In my brother’s blog today, he asks whether, after beating top metal contender Spain by almost 40 points, the U.S. national basketball team, dubbed the Redeem Team, is better than its 1992 predecessor the Dream Team. I commented as follows:
I read an interesting statistic in the Spanish sport’s paper Marca today that during the ’92 Olympics, the Dream Team beat Spain by 41 points. Today the Redeem Team beat Spain by 37 points.
There is no doubt that today’s Spain team is far superior, as is the international competition overall, to its ’92 predecessor. That can only mean two things: first the U.S. team today is better than the ’92 dream team, or that the U.S.’s defeats during the last 16 years was due more to the U.S.’s fault than the rest of the world’s achievement.
So now my question is, is the 2008 Spanish team better than its 1992 predecessor? Or better yet, has European ball really improved or were recent U.S. teams simply too arrogant in not taking international play seriously? Continue reading
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