Anonymous
Years ago

Team USA Is Overrated

In 2002, the USA lost to:

Argentina
Serbia
Spain

In 2004, the USA lost to:

Italy
Puerto Rico
Lithuania
Argentina

In 2006, the USA lost to:

Greece



Then we have the competitive games.....

2004 -

They beat Greece by 6 points.
They beat Australia by 10 points.

2006 -

They beat Puerto Rico by 11 points.

They beat Italy by 9 points.

They beat Brazil by 2 points.

2008 -

They beat Australia by 7 points.

They beat Spain by 11 points.

2010 -

They beat Spain by 1 point.

They beat Brazil by 2 points.

They beat Russia by 10 points.

2012 -

They beat Brazil by 11 points.

They beat Argentina by 6 points.

They beat Lithuania by 5 points.



The point is that they have been beaten plenty of times, and they have also come close to losing several other times. And several other times they were played tough.

Team USA is overrated, due to the media hype that they get.

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Spursfan  
Years ago

They are more inconsistent than they are overrated. There is only one ball and sometimes that becomes a problem, but other times it's not.

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MWP  
Years ago

Team USA are still a lock for the Gold Medal.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

overrated or not... they still have the best win loss record of any team on the planet..

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Anonymous  
Years ago

A roster full of NBA all-stars hardly can be overrated. Sorry.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

^ maybe he means the NBA is overrated? The NBA is supposed to be the most elite basketball players, but reality is It doesn't mean their players are the best in the world, I think the Olympics brings that home.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Ive never seen a team score 156 in a 40 minute game regardless of the opposition.

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bIg V  
Years ago

Some of the earlier games listed were played by predominately College players. If they compete as a team and not individuals no-one can come close.

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Cali  
Years ago

they can break a game open in just seconds, they never play together and they are superstars. Simple, they are just too athletic and strong/skilled to beat.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Big V, all games listed were played by NBA players.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Yes but not all games are Olympic or World Championship games so are irrelevant. But you grind your anti USA axe similar to your posts in the Lithuania v USA thread. Lol

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Japorms  
Years ago

what do we have to watch is how much did the FIBA had adjusted in years favouring NBA e.g. the three point zone, from 2 halves to quarterly.

Also, Stern's push to have a basketball world cup.

seems these are all moves to support the $$billions NBA business.

i guess FIBA will just have to agree otherwise no money.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Don't forget Lithuania almost beat the USA at the 2000 Olympics too.

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HO  
Years ago

Japorms, Stern did not push for a basketball world cup. It is a FIBA initiative to try and give the WC's more credibility.

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Japorms  
Years ago

Lithuania is the only team in present years who proudly fielding players with 100% background of their own ancestry. And producing impressive results.

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Japorms  
Years ago

not sure about Croatia, Macedonia and some other countries.

For sure, China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are doing the same but they will need more time to catch up.

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Japorms  
Years ago

oh yeah, Angola, Nigeria and Tunisia too.

lets not forget this thing that some counties prefers to stick on, pride of their own. A matter that they shouldnt compromise with money.

with rich economy China have, the could get any players they want.

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David  
Years ago

I would say the USA might be a little overrated because the media insistent to continue to use the term "the Dream Team".

After the loss in the World Championships in Indiana in 2002 USA Jerry Colangelo suggested the term "Dream Team" was dead and USA had to find the best team not the most talented team.

The "Dream Team" phrase really should only be used with teams from 1992 to 2000 where USA would just field the most talented teams and not worry about role players. This selection method had it's problems as well for even the most successful Dream Team as Larry Bird suggested in an interview that if the 1992 Barcelona Olympics had continued any longer someone would of been killed in that USA Squad. Bird suggested tensions amongst the players for playing time and there were a lot of egos on that team which made it hard for the coaching staff to please everyone.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Some of the earlier games listed were played by predominately College players. If they compete as a team and not individuals no-one can come close.

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That is totally false. Every single game that was listed there was when Team USA was using 12 NBA players on their roster.

Not a single one of those games was played by Team USA with college players.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Yes but not all games are Olympic or World Championship games so are irrelevant. But you grind your anti USA axe similar to your posts in the Lithuania v USA thread. Lol

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Every single game they lost, except the game against Italy, was at the World Basketball Cup or the Olympics.

Please stop trolling.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Lithuania is the only team in present years who proudly fielding players with 100% background of their own ancestry. And producing impressive results.

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Actually, both Lithuania and Greece do this.

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Jeff  
Years ago

C'mon guys let's not have selective memories.

The problem for team usa from 2002 - 2006 was that their best players didn't play for Team USA.

look at the rosters for 2002 world cup and 2004 Olympic team. They we're 2nd tier NBA players. No Kobe, No Shaq, etc.

Did USA all of a sudden become basketball gods again by 2008? No they were humbled and just started to send their best players again.

The only true loss I think the USA has ever taken with their very best was in 2006 against Greece, but even then they were missing Kobe Bryant(who was best in NBA at the time.)

This 2012 Olympic team is the very best players in the NBA and a true Dream Team for present active players.

Still missing Dwight Howard to injury (Their best center)

I always laugh when I read about 2002 and 2004 for team usa. Every true basketball fan knows that those teams were not their best.

That Problem has since been fixed obviously.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

There is hardly ever a single international team that has all of their best players on it. The ones that usually do are Argentina and Spain.

Other than that, most of the other international teams are almost always missing several of their best players.

So I am totally baffled as to why Team USA missing some of its best players is even a valid point?

The other teams are almost missing top players too. So that's just a really lame and incredibly pathetic excuse.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The 2004 team had three of the best at the time - Duncan, Iverson and Marbury, players like Marion and Odom who were in career best form, and young superstars like Stoudemire, James, Wade and Anthony who were already 20+ points scorers in the NBA. It wasnt lacking talent. USA Basketball knew the problem wasnt talent and they fixed it.

Anon is right, most teams including Spain and Argentina are usually missing good players, and not many of them have 300 million people.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Young superstars? Lebron, wade were in their rookie seasons, and didn't even play many minutes in the 2004 games.

I love how you didn't address the 2002 roster either lol.

You lost all credibility by saying Marbury was one of the best.

They weren't just missing some top players they were missing almost all of the elite NBA players at the time.

No Garnett, Shaq, Kobe, etc.

The problem was they weren't sending their best. They didn't adjust anything. Spain did send their best unless the players were injured.

Where do you pull these BS facts from? Do some research.

Look at the 2012 roster, it's all the most talented players in the NBA.

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