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Yugoslavia Basketball 1990
Eja117:
Toni K's team alone gave the Dream Team a respectable game.
Here's another one just for fun....The Lithuanian team came in 3rd...what if the Soviet Union had broken up in 1993 instead of 1991? Just to note the Unified Team's women won gold. The men's came in 4th. Add the Baltics to the rest of the SSR and it's hard to say how that turns out.
I suppose an objection is that this is like having the US compete against 15 different countries trying to gang up, but our population is more than double theirs. Right?
rickyfan3.0...:
Nice Team, but don't get carried away, Dream Team beats them by a LOT.
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KGs Knee:
Yeah, that would have been a good team. But still no comparison to the Dream Team.
A better question would be, how good would Yugoslavia now if they were still a country. Dragic, Bogdanovic, Mirotic, Jokic, Nurkic. That would be a strong starting five.
Eja117:
In hindsight looking at the box scores the dream team beat Lithuania by 50ish and Croatia by 30ish and they used their entire team.
Still.
I guess you're not really trying to get a team that could beat the Dream Team. You're trying to find a team that could lose by less than 12, and I'm not sure that could happen.
Except for the college all stars that beat the Dream Team. I woulda liked to see how they woulda done in the Olympics. I think they coulda won. And those college all stars didn't even have Laetner. It also didn't have Shaq and they beat the Dream Team by 20.
vgulab:
That Yugoslavia team wasn't just 4 players. Yes Drazen, Vlade, Toni, Dino were the stars but that team was deeper. And i believ that in USA most people didn't knew all the players and how good they were. Probably dream team would still win but that would be a game to watch.
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