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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Maybe because there is only 2 or 3 NBA All-Stars on the team. This is not the Dream Team where every player was a Hall of Famer. LeBron, Carmelo and Wade are about the only year in, year out All-Stars on the team. And they only get together every 2 or 3 years and work for a 2 month stretch. It is obvious to me a team why a team like Greece wins when those guys have been playing together for years.
Are you going to tell me if guys like Shaq, Kevin Garnett and Kobe played on the team what the result would be the same? They got beat in one game for God's sake.
Peace
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The 2004 team had Tim Duncan, Allan Iverson, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Carmelo Anthony, who are all projected to be future NBA Hall-of-famers. They also had at least 2 other all-stars in Amare Stoudamire and Stephon Marbury. That team went 5-3 at the Olympics, losing to Puerto Rico, Lithuania and Argentina, and barely beating Greece by 6. They had a Hall-of-Fame coach in Larry Brown too.
The bottom line is that the US is now
one of the best teams in the world, and on any given day.......
Might as well accept it.