more impressive.
@@0i0l0o it’s pointless cause at the end of the day it’s 12 v 12. Not 6M v 333M we aren’t going to war… I get the pull of talent is bigger but it doesn’t matter when you select the best your country has to offer. It’s 12 v 12
Atleast for India its not a big focus, parents and media focus on cricket so you get a whole lot of top level cricketers but basketball is confined to richer kids cause courts are usually only maintained by bigger and more expensive schools. and that's important cause school sports are the only time a lot of kids get to play organised sports here.
The same ppl saying curry carried are right and wrong at the same time considering these are the same ppl saying curry sucked when he wasnt playing well
I think considering that they have an all star roster they would've been dropping +20 points win per game. And looking at this game, I still think the world have almost catched up with the US, no one doubted that this team will win gold, but no one expected the games to be close too, being such a monumental, probably last game with the faces of NBA, i think this will either be the start of foreign dominance in the US, or the Rise of another US great.
Can you make a video about France being able to avenge their 4 gold medal loses againt USA in the LA Olympics and ending the era of USA being the great house of basketball.
i saw a comment and decided that i want to comment that here. so ya also joker still had ally when they took him down so (if you dont like it then good on you 😇)
Well when mj played the teams he played. They didn’t have THE BEST SHOOTING GAME OF THEIR LIVES. Also mj didn’t play nearly as much talent as this team has.
At some point we all knew referees are going put Team Serbia in bonus in less than 2 minutes, tons traveling violations were not called, some soft ass fouls were called, and on the other end there were practically beating the hell of every Serbian player and nothing was called... So yeah thanks to Steph and referees Team USA is in the finals 🤢🤮
Yeah, because no calls were missed for the Serbian side at all. Only one way. And the refs made the Serbians shoot like shit the last quarter and Jokic go 0/6 from 3 as well. Good to know.
Lol you do know the foul differential was only 3 and the free throw differential was only 2, right? Serbia lost because they went ice cold from the field in the 4th quarter and all those 3s they were making in the first 3 quarters weren’t falling anymore. Serbia went 0/8 from 3 in the 4th. Plus, their two best players were a combined 42% from the field and 18% from 3, that’s why they lost
Like when Derrik white barely breathed on a guy for a 4 point play? At a critical point in the game? The refs did absolutely fine, Serbia couldn’t take the defensive pressure in the forth and fell apart
@@Chris_Pearce bro he did Zaza on him almost broke his anke or Achilles.. and if Serbia hit those 3, we would have a even bigger shenanigans.. but still it is not bad as anybody who had to face France in this Olympics.
The game would not have been over in the first quarter if Steph didn’t have that performance. As great as it was, it was obvious his hot start was throwing the rest of the team out of rhythm. They kept feeding him the ball, and he kept nailing the shots, but at the cost of the rest of the team being disjointed and falling behind. They’ve been whipping teams with their teamwork and ball movement in all the games, and they were not doing that while Steph took a dozen shots in the first quarter. I’m confident if they would have went a different gameplan direction and got the team going, it still would have been close and easily winnable. They’ve already beat that team 2 times
Technically anyone else could've taken those shots too... lol not saying they would've made 9 of 14 from 3 but no one else could do what Embiid or LeBron were doing. Just lucky Curry finally woke up lol
Why would you not keep feeding Steph the ball if he's that hot? You make no sense. Steph is hot so you want them to stop passing him the ball😂😂😂 please never comment on this again.
Serbia would have beaten the Dream Team, cause what they gonna do with 4 Stephen Currys on the court? You can't exchange 3 for 2s, especially if the opponent is hitting everything. Steph held them in the game like crazy, he doesnt hit 2-3 threes they might be losing by 20+ points. Embiid was cooking in the 4th as well, don't forget that and Bron is Bron.
@@amjan Even Ant is shooting lights out. Tatum's defense and rebounding could be a bigger plus at times, but it's a gamble when he's shooting how poorly he is.
I love your videos, but I expected more footage from the actual game because I thought this was the Olympic semifinal recap, not just a bunch of clips with voiceovers
Let’s not also forget, Serbia has been working towards this for years. And in a one game out scenario any team can go scorched earth. In the first half Serbia couldn’t miss. But as we’ve seen in the past teams being hot like that can they sustain for the whole game, that spoke of the greatness of the US team, they didn’t crumble like many would’ve in those circumstances, but showed us why they are touted the way they are. Serbia played almost a perfect three quarters. Serbia looked scared and nervous in the fourth quarter. I’d still take the US 10/10 times with blowout wins in 8/10 of those games. Oh and on the refs, the refs DIDN’T win it for the US. The US were being mugged most of the first three quarters, and they aren’t used to that style of play, but by the fourth quarter they started to give it back to the Serbs and that’s why they won. I do prefer the more physical style of international ball over the NBA’s soft style. The oft repeated argument is LBJ couldn’t have played in the rougher 90’s, this proves that the cream rises to the top when the going gets rough.
Absolutely spot on. Plus Lebron in the 4th started putting some serious pressure on jokic in the post. And he got called for fouls at least twice that I remember. All the complaints about the refs, jokic got plenty of calls for him
@@Chris_Pearcelol they got away with WAY more contact than a puppet of foul calls. Especially when they would call even slight contact against Serbia on the other end
It doesn’t matter how many people are in the country y’all people so dense Basketball has gotten so much better over the decades and it’s so accessible that anybody can be good at it. Its 12 v 12 not 6M v 333M… size doesn’t matter. South Sudan who doesn’t even have indoor courts are a really good team. That goes to prove that basketball came a long way since 1992 dream team
Olympics dont allow any footage sadly, sometimes the NBA will copyright content but that only demonetises the video. The olympics blocks the video worldwide and strikes your channel :/
@@punkmaster4718 Yeh its annoying, theyre blocking everything on all social media so that's why you wouldn't have seen many clips on IG or Twitter either
You have to talk about steph's numbers. Its abysmal. Hes shooting 30% from the field and 20% from threes. I do believe he makes a good playmaker and assist with everyone by being a distraction, but his numbers are really bad since the Puerto Rico game. (Havent checked after). Btw im talking about overall stats not game by game. I dont know if that means anything but compared with everyone else, his stats blows.
Its flat out.....were all human. Serbia got tired. Watched it live was an absolute incredible performance by everyone. Lebron legit just went, " No this is my game. "
I'd just love if refs did betrer job, some cals were straight outa loony toons. Not to shit over USA win but several calls were outrageous. Refs were hot garbage whole tournament
The team didnt need steph to go off night in night out untill two days ago and in the gold game he ,bron will have a triple double and KD will be great as will.
