1992 Dream Team vs. 2008 Redeem team?

Question

who would win?? this is something I've been thinkning about for a while. I never saw the 1992 dream team play since i was born in 1993, but i was blown away by the performance of this years team, and was just wondering, who would win if bith teams went head to head with all the players the same age they were they were in the year they participated??

Answer 1

First off, here's a listing of ALL of our Olympic teams, along with game results and individual player stats:

http://www.usabasketball.com/men_team.ph...

You can learn a bit of history about our Olympic teams.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.  The 1992 team wins easily... no contest.

It doesn't matter if the "rest of the world is getting better"...if the USA were also getting better, we'd still destroy the rest of the world, in World Championships and in the Olympics.

Doesn't matter if you're talking "one and done" or a 7 game series.  The Dream Team would win a one-and-done.  And the Dream Team would win a 7 game series...only it wouldn't be a seven game series... it would be a four game series.

You saw how much trouble our big guys had in trying to handle the Gasol brothers of Spain... they'd foul out by halftime trying to guard David Robinson or Patrick Ewing.

Here are the results of their games:

1992 USA RESULTS (8-0)

USA 116 Angola 48

USA 103 Croatia 70

USA 111 Germany 68

USA 127 Brazil 83

USA 122 Spain 81

USA 115 Puerto Rico 77

USA 127 Lithuania 76

USA 117 Croatia 85

The closest anyone got to them was 32 points, in the gold medal game.  They previously beat Croatia by 33.  

The 1992 team had 9 or 10 first ballot HOF players. This team doesn't have anywhere near that level of HOF talent.

The only reason this team was able to win the gold is because they've been practicing together for the past three years.

In 1992, we just threw those guys on a plane, flew them over to Barcelona, and they did the rest.  They didn't have to be taught how to play basketball...they already knew.

Experience and maturity is a huge part of why the 1992 team was so vastly superior to this year's version.

For the record, here is a comparison of this year's team vs the 1992 team (at the time of the 1992 games)... you'll see what I'm talking about...

"REDEEM TEAM"

Carmello Anthony - age 24, 1 year college, 5 years NBA

Carlos Boozer - age 26, 3 years college, 6 years NBA

Chris Bosh - age 24, 1 year college, 5 years NBA

Kobe Bryant - age 29 (turned 30 during the games), no college, 12 years NBA

Dwight Howard - age 22, no college, 4 years NBA

Lebron James - age 23, no college, 5 years NBA

Jason Kidd - age 35, 2 years college, 14 years NBA

Chris Paul - age 23, 2 years college, 3 years NBA

Tayshaun Prince - age 28, 4 years college, 6 years NBA

Michael Redd - age 28 (will be 29 in August), 3 years college, 8 years NBA

Dwayne Wade - age 26, 2 years college, 5 years NBA

Deron Williams - age 24, 3 years college, 3 years NBA

average age: 26

average college exp: 1.75 years

average NBA exp: 6 years

Total NBA championships: 5 (Kobe 3, Prince 1, Wade 1)

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In 1992:

The one and ONLY  "DREAM TEAM"

Patrick Ewing (30 years old, 4 years college, 7 years NBA experience)

David Robinson (27 years old, 4 years college, 2 years navy, 3 years NBA)

Forwards:

Larry Bird (35 years old, 3 years+ college, 13 years NBA) - Bird was originally enrolled at Indiana to play for Bobby Knight, but never suited up for the Hoosiers. He played 3 years at Indiana State after that.

Scottie Pippen (age 27, 4 years college, 5 years NBA).

Charles Barkley (age 29, 3 years college, 8 years NBA)

Chris Mullin (age 29, 4 years college, 7 years NBA)

Karl Malone (age 29, 3 years college, 7 years NBA)

Guards:

Magic Johnson (age 33, 2 years college, 12 years NBA, 1 year "retired")

Michael Jordan, (age 29, 3 years college, 8 years NBA)

John Stockton (age 30, 4 years college, 8 years NBA)

Clyde Drexler (age 30, 3 years college, 9 years NBA)

Average age is 29 years 10 months

The 1992 team featured TEN of the NBA's top 50 players of all time (everyone except Chris Mullin and Christian Laettner).

At 27, Scottie Pippen was the youngest real player on the team (I'm omitting Laettner from this discussion, as he had absolutely no business being on this team in the first place.

Average NBA experience is 8 years.

Average college experience is 3.36 years (Magic played 2 years in college, everyone else played at least 3)

Total NBA Championships (at the time): 12 (Magic 5, Bird 3, Jordan and Pippen 2 each)

(Jordan and Pippen teamed up to win titles later on, in 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998)

Jordan was also on the 1984 team while in college (as were Ewing and Mullin).  David Robinson was on the 1988 team that lost for the first time (legitimately) in Olympic History.  Other than the ridiculously officiated 1972 Finals, the USA was unbeaten since basketball became an Olympic sport in 1936.

The 1992 team had the matchups, and they had the basketball IQ to totally demolish the Redeem Team.

No one other than Lebron and Kobe (maybe Wade as well) would even be a tough match up for the 1992 team... and Jordan would certainly be able to cancel out anything Kobe does.

Barkley and Karl Malone would go hog-wild out there.

Carmelo Anthony would never be able to get a shot off against Pippen.

Answer 2

'92 Dream team. Was michael jordan on that team?

Answer 3

I was born in 93 but i have studied the dream team and I think it would be close the redeam team has alot better competiton so I would say Redeam team by a couple of points

Answer 4

The 1992 team hands down. The '92 team had more ppg, better field goal percentage, and better opponents ppg. Oh and that's why you think that the "Lakers own Boston" because you're an ignorant 15 year old!  

Answer 5

redeem team..hands dowm

p.s...the lakers didnt own the celts this year

Answer 6

The Barcelona team, no contest.. I mean every victory was averaged 63 or something points..

You also have to see that the rest of the world has catched up in basketball.

Answer 7

Ewing, Robinson, Malone,and Barkley would beat Redeem Team's post players to a pulp.

The only player on the Redeem Team who wouldn't wilt under Jordan's competitive fire would be Kobe. LeBron is physical, but he's still not a particulary good shooter and he can be taken out of the game.

Pippen easily shuts down Carmelo.

Then of course you have Bird, Mullin, Jordan, and Stockton on the perimeter bombing from long range.

The truth is that Dream Team wins 8/10 because most of its players were DOMINANT COMPETITORS. Barkely, Jordan, Magic, Bird, and Ewing were DOMINANT. They were intimidating. Players like Bosh, Paul, Boozer, Wade, and Howard are great athletes, but they aren't DOMINANT. There is no way Boozer or Howad could intimidate a Barkley or a Ewing.

The only player on Redeem Team that has that dominance and competitive, cut-throat nature is Kobe. But that's only one man, and of course, he couldn't do too much with Jordan on him (with Pip lurking in the wings).

In the two games Redeem does win, it would be because of an amazing three-point shooting effort that night.

Answer 8

Dream Team

Answer 9

the redeem team because 1992 was 16 years away and from then  to now different styles of basketball have come better than the style of 1992 in my opion