Wining GOLD medal for USA may not mean much. But LOSING GOLD MEDAL for team USA (especially this team) Would MEAN absolute historic embarrassment FOR NBA and America as a whole.
Exactly and no one mentions this! If they lose there is no excuse (like c tier usa , b tier usa etc), they either have to admit that the world is on level with them or that they are much worse than the past teams=a lose - lose situation to the Nba policy of promoting "superhuman" athletes vs 'casuals "😂I really hope to see that, because it could give them a lesson - how to think deeper for once
@@calzy_2Depends. For this to be totally true, you’d have to beat their record. Otherwise, we’d be led to believe Schroeder is infinitely better than Jokic because of the WC.
Not at all. You got it backwards: No tournament is suppose to be dominated by one team. There has to be competition. Otherwise that tournament has no claim to be interesting at all US basketball dominates national tournaments. There are making it boring to watch. They got bored themselves and started sending their 3rd or 4th substitute rosters At this point, its become an "absolute historic embarrassment" for the world as a whole. They arent even taken seriously When US won 2010 and 2014 world cups with their B team, the world got the biggest insult possible and it was well deserved Make no mistake. *Its entirely the fault of all other teams* (counties in this case) cus they fail to meet the level of US team
As the great wise Gianni Infantino said: "Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arabic. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel like a migrant worker."
Winning Olympic gold as the leader of a european team would be insane. It would equal many NBA championships lol. That person would be reach godlike levels of fame in his country
Bro casually showed a photo of Nikola Milutinov and called him Nikola Jović. Hard to keep count of all Nikolas and distingiush them from each other, I know.
@@younglove3362 He is not looking hard, hes a Serbian and he saw it the same way i did, without looking hard. In the video he also said that ppl in Serbia dont care about our guys in the NBA, or the NBA it self, completely untrue, we cheer for NBA teams that our guys are a part of, + NBA is popular here, and there are a lot of ppl that always watch and support the teams, with or without Serbs...
Nobody in Greece considers Spanoulis the greatest Greek player ever. Not even in the National team and its accomplisments. We had the best non NBA scorer (along with Oscar SChmidt) ever Nick Galis. He won a gold medal in 87 and basically kickstarted Greek basketball. Spanoulis won one too, but as the 10th player on the roster, averaging less than 2,5ppg. Papaloukas was the leader of that gold medal team. Also, giannis underperformed at a younger age, but due to the fact that he is not used to the kind of basketball being played in FIBA competitions. He improved so much in the last Euro (although still this kind of basketball doesn't fit his game naturally) but the supporting cast and coaching was rather weak. We were not the team that we used to be and it had nothing to do with Giannis' efforts. Although we look like a real team for this years Olympics
In Embiid's defence, - Camerun likes volleyall more than basketball. They wouldn't have cared that much. - France already had 2 centers which they would be willing to use and there would be so much controversy for the usage amount of each. - And there was a team with good guards and no real center. A team that needs you, where you can proove yourself against the others, of a country where you live, eat, enjoy. I think he made the correct choise but the way through that choise is ugly, mischievous, full of lies and disgust. In my opinion, Embiid is just trying to clear his name where he lives and wish to lover the hate on him in the league he is playing.
Sorry but you probably don't have good sources as a camerounian i can tell you in Cameroon we barely knows rules of voley ball and it's not at all a national sport cameroonian plays basketball and like it after football it's the second most love sport i think We were expecting Embiid to join us alongside siakam but he betrays us and is hated by a lot of basketball fan here
@@seanknox5785Why are you booing Embiid for wanting to play the country he immigrated to instead of France, of which he has no equal reason to be loyal to?
To be fair, Luka did not lead Slovenia to the Eurobasket gold. That was Goran Dragič. Luka was an essential component of the team along with the 2 best centers we ever fielded in Vidmar and Randolph. It was a huge team effort of which Luka was a part but not the main man. Jagodič and Čančar also had a good tournament and they were the most played players from Slovenia. If you ask me,besides Dragič, the best performance was put in by Gašper Vidmar at center, him and Gogi had excellent chemistry and were able to punish every team either on the pnr and in transition making them the one team who could do that constantly, they were able to switch tempo really quickly and seamlessly going from sluggish to FTL speeds in a blink so teams could not really adjust their defence properly
@@navenorac1733 I've watched Killian for 4 years in Detroit. He is NOT an NBA player. We would get excited when he actually made a 3 pointer. He's terrible offensively
All Greece and even Europe knows that Ghalis was a Basketball player very close to Giannis the best of all time, then its Giannis, Diamantidis, Spanoulis and probably Giannakis and Papaloukas.
I am an older Bucks fan that truly never thought they would be good enough to play for in a finals in my life time. Giannis's finals run is a legit sports movie , that said I watched all of Greece trying to make it to Paris and he wants it bad. I think if Greece just medals it will be huge but if somehow Greece can beat team USA that would be another thing.
"Joel embiid is going to be the main guy on team USA" you sound dumb. "Anthony Davis and Bam can play the 5 in the NBA but not in the Olympics" 😂 please stop!
Bro we didn't win the world cup at 06. We lost at the final after beating the US. And if there is one player that is unanimously considered the greek goat here it's Galis, not V-Span. Also, Thanasis is injured. He's actually a huge loss for the team, even though a lot of people hate on him.
On the current Greek roster, as seen in the Olympic Qualifiers, who would you replace with Thanasis if he was healthy? The only guys that make sense positionally are Kalaintzakis and Charalampopoulos. Kalaintzakis is pretty similar to Thanasis, with less athleticism and better basketball IQ. I don't think Charalampopoulos should be replaced in any way by Thanasis, because he can score efficiently. You could potentially say that Moraitis could be cut, but then you really clog up the forward position.
Embiid isn't gonna be the biggest piece in Team USA. With names like LeBron, Steph, AD, Tatum and more, there is no biggest piece. It's an overpowered collective that'll dominate even if one or two players don't show up because they have unbelievable depth. Their bench has players who'd start in most other countries in terms of ability.
Winning an Olympic gold medal means nothing to any USA team, it's the other teams who care. We only care because it's annoying every time we severely stop trying for people to get insanely arrogant. I assume it's how the Japanese would feel if they lose in judo. At the same time, nowadays, maybe it's finally an era where the USA has to be serious if they want to win the gold, and last loss is a wake up call rather than a fluke.
Other teams have definitely caught up. We're are still the top, no doubt. That's why of we lose then it's extremely frowned upon. That might change in the near future but as of now, we're still at the top. We finally got unleashed in 92 (I bet that's why other countries wanted to keep us at only bringing college players) and we learned our lesson again as history repeated itself in 04. To be honest, I hope another team wins 🏆 so that we can get off that plateau of being the GOAT of the Olympics. When that happens it'll be mandatory for the USA 🇺🇸 to take the Olympics seriously.
AD and Bam have dominated all the bigs so far. they are the best frontcourt in the world. they are big and athletic enough for the paint and are fast and agile enough to switch and stay with guards
French people as scared of the US like any other country we believe our team as a legitimate chance at the medal with our prodigy wemby and we dream of the gold But you capping saying that as the host we are entitled to win, maybe some media that do not know basketball and how stacked the us team is say so but anyone with minimal ball knowledge cannot expect to win against the avengers
Greece won Slovenia by 30 points and Croatia by 11..with Kalathes his best player and without Sloukas the best Player ..playing in Euroleague..kostas and 2 others were injured
using the fiba team as a reference for why the usa team might struggle with size is crazy bro. They went from JJJ to AD, bam and embiid. france lost to serbia and the usa just beat serbia by 30 so that take is aging poorly.
I think an NBA championship is better because everyone expects USA to win (which we have at the moment of writing this) but the reason they expect us to win is because Olympic basketball is all around weaker then the NBA. It’s harder to win in Olympics but it’s easier to score in NBA so you can’t even compare…
Manu Ginobili being one of the only non americans doing the impossible beating team USA and winning the Olympic gold medal in 2004 for his country Argentina but yet he's not considered as a top 75 greatest players of all time is ridiculous.
He might not be top 75 NBA but in terms of resume and what he was able to accomplish in the nba, with Argentina and also in EuroLeague gives him one of the greatest resumes in basketball history
I disagree 100% the talent pool in the NBA is more impressive therefore it's more impressive to win an NBA title I'm sorry but it's not impressive beating Serbia in the Olympics
Are you seeing how close the games are getting at the Olympics? The USA is still the best but just marginally. They can't dominate like they used to before because the rest of the world has caught up to them. It's impossible to tell right now whether or not the NBA is still more competitive than the Olympics. We need a few more of these tournies to tell.
@@playz8538 the talent pool in the NBA is a thousand percent better than the talent pool in the world the world comes to the NBA again if you live in America it's more impressive to win an NBA championship any other country it's more impressive to win the Olympics because all the other leagues are inferior besides the NBA
He's a delusional content creator, bro said if luka won this years nba finals then people would start considering him into the GOAT debate😭😭😭 like bro what, at least let him win am MVP first
I'm sorry @DKM. However, if France were to have Embiid, Wembanyama, and Gobert. There is absolutely no guarantee they're stopping US 3 point shooting. Even with homecourt advantage. That team is way too talented. AD vs Embiid is pretty even. Plus this is Embiid's first time in international basketball. Ad is averaging 23 points 12 rebounds and 2 blocks. Embiid is averaging 25 and 12. Anthony Davis has averaged 26.0 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.7 blocks. However AD is only one person so let's say if Embiid were playing for France and the matchup was is AD vs Embiid. Now Wembayama and Gobert would switch. AD averages 32 12 and 2 against Wemby in only 2 games. Even though FIBA is more AD has played in those conditions before. Bam is undersized but has a lot of muscle and has played in FIBA assuming he is guarding Wemby. Wemby would have height, wingspan, speed advantage on offense. However, on defense Wemby only has the height and wingspan advantage. Now Rudy is a great defender in the paint. However, switches have been shown to be a problem. With the coaches and schemes USA have I would say it's more difficult for USA but they still win.
Fair. At the same time there is no proof that Joel's game will translate into fiba while KD, Lebron, and Anthony Davis, and Jayson Tatum have all done that
Serbia(then called Yugoslavia) had pretty strong team in 2002 when we beat USA in Indianapolis. Two all stars Peja and Divac, one of the best non NBA players of all time Bodiroga, many NBA role players and euroleague stars. Also 1996 team who played Olympic final was comparable in strength to this.
Nowadays gold in the Olympics is infinitely harder than wining an NBA championship. A Gold Lebron at age 39 would be equal to or greater than if he won another championship. The NBA is one league in one country, when you play in the Olympics youre facing the whole world.
20:24 at this point bros just asking for it😭😭 Joel Embiid as of now has been FAR from being the main guy in USA roster, uf anything he slows us down with the turnovers and his slowness, and hes not even our beat guy in the paint thats EASILY been AD and you can even argue Bam💀
All of the best players from every country move to America to play in the NBA. The championship is indeed worldwide, there is rarely players who are actually from the city that their team is named after.
Any time the US puts their best players on the court, they aren't losing. The only time the US loses internationally is when the 3rd and 4th string play. This team isn't losing.
As an American Y’all gotta realize this ain’t the 90s no more euro leagues are building star players , look at who’s they got in the league rn , jokic , Luka , giannias , shai, Wemby and some of them are considered the best rn ,yea the league is still being dominated by American players as well but let’s not act like euro leagues ain’t been making some noise
SGA isn't European, if we can consider Embiid American then si can Luka since he's been here for long time and Jokic. With that being said, this USA team is with a bunch of mid to late 30 years olds and if they manage to win gold then that'd be an embarrassment considering about half of them are out of their prime. Now imagine if they where all 5-10 years younger
@@THEWZRD1 To be fair the Rockets front office didn't do much to help Hakeem out. In 1994 his best teammates were Otis Thorpe, Vernon Maxwell, and Robert Horry in his second year in the NBA.
@@George2647g If France were to have Embiid, Wembanyama, and Gobert. There is absolutely no guarantee they're stopping US 3 point shooting. Even with homecourt advantage. That team is way too talented. AD vs Embiid is pretty even. Plus this is Embiid's first time in international basketball. Ad is averaging 23 points 12 rebounds and 2 blocks. Embiid is averaging 25 and 12. Anthony Davis has averaged 26.0 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.7 blocks. However AD is only one person so let's say if Embiid were playing for France and the matchup was is AD vs Embiid. Now Wembayama and Gobert would switch. AD averages 32 12 and 2 against Wemby in only 2 games. Even though FIBA is more AD has played in those conditions before. Bam is undersized but has a lot of muscle and has played in FIBA assuming he is guarding Wemby. Wemby would have height, wingspan, speed advantage on offense. However, on defense Wemby only has the height and wingspan advantage. Now Rudy is a great defender in the paint. However, switches have been shown to be a problem. With the coaches and schemes USA have I would say it's more difficult for USA but they still win.
What a load bulll.... NBA facts mostly right, but... watch some Euro basketball before you compose such video. Embarrassing for someone who do basketball videos
It’s not. we only play to shut everyone else up. there’s a reason why every single time we have sent our best. We win. No, The rest of the world has NOT caught up.
Yes but every year the competition gets tougher. Granted our players get better but the other teams are catching up. It's getting to the point where we could lose a game. And yes, these other teams would give the Dream Team a run for their money, especially with a hurt Bird and a college player on their roster.
Thanasis "hasn't been picked" because he has a torn acl. Sloukas and Papapetrou will also miss the tournament due to injuries. Luka and Slovenia did not even qualify... You don't even know which players are going to the olympics and you are making a video about the players that are going to the olympics... Can't even research the simplest things on the topic your video is about and people take your opinion seriously?? Makes me laugh
Because USA had won Gold since the first time Basketball was in the Olympics in 1932. The only loss of the USA at the Olympics, was 2004 with Lebronze.
I still can't believe Embiid chose to play for the USA instead of France. I can understand Embiid not wanting to play for Cameroon, but an olympic gold with France would mean a whole lot more than a gold with team Lebronto. The guy just does not know how to set his priorities straight IMHO.
His priorities are pretty straight - an immigrant wanting to give back to the nation that essentially gave him everything he needed to develop into a pro-athlete earning millions since the age of 16 as opposed to playing for France that… gave him exactly what? Unless, of course, you’re saying immigrants can never belong to a nation they see themselves to be part of?
@@Delilah-zd3emFrench gave Embiid what he begged them, French citizenship so he could join their team like he promised. US recruited a backstabbing liar.
Embid is the greatest liar. I disagree that he is needed, Bam is enough and he is better than Embid right now. Embid is also not suited in the starter position
Come on bro, saying Serbia will probably never have a roster this talented again is just disrespectful when you know historically we always had great teams and were always contenders on every bigger tournament
@@resurrectedpa we had better teams before, no reason why we wouldn't have better teams in the future too when Serbia is the land of basketball and the talent is always insane
What universe does Victor Wenbenyama have the potential to be the GOAT? Y'all just throw that around every second you can like Jordan wasn't the best player in the world the second he joined the league.
@younglove3362 jordan is underrated at this point cause y'all just don't want to do any type of research to know what you are talking about. He's the goat because he objectively has the best per game averages and advanced stats, the most accolades, and won the most as finals MVP...
@whenisdinner2137 Other way around. Nostalgia and indoctrination is the reason Jordan is over rated. The more research I did on him the more over rated he became, especially when I started seeing new, old, and his current generation players play and dominate like he did. Stop ✋️. Jordan is the most over rated NBA player in the NBA. And it's not because of Jordan himself. Is the nostalgic fans and the casuals overhyping him up like he's a god.
It's not that impressive considering half the players are scrubs who don't play in the NBA, and then the Americans just have a super team of people who play the sport professionally. So it's not actually that hard (or shouldn't be) for the Americans.
Manu will never be part of any NBA greatest list because of how Argentina humiliated team USA couple of times. Those idiotic NBA powers will never ever forget that.
"Serbia will never have a group like this" Bro, are you serious? 😂😂😂 We can say that every year and then still they are top 5 always. Don't forget who got 5 FIBA world cups won
Imagine team france the next olympics Wemby, Sarr, Risacher, coulibaly they just need a solid point guard that have a hi basketball iq on par with jason kidd. That would be a very entertaining team
watch out the next NBA Draft... Nolan Traoré a PG with speed, skills and mindset... Only Tony Parker in France can compete with his Talent... In Five years, France will be creepy
2004 team is literally one of the worst teams in history and never really was a team! Those players really don’t and never talk about the team in any interview. Marbury was the point guard and iverson didn’t care about practice.and LeBron was 19
Only American sports (football, baseball, basketball) care about the club game more than the international one. But then again, Americans acknowledging the world outside of the US challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
Bro regardless if the USA wins or not (which they will) the USA is still has the best basketball. That’s why everyone from all these other countries play in the nba if their countries were so good they’d play there.
Its mostly about money. Theres more people consuming basketball in the usa. Usa have the best players but good players put together doesnt mean they have the best team and thats why most of the time superteams dont work
Imagine comparing AD to JJ, AD cooked that guy during the playoffs. And ADs role and purpose is more suited as starting center for USA than Embid. Embid cant even match the pace of his team mate, and cant set up screen for curry. Hell he even stay at the 3point line, making it harder for step to create space. With embids strength and height he should be dominating in the paint, but AD gladly took that role
french basketball media arn't 100% sure france is gonna win. It's actually common to hear specialists say france could struggle to win a medal at all, with usa, canada and serbia being stacked af this year. Obviously we hope for a gold medal as it would be lengendary ahah
The nba title is worth more until they lose the crown. And I don't mean for 1 Olympics like 2004 I mean until they are consistently not the overwhelming favorites because they are just better
I don’t think so. At least not for Americans. The top players in all of those best teams play in the NBA, and the champs in the NBA have beaten all of the best talent anyways.
It was a f***ing friendly. Shai and jamal didnt play in the forth quarter ( or something similar)superstars playing less minutes for Canada than they will in the Olympics makes them significant worse than team usa missing some. YOU CAN PLAY CANADA A MILLION TIMES AND WIN ALL BY 100 POINTS BUT WHAT MATTERS IS IF YOU BEAT THEM IN THE OLYMPICS AT LEAST BY ONE
Both were crap and overhyped. And Canada is the most overhyped of the two. Empty defense more like nonexistent and single attempts no team whatsoever for both. And this is supposed to be the favorite in the group of my National team? What a joke.
If the USA sins gold then it should be an embarrassment to the world and all of the haters who kept on hating on previous USA teams. About half of this U.S. roster is in their mid to late 30's and they are beatung good countries from aroudn the world, now just imagine if they where all a couple years younger. France are supposedly a top 5 team to win these Olympics and theyve lost to 3 teams who all lost to the U.S.
Jokic has not been the best NBA player in the last 4 years 😂😂😂 Bron was the best player in 2020, Giannis in 21, Steph in 22, Jokic in 23, 2024 is a toss up. 🤷🏿♂️
15:05 if luka won this years NBA finals then he would not have been in future GOAT conversations💀 Dirk did it with a way worser team, beat a really good Heat team and to this day no one considers him into the GOAT debate. Yes hes good but never smelled the title GOAT
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Wining GOLD medal for USA may not mean much.
But LOSING GOLD MEDAL for team USA (especially this team) Would MEAN absolute historic embarrassment FOR NBA and America as a whole.
Yeah it would only serve as a reminder as people are starting to think that USA ain't at the top when it comes to basketball talent
Exactly and no one mentions this! If they lose there is no excuse (like c tier usa , b tier usa etc), they either have to admit that the world is on level with them or that they are much worse than the past teams=a lose - lose situation to the Nba policy of promoting "superhuman" athletes vs 'casuals "😂I really hope to see that, because it could give them a lesson - how to think deeper for once
@@calzy_2Depends. For this to be totally true, you’d have to beat their record.
Otherwise, we’d be led to believe Schroeder is infinitely better than Jokic because of the WC.
Not at all. You got it backwards:
No tournament is suppose to be dominated by one team. There has to be competition. Otherwise that tournament has no claim to be interesting at all
US basketball dominates national tournaments. There are making it boring to watch. They got bored themselves and started sending their 3rd or 4th substitute rosters
At this point, its become an "absolute historic embarrassment" for the world as a whole. They arent even taken seriously
When US won 2010 and 2014 world cups with their B team, the world got the biggest insult possible and it was well deserved
Make no mistake. *Its entirely the fault of all other teams* (counties in this case) cus they fail to meet the level of US team
Noah Lyles would be having a field day if that happens
This is the proof why Manu should be considered atleast top 50 of all time. Won rings in the NBA and won Olympic gold.
Facts!
GINOBILIIII IS RONALDHINO OF BASKETBOL
He is the only player who won Euroleague, NBA and Olympics.
Stop ✋️! He won against a below mediocre USA 🇺🇸 team and was proven to be second or third player on the Spurs. He's rated perfectly where he is. 🙄
Go watch some film.@@younglove3362
Embiid wakes up in the morning as a Cameroonian, at noon he feels like a Frenchman, at the end of the evening he ends up as an American.😀😅😂🤣...😘
I hate that America when don't have own they buy,and who is there American
He sell his country
He only did it because his son and wife Hakeem also played for Usa to
now him not playing for France makes no sense
As the great wise Gianni Infantino said:
"Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arabic. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel like a migrant worker."
Jokes on you, Yuta Watanabe is about to solidify HIS legacy with Japan.
Im from the future
Yuta and Rui made a historic run for gold 😭
HOF locks rn
😂😂😂
don't forget japanese legend joshua hawkinson
jjajajaja good one
Watching too much anime bro🤣😵
Greece casually beating Slovenia by 30 in the semis of the qualifying tournament..😂
Winning Olympic gold as the leader of a european team would be insane. It would equal many NBA championships lol. That person would be reach godlike levels of fame in his country
Manu Ginobili winning a gold medal with Argentina is definitely more impressive than most NBA championships.
@@alexanderhenry9133 i hope manu flies to Paris for goodluck to the teams that arent USA to win GOLD like he did for Argentina 2004
Lol y'all are casuals.
@@younglove3362 you are young, uneducated and clueless
Depending on the year.. like in 2028 it won't be so impressive. USA will be a diminished team & it will be an even playing field
Bro casually showed a photo of Nikola Milutinov and called him Nikola Jović. Hard to keep count of all Nikolas and distingiush them from each other, I know.
Why are you looking 👀 so hard?
@@younglove3362 He is not looking hard, hes a Serbian and he saw it the same way i did, without looking hard. In the video he also said that ppl in Serbia dont care about our guys in the NBA, or the NBA it self, completely untrue, we cheer for NBA teams that our guys are a part of, + NBA is popular here, and there are a lot of ppl that always watch and support the teams, with or without Serbs...
@alekstash
You're looking extra hard too. He also admits to them looking similar.
The AD slander didn't age well. He's been cooking these international players so far.
He’s been an absolute monster, him and bam pretty much deny the paint
Nobody in Greece considers Spanoulis the greatest Greek player ever. Not even in the National team and its accomplisments.
We had the best non NBA scorer (along with Oscar SChmidt) ever Nick Galis. He won a gold medal in 87 and basically kickstarted Greek basketball.
Spanoulis won one too, but as the 10th player on the roster, averaging less than 2,5ppg. Papaloukas was the leader of that gold medal team.
Also, giannis underperformed at a younger age, but due to the fact that he is not used to the kind of basketball being played in FIBA competitions.
He improved so much in the last Euro (although still this kind of basketball doesn't fit his game naturally) but the supporting cast and coaching was rather weak.
We were not the team that we used to be and it had nothing to do with Giannis' efforts. Although we look like a real team for this years Olympics
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Wembanyama
4:00 - Nikola Jokic
7:57 - SGA
11:21 - Giannis
14:22 - Luka Doncic
19:00 - Joel Embiid
Wat of Bol bol🤨
In Embiid's defence,
- Camerun likes volleyall more than basketball. They wouldn't have cared that much.
- France already had 2 centers which they would be willing to use and there would be so much controversy for the usage amount of each.
- And there was a team with good guards and no real center. A team that needs you, where you can proove yourself against the others, of a country where you live, eat, enjoy.
I think he made the correct choise but the way through that choise is ugly, mischievous, full of lies and disgust.
In my opinion, Embiid is just trying to clear his name where he lives and wish to lover the hate on him in the league he is playing.
Wemby could have played SF and they would sweep the entire cup
Go FRANCE!
Go WEMBY
BOOOOOO EMBIID😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sorry but you probably don't have good sources as a camerounian i can tell you in Cameroon we barely knows rules of voley ball and it's not at all a national sport cameroonian plays basketball and like it after football it's the second most love sport i think
We were expecting Embiid to join us alongside siakam but he betrays us and is hated by a lot of basketball fan here
@@seanknox5785Why are you booing Embiid for wanting to play the country he immigrated to instead of France, of which he has no equal reason to be loyal to?
He sold his country simple!
@@Delilah-zd3emwhat that speak about man who don't have own country just chase on easiest way!
To be fair, Luka did not lead Slovenia to the Eurobasket gold. That was Goran Dragič. Luka was an essential component of the team along with the 2 best centers we ever fielded in Vidmar and Randolph. It was a huge team effort of which Luka was a part but not the main man. Jagodič and Čančar also had a good tournament and they were the most played players from Slovenia. If you ask me,besides Dragič, the best performance was put in by Gašper Vidmar at center, him and Gogi had excellent chemistry and were able to punish every team either on the pnr and in transition making them the one team who could do that constantly, they were able to switch tempo really quickly and seamlessly going from sluggish to FTL speeds in a blink so teams could not really adjust their defence properly
Killian hayes got cut from the France roster just to let you know
So?
And? Do we care?
So I guess the claim that the “best 300 players in the world are in the NBA” just isn’t true.
@@navenorac1733 I've watched Killian for 4 years in Detroit. He is NOT an NBA player. We would get excited when he actually made a 3 pointer. He's terrible offensively
@@BasketView586hes a good playmaker tho
All Greece and even Europe knows that Ghalis was a Basketball player very close to Giannis the best of all time, then its Giannis, Diamantidis, Spanoulis and probably Giannakis and Papaloukas.
You delusional if you think Victor going to take France to win the Gold..
they couldnt even beat Serbia (which Team USA demolished)
I am an older Bucks fan that truly never thought they would be good enough to play for in a finals in my life time. Giannis's finals run is a legit sports movie , that said I watched all of Greece trying to make it to Paris and he wants it bad. I think if Greece just medals it will be huge but if somehow Greece can beat team USA that would be another thing.
"Joel embiid is going to be the main guy on team USA" you sound dumb. "Anthony Davis and Bam can play the 5 in the NBA but not in the Olympics" 😂 please stop!
Bro we didn't win the world cup at 06. We lost at the final after beating the US. And if there is one player that is unanimously considered the greek goat here it's Galis, not V-Span. Also, Thanasis is injured. He's actually a huge loss for the team, even though a lot of people hate on him.
On the current Greek roster, as seen in the Olympic Qualifiers, who would you replace with Thanasis if he was healthy? The only guys that make sense positionally are Kalaintzakis and Charalampopoulos. Kalaintzakis is pretty similar to Thanasis, with less athleticism and better basketball IQ. I don't think Charalampopoulos should be replaced in any way by Thanasis, because he can score efficiently. You could potentially say that Moraitis could be cut, but then you really clog up the forward position.
Sloukas not playing, Papapetrou out...Greece playing with their B team
Luka disqualified
He probably made it before that
But still posted it anyways
He literally mentioned it in the video
@@Levi-lr4vi ur right
Eliminated not disqualified
@@petermuchiri6631lmao I read disqualified and though luka got banned for steroids or something 😂😂😂😂
Embiid isn't gonna be the biggest piece in Team USA. With names like LeBron, Steph, AD, Tatum and more, there is no biggest piece. It's an overpowered collective that'll dominate even if one or two players don't show up because they have unbelievable depth. Their bench has players who'd start in most other countries in terms of ability.
He's been horrendous, slowing the team down with his pace and turnovers
Tatum didnt even play against serbia 😂
Team USA is about to add another gold medal to the shelf
they need to buy another shelf
Winning an Olympic gold medal means nothing to any USA team, it's the other teams who care. We only care because it's annoying every time we severely stop trying for people to get insanely arrogant. I assume it's how the Japanese would feel if they lose in judo.
At the same time, nowadays, maybe it's finally an era where the USA has to be serious if they want to win the gold, and last loss is a wake up call rather than a fluke.
Other teams have definitely caught up. We're are still the top, no doubt. That's why of we lose then it's extremely frowned upon. That might change in the near future but as of now, we're still at the top. We finally got unleashed in 92 (I bet that's why other countries wanted to keep us at only bringing college players) and we learned our lesson again as history repeated itself in 04. To be honest, I hope another team wins 🏆 so that we can get off that plateau of being the GOAT of the Olympics. When that happens it'll be mandatory for the USA 🇺🇸 to take the Olympics seriously.
AD and Bam have dominated all the bigs so far. they are the best frontcourt in the world. they are big and athletic enough for the paint and are fast and agile enough to switch and stay with guards
Thanasis had that Achilles injury
French people as scared of the US like any other country we believe our team as a legitimate chance at the medal with our prodigy wemby and we dream of the gold
But you capping saying that as the host we are entitled to win, maybe some media that do not know basketball and how stacked the us team is say so but anyone with minimal ball knowledge cannot expect to win against the avengers
Greece won Slovenia by 30 points and Croatia by 11..with Kalathes his best player and without Sloukas the best Player ..playing in Euroleague..kostas and 2 others were injured
Great perspective on Jokic... but Joker... I can't let you get close. USA for the Gold. 😤
using the fiba team as a reference for why the usa team might struggle with size is crazy bro. They went from JJJ to AD, bam and embiid. france lost to serbia and the usa just beat serbia by 30 so that take is aging poorly.
JJJ was DPOTY
@@DKM_Sportswas he really tho, they got spanked by the lakers in the 1st round😂😂😂
I think an NBA championship is better because everyone expects USA to win (which we have at the moment of writing this) but the reason they expect us to win is because Olympic basketball is all around weaker then the NBA. It’s harder to win in Olympics but it’s easier to score in NBA so you can’t even compare…
Manu Ginobili being one of the only non americans doing the impossible beating team USA and winning the Olympic gold medal in 2004 for his country Argentina but yet he's not considered as a top 75 greatest players of all time is ridiculous.
shows the nba top 75 is corrupt. Imagine Dame Lillard over Ginobili get outta here
He might not be top 75 NBA but in terms of resume and what he was able to accomplish in the nba, with Argentina and also in EuroLeague gives him one of the greatest resumes in basketball history
Oh yeah, beating an 04 team is so impressive. That team is weaker than our all stars team even in eras before that. Stop with the bs!
That was a Mediocre USA team, for what the U.S. is know for that team was mediocre
Because top 75 player of all time is exclusively for NBA 😂 its not that hard to understand.
I disagree 100% the talent pool in the NBA is more impressive therefore it's more impressive to win an NBA title I'm sorry but it's not impressive beating Serbia in the Olympics
Maybe for everybody but America yes
Are you seeing how close the games are getting at the Olympics? The USA is still the best but just marginally. They can't dominate like they used to before because the rest of the world has caught up to them. It's impossible to tell right now whether or not the NBA is still more competitive than the Olympics. We need a few more of these tournies to tell.
@@playz8538 the talent pool in the NBA is a thousand percent better than the talent pool in the world the world comes to the NBA again if you live in America it's more impressive to win an NBA championship any other country it's more impressive to win the Olympics because all the other leagues are inferior besides the NBA
Is going to be an entertaining basketball Olympics
You showed a picture of Milutinov when mentioning Jovic
He's a delusional content creator, bro said if luka won this years nba finals then people would start considering him into the GOAT debate😭😭😭 like bro what, at least let him win am MVP first
I'm sorry @DKM. However, if France were to have Embiid, Wembanyama, and Gobert. There is absolutely no guarantee they're stopping US 3 point shooting. Even with homecourt advantage. That team is way too talented. AD vs Embiid is pretty even. Plus this is Embiid's first time in international basketball. Ad is averaging 23 points 12 rebounds and 2 blocks. Embiid is averaging 25 and 12. Anthony Davis has averaged 26.0 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.7 blocks. However AD is only one person so let's say if Embiid were playing for France and the matchup was is AD vs Embiid. Now Wembayama and Gobert would switch. AD averages 32 12 and 2 against Wemby in only 2 games. Even though FIBA is more AD has played in those conditions before. Bam is undersized but has a lot of muscle and has played in FIBA assuming he is guarding Wemby. Wemby would have height, wingspan, speed advantage on offense. However, on defense Wemby only has the height and wingspan advantage. Now Rudy is a great defender in the paint. However, switches have been shown to be a problem. With the coaches and schemes USA have I would say it's more difficult for USA but they still win.
Facts.
respectfully, the fiba game is a world where willy hernagomez outperform giannis, luka and jokic, all that nba stuff doesn't matter
Fair. At the same time there is no proof that Joel's game will translate into fiba while KD, Lebron, and Anthony Davis, and Jayson Tatum have all done that
@@DKM_SportsWilly is just an average center that foul baits to get a ton of free throws. Without free throws he’s only like a 10 ppg guy
Not sure why Embiid would even make a difference. He is currently Team USAs worst player
With all the skill level of the world in par. Taking the basketball gold medal now is everything. Now you can call it world champions!
Serbia(then called Yugoslavia) had pretty strong team in 2002 when we beat USA in Indianapolis. Two all stars Peja and Divac, one of the best non NBA players of all time Bodiroga, many NBA role players and euroleague stars. Also 1996 team who played Olympic final was comparable in strength to this.
Facts. Winning olympics or fiba world cup for usa is nothing but for the other countries? It's way more valuable than an nba ring
Nothing better than winning and love for your country
Nowadays gold in the Olympics is infinitely harder than wining an NBA championship. A Gold Lebron at age 39 would be equal to or greater than if he won another championship. The NBA is one league in one country, when you play in the Olympics youre facing the whole world.
20:24 at this point bros just asking for it😭😭 Joel Embiid as of now has been FAR from being the main guy in USA roster, uf anything he slows us down with the turnovers and his slowness, and hes not even our beat guy in the paint thats EASILY been AD and you can even argue Bam💀
Olympics is the real "World Championship" unlike in the NBA where cities fight for "World Championship"
And what about fiba world cup?
@@arrexu01olympics are more prestigious cause of the history
@@inquisitive6786 And also because every teams send their best players
All of the best players from every country move to America to play in the NBA. The championship is indeed worldwide, there is rarely players who are actually from the city that their team is named after.
@@amityvville how is it worldwide if you arent playing teams from around the world? Do you people know words have meanings?
The best time ever to be a basketball fan
Ehhhhh......
This guy has some crazy takes, but I’m here for it
The thing is the Nba has the best players, it's about the NBA not the Usa
Schroeder is the best player in the world, actually.
@@Delilah-zd3em he is in the NBA💀🤦
Any time the US puts their best players on the court, they aren't losing. The only time the US loses internationally is when the 3rd and 4th string play. This team isn't losing.
As an American Y’all gotta realize this ain’t the 90s no more euro leagues are building star players , look at who’s they got in the league rn , jokic , Luka , giannias , shai, Wemby and some of them are considered the best rn ,yea the league is still being dominated by American players as well but let’s not act like euro leagues ain’t been making some noise
Yawn...USA is dominating like always and will continue to
SGA isn't European.
SGA isn't European, if we can consider Embiid American then si can Luka since he's been here for long time and Jokic. With that being said, this USA team is with a bunch of mid to late 30 years olds and if they manage to win gold then that'd be an embarrassment considering about half of them are out of their prime. Now imagine if they where all 5-10 years younger
Jokic might be the greatest Euro but the best international player of all time is Hakeem
Joker just enter his prime, we will talk 6 years from now, and Please don't say Joker can't play D
@@user-ke6ck6jp3e The Nuggets front office is why Joker won't surpass Hakeem
@@THEWZRD1 that one I'll admit you are right, and BTW I'm really really really high on Hakeem
@@THEWZRD1 To be fair the Rockets front office didn't do much to help Hakeem out. In 1994 his best teammates were Otis Thorpe, Vernon Maxwell, and Robert Horry in his second year in the NBA.
To be fair, Hakeem arguably had even less help than Jokic, but let's wait til Joker retires.. either way got mad respect for both@@THEWZRD1
20:52 this hasn’t aged well. AD and Bam have been solid so far.
We don't need Embiid but he is helpful to have.
💀
@@George2647g Straight bozo.
@@George2647g If France were to have Embiid, Wembanyama, and Gobert. There is absolutely no guarantee they're stopping US 3 point shooting. Even with homecourt advantage. That team is way too talented. AD vs Embiid is pretty even. Plus this is Embiid's first time in international basketball. Ad is averaging 23 points 12 rebounds and 2 blocks. Embiid is averaging 25 and 12. Anthony Davis has averaged 26.0 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.7 blocks. However AD is only one person so let's say if Embiid were playing for France and the matchup was is AD vs Embiid. Now Wembayama and Gobert would switch. AD averages 32 12 and 2 against Wemby in only 2 games. Even though FIBA is more AD has played in those conditions before. Bam is undersized but has a lot of muscle and has played in FIBA assuming he is guarding Wemby. Wemby would have height, wingspan, speed advantage on offense. However, on defense Wemby only has the height and wingspan advantage. Now Rudy is a great defender in the paint. However, switches have been shown to be a problem. With the coaches and schemes USA have I would say it's more difficult for USA but they still win.
@@George2647g ☠💀
What a load bulll.... NBA facts mostly right, but... watch some Euro basketball before you compose such video. Embarrassing for someone who do basketball videos
It’s like how the world baseball classic means more to most mlb players than a World Series
no,most don't care about classic because it fake only jaapn play baseball
It’s not. we only play to shut everyone else up. there’s a reason why every single time we have sent our best. We win. No, The rest of the world has NOT caught up.
Yes but every year the competition gets tougher. Granted our players get better but the other teams are catching up. It's getting to the point where we could lose a game. And yes, these other teams would give the Dream Team a run for their money, especially with a hurt Bird and a college player on their roster.
There is only one Manu Ginobili
And he's over rated as hell as an Olympian.
Best SG after Kobe in his prime. Educate yourself. @@younglove3362
Luka with slovenia golden medal could very well be like the Dirk's championship
Me a Mavs fan*
“Ooo nooo Luka can’t play in the Olympics so he has to just rest and get ready for the next season”😢😆
To sum up this video 📹, basically it's stated that losing on the US Olympic team is worse than never winning an NBA championship.
Sadly Greece miss the absolute legend that is Thanasis Antetokoumpo, that lack of depth might hurt them in the finals.
Thanasis "hasn't been picked" because he has a torn acl. Sloukas and Papapetrou will also miss the tournament due to injuries. Luka and Slovenia did not even qualify...
You don't even know which players are going to the olympics and you are making a video about the players that are going to the olympics...
Can't even research the simplest things on the topic your video is about and people take your opinion seriously??
Makes me laugh
DKM back with a banger
Because USA had won Gold since the first time Basketball was in the Olympics in 1932. The only loss of the USA at the Olympics, was 2004 with Lebronze.
France don't have chance at best is bronze medal but need to beat great team's!
I still can't believe Embiid chose to play for the USA instead of France. I can understand Embiid not wanting to play for Cameroon, but an olympic gold with France would mean a whole lot more than a gold with team Lebronto. The guy just does not know how to set his priorities straight IMHO.
His priorities are pretty straight - an immigrant wanting to give back to the nation that essentially gave him everything he needed to develop into a pro-athlete earning millions since the age of 16 as opposed to playing for France that… gave him exactly what?
Unless, of course, you’re saying immigrants can never belong to a nation they see themselves to be part of?
@@Delilah-zd3emFrench gave Embiid what he begged them, French citizenship so he could join their team like he promised. US recruited a backstabbing liar.
@@NickAlex08 Can you try again and answer the question that I had asked? Thanks
Embid is the greatest liar.
I disagree that he is needed, Bam is enough and he is better than Embid right now. Embid is also not suited in the starter position
Come on bro, saying Serbia will probably never have a roster this talented again is just disrespectful when you know historically we always had great teams and were always contenders on every bigger tournament
He don't know about what talking about!
Yeah but will you guys really have a group of players this good ever again?
@@resurrectedpa we had better teams before, no reason why we wouldn't have better teams in the future too when Serbia is the land of basketball and the talent is always insane
Great video
Thanks for the visit
What universe does Victor Wenbenyama have the potential to be the GOAT? Y'all just throw that around every second you can like Jordan wasn't the best player in the world the second he joined the league.
He had a better rookie year than lebrons rookie szn. Who is better than Jordan.
Jordan is over rated. He's only the goat because you desperately want him to be.
@younglove3362 jordan is underrated at this point cause y'all just don't want to do any type of research to know what you are talking about.
He's the goat because he objectively has the best per game averages and advanced stats, the most accolades, and won the most as finals MVP...
@whenisdinner2137
Other way around. Nostalgia and indoctrination is the reason Jordan is over rated. The more research I did on him the more over rated he became, especially when I started seeing new, old, and his current generation players play and dominate like he did. Stop ✋️. Jordan is the most over rated NBA player in the NBA. And it's not because of Jordan himself. Is the nostalgic fans and the casuals overhyping him up like he's a god.
As a Canadian I hope we win but I’d be happy with 2nd lol 😅
It's not that impressive considering half the players are scrubs who don't play in the NBA, and then the Americans just have a super team of people who play the sport professionally. So it's not actually that hard (or shouldn't be) for the Americans.
Manu will never be part of any NBA greatest list because of how Argentina humiliated team USA couple of times. Those idiotic NBA powers will never ever forget that.
"Serbia will never have a group like this"
Bro, are you serious? 😂😂😂
We can say that every year and then still they are top 5 always. Don't forget who got 5 FIBA world cups won
How can they win of they did not qualify?
Where is Alex Sarr for France? That would be 2 top 2 picks in the last 2 drafts who are both 7’ plus the DPOY
He's been dog shi in the summer league
Nba champs are in fact really not world champs and Its mindblowing that some people even think that
Team USA is 140-5 no one compares to the USA just stop 😭
No one compares, we all know this
Imagine team france the next olympics Wemby, Sarr, Risacher, coulibaly they just need a solid point guard that have a hi basketball iq on par with jason kidd. That would be a very entertaining team
watch out the next NBA Draft... Nolan Traoré a PG with speed, skills and mindset... Only Tony Parker in France can compete with his Talent... In Five years, France will be creepy
It seems like embiid just made a bad business decision no matter what if he went with France he would have been better off
embiid from cameroon tho.. he grew up there..
WRONG! American b-ball players do want and therefore will win olympic gold. For the first time in awhile we’re motivated.
2004 team is literally one of the worst teams in history and never really was a team! Those players really don’t and never talk about the team in any interview. Marbury was the point guard and iverson didn’t care about practice.and LeBron was 19
Only American sports (football, baseball, basketball) care about the club game more than the international one. But then again, Americans acknowledging the world outside of the US challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
They hating on Embiid, but their ain’t one French dude on their soccer or basketball team, their whole team is from Africa 😂
Bro regardless if the USA wins or not (which they will) the USA is still has the best basketball. That’s why everyone from all these other countries play in the nba if their countries were so good they’d play there.
Its mostly about money. Theres more people consuming basketball in the usa. Usa have the best players but good players put together doesnt mean they have the best team and thats why most of the time superteams dont work
Imagine comparing AD to JJ, AD cooked that guy during the playoffs. And ADs role and purpose is more suited as starting center for USA than Embid. Embid cant even match the pace of his team mate, and cant set up screen for curry. Hell he even stay at the 3point line, making it harder for step to create space.
With embids strength and height he should be dominating in the paint, but AD gladly took that role
french basketball media arn't 100% sure france is gonna win. It's actually common to hear specialists say france could struggle to win a medal at all, with usa, canada and serbia being stacked af this year. Obviously we hope for a gold medal as it would be lengendary ahah
National team is like all star championship
Sorry not Sorry but Canadians are not American….. They are Canadian.
So it's amazing for other countries. Not American NBA players.
Facts about luka 🗣️
The nba title is worth more until they lose the crown. And I don't mean for 1 Olympics like 2004 I mean until they are consistently not the overwhelming favorites because they are just better
0:20 still wasn’t a nba 75 😭
its more impressive because its not only a national (nba) championship.
Serbia should get Aaron Gordon as naturalized player.
Will be so funny if France beats Embiid and the US 😂
Or if France lost to Germany.
Gobert is not a defense legend , he is pretty mediocre.
I don’t think so. At least not for Americans. The top players in all of those best teams play in the NBA, and the champs in the NBA have beaten all of the best talent anyways.
Team USA just beat the snot out of Canada!
It was a f***ing friendly. Shai and jamal didnt play in the forth quarter ( or something similar)superstars playing less minutes for Canada than they will in the Olympics makes them significant worse than team usa missing some. YOU CAN PLAY CANADA A MILLION TIMES AND WIN ALL BY 100 POINTS BUT WHAT MATTERS IS IF YOU BEAT THEM IN THE OLYMPICS AT LEAST BY ONE
fax they won’t even really trying😭😭😭
I have no doubt Team USA will win the gold, but don't brag about a friendly. It's literally called "friendly". Neither team was going all out.
Both were crap and overhyped. And Canada is the most overhyped of the two. Empty defense more like nonexistent and single attempts no team whatsoever for both. And this is supposed to be the favorite in the group of my National team? What a joke.
This is FIBA not NBA and both will realize it very soon. You cannot play like NBA in FIBA. European teams will annihilate them like 2006.
If Jokic or Giannis win gold they’re looked at as the 🐐🤷🏿
Slovenia is eliminated aren't they??
Let me guess, there's fewer of them available and you're not playing with your usual team. There, saved you 22 minutes, spend it well.
Watch the video 🙄
If the USA sins gold then it should be an embarrassment to the world and all of the haters who kept on hating on previous USA teams. About half of this U.S. roster is in their mid to late 30's and they are beatung good countries from aroudn the world, now just imagine if they where all a couple years younger. France are supposedly a top 5 team to win these Olympics and theyve lost to 3 teams who all lost to the U.S.
Jokic has not been the best NBA player in the last 4 years 😂😂😂 Bron was the best player in 2020, Giannis in 21, Steph in 22, Jokic in 23, 2024 is a toss up. 🤷🏿♂️
15:05 if luka won this years NBA finals then he would not have been in future GOAT conversations💀 Dirk did it with a way worser team, beat a really good Heat team and to this day no one considers him into the GOAT debate. Yes hes good but never smelled the title GOAT