Monday, July 30, 2012

Yes 1992 Dream Team Is Better However 2012 World Competition Is Better

1992 Dream Team vs. 2012 USA Men's Basketball Team...Who's better ? Dream Team, you know why : size is a factor and just from the size alone 1992 team better than 2012 squad. Since Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh and most recently Blake Griffin are out with injuries, the only legitimate big man for team 2K12 is Tyson Chandler and he's very lean. 1992 front line : Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, David Robinson and Patrick Ewing would simply be too much on the interior for this team. The advantage the 2012 USA Men's Basketball team has, is the World competition is so much better now then it was it 1992. 20 years later thanks to the Dream Team, players around the world wanted to play basketball, they also are much better. 2012 team must face better players and better teams compared to 1992. Several players from opposing teams played college basketball in the United States or were drafted by NBA teams or have played for NBA teams or will be playing for NBA teams, some players have played in the NBA Playoffs, NBA Finals, NBA All Star Game, also a few have become NBA Champions. So the margin of victory for the Dream Team will not ever be the same for the 2012 USA Men's Basketball Team or beyond. In Barcelona Drazen Petrovic was already in the NBA for New Jersey, Toni Kukoc was coming to play for the Bulls and a few years later Arvydas Sabonis would play for Portland. Fast forward to 2012 London Olympics, Spain has : Pau and Marc Gasol, Pau has played in 3 NBA Finals winning 2, both brothers have been NBA All Stars, they also have Defensive Player Of Year Serge Ibaka from the Western Conference Champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Host country Great Britain has All Star Luol Deng from the Chicago Bulls. China even without Yao Ming have Dallas Mavericks free agent Yi Jianlian and former NBA player Wang Zhizhi. Russia is led by AK47 Andrei Kirilenko former Utah Jazz and two other NBA players. NBA champion teammates on the Spurs each lead their teams Tony Parker for France and Manu Ginobli for Argentina.

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