Carmelo and Stephon Marbury's Untold Stories of Why the '04 USA Men’s Basketball Team Was A Disaster

[@heathhenderson8235]

Man so many Puerto Rican dudes was tryna tell me Carlos Arroyo was better than Stephon Marbury after this shit 😂😂😂 one of the worst basketball summers ever.

[@bachemlightandlili4134]

🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭 nyc shiiit

[@dickhardpicard]

😂😂😂

[@1LegacyLex]

We played like we was trying to do our best to finish and go home 😂😂😂

[@OMIGOD11]

Being a rec hooper living in NYC in ‘04, this was a MISERABLE summer. Ricans you’d never seen hooping, was showing up to the courts en masse with whole squad, talking crazy, trying to be Carlos Arroyo, messing up the runs. Couldn’t even be at a park in the city w/o getting trash talked bc Larry Brown can’t manage talent. 😂😂

[@phillybul215]

😂😂😂😂

[@bachemlightandlili4134]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@trevorcognac9155]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@juliusedwards7199]

🤣🤣🤣😭

[@JCMthebrand]

This is hilarious lol

[@Carolina-zo9io]

Finally some much needed clarity on that situation🤓

[@ldillon33]

Finally, some excuses you need. Classic Starbury and Melo: took no responsibility and actually consider themselves the dream team.

[@Arthur-ew5en]

I love the clips keep ‘em coming

[@GetBackRy3x]

If the team isn’t mainly a all defensive team Larry brown can’t coach em. He had NO idea how to manage all that perennial talent, he was befuddled.

[@hurdyb1]

I always blame Larry Brown for that bronze

[@jman1562001]

Watching PR win against them dudes was embarrassing smh.

[@BLACKICONOCLAST]

LARRY BROWN SHOULD BE LOOKED AT LIKE AS A "SABOTAGER"

[@babajidesonibare4835]

I’m weak 🤣🤣🤣. Great to hear his perspective tho 😭

[@raybrooks1717]

Coach K is winning a Gold medal with this roster. NbA championship ir not, Larry Brown didn't play this team right. Even though they were coming off their rookie years, LeBron, Melo, Wade, plus a second year Amar'e were still some of the best basketball players in the entire world. Forget their limited experience compared to the other guys on Team USA. These guys proved they were ready but couldn't get no clock. Not their fault, that a coaching issue

[@a_s_g_z]

Coach K isnt winning shit.

[@raybrooks1717]

@@a_s_g_zevery time he was the coach USA won Gold medals. What the hell are you talking about?

[@atlanta1290]

Sooo what you’re saying is that prime Duncan, AI, Richard Jefferson, Odom, Boozer, Marbury, Matrix aren’t good enough to win because of the coach. Could it be that the issue is with American NBA players’ difficulty adjusting to international play?

[@raybrooks1717]

@@atlanta1290 yeah that's what I'm saying. Coach K would have won with this team. No they didn't have a problem adjusting to international play, they are NBA players. You don't leave LeBron, Wade and Melo off the court if they are on your team. Try looking up what the guys who played on this team say about playing for Larry Brown.

[@atlanta1290]

@@raybrooks1717 Wade played a ton of minutes. You blame the coach but what about the players? These are NBA players and they got outworked, outsmarted and outplayed.

[@sonadorazul3074]

AND Larry brown had them practicing with the wrong balls

[@Adam_Guidry]

Lmfao that was hilarious! Stephon funny AF!

[@studadon1]

Horrible leadership on that Olympic Team. 🗑🚮😒

[@BasedJ222]

Hilarious ass interview!! Some gems right here

[@FairTradeCCM]

Larry Brown definitely screwed that team up. He wasn't even playing the young boys like that. Amare didn't play, melo didn't play, LeBron didn't play! Every single one of those players on that team had career years the following NBA season, too. It was like they were playing to save face from that broze medal lol. Also, a bunch of players backed out of it or was hurt that were supposed to play. And they had richard jefferson, shawn marion, odom, boozer, and okafor on that team, good role players, but that's crazy. And didn't have one true shooter.

[@yunqtule]

One of the most horrible teams out together AI n Duncan was captains man No Kobe ..Kobe ain't play Olympicsc till 11 years in da league shiii was sad ..Wade,Melo,Bron,amare,jegferson n i think micheal redd was playing..Odom sucked horrible team n chemistry..RJ did chis steph n Ai couldn't do a thing

[@juliusedwards7199]

All facts!

[@CBarber22]

AI and Marbury sharing a backcourt, what could possibly go wrong?

[@DJRashadHayes]

How the hell do u not play Lebron, Wade, & Melo just because of their ages?? It was a travesty watching Larry Brown practice ageism like that and it NEVEr shouldve continued. He shouldve been fired DURING the tournament. It was all Larry Brown’s fault and yet they blamed the players.

[@AGIMJONES]

USA wasn’t even going to get a bronze medal. Marbury spazzed the bronze medal game and set the record for points. He had damn near 50 that game

[@InPeSHaBLe]

That team definitely was thrown together with a lot of call outs ( lol ). It was good though because going forward they knew they had to match the commitment of the field

[@bitcoinbobby4149]

facts because the 03' qualifying squad had tmac vince jason kidd iverson and they dominated. they 2004 had many last minute call outs and thats why they put Bron Melo Boozer Wade on the team and NOT play them lol

[@chrisrobinson8339]

The best player's on the team didn't start.

[@paulz4667]

Too many rookies but it was great for basketball

[@benjamin5726]

The excuses are wild🤦‍♂️

[@joeru9208]

Larry brown just won an nba championship!!!

[@yunqtule]

He shoulda played in ,08 besides CP3 Melo,Bron,wade,bosh n da lineup of sum guys but it changed drastically though

[@terrancewilson3226]

Sorry Steph, I remember 04.........EXCUSES! The team played like a bunch of entitled babies and they got beat! The 96 and they 00 team had two weeks to practice and they still won.

[@DM-lj2mn]

Facts they all came in there thinking it would be a cake walk

[@Book.of.Treason]

they also had melo, bron and wade who didn't play

[@Adam_Guidry]

I remember 04 too let’s not have revisionist history. We didn’t send our best players because so many of them opted out. We (US Basketball Olympic committee) were arrogant to believe we could throw anyone out there and win. Just like Steph said after they lost, now all of a sudden everyone wants to play.

[@kendallandrews8691]

2004 they didn't send their best. Only all NBA players were Duncan and Iverson

[@jasonramirez6192]

Gods Plan 🌎❤️💯🙏✌️🌧️🩸

[@kvngcancer7758]

They didn't blame Bron!

[@jasonjones2137]

No shootors

[@jbone2345]

That team was trash!

[@younglove3362]

Our all star teams had better line up, even the eastern team. The US A really overestimated their abilities.

[@paulz4667]

The squad wasnt great too lamar and rookies

[@javierjimenez5226]

Stephon: It was the coach's fault and he didn't like me, it was America's fault, I didn't like where we were staying, I couldn't gamble and party, I couldn't focus.

[@isitkenzoorbenzo5286]

He said way more than that

[@jackcone228]

Go cry in a stall

[@syrtyce]

Larry Brown was trying to prove himself LMAO 😂😂. Selective memory huh Brown had just won the championship with my Pistons duh. That said the team was too young save for Duncan and hastily selected when the KGs, Vince Carters and the like bow’d out

[@robstark9274]

Same issues brown had with piston players he had with theses dudes steph says as much

[@syrtyce]

@@robstark9274 the players loved Brown. The issue with Brown in Detroit wasn’t the players. It was Dumars then GM and Bill Dsvidson the owner.

[@robstark9274]

@@syrtyce hell no they was tired of browns shit just like every other place he has been. Brown would rather lose his way than win another way. Browm benched lebron wade and mello in the olympics he was trying to prove a point

[@FlyOrDie90]

Larry Brown is the white Doc Rivers man

[@JCMthebrand]

No bruh, in the repeat effort. Brown took billups out of the game against the spurs when he had 34 points in a game 6. The pistons players do NOT talk fondly of Larry, none of the sixers players do either. Does he know the game? Absolutely. Is he a horrible people person, YES!

[@RoderickBlairEAMBT]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Musso8771]

"Prove himself"? Brown was already a living legend at this point and he's a bigger and more respectable figure in basketball than both of these guys combined. What clowns.

[@themessengerkenswift707]

Truth be told they should have let the young guys play Melo, Lebron and DWade...thats why they lost. Marbury and Iverson were on a ego trip and Larry Brown didn't know what the hell he was doing...

[@shawnredmond8402]

Is this mf blaming George Bush for the 2004 failure?

[@dickhardpicard]

Well it was under his administration 😂

[@TheOnesimple]

Two players that never take accountability.

[@alfioplays7443]

Excuses upon excuses..why not say, they beat us..simple and plain

[@melmanchildjones696]

😂😂😂