Can This 2024 USA Basketball Team Be Beaten?
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Which country would you say has the greatest chances of upsetting Team USA?
I dunno. Most of the well known international players aren’t around as much, but I do have a feeling that France may pull something
France if victor wenbenyama plays if not canada
Although, can’t sleep on Canada and Serbia. They got some good hoopers on the team, especially Canada with the underrated defenders
France, Serbia, Canada
Only chance to lose is if all the oldies play at the same time the whole game. Which wont happen.
France will be crazy with Wemby, Gobert, Sarr, Risacher, Coulibaly, Dieng, Rupert. The length on that team could be an all time high. A potentially historic defence
They will be a very tall team also
Next olympics they'll be even stronger. Lots of young talents.
And BATUUUM
Bs who guarding embieed didnt he give wemby 70 they gonna have to trap him lol.
@@fdbmane4594 how many free throws he shoot in that game again?
This looks like the Cancun Olympic Basketball Team
Lot of bus riders.
Galveston's Fishermans Basketball Team
Dude😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
lol yupp... our whole "old" "injured" squad has been resting for months. Love it.
What people are forgetting is the extra kick players get when playing for their country. That thing can make marginally good talent into elite top-tier talent.
Halibuten doesn't deserve to play with them .
@@TheDON914what makes you say that?
Extra kick? Man please this ain't the 80 and 90s. These dudes have shown they don't have that drive planty time before. We wouldn't have needed a redeem team if that were true. Even then the last DNA of assassin was Kobe. Without him, they would have lost again.
Maybe other countries care but not these schmucks
@malnorfleet4925 Eaxctly. This team are Americans playing in the US for US teams and audiences and they don't give a damn. Why would they suddenly care now its international competition?
I got excited when my home country South Sudan made it in the Olympics for the first time ever and the cried when I found out were in the same group as Serbia and the United States
Get ready to lose by 50
@@raghudurina2354 bro that's a violation, emotional damage hahahahha
It will be such an honor to play against them
Ez chicken for USA and Serbia especially if Jokic will play (most likelyy)
@@raghudurina2354get ready for USA to lose gold.
I choked on my water when Embiid was announced. I was like, "Isn't he African?" 😂
For real
I think he has citizenship in France, Cameroon, and USA
@@upholstery1995 Then where is his loyalty?
@rysupastar718 not sure. Looks like the US, though
@@rysupastar718 You only play for one country, once you choose one, you gotta stick with it for life so obviously his loyalty is with the US
American players and coaches would do well to bear in mind that the competition will be even tougher in the future.
The idea of being athletically dominant is no longer enough to beat the other great basketball nations.
I would also say other country’s basketball teams have NBA experience-the league that has the best basketball players in the world-and players from other leagues who are good enough to play in the NBA.
All of the top international teams best player(s) play in the NBA and with that experience coming from the best players on the team their talent has caught up their skill.
The USA will win because the rest of the world doesn't field a team all that international talent isn't centered in one place. USA only loses FIBA because NBA players don't treat the world cup like soccer players do.
But the world cup is where they should be serious. You can't call yourself the best in the world if you're losing to the rest of the world 😂@@commodorezero
@@Focus293There’s a reason why we put kids with up incoming talent up against y’all damn near every year. It’s really not that much comp like y’all think it is 😭
@@sameerramdeen6703To be fair they don't even need the NBA experience. Serbia and Germany had very few NBA players on theur rosters. They simply have better teamplay and are used to FIBA style, unlike NBA it can't be a one-man offense
the threat of Team USA are the Olympic referees coz they don’t tolerate NBA antics and shennanigans
thats gonna be funny imo
Yeah. I might agree
The players from the other countries play in the NBA too.
And they hand check and actually have centers in the game .
Fiba is Physical compared to the NBA.that is team USA lose last time
I was laughing about Jamal Murray being nicknamed "Lakers Slayer"
Denver won a title and can’t stop talking about the Lakers
Even when sending a B or C team, it's still a disgrace. They are all star players in the best league in the world. Germany had 4 NBA players, non a superstar and only 1 (Franz) and maybe Dennis as well play real minutes in the NBA. Losing against a team like this with an NBA squad is ridiculous.
No it’s not lol
What league is better?
Hard to win when the other team scores more points.😮
@@chrisomatic3228 Why not?
How many actual all stars were on that USA team to support your claim? Not a single player on the roster had ever been named to an all NBA team. None of them had precious national team experience.
you guys are talking mad crazy in the comments, this team is miles better than 2021 Olympic team and that team won the gold.... no chance we lose this year
Put your money where your mouth is little boy
Lots of salty Europeans in the comments
No chance?? France may assemble the best defensive team and they have homecourt. Canada is deadly SGA Wiggins and Murray. Serbia with Jokic a threat.
@@zenitsuthunder3946 you named at best 3 amazing players on those teams, USA has TEN + ....
@@rjmacready9828theres only one ball and 5 players in basketball.
They cut to JJ Reddick when he mentioned "experts."😂😂😂
The biggest question imo is team synergy / chemistry. Also, fatigue. Most likely the NBA season is the most schedule intense league so they will be dealing with remnant fatigue from the season. But the standard is gold or disappointment.
Truth is none of them are in the playoffs right? They all have time off right now.
@@sueprator9314Edwards, Tatum, and Haliburton are all still playing
@@EA-ps4wc And Holiday
@@EA-ps4wcthey aren’t the main starters
Lucky Embi is playing for USA instead of France
He’s from Cameroon. Should be playing there. Dumbest shit ever to just let anyone play for any country. Defeats the entire purpose
He will be the defining factor
Will be a miracle if he plays
@@Afineadditionwhen they choke they will blame him 😂
If Embiid stays healthy, team USA will be nearly unstoppable. Wouldn't be surprised if they don't lose a single game
who is taking the last shoot? who is making a stop when need? who doesnt play? this team losing at least 1 game
Who is taking the last shot? Whoever is hot that night, just like they did it in the golden stacked warriors with kd
Who is making a stop when needed? Any of the clutch defenders they got on the team
Who doesn't play? Whoever isn't healthy...looking at you embiid and kawhi
@@MrE_ the clutch defenders are bench warmers, and they cant defend murry and miils
@@user-xd5zq8gg4fmills???😂
@@user-xd5zq8gg4f 💀
Asking question that dont need to be answered.
Dream Team, Redeem Team and now LeDream Team.
"LeDream Team" 🤣🤣🤣
It looks like it. When you build your own team in 2K, kinda similar to that.
Wish Dame & Jimmy Buckets are part of it.
If they lose in the Olympic. MJ , Magic, bird , Charles and all the original dream will come out off retirement
When LeBron James is surrounded by the two best shooters of in nba history, plus the most dominant scorer in the world, you just can't loose. I mean how do you stop this offense? LeBron just runs down the floor and you either leave him and he gets a bucket or he passes the ball to and open steph or KD, who is stopping that?!
smaller courts, no travels allowed, Lebron is very limited in FIBA rules
@@jacobscholtissek2410 you realize he's just played in these type of rules multiple times right? 😂
@@corpyhogan4433 yeah and 50% of the time he sucked hard
@@jacobscholtissek2410you realize that LeBron, KD, and Steph all have played for the National team correct
@CP91230, and they all failed. LeBronze couldn't do it on his own and had DWade and Kobe drag his ass to first place. This team will fail, guaranteed.
I like that great groups of players can be beaten by teams that play better basketball.
World Basketball is dif from NBA we seen that last time. Defense is more aggressive, and it is a real team sport...
It's a lot easier to play aggressive defensive in a few tournament games compared to an 82 game schedule.
That is exactly what the 1972 team said!
@@victorfischer1364 The 1972 team was college players who played like 40 games if they got an in the NIT or the NCAA tourny. what you are same makes no sense.
How many travels is LeBum going to called for?
Defensive line up and not putting Kawhi is ridiculous
I’m about to put every last penny on team USA winning gold.
@HoopReports Love the video, really insightful as always!!
Last years WC USA Team was still the by far highest paid (in terms of salary in the league the player plays in)
The US didn't perform poorly at the last WC because of their squad, it was their coaches that failed to understand the nuances of the FIBA game. Watch their games back. Their offences relied on basic actions whereby FIBA actions are more intracate and actually swing the ball to loosen up the defence. If the US first action didn't eventuate, they relied on iso heavy action which plays into the hands of FIBA defences. As for their defence, there was a disctinct lack of boxing out for rebounds allowing for multiple offensive rebounds for opponents. Also, the coaches failed to impart the ability to utilise allowing players to play split line defence AKA clog the middle and therefore creating space on the inside for FIBA teams to exploit.
also the USA didn't have size. Small ball doesn't work in FIBA like in the NBA as the court doesn't have the spacing and there is no 3 seconds. Yes we sort of won the Olympics with small ball but 1 we had Bam, one of the best defensive centers in the league and 2 with a super team like Durant, Tatum, Lilard, etc...you can out score anyone but it was still close. At the WC our only true centers were Portis and Kessler, role players. Jaren Jackson was exposed as in the NBA he plays PF and has a center like Adams to do the dirty work but he got out muscled by the European bigs. Same with Banchero who is great but again in the NBA he is a 4, he needs a center to to the dirty work. Look at our teams in 2016 (Deandre and Cousins) & 2014 (AD & Cousins with Faried as well) they dominated the front court
If the coaches were to blame for 2023 they should just send the same players and change the coaches instead of sending better players.
@@rocketfighter8 Both coaches and players were to blame. Steve Kerr does not deserve to be the head coach of this team. His coaching combined with lack of effort from the players, especially on the defensive end, was the problem, not talent. We should have changed both players and coaches with players and coaches that will give much better effort. Talent was not the issue. Effort and coaching was.
@@seanholley7284 I replied directly to the initial comment that the blame is only on the coaches. You should do the same and not preach to the choir (me).
@@gabepizza you are exactly right! even when we got exposed in 2006 we had NO bigs... then we came back in 2008 with Howard and Bosh. 2012 Tyson. 2014 was the biggest wrap ever with all the bigs we had. I would've liked to add chet instead of Kwahi, but getting Embiid will be huge. Embiid, Bam, AD will be a great rotation. we wont lose any offense with them either unlike, 2016, 2021 and last years world cup.
Imagine Wemby dominates team USA, in a statement game against the old crew.
After playing for a whole season for a team that wanted to tank, I think he will be more motivated than ever
I'm Canadian and that picture at 10:22 is just awesome. Canada basketball looks young proud and hungry!! I can't wait till the Olympics start.
hopefully Wiggins play. Murray is confirmed. Murray and SGA backcourt is just deadly. If they add Mathurin and Nickeil Alexander-Walker that's icing. They need the right bigs tho Powell, Olynyk, Lyles or even Old Tristan Thompson are good picks for bigs
Stick to ice Hockey
France looking scary right now, Gobert and Wemby with Fournier Coulibaly and Dieng as the 5 starters with Sarr whos another insane shot blocker and Rupert to lock up off the bench as well as risacher and a few other guys I'm probably forgetting about. I hope that the gold medal game is USA vs France because I will be watching that game.
bro calling Jamal Murray the Lakers Slayer caught me off guard 🤣
Words cannot describe how badly I wanted Canada to at least get bronze. I fully realize we probably won’t beat the US or Serbia, but I’d be super happy with bronze.
As an Australian, we have good nba names on our squad but none of them fit together at all. We have a bunch of point forwards that cant shoot. Still we'll make a run for Bronze
too bad about Simmons
@@nevohyams haha yeah even he a point forward who cant shoot, we could low key use him on the squad tho. He prolly never putting on our uniform tho
Simmons got infected by the other stars in NBA the BUM disease
The only struggle is that the world has endless video on the nba players but it would be hard to find footage of the world players
The way he said Benedict Mathurin is😂
Very proud to see Ant on the team, he gonna hit an insane dunk in the Olympics
We're hoping.
If USA 2024 lose. That’s it man. NBA can’t hate on international players no more.
Honestly I think 2008 was insane. The fact D-Wade led the team in scoring with Lebron and Kobe is ridiculous
because he played the 6th man role. Hopefully that will be ANT this time around. He will be unstoppable coming in and just playing 100% speed and effort in shorter spurts
@@crzycolchris I mean yeah, but I think the difference between that team and this team is that the 08 team I feel was more about defense and this one is more about the offense. I mean Howard, Lebron, Kobe, Prince all great one on one defenders. Plus I think Coach K is better than Steve Kerr and I’m a warriors fan 😂😂
Also a team with Melo, Lebron and Kobe and still leading the team in scoring is pretty good.
@@redsoxboi1 lol I think coach I I def better than Kerr lol. I don't think Kerr is the best coach on the current team. Eric Spoelatra is better.
But I'll say every one of team USA is players are defense capable. Minus maybe Thyrese and Steph. And when they don't have to be the scoring threat on offense they can play that much harder on defense.
All our bigs can play d.
LeBron in spurts kawhi if he feels like playing. Tatum. Ant and Holiday are elite. Booker and KD can capable as well. I can't wait to watch this!
@@crzycolchris get ready for a long ass analysis between the coaches lmaooo….. here we go 😬😂😂
coach spoeletra is an amazing coach, it’s funny because I’m a warriors fan since I’m living in the Bay Area for 32 years, but I’m also a Miami heat fan since D-Wade came into the league from Marquette. Was following him since college too.
But it’s also hard to tell who’s better in terms of coaching. Kerr won 2 titles without KD, coach spo besides 2006 didn’t win a title without Lebron, Bosh and Wade. BUT I think in terms of making the playoffs Spo did better. When there was an injury to curry, they weren’t able to make the playoffs. Spo Lee the heat to multiple playoffs when their best players were hurt. And sometimes he makes smarter decisions….
1 min is crazy
Leaving Kyre out is criminal
steph in the team!! you wouldnt bet against us.
If Steph is there, good things happen. LBJ just bloats and gloats.
steph is no longer a top 5 player and isn't even the best player on the team
@@akz2628Steph is still the best shooter in the world. If Team USA is down by three at the end of the game, it’s undisputed who should get the ball for the last shot.
@@akz2628tell me you didn’t watch a single Warriors game this past season without saying so
@@Deerjason true but he’s still not a top 5 player in the world. I’d say he’s probably 8-10
Serbia, France, Germany, Canada, Slovenia are all legit imo. US needs to take them seriously, they’re going to have much more cohesion and familiarity with FIBA rules. Also Spain and Australia can win if everything goes right but lack of a superstar will hurt them
Different rules are also a factor to consider, US team have to adapt to them in very short time, which is not easy regardless of the talent and quality of individual players.
And what will Serbia do, depends on how many of the top players will be in the national team, in last year's World cup 6 or 7 best players were not playing for Serbia.
Micić, Bogdanović, Jović, Pokuševski, Jokic
Bro said nba talent and procedeed to put a Josh Giddey clip lol
I don’t think the USA will end up working as well together as people think they will.
You realize the majority of them have international USAB experience. You absolutely on something if you believe that
I like how people are mad about Embiid playing but when an American born player plays for another country it's all crickets.
I am one of those, but you got a point
I will point out that Jokic hasn't committed to Serbia yet. He said he needed to think about it in the last interview. But I am sooo hyped because the lineups are fantastic for a lot of countries.
I just noticed but most of the lineup last time had made a great jump this year, Haliburton, Edwards, Bridges, Ingram, Hart heck even Portis....
they always do when they play in world cup.... and that lineup lost to germany by 2.
I’ve never liked the idea of just appointing a “team” of good/great individual players who have never played together or played very little together. There is more to being a true team than that. Individual brilliance can and often does trump even very good teams. But on the world’s biggest athletic stage, the very best players from every country who have been playing together for years are more than capable of beating the US handily. Has there been actual US Olympic team tryouts since pro’s became eligible to play? I remember Coach Knight having tryouts for the team he put together from college players, but I’m not aware of any tryouts since then.
I never knew they even had tryouts to begin with. :O
@@sameerramdeen6703 I think they did it when only college players were allowed to play, and it ended with the original Dream Team. I think the famous story about the 1984 team was that Coach Knight actually cut Charles Barkley and John Stockton from the team.
I believe we were doing "tryouts" the past 4-5 international teams. this is the first one in a while that Lebron basically put together. but I'm not worried
I think centers are definitely a weakness
LOL centers aren’t a weakness Embiid, AD, and Bam
@CP91230 Embiid and AD would'nt endoure a Game outside the NBA soft rules, and bam can't compete with international centres, too leatle 🤏🏽
Davis and embiid can absolute handle any big from Europe
HAHA def not. They will have a 3 man rotation and wont miss out on offense with anyone. THAT is gonna be huge. because in years past we've had a defensive "big" and an offensive "big" we will actually have 3 two ways bigs who wont have to play 40 mins a game.
@@scruffd0g193 and if some reason they cant... go big (we aren't lacking guard play) and have ad play the 4 where we can "help off embiid" 🤣🤣 that sounds hilarious to say
Brunson would’ve completed the lineup
"brimming with NBA talent" and you show Josh Giddy 😂
Good vid though
France let us not forget Evan Fournier, Nicolas Batum, Frank Ntilikina, Alexandre Sarr, , Bilal Coulibaly, Zacharie Risacher.
Serbia be like: Hold my beer.
Hold my rakija 😂😂😂
@@chefbrankothespider5094 Hahahaha. Loza ili Sljivovica?
"experts" and then, footage of JJ Redick
how many of the players are still in the play offs today?
2 to 4 players
Question is who you start? Who do you play? Curry at the 1. Do you play booker or Edwards at the 2? Lebron or Kawhi at the 3? Anthony Davis or Kevin Durant at the 4? Embid or Adebyu at the 5?
Honestly we'll need Jrue Holiday for those international players who turn into MJ playing for their countries.. so Holiday, Curry, James, KD, Embiid is my guess.. with a quick spell for James and embiid
as lebroooom would say, "it's just basketball" so it doesn't really matter who wins but im just making sure it's us
We've already seen that good team basketball and solid defense will beat the NBA all star style roster
How many of those on the thumbnail had injuries during playoffs 😂
Just hoping for exciting games vs there being any one clear winner
With LJ in the team, will he sack EVERYONE???!!!😂😂😂
LeGM😆
LeGoat
It's always people with dogs in their profile picture saying the corniest shit 😂
Olympic basketball reminds me of an anime named Kuroko's Basketball. 🔥
FAX
its looking like ants gonna end up starting over book
Over Tatum? Because curry, LeBron, KD and embiid have been the locked in starters for years now.
ant should def be the 6th man energy guy on this team.... Book honestly needs to be the 12 man LOL
I'ma go out on a limb and say half this team will be injured when they're needed the most😂
3:08 famous last words
The "reedem" team was also "unbeatlabe", kobe isnt here to save their asses again
Lebron and Dillion brooks bout to face up again lmao
Ofc they can be beaten bro, international basketball has been on the rise especially recently, players who are used to FIBA (actual basketball) rules have an advantage because these superstar aren't used to actual calls such as travelling, double dribble, no defensive 3 seconds, less space, etc. Talent isn't everything, international teams are built from ground up, USA just randomly throws big names at the wall hoping it would stick
dem names b sticking doe
Anthony Edwards was correct last time…. They didn’t have a Kobe.
LET'S BE REAL HERE GUYS. BASKETBALL IS VERY EVOLVING NOW.AND IT'S JUST EVERYBODY'S BALL GAME. EVERYONE IS ADAPTING AND THAT'S WHY WE LOVE MODERN BASKETBALL
Don't forget that France has homecourt advantage for the entire tournament and that supporters go crazy in Europe
It's not that the USA have gotten worse, it's that the world is catching up. 1992 dream team as great as they were played against amateurs
That got to get coach K to coach
imagine the current usa olympic team but remove sum players and add prime kobe,carmelo,MJ,D-wade,Shaq all in their prime
If having both ANT + Tatum and also AD coming from the bench.....thats enough reason NOT to worry about.
This is the US A-Team, with more time and chemistry. US isn’t losing with the leaders they have. LeBron making his return and Curry finally on the team.
US team relies on great individualists whereas other teams rely on team play.
But their individualism has been so great they have repeatedly torn down team plays
I wonder if the USA team would pass the doping test of the International Olympic Committee.
Dream team, redeem teem, and now the sweep team. I tried
Yeah, taking a bunch of star players who are the centre of attention on their owns teams, then putting them all on one team.... Doubt it'll work😂
The dream and redeem teams were quite literally the type of team you described, and they got gold 😂
I appreciate your confidence in your respective countries, but let's now get serious. USA this year has the most future HOF players on a single team in the history of basketball. So with that being said...
USA in (whatever the minimum amount of games needed to win)
The LeAvengers
Let's hope so. We have used professional basketball players in an amateur sporting event for decades. 1992 was a real treat for us sports fans. Also, we're tired of seeing LeQueen appear in yet another Olympiad, when he's been a professional for over 20 years.
question is how hard will they play , because all star game defence will get them nowhere
When said "expert" why did you show a clip of jj?😂
canada has Murray , shai , brooks
It all boils down to coaching...
If coached well, GOLD
If coached poorly, SILVER/BRONZE.
As a Canadian. I would love to see Canada win. However, I do not see anyone upsetting and beating USA for gold.
The good thing is the whole USA team is out the playoffs
the better quesrion is, can this 2024 olympic team win the gold?
I take that as a yes
As long as Lebron is in it, any team is beatable
If they lose, he will throw Steph and KD under the bus. Guaranteeeeeeeeed
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Anyone else noticed when Ant Man blocked that shot... His head hit the rim?
I'll be honest I don't think we would do well. Embiid and kawhi is injured pretty badly. Halliburton is playing through injury. Yes we have Steph, bron, and KD. But they are old despite being very good still. A lot of their younger all stars are still in the playoffs. It's going to be hard for them to have fresh legs and build chemistry in a short time period. It's quite difficult with the world catching up with nba talents on their team respectfully
You acting as if none of them have USAB experience before. LOL crazy talk here
@@CP91230 it doesn't matter if you have experience. If they are banged up and can't play then what's the point. This team is highly injury prone. Plus chemistry can be a big determining factor in the fiba style basketball. They only got a couple short months. You really trust kawhi, embiids, ad, Halliburton health rn?
@@drift6785 highly injury prone what a bunch of nonsense. Curry, KD, Ant, Bam, Booker, Jrue, Tatum, Haliburton, and LeBron. Where mostly if not all healthy for most of the year. Put down the pipe.
@@CP91230 sure they been mostly good this season. But chemistry is still a huge factor, don't count the other countries out
Lol this ain’t FBA coming this summer homie. Last years team was the infantry squad. This year we’re bringing in Seal Team 6. Play times over homie. USA will win every game by double digits. Book it!!!
first round gonna be USA, Serbia, Lithuania any team can win on a good day
Saying it wasn’t a huge surprise that the US didn’t even get bronze, is so strange to me. Most players on that team were NBA players still, which is supposed to be the far and away best Basketball league in the world, with all the best players. Meanwhile, most players on the teams of US opponents were not NBA players so they weren’t even regarded as good enough to get drafted.
Joel Embiid switching countries for an easy Gold 😂😂
I think it would be pretty hilarious to get a rude awakening and realize that international basketball is in a different place than it's ever been. I would love to see team USA get absolutely blown out by some average team. The only time the dream team was the dream team was in 92, the rest of the time it's been sort of a disappointment frankly
This just isn’t true. The US has hardly sent a team that they tried on, and even then they get top 5 or 3 it’s frankly embarrassing for most countries that they couldn’t beat a C team from the US
@@FlamesUp1602Well, the rest of the world has just recently taken the sport serious. The USA Will always be number 1, but I hope international competition improves so it can be more interesting.
And then you add Kurt Angle to the mix!?