Can This 2024 USA Basketball Team Be Beaten?

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[@HoopReports]

Which country would you say has the greatest chances of upsetting Team USA?

[@BiggyBeansMan]

I dunno. Most of the well known international players aren’t around as much, but I do have a feeling that France may pull something

[@rayanehamza1422]

France if victor wenbenyama plays if not canada

[@BiggyBeansMan]

Although, can’t sleep on Canada and Serbia. They got some good hoopers on the team, especially Canada with the underrated defenders

[@moralesglitxhh27]

France, Serbia, Canada

[@Assen87]

Only chance to lose is if all the oldies play at the same time the whole game. Which wont happen.

[@TheSmoothViewASMR]

France will be crazy with Wemby, Gobert, Sarr, Risacher, Coulibaly, Dieng, Rupert. The length on that team could be an all time high. A potentially historic defence

[@Taj_Rahine]

They will be a very tall team also

[@kevindevlieger300]

Next olympics they'll be even stronger. Lots of young talents.

[@BOKItheROCK]

And BATUUUM

[@fdbmane4594]

Bs who guarding embieed didnt he give wemby 70 they gonna have to trap him lol.

[@immanuelray23]

@@fdbmane4594 how many free throws he shoot in that game again?

[@lordfaust023]

This looks like the Cancun Olympic Basketball Team

[@ADUSN]

Lot of bus riders.

[@damienthimonier4900]

Galveston's Fishermans Basketball Team

[@greyfell7799]

Dude😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@immanuelvivek6638]

What people are forgetting is the extra kick players get when playing for their country. That thing can make marginally good talent into elite top-tier talent.

[@jr032582]

the threat of Team USA are the Olympic referees coz they don’t tolerate NBA antics and shennanigans

[@matsananta713]

thats gonna be funny imo

[@papynat0r]

American players and coaches would do well to bear in mind that the competition will be even tougher in the future. The idea of being athletically dominant is no longer enough to beat the other great basketball nations.

[@sameerramdeen6703]

I would also say other country’s basketball teams have NBA experience-the league that has the best basketball players in the world-and players from other leagues who are good enough to play in the NBA. All of the top international teams best player(s) play in the NBA and with that experience coming from the best players on the team their talent has caught up their skill.

[@commodorezero]

The USA will win because the rest of the world doesn't field a team all that international talent isn't centered in one place. USA only loses FIBA because NBA players don't treat the world cup like soccer players do.

[@Focus293]

But the world cup is where they should be serious. You can't call yourself the best in the world if you're losing to the rest of the world 😂​@@commodorezero

[@PappiiSensei101]

@@Focus293There’s a reason why we put kids with up incoming talent up against y’all damn near every year. It’s really not that much comp like y’all think it is 😭

[@benoitlamirault6456]

@@sameerramdeen6703To be fair they don't even need the NBA experience. Serbia and Germany had very few NBA players on theur rosters. They simply have better teamplay and are used to FIBA style, unlike NBA it can't be a one-man offense

[@quadlui8220]

I got excited when my home country South Sudan made it in the Olympics for the first time ever and the cried when I found out were in the same group as Serbia and the United States

[@raghudurina2354]

Get ready to lose by 50

[@kenbernarte7902]

@@raghudurina2354 bro that's a violation, emotional damage hahahahha

[@rysupastar718]

It will be such an honor to play against them

[@zenitsuthunder3946]

Ez chicken for USA and Serbia especially if Jokic will play (most likelyy)

[@allainangcao28]

I choked on my water when Embiid was announced. I was like, "Isn't he African?" 😂

[@rysupastar718]

For real

[@upholstery1995]

I think he has citizenship in France, Cameroon, and USA

[@rysupastar718]

@@upholstery1995 Then where is his loyalty?

[@upholstery1995]

@rysupastar718 not sure. Looks like the US, though

[@phumlanimncwango7686]

​@@rysupastar718 You only play for one country, once you choose one, you gotta stick with it for life so obviously his loyalty is with the US

[@henningts]

Even when sending a B or C team, it's still a disgrace. They are all star players in the best league in the world. Germany had 4 NBA players, non a superstar and only 1 (Franz) and maybe Dennis as well play real minutes in the NBA. Losing against a team like this with an NBA squad is ridiculous.

[@chrisomatic3228]

No it’s not lol

[@iluvchente.]

What league is better?

[@dennisdezarn5895]

Hard to win when the other team scores more points.😮

[@GaelArenal]

@@chrisomatic3228 Why not?

[@cycleoflife565]

How many actual all stars were on that USA team to support your claim? Not a single player on the roster had ever been named to an all NBA team. None of them had precious national team experience experience.

[@jamescarlsayaang8734]

I was laughing about Jamal Murray being nicknamed "Lakers Slayer"

[@bleedgreen_22]

That’s a cool name ngl. Murray the lakers slayer

[@stardream7412]

The biggest question imo is team synergy / chemistry. Also, fatigue. Most likely the NBA season is the most schedule intense league so they will be dealing with remnant fatigue from the season. But the standard is gold or disappointment.

[@sueprator9314]

Truth is none of them are in the playoffs right? They all have time off right now.

[@EA-ps4wc]

​@@sueprator9314Edwards, Tatum, and Haliburton are all still playing

[@Ashened0]

@@EA-ps4wc And Holiday

[@Kai_-ys9jj]

Last years WC USA Team was still the by far highest paid (in terms of salary in the league the player plays in)

[@josephperez4602]

They cut to JJ Reddick when he mentioned "experts."😂😂😂

[@Harrisonsportz]

The way he said Benedict Mathurin is😂

[@jameslee9742]

Lucky Embi is playing for USA instead of France

[@godofdreamzzz]

He’s from Cameroon. Should be playing there. Dumbest shit ever to just let anyone play for any country. Defeats the entire purpose

[@Afineaddition]

He will be the defining factor

[@rjmacready9828]

you guys are talking mad crazy in the comments, this team is miles better than 2021 Olympic team and that team won the gold.... no chance we lose this year

[@biggdig6669]

Put your money where your mouth is little boy

[@Ashened0]

Lots of salty Europeans in the comments

[@zenitsuthunder3946]

No chance?? France may assemble the best defensive team and they have homecourt. Canada is deadly SGA Wiggins and Murray. Serbia with Jokic a threat.

[@rjmacready9828]

@@zenitsuthunder3946 you named at best 3 amazing players on those teams, USA has TEN + ....

[@user-xd5zq8gg4f]

who is taking the last shoot? who is making a stop when need? who doesnt play? this team losing at least 1 game

[@MrE_]

Who is taking the last shot? Whoever is hot that night, just like they did it in the golden stacked warriors with kd Who is making a stop when needed? Any of the clutch defenders they got on the team Who doesn't play? Whoever isn't healthy...looking at you embiid and kawhi

[@user-xd5zq8gg4f]

@@MrE_ the clutch defenders are bench warmers, and they cant defend murry and miils

[@NoizyBoy_]

⁠@@user-xd5zq8gg4fmills???😂

[@user-fx2on2mm7l]

@@user-xd5zq8gg4f 💀

[@fdbmane4594]

Asking question that dont need to be answered.

[@HoopVision001]

@HoopReports Love the video, really insightful as always!!

[@goldennuggetofwisdom5068]

I'm Canadian and that picture at 10:22 is just awesome. Canada basketball looks young proud and hungry!! I can't wait till the Olympics start.

[@zenitsuthunder3946]

hopefully Wiggins play. Murray is confirmed. Murray and SGA backcourt is just deadly. If they add Mathurin and Nickeil Alexander-Walker that's icing. They need the right bigs tho Powell, Olynyk, Lyles or even Old Tristan Thompson are good picks for bigs

[@chrislewis5069]

I like that great groups of players can be beaten by teams that play better basketball.

[@guythatlovespotato]

World Basketball is dif from NBA we seen that last time. Defense is more aggressive, and it is a real team sport...

[@rocketfighter8]

It's a lot easier to play aggressive defensive in a few tournament games compared to an 82 game schedule.

[@quantum_beeb]

I think centers are definitely a weakness

[@cokrlicix]

Different rules are also a factor to consider, US team have to adapt to them in very short time, which is not easy regardless of the talent and quality of individual players. And what will Serbia do, depends on how many of the top players will be in the national team, in last year's World cup 6 or 7 best players were not playing for Serbia.

[@obedblack3073]

France looking scary right now, Gobert and Wemby with Fournier Coulibaly and Dieng as the 5 starters with Sarr whos another insane shot blocker and Rupert to lock up off the bench as well as risacher and a few other guys I'm probably forgetting about. I hope that the gold medal game is USA vs France because I will be watching that game.

[@jamoa3395]

If they lose in the Olympic. MJ , Magic, bird , Charles and all the original dream will come out off retirement

[@nori_san10]

I just noticed but most of the lineup last time had made a great jump this year, Haliburton, Edwards, Bridges, Ingram, Hart heck even Portis....

[@drift6785]

I'll be honest I don't think we would do well. Embiid and kawhi is injured pretty badly. Halliburton is playing through injury. Yes we have Steph, bron, and KD. But they are old despite being very good still. A lot of their younger all stars are still in the playoffs. It's going to be hard for them to have fresh legs and build chemistry in a short time period. It's quite difficult with the world catching up with nba talents on their team respectfully

[@TheSmoothViewASMR]

As an Australian, we have good nba names on our squad but none of them fit together at all. We have a bunch of point forwards that cant shoot. Still we'll make a run for Bronze

[@nevohyams]

too bad about Simmons

[@TheSmoothViewASMR]

@@nevohyams haha yeah even he a point forward who cant shoot, we could low key use him on the squad tho. He prolly never putting on our uniform tho

[@lelouchlamperouge4386]

Simmons got infected by the other stars in NBA the BUM disease

[@mateorodriguez1761]

Bro said nba talent and procedeed to put a Josh Giddey clip lol

[@mort996]

Ofc they can be beaten bro, international basketball has been on the rise especially recently, players who are used to FIBA (actual basketball) rules have an advantage because these superstar aren't used to actual calls such as travelling, double dribble, no defensive 3 seconds, less space, etc. Talent isn't everything, international teams are built from ground up, USA just randomly throws big names at the wall hoping it would stick

[@daddyma6908]

dem names b sticking doe

[@CheyenneSedai]

I will point out that Jokic hasn't committed to Serbia yet. He said he needed to think about it in the last interview. But I am sooo hyped because the lineups are fantastic for a lot of countries.

[@jamesatlas5204]

steph in the team!! you wouldnt bet against us.

[@sueprator9314]

If Steph is there, good things happen. LBJ just bloats and gloats.

[@akz2628]

steph is no longer a top 5 player and isn't even the best player on the team

[@TheNeon55]

Just hoping for exciting games vs there being any one clear winner

[@freddyso5466]

as lebroooom would say, "it's just basketball" so it doesn't really matter who wins but im just making sure it's us

[@coffeemountain356]

Too many of the American NBA players are too soft. They focus on and complain about little ticky-tack contact instead of playing sound basketball. I wouldn’t expect them to medal. Especially if LeBalco is expected to be a ‘leader’. He’s incapable of being that person.

[@tommymy210]

Although he led teams to like 11 nba finals and has won four rings. But yeah he’s incapable of being that guy do u hear yourself bro

[@pyotrbagration2438]

@@tommymy210 Pretty sure someone had to bring Kobe to save LeBum after back2back bronze medals. If anyone it will be antman that will lead these chokers.

[@ThatLampTho]

I hear ya. The rules are different specially in the physicality of the game. There's no way james will get the calls he's been getting now and have that freethrow discrepancy advantage he's been having. Sure 11 finals appearances and 4 rings.. in the NBA where the rules cater to offense and softer playstyle. Team USA still has the tools to medal though as long as they don't play NBA style of basketball

[@cffritvij2906]

Bro how TF can someone call LeBron soft

[@Hydraxon1980]

@@cffritvij2906 You can find tens of lebums crying complaning floping compilations how can anyone not call him soft is the question...

[@harlemmacdonald]

The only struggle is that the world has endless video on the nba players but it would be hard to find footage of the world players

[@ScuffTuff]

Words cannot describe how badly I wanted Canada to at least get bronze. I fully realize we probably won’t beat the US or Serbia, but I’d be super happy with bronze.

[@Vit950]

The "reedem" team was also "unbeatlabe", kobe isnt here to save their asses again

[@lalrinchhanaroyte2961]

1 min is crazy

[@gabrielduarte3904]

"experts" and then, footage of JJ Redick

[@bradenolson7172]

Question is who you start? Who do you play? Curry at the 1. Do you play booker or Edwards at the 2? Lebron or Kawhi at the 3? Anthony Davis or Kevin Durant at the 4? Embid or Adebyu at the 5?

[@Anonymous-ef3vl]

Imagine Wemby dominates team USA, in a statement game against the old crew.

[@emilpetrov5001]

After playing for a whole season for a team that wanted to tank, I think he will be more motivated than ever

[@kens2328]

I’ve never liked the idea of just appointing a “team” of good/great individual players who have never played together or played very little together. There is more to being a true team than that. Individual brilliance can and often does trump even very good teams. But on the world’s biggest athletic stage, the very best players from every country who have been playing together for years are more than capable of beating the US handily. Has there been actual US Olympic team tryouts since pro’s became eligible to play? I remember Coach Knight having tryouts for the team he put together from college players, but I’m not aware of any tryouts since then.

[@sameerramdeen6703]

I never knew they even had tryouts to begin with. :O

[@kens2328]

@@sameerramdeen6703 I think they did it when only college players were allowed to play, and it ended with the original Dream Team. I think the famous story about the 1984 team was that Coach Knight actually cut Charles Barkley and John Stockton from the team.

[@nikolaperic6307]

3:08 famous last words

[@user-gg4jg7th3o]

bro calling Jamal Murray the Lakers Slayer caught me off guard 🤣

[@m.r.keller9642]

Let's hope so. We have used professional basketball players in an amateur sporting event for decades. 1992 was a real treat for us sports fans. Also, we're tired of seeing LeQueen appear in yet another Olympiad, when he's been a professional for over 20 years.

[@randydauda2196]

its looking like ants gonna end up starting over book

[@diriver6683]

France let us not forget Evan Fournier, Nicolas Batum, Frank Ntilikina, Alexandre Sarr, , Bilal Coulibaly, Zacharie Risacher.

[@DWRKxMonkey]

Serbia, France, Germany, Canada, Slovenia are all legit imo. US needs to take them seriously, they’re going to have much more cohesion and familiarity with FIBA rules. Also Spain and Australia can win if everything goes right but lack of a superstar will hurt them

[@jaobille79]

Defensive line up and not putting Kawhi is ridiculous

[@flavianojorge4543]

It all boils down to coaching... If coached well, GOLD If coached poorly, SILVER/BRONZE.

[@russells19]

4:27 Josh giddy loves hearing this

[@mypetscatsandfishes4535]

With LJ in the team, will he sack EVERYONE???!!!😂😂😂

[@flisflip9738]

LeGM😆

[@butterfreeman]

LeGoat

[@corpyhogan4433]

It's always people with dogs in their profile picture saying the corniest shit 😂

[@Corrupt_Player]

Very proud to see Ant on the team, he gonna hit an insane dunk in the Olympics

[@ckq]

My favorite lineup here: Jrue - PG Booker - SG Ant - SF Tatum - PF AD - C all the other lineups have too much offense or are filled with old heads.

[@shyamsundarrajan2469]

Lol the three faces are all knocked out before or first-round of the playoffs

[@MrE_]

They'll make their fury known in the Olympics

[@gabepizza]

more rest for them

[@toasterowens8916]

It's not a one person sport

[@rocketfighter8]

Jordan was retired when he was their ages. Never sniffed the playoffs when he returned either.

[@momoca-kun]

Don’t forget that Vassilis Spanoulis, a 6-foot-4, 190-pound bench player who averaged 2.4ppg and barely got any playing time in the NBA scored 22 points in FIBA semifinals and eliminated LeBronze and his stacked team of “super-athletes” with Melo, Wade, Howard, CP3, and Bosh. Greece doesn’t even have a single NBA player other than Spanoulis. This Greece team is beaten by Spain in a 23 point blow-out, limiting them to ONLY to 47 points. But, they scored 101 points against LeBronze. They got help of course from the career leader in turnovers, when Lebron is responsible for 40% of the team’s turnovers. Mike Krzyzewski and Jerry Colangelo couldn’t take the embarrasment and asked Kobe Bryant and a 35-year old Jason Kidd, named Kobe team captain to baby-sit them.

[@amirhosseinhosseinzadeh7627]

When LeBron James is surrounded by the two best shooters of in nba history, plus the most dominant scorer in the world, you just can't loose. I mean how do you stop this offense? LeBron just runs down the floor and you either leave him and he gets a bucket or he passes the ball to and open steph or KD, who is stopping that?!

[@jacobscholtissek2410]

smaller courts, no travels allowed, Lebron is very limited in FIBA rules

[@corpyhogan4433]

@@jacobscholtissek2410 you realize he's just played in these type of rules multiple times right? 😂

[@jacobscholtissek2410]

@@corpyhogan4433 yeah and 50% of the time he sucked hard

[@producerevan88]

If Embiid stays healthy, team USA will be nearly unstoppable. Wouldn't be surprised if they don't lose a single game

[@user-ke6ck6jp3e]

Canada, France, Serbia and Spain heve chance, slim chance, but it could happen

[@gabepizza]

Spain ain't even in the Olympics yet

[@stefanpoulin1593]

Slim? I wouldn't say slim at all. The US team is too self absorbed and rarely can play together in unison. They all want to be the scoring leader, very little team atmosphere. Skill could get them past these teams in the past, not now.

[@frankn.6540]

Spain will be defeated by Bahamas 😂😂😂😂 Ayton,Buddy Hield,Eric Gordon,Kai Jones…they are talking about to add on that roster Klay Thompson,Naz Reid, and Mobley brothers Evan and Nathan. They all have Bahamian eligibility,could try to recruit them and help qualify for Olympics.

[@redwolf8135]

Canada: SGA, Jamal Murray, Wiggins, and Barrett.

[@rj2v]

The US didn't perform poorly at the last WC because of their squad, it was their coaches that failed to understand the nuances of the FIBA game. Watch their games back. Their offences relied on basic actions whereby FIBA actions are more intracate and actually swing the ball to loosen up the defence. If the US first action didn't eventuate, they relied on iso heavy action which plays into the hands of FIBA defences. As for their defence, there was a disctinct lack of boxing out for rebounds allowing for multiple offensive rebounds for opponents. Also, the coaches failed to impart the ability to utilise allowing players to play split line defence AKA clog the middle and therefore creating space on the inside for FIBA teams to exploit.

[@gabepizza]

also the USA didn't have size. Small ball doesn't work in FIBA like in the NBA as the court doesn't have the spacing and there is no 3 seconds. Yes we sort of won the Olympics with small ball but 1 we had Bam, one of the best defensive centers in the league and 2 with a super team like Durant, Tatum, Lilard, etc...you can out score anyone but it was still close. At the WC our only true centers were Portis and Kessler, role players. Jaren Jackson was exposed as in the NBA he plays PF and has a center like Adams to do the dirty work but he got out muscled by the European bigs. Same with Banchero who is great but again in the NBA he is a 4, he needs a center to to the dirty work. Look at our teams in 2016 (Deandre and Cousins) & 2014 (AD & Cousins with Faried as well) they dominated the front court

[@rocketfighter8]

If the coaches were to blame for 2023 they should just send the same players and change the coaches instead of sending better players.

[@noelobaseki2808]

canada has Murray , shai , brooks

[@brianhanson7118]

"brimming with NBA talent" and you show Josh Giddy 😂 Good vid though

[@johanntan86]

How many of those on the thumbnail had injuries during playoffs 😂

[@MrYugoWRC]

Serbia be like: Hold my beer.

[@cosmopionier7224]

I wonder if the USA team would pass the doping test of the International Olympic Committee.

[@bvaldez21]

Imagine France playing Wemby at the 3 with Sarr at 4 and gobert at 5 and Risache at sg…

[@lazydadsgarage]

We've already seen that good team basketball and solid defense will beat the NBA all star style roster

[@Ashened0]

I like how people are mad about Embiid playing but when an American born player plays for another country it's all crickets.

[@bleedingthought7172]

Yeah, taking a bunch of star players who are the centre of attention on their owns teams, then putting them all on one team.... Doubt it'll work😂

[@corpyhogan4433]

The dream and redeem teams were quite literally the type of team you described, and they got gold 😂

[@Colecruzin]

Lebron and Dillion brooks bout to face up again lmao

[@upholstery1995]

Seems like the question is about chemistry. Jokic won't be stopped but it's not like he can't be slowed down... and the rest of the Serbian players lol France would be the other threat. But who knows how Gobert will be. And who knows if the Jamal Murray of this Minnesota-Denver series will show up or his best version.

[@RimSimSim]

first round gonna be USA, Serbia, Lithuania any team can win on a good day

[@shadovvpanther]

how many of the players are still in the play offs today?

[@sylvanusblimpo154]

2 to 4 players

[@Johnwis-gp9yy]

As long as Lebron is in it, any team is beatable

[@lazyhusband]

If they lose, he will throw Steph and KD under the bus. Guaranteeeeeeeeed

[@shantygaming694]

And then you add Kurt Angle to the mix!?

[@sbramp]

time for a humble pie :P

[@Darcy-ob6po]

Stephen Curry Glazer

[@Drippz._.11]

Brunson would’ve completed the lineup

[@mikederdrache3305]

Dream team, redeem teem, and now the sweep team. I tried

[@thatdudefromthatvapeshop]

question is how hard will they play , because all star game defence will get them nowhere

[@vmillerman]

That got to get coach K to coach

[@redlightning_420]

The LeAvengers

[@viktorianas]

Dream Team, Redeem Team and now LeDream Team.

[@bobbiroberts3240]

With tough superstars like Steph Curry , KD , Tatum , Embiid , Ant , Lebron and the rest Iam not seeing any team in the Olympics having any chance

[@St.Dimees]

imagine the current usa olympic team but remove sum players and add prime kobe,carmelo,MJ,D-wade,Shaq all in their prime

[@graycockerpunch6191]

4:31 don’t forget about josh giddey

[@ExtraterrestrialBeing-jc7to]

RJ Barrett The Maple Mamba 😂😂😂😂

[@marcdasco4866]

the better quesrion is, can this 2024 olympic team win the gold?

[@javelldunn3379]

I take that as a yes

[@jazzyjez]

Main question is how did Andrew Wiggins make team Canada? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@lazyhusband]

He’s better than Anthony Bennett

[@mathewomolo]

other teams have far more defence and team chemistry. If their game plan is "more offence", they're in for a rude shock from some of thee smaller teams. they might be beaten in group stages.

[@lancebond2338]

embiid(Cameroon/France), Banchero(Italy), Reaves(Germany). Pity they switched to the u.s last minute.

[@chickennugget9443]

Dillon Brooks is a big threat🎉

[@stevehdd9929]

When said "expert" why did you show a clip of jj?😂

[@gabiangregoric2893]

Taking kawahi to sit on the bench and joke around instead of kyrie or brunson is enough reason for me to cheer against them as passionately as humanly possible

[@RoxanneFerguson-xs3co]

LOVE

[@mymusic3354]

Yes.....Badly....

[@bradfordlawlor4387]

I don’t think the USA will end up working as well together as people think they will.

[@Rawk_Sauce]

Joel Embiid switching countries for an easy Gold 😂😂