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Man Kobe Bryant is really started to get vastly overrated.. Now he's so good that he makes the redeem team look better than the dream team?
Yeah, I think Hakeem just didn't get as pumped up for the non-NBA games. Even in the all-star games, Dream was usually pretty passive and deferred to the other guys. He saved up his energy to dominate Ewing, Robinson, and Shaq I guess.
in case it hasn't been mentioned, there's a dream team documentary that's going to air tomorow, IIRC...should be good
In the 30 for 30 on Magic, Magic talked about Isiah like a friend, and you could see them having a good time during the 1992 all-star game.
Except for the prime MJ, Barkley, Malone, Stockton, Mullin, Drexler, Pippen, Robinson, Ewing... Even without Bird and Magic, who were both limited during those Olympics, I'd still favor the Dream Team.
I remember reading all I could about the tryouts. I am still pissed at Knight for making Barkley the last cut. Should have taken him over one of the K stiffs.
I don't know if this has been mentioned but the competition the original dream team faced wasn't that good at the time. Put them against the teams the redeem team faced and no way there would be 50 point wins.
the 2008 team would probably beat the 1992 team, but a lot of that has to do with that the 92 team were carrying a lot of lifetime achievers (Broken Bird, retired Magic), in terms of career talent, the 92 team was miles ahead of 08.
are they playing by international rules? It was more of an up and down game and it would favor the 08 team
Bird and Magic (well, and Laettner) were the only players on that team who weren't in their primes. And Magic in 1990-91 had averaged 19/7/12.5 Player - Age (1991-92 PPG/RPG/APG) Bird - 35 (20.2/9.6/6.8) Drexler - 30 (25.0/6.6/6.7) Stockton - 30 (15.8/3.3/13.7) Ewing - 29 (24.0/11.2/1.9) Jordan - 28 (30.1/6.4/6.1) Malone - 28 (28.0/11.2/3.0) Mullin - 28 (25.6/5.6/3.5) Barkley - 28 (23.1/11.1/4.1) Pippen - 26 (21.0/7.7/7.0) Robinson - 26 (23.2/12.2/2.7)
No one will ever match the talent of the original dream team but even the 96 team was amazing and would wipe the floor against the 08 team.. Shaq, Olajuwon, Robinson would have dominated inside Charles Barkley Penny Hardaway Grant Hill Hakeem Olajuwon Karl Malone Reggie Miller Shaquille O'Neal Gary Payton Scottie Pippen Mitch Richmond David Robinson John Stockton
