dreamteam or redeem team?? which is better??

[BoJoE]

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for me redeem team is d btr bcoz sa tym nilang jordan d pa keu scientific ang basketball denkaron lahi nah pagahi.ay nah sa lawas..

unsa inyo ma say

[ick]

I hate to burst your bubbles but if you grew up watching the original dream team then you would know that they were the best team ever assembled! Athleticism wise they are at par with today's best alls-tars but what separates them from today's stars or even redeem team members was their skills and basketball IQ. Guys like Bird and Michael can shoot the lights out. Big Men David Robinson and Patrick Ewing has moves in the post that Dwight Howard can only perform in his sleep. John Stockton and Magic Johnson can pass the rock and influence a group of monkeys to believe they are actually humans, well not really, but you get the point. These guys could play in any generation if you ask me and still be very competitive. Not to mention a few of them like Michael, Magic, and Barkley in their prime could dominate any generation. Athleticism coupled with skills and a high basketball IQ transcends any form of basketball play. Original Dream team for me anytime over the redeem team.

[MalditohoN]

Dream Team Rosters:
1. Michael Jordan
2. Magic Johnson
3. Larry Bird
4. Scottie Pippen
5. Clyde Drexler
6. David Robinson
7. Patrick Ewing
8. Charles Barkley
9. John Stockton
10. Karl Malone
11. Chris Mullin
12. Christian Laettner

Redeem Team Rosters:
1. Jason Kidd
2. Chris Paul
3. Deron Williams
4. Kobe Bryant
5. Dwyane Wade
6. Michael Reed
7. Lebron James
8. Carmelo Anthony
9. Carlos Boozer
10. Dwight Howard
11. Chris Bosh
12. Tayshaun Prince

The Redeem Team better than the 1992 Olympic team? Dream on
By Jack McCallum, SI.com

From the comfort of my couch I send a shout-out to Alex Wolff, my distinguished Sports Illustrated colleague who has been covering the Redeem Team. Alex's assignment was easier than mine was in 2004 (when covering Team Bad Vibe in Athens was about as pleasurable as getting a root canal) but more difficult than the task in 1992, when chronicling the Dream Team consisted mainly of ferreting out Charles Barkley's post-midnight agenda on Barcelona's famed Las Ramblas.

Like the veteran knuckleballer, I've been summoned from the bullpen to perform the obvious -- compare the Redeem Team to the Dream Team. Not in terms of global popularity (no matter how many times you've seen Kobe Bryant mobbed by Chinese fans, it doesn't compare to the Elvis-is-in-the-building treatment extended to Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, et al.). And not in terms of public comportment during the Games (the '08 team has earned points by showing up at some athletic events, unlike the Dreamers, who, Barkley excepted, mostly stayed in and bonded at their luxury hotel). We're talking strictly basketball.

As the Food Network would put it: Whose cuisine would reign supreme? What we're examining here is a game between Team '92 in its prime against Team '08, which held off Spain 118-107 on Sunday to win the gold.

First of all, discount margin of victory, which was an astounding 43.8 for the Dream Team, compared to 27.9 for this year's team. NBA-caliber players on international teams were a rarity when Chuck Daly's team took the court 16 years ago, as opposed to the stacked rosters against which Mike Krzyzewski's charges had to compete.

The pressure, too, is a wash. Bird joked that if the '92 team lost, it "wouldn't be allowed back in the country," the very idea of NBA players losing to lesser lights being laughable at that point in time. But though the template of top European teams beating thrown-together Americans is now well established, the Redeem Teamers had just as heavy a burden on their collective back. Indeed, with USA Basketball czar Jerry Colangelo in charge, this year's quest to recapture the gold took on the form of a holy crusade ... and crusades aren't about silver and bronze medals.

But my feeling is that the '92 team would prevail. That's not merely old-school sentiment talking (though I can't deny there's some of that), but cold, hard facts. Here are a few of them:

• The best all-around player on the '08 team was LeBron James, with Kobe a close second. (During the NBA season, I reverse that order.) The best all-around player on the '92 team was Jordan. And Jordan, at that time, was a better player than either James or Bryant, offensively and defensively. To a large extent, teams draw their identity and their strength from their best player.

• The '08 team could not begin to match the Dreamers on the interior. Not only did the '92-ers have two classic centers in Patrick Ewing and David Robinson -- that's two more classic centers than the '08 team had -- but Barkley and Karl Malone could also supply post-ups and rebounding. Dwight Howard was a force at times in Beijing, but against the Dream Team, he'd have three fouls before Coach K could look around for a replacement. Chris Bosh and Carlos Boozer would play their tails off, but they would get pounded inside.

• The '08 team is deeper at the point with a combination of Jason Kidd, Chris Paul and Deron Williams, particularly since John Stockton was limited by a leg injury in Barcelona and could provide only minor backup help for Magic. But that's irrelevant. Any number of players besides Johnson (Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Chris Mullin and Clyde Drexler) could initiate the U.S. offense, which was more versatile than the Beijing team's.

• The '08 team played hard on defense (though it had few answers for Spain in the final), but the Dream Team was better at that end of the court. If you saw Jordan shut down Lithuania's Sarunas Marciulionis or Pippen put the clamps on Croatia's Toni Kukoc -- both of the international players were world-class at the time -- you would have to give the advantage to the '92 team in a close game. And that's not even to bring up how Robinson and Ewing would protect the paint.

Keep in mind that this is not in any way a condemnation of the '08 team, which comported itself splendidly both on and off the court. It is merely to say that it would not beat the once and future kings who set a standard that will probably never be matched.

[depechebox]

hahaha lingawa ani oy, hapit man gani mapildi sa finals ang redeem team..

nya ang orig dream team dominating their opponents by a least 40 pts ang margin sa labaw..

10 out of 12 players sa dream team 1 na apil sa 50 greatest players of all time..


no offense sa thread starter but I think Dream Team 2 is even better than the Redeem Team.

[o_bama]

For me ha lahi man sad gyd pud anmg quality sa mga opponents sa Dream Team compare sa RedeeM team. During sa time sa redeem lig on na kau ang teams like lithuana,yoguslavia, Argentina and Spain lahi ra kau sa previos nila mga teams during the 1992 olympics.

[clarkhkent]

bata pa man gud ni ang TS atong panahona mao nang naka ingon cya nga maayo ang redeem team...pero kakita pa lang ni cya unsay dinuwaan ato nila....maka ingon jud ni cya nga maayo tong dream team...

ako dream team ko...nothing bets da original...

[inyourface]

mga hall of famer naman nang naa sa dream team TS .. wa ka kabantay? hehe

nindut tan-awn ang hardwood NBA Classics

[BoJoE]

pro mga bro..kung huna2x.on nato buh..ang mga opponent sa dream tem murag mga huyang man gud..nya sa redeem team murag lisod pildihon..kay ang mga batan.on man gud karon lahi nah..huna2.a lang gud ang technology karon og sauna lahi ra keu..magka anam2x bya nah og kanindot og kalisod..

[icon_king]

lahi ra ang the first dream team . they all mean business. walay MAPYA diresto gyud lubong. pniaksitay gyud diresto to ilaha mao the greatest team gyud toh coach by a legend "the late chuck daly"

[pollybusngiw]

pro mga bro..kung huna2x.on nato buh..ang mga opponent sa dream tem murag mga huyang man gud..nya sa redeem team murag lisod pildihon..kay ang mga batan.on man gud karon lahi nah..huna2.a lang gud ang technology karon og sauna lahi ra keu..magka anam2x bya nah og kanindot og kalisod..

ngka-anam lgi ug kanindot, nya saun mn, perte mn huyanga... kung sa technlogy pa nga imo gi-ingon, ang karon kay nindot lgi pro made in china pod lagi...mga gabok au ug tuhod mga player karon...hehehehe...try gud visit ad2 youtube din watch MJ's highlights...tan.awa kung unsa ka physical ang duwa...