Dream Team to Nightmare
I loved the Dream Team concept when it first came out. Most everyone did. You took 11 of the best players to have represented the golden age of NBA basketball and formed a team, as much dominate as they were ambassadors. You made team captains out of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, the two players that dominated the 1980s an easily on most people's list of the top-five NBA players of all time, you add unstoppable Michael Jordan, physical anomaly and never-muzzled Charles Barkley, the leagues best due in John Stockton and Karl Malone, New York pivotman Patrick Ewing, sharpshooter Chris Mullin, high-flying Clyde Drexler, Jack-of-all-trades Scottie Pippen, David Robinson and (blech) one college senior, and what did you have (even with a college senior)- the best team ever assembled. I loved it. I still love it.
As much as the Dream Team are used as a reference point for what US National Teams have done in the past and will do in the future, the Dream Team wasn't without controversy - from the selection, to the games, to the aftermath where teams that followed were only Dream Teams on paper, and "nightmares on the court".
With the talent level decreasing and the negative attitudes increasing in the NBA and foreign countries expanding their game, what do you see coming out of this year's Olympics? Gold? Silver? Bronze? Headache? What do you think?
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- -- Posted by BonScott on Tue, Aug 5, 2008, at 3:31 PM
- -- Posted by Mustang,68 on Tue, Aug 5, 2008, at 4:22 PM
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- -- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Aug 7, 2008, at 9:24 PM
- -- Posted by BonScott on Thu, Aug 7, 2008, at 10:11 PM
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- -- Posted by dimebag darrell on Fri, Aug 8, 2008, at 1:46 AM
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- -- Posted by BonScott on Fri, Aug 8, 2008, at 9:32 AM
- -- Posted by dimebag darrell on Fri, Aug 8, 2008, at 12:53 PM
- -- Posted by 5on5 on Fri, Aug 8, 2008, at 4:01 PM
- -- Posted by BonScott on Fri, Aug 8, 2008, at 4:10 PM
- -- Posted by dimebag darrell on Fri, Aug 8, 2008, at 7:04 PMBobby Greer's response:Good stuff guys! I,m having some popcorn with Mustang!
- -- Posted by layne staley on Fri, Aug 8, 2008, at 10:31 PM
- -- Posted by 5on5 on Fri, Aug 8, 2008, at 10:55 PM
- -- Posted by BonScott on Sat, Aug 9, 2008, at 4:52 AM
- -- Posted by shannonhoon on Sat, Aug 9, 2008, at 10:33 AM
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- -- Posted by BonScott on Sat, Aug 9, 2008, at 6:56 PM
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- -- Posted by layne staley on Sun, Aug 10, 2008, at 8:12 PM
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- -- Posted by Mustang,68 on Mon, Aug 11, 2008, at 3:24 PM
- -- Posted by shannonhoon on Tue, Aug 12, 2008, at 8:23 AM
- -- Posted by 5on5 on Tue, Aug 12, 2008, at 10:04 AM
- -- Posted by shannonhoon on Tue, Aug 12, 2008, at 11:24 AM
- -- Posted by BonScott on Tue, Aug 12, 2008, at 12:00 PMBobby Greer's response:Amen Bon.... now lets talk about slant-eye wannabes.
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