Basketball: USSR loses to USA - 1960 Rome Olympics ARCHIVE FOOTAGE

[@edwardjamesgay8407]

What I notice is the dribbling. There were stricter palming rules than we've had in recent decades. I like it better the old way!

[@TheSmarq17]

"West to Robertson", this is why this video is special. Such greatness on the court, it's jaw-dropping.

[@user-gw9sk1zy4s]

1960 team was the first dream team.

[@MrThumbs63]

SPOT ON!! 84 team wasn't too shabby either.

[@TheSmarq17]

It could have been even more "dreamy" if John Havlicek and Lenny Wilkins had been allowed on the team.

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Thank you for the classic footage of the U.S. defeating Russia (USSR) by the score of 81-57 from Sept. 3, 1960, at the Rome Olympics, via CBS Sports television, with Bud Palmer on play-by-play. Hard to believe those days were so long ago now. And with future NBA superstars Oscar Robertson, Jerry Lucas, Jerry West (may he R.I.P.), Terry Dischinger, among others on the U.S. team.

[@RogerPeet]

Jerry West was once asked, why did he not shoot left-handed lay ins ? Jerry said, "Why shoot left-handed when they can't stop my right hand?"

[@scottfallon1]

USA with some great fastbreaks to start the half. Beautiful basketball.

[@jamesbedugraham8056]

This archive must be kept well for Posterity. It is a rare Footage of a bygone era in 1960.

[@Majesticon]

The USA speed is unreal

[@jamesbedugraham8056]

Some of the moves made by the old basketballes are quite classic and modern by 2022 standards.

[@ponypower8]

Fewer dribbles, more ball movement. Textbook basketball, also how most European teams play nowadays. So basketball has somehow come full circle if you think about it.

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

@@ponypower8SO much ball movement. This is like the NHL.

[@ponypower8]

Fewer dribbles, more ball movement. Textbook basketball, also how most European teams play nowadays. So basketball has somehow come full circle if you think about it.

[@user-gw9sk1zy4s]

Jerry West RIP

[@qqw743]

Jerry West was absolutely beasting. Check out his bounce pass at 1:48 . If you just track what he's doing, he looks decades ahead of his time. Accurate shot, quick decision-making, good pump fake, great ball-handling in an era when dribbling rules were enforced much more strictly, very quick on defense, sees the play before it's happening. At 10:12 he stops a 3-on-1 by himself.

[@chrismalloy7960]

This was great! Thank you!

[@AndyZach]

Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robinson, Jerry West -- 3 HOFers.

[@qqw743]

Bellamy, too.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

I watched more of this game than any USA games of "threeball" in the current Olympics.

[@jamesbedugraham8056]

Way back in 1960 People spoke very Good English with less of a hubble and trouble.

[@dirkmuc1]

Well, yes. People were well pronounced and had quite some vocabulary in use. Not every second word was f**k**g here and f**k**g there.

[@qqw743]

1. There's no need to say "way back," since "in 1960" establishes the time period. 2. "Hubble and trouble" is your own coinage, rather than a known phrase. I'm not quite sure what you meant. I'm going to guess you're adapting the phrase, ""Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble," from "Macbeth." If so, it doesn't fit here. 3. Neither "People" nor "Good" should be capitalized in your sentence. 4. Announcers these days are far better and serve their role far better than this one. He spent half the time apologizing for not being able to distinguish between jerseys. 5. You're welcome.

[@bubblerap7176]

​@@qqw743I don't know who's more ridiculous, you or the guy you're responding to. 😅😅😅

[@qqw743]

@@bubblerap7176 Why not both?

[@jamesbedugraham8056]

There was no Colour for Televison back then in 1960. The recording facilty was quite different back then.

[@philvaclavik6890]

Probably shot with 16mm or 35mm film

[@josefranciscosamonte6992]

the original dream team

[@JudoChamp]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaa!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jamesbedugraham8056]

It is the modern era but it quite old School by 2022 Standards for our time and the system as we know it since 2020

[@AndyZach]

LOL! A full court press in the last minute when we're up 25! That would be considered poor sportsmanship today.

[@tomloft2000]

There wasn't exactly any love lost between them.

[@Kai-gr6sg]

That's still common in youth basketball (U19, U17, etc.). A team will be up 60+, and will do that press. And I've heard no one calling it poor sportsmanship. Some adult teams still practices it, especially in international basketball.

[@bribay]

What's up with the AI comments?

[@Haruo-6768]

Damn, these guys are fast

[@movieman1556]

Couldn't they let Gil Stratton do the play by play? This guy's voice is annoying. Sounds like the Hindenburg disaster announcer 🙄😡

[@dougmilesmedia]

Looks like this game was played outdoors.

[@jamesbedugraham8056]

The younger ones ought to learn from the 1960 Decade. Fashion does come back in some frame and forms.

[@qqw743]

What specifically would you recommend that players nowadays learn from this game? How to not play defense energetically? How to clog the lane? How to never set a pick? The game and the players have vastly improved. Just because it's older doesn't mean it's better. Mind you, Jerry West in particular and a couple of other players looked great for the sport as it was at the time, and I'm not one for comparing eras. But let's not pretend that these guys could teach the average college player today anything at all.

[@natalliaf6387]

West to Robertson is like Big Mike to Kamala or Oprah

[@epifunny1]

Two things: 1) Could the announcers suck up more to the Russians? Just further proof that the Media has always been a left-wing establishment with little affinity for the truth. The US was in control from the start of the 2nd half on, but you'd never tell by the announcing. 2) This was 12 years before the Munich disaster, where the Hank Iba-coached US team lost in the final seconds to the Russians. Without regard the issues at the end, one can see why there was so much criticism of Iba. His '72 team plodded along right into the hands of the Russian strategy at a 50-point full game pace. A full 12 years earlier - in this video - the US devastated the USSR with the fast break again and again. We didn't lose the '72 gold as much with bad refereeing or because we had kids playing older men, we lost because Iba was a doddering old fool well past his usefulness as a Head Coach. When politics involves itself with competition, Sport always loses.

[@qqw743]

1. The announcers are hardly sucking up to the Russians. Palmer can barely tell one from another. 2. Get your ridiculous "media is a left-wing conspiracy" bot nuttiness outta here. 3. The Munich "disaster" you remember is the US being cheated out of a win. The one I remember is the massacre of the Israeli team. Let's be careful with terms like "disaster." 4. What exactly are you so bitter about? You're watching a video of the team you apparently are rooting for, the USA, being terrific against the team you are supposedly against, the USSR. If Jerry West et. al. don't put you in a good mood, I'm guessing nothing will.

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

The WNBA on 1.5 speed.

[@user-rz6bc2cl3c]

The annoucer is quite poor. Could have made the game more informative and entertaining.

[@qqw743]

Poor is too kind. He's awful.

[@thomasmoody8708]

It's unbelievable how the game has evolved...NONE of these guys (yes, West and Robertson) could hope to even compete at the pro level today. Such un-athletic players!!! I feel like I'm watching a lo-lo level high school game...

[@MiRi-zi4wp]

Back when the USA didn't need pro players to dominate international game.

[@blackbond2406]

Oscar Robertson is a top 20 player of all time, and Jerry West is literally the Logo of the NBA. . The team wasn’t loaded with pros but those are two top players of all time.

[@MiRi-zi4wp]

@@blackbond2406 What they became later is not the point. My point was back then the USA dominated internationally with college age armatures which West and Robertson were at the time of this game played. Not like today where we HAVE to send our professional best just to compete.

[@bemore1134]

@@MiRi-zi4wp Yep. And I believe there was a stipulation back then that there be an armed forces representative on the team.

[@natch27]

C’mon man, you’re not taking into account that the rest of the world got much better. Nobody got within 24 points of the 1960 team, which in 2010 (along with the 1992 Dream Team) was named to the Naismith Basketball HOF as a a unit. By 1988 both the Soviets and Yugoslavia had caught up because they played together for years while the USA would choose a college all-star team. This caused the panel members of USA basketball to panic, hence the Dream Team.

[@MiRi-zi4wp]

@@natch27 Blah, Blah, Blah... You saying a bunch of robotic mechanical moving white European males scared the Olympic committee that much it needed to have professionals to represent them? Weak AF!

[@jamesbedugraham8056]

The USSR is no more as of 2022

[@qqw743]

Get outta here. REALLY? I need to talk to my paperboy, because I thought the Soviet Union was still in operation

[@user-dv3do1od2r]

The Announcer is maybe the worst ever

[@thomaswolf723]

The announcer is Bud Palmer, a regular CBS sports announcer. He played college basketball at Princeton and played NBA basketball with the NY Knickerbocker.

[@qqw743]

@@thomaswolf723 And was a terrible announcer.