Do you think this statement about Team USA is true?

Question

This olympic's USA basketball men's team is the 3rd best team with NBA players.

Answer 1

How is the US the third best team. It's not going to win bronze, it is going to get gold. The US is the best team.

Answer 2

what? where did u get this statemnet at. its the first. its amde up of Superstars

Answer 3

I think they are second, beyond Argentina. If only Ginobili was healthy, Lebron would have another Lebronze excoriation epithet by cynics.

Answer 4

The 1992 and 1996 Dream Teams were superior. Let's analyze this.

1992 Dream Team:

PG: Magic=Kidd. Both are future/hall of famers and are the best ever.

SG: MJ>Kobe. No question.

SF: Bird>>>Melo. No question.

PF: Malone>Lebron. No question.

C:  Ewing/Robinson>>>>Dwight. Howard is too young.

1996:

Big Man: With Hakeem, Shaq, Malone, Barkley and David Robinson - it is no contest. Dwight and Bosh can't win here

SF: Grant Hill, Pippen - the gap between those 2 and LeBron and Carmelo are not as huge.

SG: Miller, Mitch Richmond -Kobe will have the edge aganist their SG, only Pippen has a real chance to guard Kobe

PG: Penny, Payton, John Stockton - Against Paul, Deron and Kidd

Answer 5

I'd believe second after the original dream team with Magic, MJ, Bird and etc.,  

Answer 6

This team is right up there with the Dream Team.

Answer 7

Well, they are obviously no less than second best since they have advanced to the gold medal round...

Answer 8

yes they are 3rd best team. 92 and 96 teams were superior. 2000 team had garnett and carter but scrapped to win.  

Answer 9

It's hard to say, despite the individual raw talent on a team the problem is it IS a team sport.  You can't get the advantage of people who've played together for months in a few weeks.  I think placing them third (in comparison to past US olympic basketball teams) is about right by their individual talent, what will determine how good they prove to be at the Olympics is how well do they play together as a team.  The "Dream Team" was probably the best in terms of talent, but never got it together as a team, they lost to several teams made up of less skilled individuals who played well together as a team.

Answer 10

the nba is the BEST league in the WORLD they got the best of the best. no doubt they are the best olympic basketball team in the world

Answer 11

Because the 1992 and 1996 teams didn't have to practice together for three years in order to learn how to play basketball, they have to be considered superior to this year's team, regardless of what the rest of the world is doing in the way of getting better.

If we were also getting better (along with the rest of the world), we'd still be blowing out teams as easily as the 1992 Dream Team.

And I hate to be the one to point this out, but the rest of the world still sucks at basketball.  Spain was supposed to be a challenge for us???  ooooo, the Gasol brothers, wow, we'd better watch out (shows how pathetic our centers are though, because the Gasol brothers got all of our big men in foul trouble in their game against us)..

Spain sucks.  Greece sucks.  Lithuania sucks... China sucks... the only team that doesn't suck is the USA

If the 2008 team played the 1992 team, the 92 team would destroy them easily.

Bosh, Boozer and Howard would foul out by halftime trying to guard Ewing and Robinson.   Then we'd put Carmelo Anthony on Ewing/Robinson and Melo would foul out by the end of the 3rd quarter.

Then we'd put Lebron on Ewing/Robinson, but by then it wouldn't matter because the 92 team would be up by 40 points.