The Worst Team USA Basketball Squad of All Time
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- The Worst Team USA Basketball Performance since NBA Players were allowed to play in the NBA.
Although 2019 may have been poor, but 2002 was worse.
The 2002 FIBA World Cup squad featured Paul Pierce, Reggie Miller among some others..
Timestamps
00:00 Background
02:20 2002 USA Squad
06:07 Tournament Begins
09:43 Biggest Challenge
14:33 Aftermath
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and now. USA lost again vs Germany. FIBA WC23.
Lol...I was going to say... Maybe they should've waited to make this video 😉
Because Germany is awesome
FIBAWC 2002 and 2019 were even worse.
Those two teams didn't make the Top Four.
it is not surprice .pre world cup they won against slovenia on last period won against germany last 3-4 min and lost agains litvania
@@Alexandre-sz2jb Lemming
This mofo really called Vlade “vlaid” 💀
Wtf would he know Vlade if you can’t say it
😂😂😂😂 these youtubers outta hand
Amazing 😭😭🤧
I caught a video of this guy months ago, can't remember the video topic but he pronouncing vlade the same there. I remember making a comment that you shouldn't be making basketball content if you don't even know who vlade is. Still hasn't learned anything.
Vlade way better than LeBron....in hairline
The problem with American basketball in general, and NBA basketball in particular, is that the game has been totally disrespected. Offensive play is clearlhy favored, and the most complex strategy is the pick and roll. Big ,men are useless (with a few exceptions) and coaches are merely an ornament. A lot of iso, a lot of "this is my team", and amazing athletic displays, but lack of fundamentals and team play. The US has amazing players and the pool to choose from is huge (most countries in Europe are smaller than some states in the US), but the way the game is being played and officiated has had a negative overall effect. To me, it is a lot more interesting to watch a Euroleague game than an NBA game, even though there is less individual talent. The game has a lot more intricacies and, thus, more interesting. Strategy is more complex, and team play is favored over iso play.
Euro ball just looks more fun.
Great points
Exactly the average NBA fan just sees the athleticism and apparent "skill" and accepts it, not realizing the league has manipulated the rules for a visually pleasing game. The NBA is very much a commercial product today.
That's the reason former Euroleague players are dominating the NBA today, Jokic, Giannis, Luka, Porzingis, Markkanen, they were brought up on physical, team-oriented play.
I think that's why Jokic wasn't celebrating when he won the NBA championship. He knows it's not the best competition.
The rest of the world is catching up because they didn't sacrifice the integrity of the game for offense. The 90s NBA players played through physical era so of course they dominated in the Olympics. The Dream Team was also more team-oriented, still fresh from the 80s. Today's players are used to rules that accomodate offense and rules that favor them. So when USA teams play international teams, they're not prepared for the physicality and the execution of other nation's national teams. Even the Olympic team with Durant suffered 3 losses. They barely won gold by 5 points over France.
@@turtleislandlac1490 Porzingis and Markkanen aren't dominate.
Jokic wasn't celebrating because he views it as his job just like going to work in a factory. He said that.
@@zachsabbath1 Doesn't change the fact that NBA today is soft and overrated. In 2021 a Team USA squad of Durant, Tatum, and Lillard LOST to Nigeria. They also lost to Australia. You can even go back to the 2006 FIBA World Cup, when Lebron, fresh off averaging 31.4 ppg and Wade, a Finals MVP and NBA champ, and Top 10 scorer Carmelo Anthony LOST to a Greek team with ZERO NBA players.
This specific team was FR Yugoslavia, which was later renamed Serbia & Montenegro (later just Serbia), but Yugoslavia itself eventually became 7 different countries, so you could say Yugoslavia is where both Jokic and Luka are from.
plus some stars like Toni Kukoc, Drazen Petrovic and many more! good looking out dude
Yeah but this isn't the same Yugoslavia. FR Yugoslavia in this video consisted of Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo and was just a "formal" leftover from "real" Yugoslavia which ceased to exist in 1991. Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and BiH became indenpendent countries at various points.
Glad someone said this "Today it's called Serbia" made me wince :D
Yugoslavia with Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia ceased to exist in 1991, that Yugoslavia in the video consisted of Serbia and Montenegro so he was not wrong calling it Serbia because there were no players from Montenegro on this team@@lukesherifflobo
@@Alexandre-sz2jbReported as misinformation and unwanted/spam. It’s a load of nonsense mate
I was 21 at that time and remember it really well. Back in Serbia we were confident that we would beat USA because player for player ours was better team and we were ruling World Champions at that time. Dejan Bodiroga would be a great star in the NBA but he never cared about going to the NBA.
Also remember that Arenas were mostly empty...one of our news reporter were walking around the arena and asking the random passersby if they knew what event is holding in the arena, most of the people didn't know nor cared.
@@Alexandre-sz2jb worship me
backetball and OPETH? a man of culture
@@Lindsayfan Another one right here. Blackwater Park is the reason for the "blak" in my handle.
Can people start keeping their religion to themselves? God is not a bearded white man or Arabic man in the sky. There's nobody coming to save us. We are God and Goddesses. Know ye not that ye are Gods, Children of the Most High. This is a basketball video about basketball. What does religion have to do with putting a ball in a hoop? We have free will to choose how we live and it's nobody's business what we choose.
@@Alexandre-sz2jbwrong vid, try again.
Being argentinian, I still remember that Argentina vs USA game. I had a class that ended somewhere during the third quarter, I didn't mind because I thought the loss was a given.
I saw on TV, once I got out of the class that Argentina was actually ahead on the score and ran home, around 500 meters, at top speed to catch the end of the game.
That game, and that argentinian team, was INSANE.
PS: Every single argentinian basketball junkie is still fuming over the no-call on the foul over Sconochini at the end of the final game.
ah yes Vlay Divak
☠️😂
Reggie miller should have got the ball
WHY???!!!!
@@lighthousemaccabee8133 BECAUSE ONLY HORRY AND GOD BIRD ARE BETTER IN HISTORY THAN REGGIE. WHEN U NEED 3 IN LAST SECOND U BET ON BIRD, HORRY AND REGGIE.
He was old...if it wasn't in Indy he wouldn't have even been there
@@twizzy585ful Miller was old but was in finals ??
@@PIP...33 ok and Jeff green was in the finals last year tf is your point....miller was just Reggie miller atp not millertime
This is what I always think of every time Paul pierce starts talking about how great he was
He's the all-time leader in game winning or tying buzzer beater shots. So he's pretty good.
@@alexandermendez4653 he's the reason we had to start sending Jason kidd and kobe caliber players to represent our country..because if you send Paul pierce we won't win gold
Didn’t Lebron lost in the 2004 Olympics and in FIBA WC 2006? Is he trash too?
@@sadsam3488 Not trash but he wasn't a superstar yet. And in 2004 he was a rookie. Meanwhile Paul Pierce is 7 years older and was in his prime during the tournament.
@@sadsam3488 well they only seem to have selective memory when it comes to Lebron lol
Who’s watching this right after they were eliminated by Germany in 2023 lol
Nope after Canadian loss. Shame.
08 was because of Kobe.
Exactly
@Alexandre-sz2jbAllah is a pagan god!
@Alexandre-sz2jb My God, the God of all God's. Is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! His name is "Ahayah"
You keep Allah
08 was because of all of them. Not just Kobe. 🙄
Uhhh no
As someone who speaks Serbian i can confirm vlade divac is pronounced "vlayd deevak". Good work bro. Only thing i would add is that peja Stojakovic is pronounced "peya stodjakoveek". His surname means 100 students
hahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahah
AKA Vlade the Blade
Yeah but that's pronunciation in your home land, in America English tongue pronounce it differently.
@@jayjohnson7646 This is terrible logic. The correct pronunciation is correct everywhere.
@@jayjohnson7646 no. you don't change the pronounciation of names this is just rude.
Dont mind the whispering lmao my bad. Didn’t wanna wake up my mom 🤦♂️
Then choose a better time to make videos. Also learn to pronounce names correctly, you really should know who vlade is. Also Yugoslavia is more than just Serbia. Put a little bit more time in preparation. It might come off as rude, but if you want to be taken seriously as a sports youtuber this is good advice.
Send me an email if you think you can help
LMFAOOOOOOO
I wondered about that, lol.
On another note, you might want to research European competition further. The former Yugoslavia republics, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, and Bosnia were always talent hotbeds. Lastly, international basketball rules are slightly different than domestic leagues.
@@swaymcthunder1219Excellent constructive criticism and advice.
Nice bro! Subscribed!!!!
Why he’d name he him Vlade like it’s said Slade😂😂
Actually he is correct, rather more correct than you.
Basketball was bound to become a worldwide phenomenon. Like soccer, it is cheap to play. You need a ball and a hoop; everything else is luxury to the poor player. Also, it can be played in tight, urban environments, something even soccer struggles with.
I love the game and have since the days of Connie Hawkins, Pete Maravich, and Julius Erving. I just wish they'd de-emphasize the 3-pointer a bit and bring the game back inside somewhat.
It's about shot selection. It's not necessarily a bad thing they use three pointers but it's lazy when teams live by the three and stop running an offense.
Damn! You didn’t mention that PR won against the USA at 2004 too, before Argentina in that tournament
The USA lost to both Puerto Rico and Lithuania in group play in 2004. They finished 3-2, fourth in the six-team group, good enough to advance. However, it meant they had to face the number one seed from the other group, Spain. Spain was a basketball power, but the USA did defeat them. After the loss to Argentina, they defeated Lithuania to settle for the bronze medal.
@@johnanderson9765Spain's glory days were still upcoming back then. I mean, they were very good already, but their prime was still to come. They would win their two World Cups, four Eurobaskets and play their two Olympics finals after that. Their first final was in 2006.
@@truthhearer6323 they were already in their prime 2008 but still could not do it without the saving grace of Kobe Bryant 🤣
Lebron James was in the US team that season
It's clear that the rest of the world has improved immensely in the last 30 years. The USA has to send their best players to win the gold medal in the FIBA World Cup and the Olympics, but they almost never do, except for the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
2010 and 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup as well for Team USA without most of their top-tier best players.
The United States wants to showcase their depth in the FIBA Basketball World Cup to try knocking out two birds with one stone: grabbing one of the top two slots from FIBA Americas to automatically qualify for the Olympics and winning the FIBA Basketball World Cup title.
@@Alexandre-sz2jb What? This is a sports topic not a religious one. I think you have the wrong site.
Lebron lost in 2004 Olympics. MJ won 2. Maybe we should look into that 2004 Athens Olympics.
Lebron was the best player on that team. He came off the bench to ignite the team time and time again as an 18 year old. Jordan couldn't even make the 100th string of a Dream Team at 18. Lebron was miles better.
Lebron was a rookie who didn't even play that many minutes. And comparing mjs rosters to the 04 roster it isn't even close. Adding on to that international basketball has dramatically gotten better
@@windycityassasin5236 I remember it very clearly...even though he got very few minutes, his +/- was insane. He was electrifying and so damn fast. He would enter the game and USA would catch up or go ahead and he would sit and the energy would just exit the team.
@Veggamattic I was like 12 or 13 at the time and I even thought then the roster was whack. That Argentinean team was no joke either.
Oh yeah, a team consisting of 3 rookies, role players, and 4 super stars. You make a lot of sense. Nonsense that is. Do more research and quit reaching 🙄
Jordan won the Olympic gold medal TWICE. One was when he was still in college and had not yet played as an NBA player. LBJ was already drafted and playing in the NBA by October 2003 while the Athens Olympics was held last August 2004. NCAA Jordan or NBA Rookie LBJ? Winning matters guys.
what an idiot. the world hasnt caught up with basketball when jordan won his first gold. eventually europe started beating US college teams which is why they had to bring NBA stars staring in 1992
Lebron was still a teenager. Why leave out that detail?
6-0 in the finals too
On another episode of:
How does this affect LeBrons legacy?
@Alexandre-sz2jb Stop forcing religion on people 😔. We all have our own beliefs.
Interesting vid!
The original dream team was all college players in 1960. Walt Bellamy, Jerry Lucas, Darrell Imhoff, Oscar Robinson, Jerry West, Terry Dischinger + others were coached by the great Pete Newell. These players truly changed the game and, of course, easily brought home the gold.
By 1996 the gap was already smaller, and in 2000 the game against Lithuania was super tense
for me 2004 roster for usa was the worst. they had melo,wade, lbj. marbury. iverson, richard jefferson// and their bigman were stoudemire, duncan, odom, boozer and okafor but still lost to puerto rico
It’s simple, star NBA players don’t care about the tournaments in between the Olympics, whereas the international players do. The pride/no money factor plays a bigger role here. They barely care about the Olympics most of the time. International players care more about representing their country more then Americans because of selfishness/ego and it’s understandable to a certain extent.
Since 1998 Team USA only won two FIBA world championships (2010 and 2014). The 2019 squad didn't medal at all.
The problem with the 2002 USA team is they had a trash coach in George Karl. Jerry Sloan should've been the coach. The squad was good they just lack a damn coach. Same time it's FIBA and Team USA is usually for the younger talent with some few veterans. Sam Cassell at the time was a better option over Jay Williams. You gotta have a veteran PG
Hahaha. What makes him a bad coach...I'm 100% sure you don't even have an objective answer.
@@VeggamatticI have an answer......he coached this team to a loss.
@@lionface1364 Learn how critical thought works.
@@Veggamattic when you throw an insult to back up your point.....you lose by default.
@@lionface1364 It was a piece of solid advice...take it as an insult if you choose.
Gurovic unknown only for US public #12:00, well known in Europe. Yugoslavia (Serbia & Montenegro at the time) was full of amazing players, stars in Europe teams
The way I remember 2004 was a catastrophically horrific FAILURE. The women held it down but in Greece, between terrorist alarms and threats, several players from team USA dropped out. They were terrible by our standards. They rebounded literally in 2008 but that team TO ME was the last respectably good squad. Haven't been quite the same.
I mean, we won all the golds since 2008 in the Olympics so not sure what you’re talking about but hey, that’s just my take. Honestly though, and not to sound arrogant, do Americans really care about FIBA tourneys? I mean, I’m mildly interested but I think why these teams don’t have better talent is due to the grind of the NBA season plus the playoffs. It seems like most of those guys wanna rest their bodies for the upcoming season plus the interest seems like it’s just not there for the elite players. That’s why we usually do terrible in FIBA play imo. But the Olympics….that’s a whole different ball game. The rest of the world has definitely caught up to us but if we field our “top” talent, we’ll always be tough to beat.
I still remember when the stacked 2004 team got owned by Puerto Rico 🤣
They weren''t stack that team didn't have any shooters!
@@joe3009 Casually Asses Said Uneducated Assessment in a Lengthy manner and maybe you can figure this out.🤣🤣🤣
This was a great documentary..Ive always loved watching the Fiba World Cup, but the A1 players seem to disregard it... That's why we'll continue to see more international players start winning gold medals.. Maybe not as much in the Olympics, but definitely in FIBA.. just look how Lithuania beat us and then moved team USA and we couldn't do anything. They wanted it more and outplayed is even tho we have more talent. I'll actually be worried about this game against German too..
Germany won, so the worry was warranted. Lol
@@murloc_rampage3856 I watched it too.. Germany basically took it from us. No excuses on that one..
@@405boy4you know why usa losing in fiba? Because team usa have no chemistry even you change the coaching staff with European or any coach but the preparation is only 3 weeks . Still they they lose because of no chemistry and the relay on one on one.
This was the same team that talked trash prior to facing Yao Ming and China. The centers and power forwards said they would break him because at that time Yao Ming was an international star and #1 draft pick.
Great video! I especially like the parts where you couldn't pronounce anyone's name correctly
I played against Argentina’s Fabricio Oberto in South America back in the mid 90’s. He was tough
@@Alexandre-sz2jblol
How in the name of all that is Holy and Righteous was George Karl even selected as Coach??? Also, some of the player selections were sketchy, at best, and based upon non-basketball reasoning...smh
I guess cause George Karl selected those players 😂😂😂
Great Vid! I think TEAM USA just needed more defensive minded Guards and they ez would of won it all... watching it from Germany, Dirk was INSANE and the bronze medal was a great victory
Throughout history it was Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and then USA. When they lost on Olympic games in '88 then they said it's enough and then made rule that profesional players can play for USA national bball team. Until players become bored by playing for USA coz long and hard season with 82 games plus Playoffs.
Of course FIBA made the rule that disallowed NBA players from participating in the Olympics and it was them that changed it to allow it.
NBA players being fatigued after an 82 game season (half of what Euro League plays) plus playoffs for some, is understandable and puts them at a disadvantage going into the Olympics.
@@cycleoflife565 Bora Stanković (Serbian) was FIBA's GM for long time. He and great late David Stern made that possible. Stern pushed with League and players and Bora pushed that in FIBA. That move made basketball very opened and "world" sport.
USA has won gold at 16 of 19 Olympics thats more than all the worlds combined golds x 5 it’s US by a mile ..
I’m not sure what you mean by the order of “Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and then USA” throughout history. The USA had been undefeated in Olympic basketball up until that loss to Russia in 1972, 63-0.
@@cycleoflife565 I wasn’t sure either but I believe it’s regarding just the FIBA world championship but even then ARG won the first followed by back to back by Brazil then the first for the USA before USSRs run of championships and then Yugoslavia and USA winning like the next 10 as he mentioned..
Im glad the FIBA World Cup is more competitive these days.. i mean when nba players were first allowed to play it was like Professionals vs Amateurs.. even though fiba said international players at that time were professional, they really weren't. Not for years anyway
Lmaoo is this an ASMR NBA channel? Bruh i can't take this video seriously when this dude whispering at me
great video
Marko Jaric (MIN) is also an NBA player. Also not making in to your video and did not make a lot of minutes as well, Peja Drobnjak (2nd rd pick for SEA) Vladimir Radmanovic (12th pick SEA) is also in the roster, making FR Yugoslavia roster of 5 NBA players in total
Was Radmanovic even still on the team at that point. I remember him sitting in the stands in an earlier game I think, because of a dispute w the coaches or something.
My man, Serbia is not the successor state of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia consisted of what is now Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia. It simply no longer exists.
Kosovo is not a country and Serbia and Montenegro were called Yugoslavia until 2003 when they were renamed Serbia&Montenegro. And then just went separately in 2005. Learn some history.
@@johnsnow04 its funny acting smug and being wrong at the same time, Kosovo is now a country. I mean like technically Serbia Russia and like, a couple other countries do not recognize their independence but it is... in fact a country.
@@williambrabston3045Kosovo i Metohija is a southern region of Serbia.
@@williambrabston3045 Terrorist utopia that sells drugs and human organs under protection of imperialist pigs like you who take their cut, will never be a state.
@@NikolaBlahBlahh it is an independant country to the international community. It has be recognized as such, just not by serbia lol
I still cannot name the team with Paul Pierce and Reggie Miller as worst of all. In my opinion, If count on the game itself, the worst one (before 2023 WC) is the team at 2004 Olympics. With such a roster of SG's and forwards they couldn't get any top-class playmakers (neither Iverson, nor Marbury could organize the team offence) and Centers (Duncan is much more PF than C). And even despite the deserved losses to Lithuania and Argentina), -19 to Puerto-Rico was nonsense. I still remember, how I watched that game and could not believe in what I saw.
A big reason team USA started winning gold again is simple. Kobe Bryant.
If if Brunson, Edwards and JJJ are your best players representing your country that's pretty bad.
Yet, those three made the semifinals while the 2002 and 2019 squad didn't make the Final Four.
Edwards is probably going to be the best shooting guard in the league this year. Brunson is also very good.
@@mydogsnameislucy768ant is a dawg, but you cant say he could become the best sg in the league when dbook exists
imo Mikal Bridges stepped up into that 3rd best position over JJJ
Since the making of this particular video, the worst USA team of all time is now the 2023 squad
When the salary of one player is more than the countries entire teams salary, you'd expect to see a win.
I reckon the 2004 Olympic squad was as bad as these blokes, as LBJ, Wade and Melo were all benchwarmers. And the team was in the hands of Iverson and Marbury. Don't get me wrong I love the Answer but he is the last person you want to lead your team in FIBA setting.
The problem with 2004 was the line up. Tmac, Kobe, Shaq, Garnett, Kidd, and even Peyton weren't on the lineup. And those were the best players at their positions at the time. The all star teams, both East and West were better than the 04 team at the time. LeBron, Melo, and Wade coming off the bench? Obviously because they were rookies.
that Serbia=Yugoslavia team in 2002, was out of this world, if you follow basketball, those players like Bodiroga guy, Jokic's style is similair to him... you should give them some credit
Nobody cares
@@aidencarter687 yeah? thanks for telling me, you are a good guy
The worst USA squad of all time is this year squad, a lot of mid players like Josh Hart, Austin Reaves, etc.....
Drobnjak and Radmanovic played in Sonics 2001. and Rakocevic and Jaric came in NBA in 2002. So there is six nba players, but lot of them played smaller roles than guys from Europe
2002 was the year I got into bball at age 9 and remember very well watching usa lose to argentina. That shit pissed me off so bad lol and I hated Manu for it.
Baron Davis is that player you always forget existed until you hear his name and go "oh, yeah he was pretty good."
While every country has sent its top 12 players.
Here is USA’s Team.
FIBA Team Roster NBA Ranking B/R
Paolo Banchero #40
Mikal Bridges #26
Jalen Brunson #36
Tyrese Haliburton #33
Josh Hart #99
Brandon Ingram #29
Jaren Jackson Jr #31
Walker Kessler #86
Austin Reaves #69
Players Not in Top 100
Bobby Portis
Cam Johnson
Anthony Edwards
NOT ONE TOP 25 US Player
Only 6/12 are top 50
3 are not too 100.
14:12 - 14:17 lol this defines the overall U.S. mentality as a whole.
the nba has become more like a circus than real basketball. it's commercially oriented and the rules and refereeing are ridicules. so the national team suffers from that when facing real basketball teams with real officiating and rules and will continue to suffer.
it's like WWF players facing MMA fighters.
Nobody cares
You do know that WWF was fake right
"squad?"
What are you, 90?
LMAO
I think they were even worse this year and what's worst is that they haven't learned anything from their mistakes for all these years. Look at the rebounding and defense of the USA team at the 2023 World Cup. There is simply no team chemistry, too much arrogance...
There are no international players, since "inter natio" means "between nations", there players from abroad, or foreign players or players from overseas, but no international ones!
Best NBA rebounder + Best NBA assistent + Reggie Miller+ Paul Pierce+ Jermaine O Neil + Finley+ Baron Davis+ Antonio Davis.....
Team USA was defected not by opponents, but by followings:
1. FIBA rule
2. USA individual players self-centered mind
(I played 1 on 1,
I come for vacation,
I must avoid injury...etc)
What do you mean none of them ever won an NBA championship? There were three: Ben Wallace(2004 Pistons), Paul Pierce (2008 Celtics) and Shawn Marion (2011 Mavericks). It's not like they were benchwarmers either, all of them were starters.
Guess he meant at the time of the tournament
@@dlee07 Then he shouldn't have used the word "ever."
@@johnanderson9765he did say "at the time" ..which was 2002
@@milosmitic2071 You got a time stamp for that phrase?
@@johnanderson9765 he didn't say at the time, but it was very obviously implied since he was listing their All-Star accomplishments up to 2002 right before that. You are the worst type of CZcams commenter.
AAU is killing US hoops. The majority of American players aren’t learning fundamentals, on the other hand in Europe anyone remotely interested in playing the game starts out learning fundamentals of the game. It shows more and more every year.
As soon the NBA opened its internacional door they put the final nail on its coffin literaly
No disrespect but everyone still has to catchup to the USA basketball team. Those gold medals are stacked🥇53-4 but the NBA big love for the international players. Michael Jordan is the Goat but of all centers I really believe Hakeem The Dream the best period. He was great on both ends of the court and look where he was from💯
*Correction Yugoslavia is was broken up into multiple countries, which are modern day Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and North Macedonia.
It was EGO, we used to send players with ZERO NBA experience.
Cant use age or experience as an excuse.
"In 2006 they lost from home-team Greece?????" Dude, they were playing in Japan!!!!
Just was not a bad team there were actually good but that other team that they play against we're really good
2002 team I would have picked if available:
PGs: Jason Kidd, Mike Bibby, Jason Williams.
SGs: Kobe, Ray Allen
SF: Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter
PF: Chris Webber, Kenyon Martin, Rasheed Wallace
C: Ben Wallace, Elton Brand
Correction 2006 FIBA world cup was held in Japan, so Greece was not home team.
The USA better get the best team on the floor next year in the Olympics as the rest of the teams from around the world have chemistry as they’ve played with each other more than the USA players.
It’s pretty sad that the NBA has to send the 12 best American players in order to win gold. The top 12 nba players aren’t even all American. So the top 12 American players will consist of players in the top 20 in the NBA. Anything less than that is 2nd or 3rd or 4th place. The NBA is still the best in the league and Americans are overall still the best players in the world but other countries are not far behind and if USA doesn’t see the forecast for what it is, other countries will surpass the United States completely and we’ll wonder how we ended up in this situation
1988 was the worst team. Wrong coach. Wrong approach. Wrong players.
When Bodiroga wiped his hands with Reggie Millers towel, its was ultimate disrespect 😄💪🏻🇷🇸
Nobody cares
@@aidencarter687you did enough to comment 🤡🤡🤡
The problem started when the nba became a European, 3 point shooting, zone defense playing league. This feed into the slow, no defense, no athleticism playing European players hand.
On May 30, 1992, the United Nations Security Council passed UN SCR 757. It banned all international trade, scientific and technical cooperation, sports and cultural exchanges, air travel, and travel of government officials from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia did not participate until 1998 ,she won the first place and then in 2002 again
The olympic USA team looks like the 1st tier team while the WC team is 2nd and 3rd tier team. As long as USA thinks WC as low priority, they will loose more.
This team represented everything that was wrong with the 2000’s NBA
Im glad when you said, The Redeem Team, you showed Kobe dunking cuz he was the X-Factor.
FYI, Serbia was only one of the countries that formed Yugoslavia after their break up. Sure there were countries before WWI, and unification after both world wars, but that’s another story. My point is that Croacia form part of Yugoslavia, as Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Macedonia. Do you have any idea of the basketball talent coming from the Balkan area?
The days of USA not sending their A or B team and winning are over. They've been over. But whenever a subpar team loses nobody really cares because it doesn't really mean anything. When the A team plays they win and until that changes all the talk is meaningless
Nobody cares
Larry Brown with the worst coaching job in basketball history, should have been fired right in the middle of the games
Fiba world cup
Yugoslavia: won more than 10+
Usa: won 4
The 2006 tournament was a different story than 02 or 04. There the US looked super dominant till the SF, then the greeks got stupidly hot and just couldn't miss a shot for like 15 minutes straight, that shit happens. But they bounced back and beat Argentina with ease for the bronze medal.
the point is there defence should have been so superior to the players that greece had that they should have NEVER HAD A SHOT THAT WASNT CONTESTED If you contest their shots with all the freak athletes they had on the team in 06 USA should have won easily.
I can't believe you denied the existence of Nick Collison, the Christian Laettner of that team.
Calling Yugoslavia just Serbia now is kinda crazy ngl
The 3 pt. Shot has changed the game for the worse.
Whoever made this selection of players was Crazy to leave out Iverson duncan T-mac kid And Webber
What, no mention of Nick Collison, who is clearly seen second from left in the back row of the team picture?
The NBA has 450 players roughly. Team USA has always featured players that are at least in the TOP 50 while the rest of the world may have one or two in there and the rest of their players are either in the top 1,000 or lower. It still baffles me how a group of players in the TOP 50 can be beaten by a team that's in the bottom 1,000
Chris Berman said it best, "That's why they play the games."
Because it's not about the top players. It's about teamwork.
Vlaid Divak and DeJoan Bodiroga. Considering dude's voice...it is quite possible that he wasn't even born when this world cup took place
USA could send the entire 1st Team All NBA that year
C - Shaq
F - TD
F - Tmac
G - Kobe
G - Kidd
Shaq and TD at the Post.
Tmac and Kobe as Shooters and Scorers.
Kidd as the facilitator
Bench
C - Webber/Jermaine
F - KG
F - Pierce
G - Allen
G - AI/Payton
KG and Webber at the Post.
Pierce, Allen, AI as Shooters and Scorers.
One mistake in this video -when USA lost to Greece in 2006 Greece was not the host of the championships, as the championships were played in Japan...
The moment he said something about Yugoslavia I immediately check the comments. 😂
Everyone talking about Lebron looking bad for losing in 04 as a teenager, but it’s Tim Duncan looking weak without Popovitch
The only mistake that made team USA lost, is to believe that other countries do not play at their level in basketball. Ignorance at purest!!!
I wanted to say soooo many things, but i still can’t escape the second hand embarrassment of this man callin NBA legend Vlade(Vlah-dee) Divac(Dee-Vahc), by Vlayd Dih-vuck 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Why you didn't mention that in 2004 Puerto Rico won against them by 19 or 20 pts...just to remind you .
Whit Carlos Arroyo hitting 30pts
Nobody cares
LBJ, Melo, D Wade, Iverson lost their first game vs PR. Then they lost with Argentina
Squad Serbia or at that time Yugoslavia was extreme quality players, in now times 2023 all that players easly could play in NBA whith average 20 pts! Gregg Popovic wanted "kiler"of U.S.A to come to San Antonio but Milan Gurovic manager did not want to anser on phone for new contract for his player Milan Gurovic, and when Milan Gurovic find out for that he fired him. Radmanovic did not play that game against U.S.A!, but later he signed to L.A.Lakers, and others Serbian or Yugoslav players where 2002 extreme quality like Marko Jaric he played for L.A Clipers or Bodiroga best European player, Vujanic, Tomasevic, Rakocevic best scorer european few years and he played NBA, or Stojakovic & Divac Sacramento players, and others list go on
That team its more talented that ppl are willing to admit they lost not because of lack of talent