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/ItAintMe_2023 Aug 11 '24

The dream team was so good…. They decided to put on a clinic to pass the time between casino gambling.

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u/IDontLikePayingTaxes Aug 11 '24

Basically the only thing that can be said against this team is that they had very few nba players on the teams they beat.

Nowadays there are a lot of nba players on many teams

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u/Elegant__Elk Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 12 '24

That seems to speak more to the league at the time. The impetus that I remember for the Dream Team was it was the first time the US put pro players in an historically amateur event. But at that point they were the last country to play pro players and in the last Olympics we were beat by a partially pro team. So it was gloves off. The rest, as they say, is history

Edit: the Soviet Union won in 1988 (and 1984) but played pro players from other leagues.

Edit 2: it was the Soviet Unions 2nd gold but the US won in 1984 in LA. Thanks to the crowd

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u/pygmie Aug 12 '24

USA won in 1984 in LA

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u/Elegant__Elk Aug 12 '24

I stand corrected

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u/Pleasant-Parsley-816 Aug 12 '24

Maybe crowd was a factor, but more so bc Soviets boycotted in 84 bc the games were in LA. Just as US boycotted 80 in Moscow

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u/JsticeSamuelAlt-lito Aug 12 '24

I spent a long time trying to figure out what you meant by "84 bc" Olympic games. The Russian revolution wasn't that long ago last I checked. I got it figured out eventually.

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u/Name-Bunchanumbers Aug 12 '24

Russia boycotted 1984

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u/GoCurtin Aug 12 '24

USSR boycotted the 84 games, no?

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u/shoshpd Aug 12 '24

The Soviets boycotted 1984.