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Originally posted by Perfect Stu
Try to name more than 2 players on Yugoslavia that are better than any of the US team members.
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Peja Stoiocavich (sp?) and Vlade Divac...
Divac would start over Jermane Oneal, and Peja, well, he's Sacremento's go to outside guy (in the regular season, he was injured when they played the Lakers) and he's the 3 point champion.
Then, on Argentina, Dirk Nowitzki... the biggest mis macth player in the NBA. If he were a free Agent, he'd get picked up befor anybody on the US Dream Team, except maybe Pierce, and that's a big Maybe, because Dirk is capible of a lot more.
But I'm not going to say Talent had everything to do with US's short-commings... but I will say it had
somthing to do with Talent, or lack there of on the US team. The previous dream teams rolled over teams without trying, or any more heart than this dream team had. Hell, This dream team had to go home with a loss and had to think about recovering from it, and still came back and lost.
Imagine if Dream Team 1 came off of a loss, how bad they would have stepped up and killed teams. Player's like MJ, Bird, and Magic would have killed teams alone off of thier will to win. How many players on the dream team this year have a ring? That's the mistake right there, and that's why they lost.