LeBron For Team USA! - Who Else Is On JJ's Dream Team For The 2024 Olympics?
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2023
- After the disappointing finish from TEAM USA in the 2023 FIBA World Cup, JJ talks about his dream Team USA squad including LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and more.
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Imagine being almost 40 years old and folks still picking you first.
Goat
Imagine being almost 40 and still getting swept
@@OMAR-vk9piJordan
@@user-mw1jy1nj6gisnt that whats supposed to happen?
We pick him because we need a scapegoat if we lose
Lebron and Steph.
The Fantasy Duo that lots of fans wanted to see in more and consecutive games.
lerbon just annouced hes playing next year along with curry
@@n8tethegr8t20 hell yea, we're gonna DOMINATE.
KD and curry will be the reason not LeBron. Funny LeBron excuse was his foot 🦶 against the nuggets 😂and he never got surgery but he gonna play in the USA game. Trying to make his legacy better
@@user-mw1jy1nj6g he got prp shots
@@user-mw1jy1nj6gyou niggas will find a way to hate on anything smh it’s weird
We need Jrue Holiday and Jimmy in Paris to lock up the perimeter and wings. They’re guys who know how to play a role and don’t always need the ball in their hands to be effective
Facts
That's true Jrue and Jimmy can be good additions on that USA squad
Book.
@@maciedixon3983 Book? A defensive liability with zero off-ball movement? Hard pass. hahaha
@@badxgrass He literally played off ball with KD and CP3. Also I can kinda tell you don't watch games cuz he's a solid defender.
Erik Spoelstra needs to be the HC
Definitely especially cause with his history with Lebron and the big 3, perfect coach for it
I agree, this team could have won it all had he been HC!
Thank you.
for sure
Team USA woulda played much better on the defensive end this year if he was HC, that’s for sure
Love you JJ!! Thanks for being so nice to me and for taking a picture with my mom at your bball camp at your high school back in like 2010 or so!! Never forget how kind you were. when you were trying to leave you stopped and took a minute to take picture with my mom! ❤️ your our favorite Duke player ever!
Zach spade
‘Merica: We can win without our top guys
Also ‘Merica: WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE OUR TOP GUYS!!!
They could've definitely won though
They do this every FIBA world cup so it's less shameful if they lose.
@@yuchiachen3075yet they always win at the Olympics
Eurotards: omg we finally won something in basketball let’s pretend it matters more than it does
Well if the outside world didnt treat beating us like a world championship then you may not see bron but tram USA has a target on their back
most other countries have teams and a farming system of guys that have usually been around each other for 10 years, that type of continuity is so important
Not really if we send our hall of famers
Plus we sent a bunch of unproven young guys and mediocre role players.
@@bigboner23but it does when we don’t like this year
@@rook_xs6903 this year team was trash relatively speaking
@@BaithNayou meant all stars and 1st team all defense right?
Because that's what you on the roster
Ant , Haliburton: all star
JJJ : All star + Dpoy
Bridges: 26 ppg guy, 1st team all defense
Banchero: Rookie of the year
Brunson: borderline all star 24ppg on 50 - 40 - 80 % splits .
Watching these JJ videos about team USA made me realize how prevalent foreign bigs are in the nba. You got embiid, jokic, Sabonis, giannis, Steven adams, gobert, kat, ayton, vucevic, valanciunas, siakam, and more. And a lot of these players are huge for their respective teams.
Yeah people like to talk about the 90s as the golden era of centers and I think a lot of that was due to there not being quality international depth at the position. The 7-8 guys who were Hall of Famers got to pad their numbers beating up on a bunch of players who wouldn't cut it in today's game.
Even now, imagine if you took 90% of the guys off that list and NBA teams have to replace them with American players - someone like Naz Reid would be an above-average starting center and there would be a bunch of current G league players getting legitimate rotation minutes.
KAT and Sabonis are Americans born in the USA. And fyi The USA still has more bigs and more depth at the 5. If you weren’t a casual you’d know this. AD, Jaren, KAT, Sabonis, Evan Mobley, Myles Turner, Christian Wood, Javale McGee, Thomas Bryant, Bam Adebayo, Brook Lopez, Hassan Whiteside, Kevon Looney, Richaun Holmes, Robin Lopez, Dwight Howard, Jalen Duran, Marvin Bagley, Jarrett Allen, Mitchell Robinson, Demarcus Cousins, DeAndre Jordan, Jaxon Hayes, Mo Bamba, Mason Plumlee, Cody Zeller, Luke Kornet, Jay Huff, Moses Brown, Chet Holmgren, Zach Collins, James Wiseman, Johnathan Isaac, Shall I proceed?
@@hurleygonzalez no you proved my point pretty well where you're listing guys like Whiteside and Cousins, who didn't even play in the league last year, let alone this year, as possible starting centers.
@@nolang1 So Just because they weren’t in the NBA league last year, you’re gonna deny and invalidate them as professional basketball players? As if they still can’t impact the game in many different ways.
JJ I think the Fareed stat is telling, you need one hustle rebound guy to balance out the talent. I think sticking a Kevon looney or a Bam in there might give more value than even a AD or embiid at times
FIBA crowds the paint with bigs. You really need bigs that hustle. See how Austin Rivers was straight up bullied in the post.
I would pick one of those hustle guys (preferably a 7footer to defend the other team's 7footers) and AD
Fareed did very well in that World Cup and he bullied everyone. In FIBA there is almost no one that can match that energy and hustle. Jackson disappointed me a lot, I was expecting him to do the same, adding some 3s. But he was too soft.
@@andreaiachini7517And People Said He Was Better Than A d Smh
Bam has the talent and the hustle/selflessness. He’s a no brainer for the team
In each of the Fiba/Olympics I have watched, Durant has the been the USA's most important player because of his otherworldly scoring ability. The last Olympics was another example. The USA don't win gold without him.
KD is the best player in Team USA history
Carmelo...@@nydibs
@@richardpajarillo4136 - KD has like 4 gold medals and has the most points in team usa history. KD is the Team USA goat
KD can only thrive on superteams like 73-9 and All NBA Olympic teams.
Uhhh. Wade? Didn't watch documentary did ya
People never liked to say Brook Lopez. He is the best center for us in FIBA/Olympic basketball.
We should have brought him for this team.
Agreed
Not sure why Dwight is not an option either. We have seen that it does not matter your team affiliation only your country.
Facts tho....
Yeah I would have to assume he declined to play given a guy who is his backup was on team USA.
It really is weird how the Olympics are culturally more valuable in America. All other team-sports value the world cups more. Maybe this is partly a consequence of the original Dream Team?
Not true
Not true at all. Are you dim?
@@beanteam2217absolutely true ..soccer players don’t care about the Olympics. Matter fact I believe it’s mainly U-23 and few older players.
Gotta say for Basketball the Olympics are a big deal here in Italy too. More than world cups. It gathers more audience. In Football it's different though. Barely anyone besides basketball fans here in Italy watched the games for the world cup. Most people didn't even know they were on (and Italy performed well)
@@PiUZ1this isn’t soccer in basktball the Olympics is older than the basketball World Cup and has always been the number 1 international basktball competition what is it with u weirdos always bringing up soccer
They could also use some more shooting, JJ you can still play right?
You would be good on the team!
Can we have prime time coach team USA in 2024 with LeBron and the avengers
Suit up, JJ!🏀
I think you need to put the team together like a normal NBA GM, you put together your starting 5, and then your 6th, 7th and 8th, then figure out where you still have hole that needed to be filled. Putting together the 12 best all-stars will frequently ended up with weakness not addressed.
I really enjoyed watching fiba World Cup. It was fun.
C. AD and Bam
PF. Durant and Greene (LeBron already called him, so he on)
SF. LeBron and Tatum
SG. Book and Jimmy Butler
PG. Curry and Dame Time
Final 2. Ant Man and (It would be Kyrie, but prob due to his distractions they take Jalen Brown or Don Mitchell)
They are almost all first ballerina this is not a good team is only good for show for an all star game but when you have to play real basketball with international rules Vs real team probably can't work
Spot on list
Curry, Dame and Book too much of the same. Obviously Curry is Curry he is a lock if only he wants to play therefore I'd rather have Jrue Holiday instead of Dame + he also already lead USA to gold together with KD while Lillard struggles in FIBA. Love Lillard though and he is still worth a second chance, just Holiday makes more sense with this roster.
I feel like for a all star team like this you don’t need a star center. Just someone to rebound and dot he dirty work and play hard. I think Kevon looney is an underrated pick
Or just play small with Dray at the 5, I think we could out run them
Look, it's so easy to see that they didn't come CLOSE to fielding the best possible roster (or the eleventeenth-best).
This makes it VITAL to balance it perfectly, at least until Steph, Taytum, and ESPECIALLY (hopefully?) AD walk thru the locker room door.
Also important to grab Bam, like JJ notes; as well as other big time defenders and 2 way players. For instance, why NOT Draymond? Aaaaaannnnd---Olympics is a perfect kind of setting for Kawhi, where he doesn't feel the weight of carrying the entire team on his shoulders (thus causing him to over-extend himself and possibly suffer YET another catastrophic injury).
I'm thinking about bigs who are ultra-mobile and fast...or at least SO dominant on D (like AD, normally) thay it doesn't matter.
You don’t need star power at every position. Not everyone picked needs to be a #1 option. We need glue guys. We need defense and rebounding, passing and shooting.
As a Lithuanian I like this discussion lol
Its not so much continuity of players but more so continuity of style that the other teams benefit from
Yooooo, Manimal was a fricking FACTOR on that squad! Maybe the best basketball he'd ever played in his life. THAT'S exactly what the World Cup team was missing.
Love your channel JJ but where's your take on the FIBA WC finals??
This is why NBA championship and world champion is different
Suprised Jimmy Butler wasn't mentioned as part of the 24 dream team. We're gonna forget what the heat accomplished last season already?
Heat nation never gets credit but we always are in the mix
Because Jimmy doesn’t care, why include him.
@@tylerholt6828 says the npc
@tylerholt6828 says the wnba fan..
I would most definitely have him on my team. He’s on my shortlist.
lebron just annouced that hes playing next year and already recuited curry, kd, ad, tatum, and draymond green on for 2024
He’s “trying” to petition for them to join him
@@anthonyzed2058 nah shams tweeted that he called and recruited them, curry stated last year that he planned on playing in 24' and shams confirmed it, same with KD and tatum. he trying to petition for booker, kyrie, fox, and lillard
Avengers assembled
@@n8tethegr8t20are you Shams?
💪💪💪🇺🇸
The main problem for the USA team is that everybody they send are Stars or go to guy in their respective teams. Everybody has that superstar are star player mindset and most of them thrive on iso plays or sets that are designed specifically for them, and for them to be in a team that they would be a role player they somewhat struggle. And that's what Euro teams expose about the new USA team, europeans are well adept with these FIBA and Olympic rules, and their advantage against the US is that these players are great role players, few of them are stars and that is why they make the system run better.
If the US can bring players or superstars who can thrive as a role player like Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Austin Reaves, guys like Kessler, Tucker, or A Tyson Chandler type big they surely dominate the tourneys. Isn't that what they did before with the 2012 2014 2026 team.
Remember when team owners were trying to block their players from playing for their national teams?
It's not happening now? Are the players blocking themselves?
In the past, it was mostly due to insurance issues in case they got injured. Players that do sit out probably do so for personal reasons (injury risk, personal development, already injured).
@@penkima4923 why would they risk their nba season for fifa… to the top players , the nba title is more valuable to there careers than fifa/Olympics
@@3self That's lame. The FIBA world cup is eight games, and qualifications 16 games. And, they have doubts of injuries in the olympics? Noah Lyles and everybody else should mock those to death.
@@penkima4923 because at the end of the day, your accolades in the NBA determines your legacy. I can't blame them for valuing the NBA championship over FIBA World Cup.
Its easy to say we didn't send our best team possible. Not 1 player on this team made a All-NBA team. Only 4 players had made a ASG. But lets not pretend like we sent over a group of GLeaguers. This is what can happen when we don't send over some of our experienced "Superstars". I get we want to work some of the young talent in, but there are only so many spots & we also have to keep in mind that every player is going to accept or receive a invite. Paris Olympic Team: LeBron/ Steph/ KD/ Tatum/ Booker/ Dame/ Jimmy Butler/ JJJ/ Bam/ Bridges/ Donovan/ AD
No, send all hof, get embiid on the roster. And let’s make a dream team 2.0.
“Why let someone else tell you how great you are when you can do it yourself?”
Definitely need LeBron and Jimmy to win
LeBronze 😂
On guards: Steph/Kyrie/Dame/Harden/Trae
Wings: KD/Jimmy/Kawhi/Tatum/Ant/PG
Bigs:AD/Dray/Bam/Turner/JJJ
@@rogeliobotello8170You can only have 12 players
@@rogeliobotello8170say you’d have ant trae dame harden over lebron ? 😂 wild
@@hyenalaughingmatter8103Did he also get bronze in Beijing 08 and London 2012 too? 😂
Lebron said a few years ago he wasn’t going to play USA basketball anymore. If he plays I think that would be the last stop on his farewell tour.
Embiid has Cameroonian, French & U.S passport.
So, France & U.S will recruit hard for him to represent either of them.
Imagine a scenario if Cameroon also qualify to the Olympics, instead of South Sudan.
South Sudan has already qualified as the best African team
He's a great player, but US doesn't need him to win it all.
Dude, where'd you get that sweatshirt? LOVE Gulf colors.
Latvia defeated Lithuania and outrebounded Lithuania 45 to 39, and Latvia was also a small team at the World Cup. I arched the game and it looked to me like they boxed out and team rebounded well.
So it stills gies back to what JJ said. Continuity and familiarity with that style of play. FIBA and NBA are not the same.
@@eriktyson7696team usa have no chemistry.thats the number 1 reason.
@mcthorwmalows I agree it's one of the reasons, but they usually work that out in the tune exhibition and group games. That goes for both the Olympic and FIBA teams. If you are specifically talking about the FIBA team, I only saw highlights from a few games. My take away was size and not knowing the FIBA rules vs NBA rules as the as the main issues.
Latvia has nothing more to prove. They should’ve already qualified for the Paris Olympics next year. They literally played so good at the World Cup, beating many favorites without their best player in Kristaps.
Starting 5:
Steph
Book
LeBron
Durant
AD
Reserves:
Dame
Ant
PG13
Kawhi
JJJ
Bam
Jimmy
Prolly take Kawhi out and out in Kyrie.
When Kawhi is healthy he should start for sure
Take out jjj and put draymond
@@el-blanquito-15he's probably gonna be injured on the plane ride there.
Team USA - yes. Dream Team? That died with Michael, Magic and Larry, and the '92 team. Team USA is still the overwhelming favorite for gold assuming all the best players participate.
Kenneth Faried was damn dominating in 2014 Fiba WC
Lebron said AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!!!!!!😂😂😂😂
This is the result of not developing players. Hopefully James Wiseman develops to be a good enough center for USA
This is the result of 7-footers wanting to be Steph.
Wiseman is absolutely horrible so don’t count on it
I truly hope Kyrie can play next year
kyrie play for australia
Can’t wait for the olympics, teams are gonna be stacked
4:16 respect
Carmelo would be cool to see.
I'm glad you put Ant and Tyrese on there. They earned a spot for sure.
and Reaves
Brunson?
Y’all better call Dwight lol 😂
Mane where u get that hoodie at tho JJ?
people keep saying if usa plays their best players it’s a guaranteed win and they for sure have a huge advantage when it comes to pure talent but it doesn’t matter how talented you are if you don’t play as a team and have chemistry
I hear that but I feel like we still didn't even get to the see if chemistry would have been an issue. Also the original Dream Team was full of adversaries and they all somehow managed to do it
@@OtakuTalkOD Not the original dream team, the only dream team. It had 3 top 5 players of all time in it. that team will never be matched. However, this idea that your best players won't lose is hiarious to me. Funniest thing is the players on this USA squad were not even bums, they are the up and comming stars of the league. Shii, i saw people saying Ant edwards is the second best SG in theleague behind devin booker hahaha.
Yea imagine just having kd, steph and kyrie as your shooters. No one can stop that
Also it's a single elimination match. There's a reason why there are bo7. Good teams can beat great teams.
Not true...the top players are winners with expectation. Top players ant brunson bridges are not winners with title expectations
My starting five for Team USA Olympics would be Jokic, Giannis, Paskal Siakam, Luka Doncic and Dillon Brooks.
😂. rather Team Non-USA
"L"
this probably a troll
If you bring that much firepower you have to outscore every team. One bad shooting day would be critical since defense isn't priority
Jimmy Butler, Aaron Gordan need bonafide Defenders
Butler isn't the defender he used to be. He's a take-over type of guy.
@@penkima4923 in spot minutes he is. Meaning in clutch are big moments he always is. Plus on team USA he’ll play like 15-25mins in the game so he won’t be asked to carry the team in stretches like with Miami. He will have other super stars around him. Jimmy on any team means more winning, cause he is a winning player.
I find the comment about ‘being exposed’
FIBA is hard game. It shouldn’t be a knock on someone. It feels there’s still shame around having to accept there are other teams that play great high energy and smart basketball 💁♂️
All the players of USB will be better players because of the experience
PG- Steph / Holiday
SG- Kawhi / PG
SF- Butler / Tatum
PF- Bron / KD
C- AD / Embiid
Honorable mention to Dame, Book, Kyrie, Draymond, Bam, Ja, Jackson Jr., Young, Beal, Mitchell
olympics next year will be so hype. giants will showdown , the USA team, Serbia with Jokic, France, its gonna be insane.
Curry has to commit. Has he ever played in the Olympics ? I don't think he did. Last run for Bron and first&last for Curry. It would be amazing to see both of them compete together in the same team. Oh man I can't image the amount of heavyweight players Team USA will gathered to Paris. They just gotta make things correct it s useless to call 4 PG and just one center. Having too much ball handlers also i snot great players like Thompson should be considered instead of Mitchell or Brown. The team has to make sense. A team similar to the 17' Warriors would be great : Curry and another guard who can shoot like Booker & Thompson, Lillard as a backup PG or Fox/Irving, KD and Tatum, Bron as a facilitator and Green/Gordon as his backup and an athletic center with size who block shot like Turner or even Robinson and an all-around defender like Bam.
USA could definitely have won the tournament with this team. The problem is not the players, it is how you make them play. Steve Kerr, Spoelstra and Lue have been awful getting exposed by german and lituanian coaches. They couldn't propose anything out of switching on every screen in defense and Isolation offense. That was some of the poorest tactical coaching I have seen.
It was Kerr running the team it's all his scheme and his small ball didn't work putting Hart in starting 5.
@@politicfrog I don't think Kerr took that decision by himself. They all agreed with it. It is also Spoelstra and Lue responsability. They just bad choices one after the other.
The coaching staff failed to motivate the team to play great defense and to be dominant in all aspects of the game. Relied so much on a few players and became so predictable.
@@jolli4116 Exactly
@bertskran6043 Kerr is overrated he got a team.that was already built to win mark Jackson made them not kerr
Steph, Dame, Tyrese, Booker, Mikal, Jayson, Lebron, KD, Bam, AD, Myles Turner.
Myles turner is valuable in this team, because he's a big that can protect the rim and shoot 3s. He could work brilliantly with AD or Bam to create a big lineup. AD and Bam would be rough on the offensive end.
These guys together can be versatile in a hyper offensive small lineup or scale up to a big lineup. For example, good luck getting buckets on a lineup of Turner, AD, JT, Bridges and steph. Are you gonna target steph on every attack?
Thank you for acknowledging Serbia was missing players too. A lot of teams were not just the big US of A
What I find interesting is that NBA role players have no problem stepping up into a bigger role on international teams. But NBA stars always struggle with becoming role players on team USA. And yes they are “used to more ball/shots” but the normal role players are used to catch and shoots and not ball handling. I think it’s a lack of acceptance from NBA stars of taking a lesser role for their team. Their whole career has been built of them being the man and they can’t handle becoming 4th string guy
That might be it but I think it’s more cus it’s a lot harder of a skill to suppress yourself as a player. These nba stars have been used to being the center of a team for years, sometimes dating back to college, so it becomes more difficult to adapt to only doing one job. Ingram being a good example. But for a lot of role players, they may have been the man in college, but the talent pool in the nba is so advanced that they get fit into a lesser role. They’re still working on all these other skills like ball handling and other skills during the offseason that they have the capability to have the role in the nba, they just don’t get the opportunity. So when they do get the opportunity for their national team, it’s like all this work and practice shows during FIBA games.
if we send out a team of superstars and scorers we definitely need some elite defense around them
Throw in Draymond, Butler, and Jrue!
And Jarrett Allen
@@BaithNa Myles Turner or Allen. or take both if AD is not available.
every player on the roster needs to be just as defensively minded... i don't know why people think lebron should be there lol
@@chousan1024 so Curry, Lillard and Booker are better than Lebron on defense ??
PG: Steph, Dame
SG: Booker, Mitchell
SF: LeBron, Butler, Brown
PF: KD, Tatum
C: Embiid, Davis, Adebayo
One of the best teams ever!
Adebayo playing both power forward and center, as the only healthy 6'9 player. Again no medals.
AD, BroLo, Turner, and RWIII would be my bigs. We have enough playmaking forwards already.
If Ja wasn’t being punished from all of basketball he could’ve been on the FIBA team and so should have Trae.
Trae wanted to play too
Young didn't even made All Star & All NBA last season, why do people think he deserves to be in team USA?
I doubt Ja would’ve played either way, he’s one of these new generation of players that only care about their brand and money.
@@jaydot4956 I was just saying because I saw him liking some tweets where people said he should’ve played this summer.
@@yuchiachen3075 for fiba? they could’ve used Trae. Look who else was on the team.
LeBron should pick the roster
He picked his teammates every year and you see how that work out 🤣
Hopefully he picks better then he coach his son summer league
💯
@@user-mw1jy1nj6git worked out insanely well. Dude has the second most finals MVPs in history.
Mitchell Robinson for interior defense and Rebounding
I’d do Brook Lopez instead.
They need a big body C
Dreams really do come true
Lebron will be 39, Steph 36, Durant 35, AD 31... they just won't be able to handle the physicality of FIBA without injuries, not to mention they'll ALL rely on freethrows, which won't happen in FIBA.
Think adding those guys will win gold is an insult to the World
Bro shut up lol
Those guys do not rely on free throws and they can definitely handle a few weeks of basketball.
We will revisit this after the tournament lol
Watch lebron the dominate the world
Saying 3 of the greatest players of all time will win a gold is an insult? I don't care if they aren't in their primes (Steph is still almost at that level) those 3 dudes at 75% are still some of the best players in the world.
Euro teams are at their strongest. Team work, ball movements, scored 3s and can do defense. Height and skills wise, they are now envading at the top level of how basketball should be played.
Obvious fact really. It is not 2000 anymore people need to let go of their bad habit of automatically assuming American players and teams are better. Hell, helping other countries get better for the betterment of the sport was the whole point of the Dream teams in the first place (that is to say it isn't something to even be upset about).
@@TW0man4RMY Well American teams/players are better...I put Lebron James,Steph Curry,Durant,Damian Lillard,Anthony Davis,Kyrie Irving,Jimmy Butler,Jrue Holliday...they would wash any European team by 30 so stop with that.lololol
@@tonyjames2144 I agree but they have to actually prove it. Making a bunch of excuses for why the U.S. lost is imo loser mentality and anti-american in itself.
@@tonyjames2144 they already lost to France in 2020
@@underpressure07140 And who won the gold medal ???? birds chirping
Guard: Curry, Kyrie, CP, Lillard
Forward: Bron, KD, Kawhi, Draymond, Tatum, Jimmy
Center: Embiid, AD
Not gonna lie, love that hoodie JJ wearing. Anyone have a link?
Kawhi is a game changer, all world 💯 put him on the starting lineup with Bam, AD, Bron and Steph and make America great again 🙏
A lineup consisting of:
Lebron
Curry
Kawhi
KD
AD
is what i dream of🤞
Serbia has european kawhi leonard called nikola kalinic,who didnt play this year due to injury.He and Kawhi are same position,same age and same size,but you dont watch euroleague.....
@@user-hj8mz3hp3s and your point USA still blows you guys out in olympics
@@user-hj8mz3hp3sthere’s no way u compared kawhi to a euro league player…. Regardless of how good u think that player is 😂
@@browsingstranger973 kalinic put carmelo in his pocket in first game of serbia and usa rio 2016,if you ll wach euroleague,you ll se comlarisson with kawhi
LeBron and Steph is all you need
Sweet Dreams team
Center: J Mcgee, Deandre Ayton
PForward: Udonis Haslem, Tristan Thompson
SForward: Lebron, Jae Crowder
SGuard: Jr smith, Shumpert
Pguard: Westbrook, Cam payne
I think Williams and Allen wouldn’t have been bad for the team! Both are Athletic, Shot blockers and strong!
You need to develop a team and not just throw one together a few weeks before the turnament. Cohesion takes time and doesnt just magically happen just cause of individual strength
Why u talkin like we don’t have the most world cups and won 4 straight Olympic gold medals lmao
@SouthJerzVillains because on paper you had the best team of the tournament. And to me cohesion is one of the things that I noticed when wondering why they didnt live up to their potential. Mind you thats relative in comparison with the other teams eg.the 3 medalists. I am also talking about this world cup and the one before.
(That olympic gold at the last sumner olympics wasn't a walk in the park either iirc and you had quite a few of your best players there) in the past you did try longer term development.
The gap between the US and the rest of the world is not big enough anymore that you can expect to just easily walk away with the title anymore with only a few weeks of preperation when you dont have some kind of standing national Team. Esp. in the tournaments your top top players aren't playing.
@@Sayu2774 straight gold and this nonsense talk. Just say you want em to lose lol
@@BYFYGaming No I just want want to see them actually be a team and live up to the potential they have on paper. For each tournament.
Social media is on fire following USA losing. People don’t seem to understand that the Denver Nuggets are the team that was considered World Champs…not the JV team that just lost. Welp they done messed around and poked the whole bear family lmao. They wanted the smoke and I don’t think we’ll see another Olympic team this motivated to crush the competition in a long time to come. Let’s goooo
I can see Serbia kicking the USA out of competition in the 24 Olympics
@@nicolasquintarriboli3495give me another laugh😂 remember Serbia getting dominated in the 2016 Olympics😂
Denver nuggets are a Basketball club which has Little to nothing to do with a worldcup Where nations compete against each other. Btw denvers best player isnt american, shocking i know! Just like the Last, i dont know,5 mvps in the nba? Good luck Next year 😂 until then Germany is the number one national Team in the world 👍🏼 simple as that.
scola can explain more about Fiba and why Argentinians don't want to miss a tournament
We need rebinding 7 footers and we got those. They just weren’t playing
Myles Turner, Bam and Jalen Duran as the 5 potentially. Maybe even Boogie can go.
It’s funny how everyone are mentioning that team USA lacked size in Fiba but still like to announce the players that lacked size for the Olympics. But JJ the names you mentioned are not members of a dream scenario where USA can get a gold. I’m actually glad that u mentioned AG, he’s definitely one of the guys that could’ve made a huge impact if he was on team USA. That being said here’s my list
Jimmy
Gordon
PG
Tatum
KD
Steph
Bam
Brown
AD
LeBron
Jrue
Jarrett
I know Jrue and Jarrett are probably not household names but Jrue is an elite defender for his position and has exceptional playmaking skills. Jarrett on the other hand has size, athleticism, and one of the best elite defenders in the league right now. So they will fit their role nicely on the squad
Jimmy Butler is underrated
It's still a problem, since top veteran stars usually only wants to play in the Olympics. When it's Fiba again expect this guy's to sit out again
2002 Fiba WC was in Indianapolis, stil it was not a priority
Ant, Tatum, AD, Steph, Bam, Dame, Bridges, Jimmy, KD, Lebron, Fox, Booker
All that for Schröder, Dillon Brooks and Lithuania 😂😅
We should consider the last 5 years no. 1 and no. 2 draft. and proves the GMs are right they are not bias.
C: Chet, Wiseman
PF: Zion, Bagley II
SF: Paolo, Lamelo*
SG: Ant, Ja Morant
PG: Cade, JG
*replacing Ayton with Lamelo.
LeBron, Steph, KD, AD, Jimmy, Bam, Book, Tatum, Dame, PG, ANT, Mitchell , Kawhi
FIBA Team USA is the Ben Simmons of teams. Hoping to do the bare minimum and still win. They haven't got a heap of overhead to make themselves a lot better either. Bron is past his prime, KD is slipping. I think Steph and Tatum would make the team better, as would Bam. But yeah, add in Sabonis to Lithuania, Murray to Canada, Giannis to Greece, Jokic to Serbia, and everyone else gets proportionally better as well. FIBA is where we see a lot of the narratives, biases and officiating problems disappear and we get a good fair competition.
Myles Turner, Jared Allen, John Collins, Nick Claxton, Robert Williams, Plumlee. In a league dominated by perimeter players, these bigs (not to mention AD & Bam) would beautifully complete the USA roster
Mitchell Robinson for offensive rebounding and locking down the paint
Yes, him too@@adriannnnoooo
Sounds like the U.S. doesn't have any centers.
Curry, Lillard, Irving, Durant, Tatum, LeBron, Kawhi, Butler, Zion, Adebayo, Davis, Booker.
It's crazy the like 2 years ago, Kawhi was considered a top 5 player in the league, and JJ just skipped right past him and was like "I want Donovan Mitchell and Paul George" without even answering if he wants Kawhi. I agree though. Same with Harden. Hard pass.
JJ was probably just focusing and blocked out whatever his cohost said from his thought process lol he praised Kawhi many times
He probably also didnt wanna start a tangent about Kawhi's health given the fact that him suiting up for international play is very low however i would love him to suit up for Team USA even if that means taking a lesser role and less minutes
Also there isn't 5 players better at basketball than Kawhi Leonard he just sadly has health limitations
Kawaii would dominate Fiba
Lol Lebron saw the US not even win a medal and put out the bat signal fr
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......trying to ascertain as to what exactly the logo says on JJ's shirt. Is it Gulf, or _Golf?_ lol
Mitchell Robinson would have been solid center for US in fiba. Need a good rebounding defensive center in olympics hopefully Bam
Even someone like Bam can only do so much. Even though he has some bulk to him, he's only 6'9. Not only that, but he typically don't play as well against the likes of a Jokic or Rob Williams. The Fiba setting has a good mix of both
Got a few takes that I would love for you guys to discuss that really paints the picture of how US is building talent vs the world:
1. Who would win right now? US team vs World team? My take is world would win
2. Same question regarding the 90s, 2000s, 2010s - my take is US would win
3. Is the US team favored vs the field in the upcoming olympics? My take is no but not by much
4. Same question regarding the 90s, 2000s, 2010s - my take is US is favored vs the field
5. After KD, Lebron, Curry retire, is the US team favored at all? My take is no, definitely not against the field
It feels like the trend is not only that basketball is becoming a more global game but also that US is not generating as much star power as it used to. The mega-athletes of Jordan, Shaq, Lebron, Kobe, TMAC, KD, Rose, wade, melo, Dwight Howard are not produced at the same rate by the US anymore. Zion could be the next physical specimen but finds it hard to stay on the court. And overall the level of athleticism we used to see in the NBA is just not there - the NBA had crazy athletes all around, even if they were not full grown stars - Gerald Wallace, JR Smith, Jason Richardson, Stacey Augmon, Steve Francis, Alonzo Morning, just to name a few. It feels like the size, physicality and tenacity is just not there anymore for the US. Do you agree and why do you think that is? Is the NBA game becoming smaller and more shooting oriented has something to do with it?
I like how you guys list 12 people before even listing the best American big.
Curry, KD, Dame, Booker, Paul George, Tatum, AD, Adebeyo, LeBron, Jimmy, Green, Ayton.
Tommy - start making statements, stop asking questions!
We need your voice! It's valuable.
Dame lillard, Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler, Lebron, Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards, Ja Morant, KD, Devin Booker, Tatum, Bam, and Donovan Mitchelle