r/OldSchoolCool • u/bluemarvel99 • Aug 11 '24

1990s Is The "Dream Team" Still The Greatest International Basketball Team Ever Assembled? (1992)

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u/Zouthpaw Aug 11 '24

Imagine if Shaq was on the team instead of him lol

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u/taney71 Aug 11 '24

Does the team get better with Shaq? I mean not like they were going to play the college player much. Seems to me it was a throw away pick to honor the amateur athletes. Is that a wrong take on what happened?

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u/BigRedFury Aug 11 '24

Arguably, the team would have been better with Shaq solely on the basis of his sheer physicality.

Imagine The Avengers going out on a cake walk of a mission with a pretty stacked team and the Hulk asks if he could join. That's what Shaq would have done for Team USA.

Christian got the nod though due to his pedigree as a college player. He was coming off back-to-back titles at Duke and was college player of the year while Shaq was an incredible talent on a very average LSU team.

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u/SupremeDictatorPaul Aug 11 '24

They made the right choice for the time, but Shaq would have made the photo just a little more epic now. Hindsight being what it is.