I agree with a lot of what you say, but the defense in that USA team is not good

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Aug 14, 2022
11:24:12am

Jay Kay Truly Addicted User

I agree with a lot of what you say, but the defense in that USA team is not good

beyond 10 feet from the rim. In fact it’s flat out bad.

They would get easily exposed.

The rebounding would be a huge strength, but they aren’t getting every rebound—especially as spread out and as discombobulated as they would be. And the rebounds they don’t get would become an automatic fast break for the warriors

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Best team ever?

sethj250 Just happy to be here! TDC

8/12/22 10:07pm

Yes. In any sport.

XORCoug

8/12/22 10:14pm

Ummmm….

8/12/22 10:17pm

Whoa, interracial Siamese twins.

Chester Copperpot

8/12/22 10:53pm

RE: Ummmm….

sethj250

8/12/22 10:59pm

GSW would beat them by 20. No three point shooters. One perimeter defender

Blueto

8/12/22 10:21pm

Is hand checking allowed?

Hypnotoad

8/12/22 10:27pm

Doesn't matter. Who are Malone,Barkley, and Ewing going to guard?

Blueto

8/12/22 10:28pm

Who from GSW is going to guard them?

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/12/22 10:54pm

GS will gladly trade 2s for 3s

8/13/22 12:35am

Consider FG% from dream team at 2 compared to at gsw at 3.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/13/22 7:52am

First off, I was only talking starting 5s.

8/13/22 9:38pm

I forgot, it was Ewing instead of bird. Now they have

8/13/22 9:42pm

You don’t happen to be a GSW fan?

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/13/22 9:45pm

Not a GSW fan...and they would easily beat this five. Not close.

Blueto

8/13/22 11:13pm

Nope, no way, it’s not even close. Even if they played 100 times.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/14/22 8:09am

Basketball occupies such an interesting place in the cultural zeitgeist in that

Blueto

8/14/22 9:32am

“Well, that’s like your opinion man”

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/14/22 10:04am

I agree the game has changed, but the athletes from the dream team are just as

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/14/22 10:49am

I agree with a lot of what you say, but the defense in that USA team is not good

Jay Kay

8/14/22 11:24am

DT1 fast break was incredible

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/14/22 12:08pm

It has nothing to do with bias. I love my 80s 49ers

8/14/22 12:12am

They better shoot 65% then, because they'll have a 2/1 rebound deficit.

8/13/22 8:57am

Post ups are such an easy guard... it's why no team really does it. You have

Blueto

8/13/22 8:23am

Ask Isiah Thomas how easy layups are.

Cosmodiar

8/13/22 8:32am

I guess my point is that it's dumb to compare teams from different eras and

Hypnotoad

8/12/22 11:07pm

Not sure how hand checking a dribbler matters that much when the warriors

Jay Kay

8/12/22 10:53pm

Remember Tyler Haws trying to get open in WCC games? That’s why it matters

22jrob22

8/13/22 1:48am

They do that now. Curry gets mauled, constantly. The NBA has made it a point to

Jay Kay

8/13/22 2:53am

Is GS allowed to dribble with carries every time

Oat'n'bow

8/13/22 6:15am

I don’t know about that, but the 2017 GSW team would definitely give them a game

Jay Kay

8/12/22 10:40pm

You do know that they already played together, right?

Benfica1

8/12/22 11:53pm

Bird, Mullin, Stockton are about equal with Durant from three. Klay, Steph

buckeyecougarguy

8/12/22 11:02pm

Oh my, can you imagine if Shaq & Hakeem replaced those two?

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/12/22 11:07pm

I thought we were just talking about the starting five

Jay Kay

8/12/22 11:08pm

Against Warriors would have to sub Pippen for Ewing... and then dominate

MogollonMtsCoug

8/16/22 7:19am

Minus Patrick Ewing

8/12/22 10:24pm

Ewing is the weakest player.

The Y's Insider

8/12/22 11:09pm

I wonder how good at shooting 3s, Bird & Mullin would have been had they grown up shooting them? Bird was a career 37.6%

Spiff

8/14/22 11:09am

If bird was defended like steph is today, it would probably be worse than it was

Jay Kay

8/14/22 11:29am

Free throw shooting is a good comp because it equalizes everything and players

Jay Kay

8/14/22 11:40am

Did you actually watch Bird live? I’m curious about your age as well.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/14/22 1:10pm

I’ve recently watched all of his finals games and a lot of his playoff games.

Jay Kay

8/14/22 9:52pm

It’s a waste of time. Steph is going to beat DT1 by

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/14/22 9:55pm

If we are talking about the entire roster for the team usa v. the entire roster

Jay Kay

8/15/22 9:10am

Here is a career highlight compilation of Bird’s threes

Jay Kay

8/14/22 10:01pm

No one guarded Bird outside the arc. Those are

8/14/22 11:58pm

Bird had to deal with a lot of grabbing and pushing allowed back in the 1980s

donnerstag

8/14/22 5:03pm

Fortunately there is a ton of video available. Show me one video of bird getting

Jay Kay

8/14/22 9:12pm

MVP of the league with 3 the top 5 players of all time in the league as the

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/16/22 8:26am

I think it would be better. The difference is that they would have been catch

8/14/22 4:51pm

Bird was so crafty, IMO you are underrating him

Tuskaloosa Cougar

8/14/22 8:20pm

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