BRITS React to Can This 2024 USA Basketball Team Be Beaten?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- OB Daz and OB Aidan react to the USA basketball team for the 2024 Olympics.
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Embid got his citizenship
He’s also been here since high school he went to Monteverde
@@isaiahwashington5443 I know….he got his citizenship
@@isaiahwashington5443ya he got his citizenship
This asshole also got the French one...
Embiid is from Cameroon but I believe his American citizenship allows him to join the team
Correct
Yes and his son and wife are born in America so he wanted to play for his sons country
He should represent where he grew up
@@jimmybastas3559why?
@@jimmybastas3559go make him
I remember everyone freaking out in 2020 when the US lost their 1st game and i pointed out then, which no one seems to remember, they didn't have the full team. 3 of their players were still playing in the NBA finals. Their 2 best wing defenders, Jure Holliday & Khris Middleton and their 2nd best scoring option Devin Booker. I know those were not huge names but their absence mattered. As soon as they joined the team the US cruised through the rest of the game capturing the gold relatively easily.
PUR is Puerto Rico. They field an Olympic basketball team every year.
they also do baseball when its in don’t they?
@@bigploppa154 Yeah, PR usually fields a really good Olympic baseball team.
To me when Puerto Rico wins a medal at the Olympics that should count as USA when they do the country medal count.
@@reggiebrown9508That would be unfair
The two teams with a chance are Canada, which has a true star in SGA and is deep enough to have NBA starters on the bench, and France, which has no depth at all but the duo of Wemby and Gobert is definitely going to be a challenge to score on.
The US probably takes it and goes undefeated. The thing that annoys FIBA is that the US cares a lot more about the Olympics than it does about the FIBA World Cup. The Olympics has the prestige and the aura of the Dream Team, while the World Cup is something that a lot of players skip to focus on rehabbing and training for the next season.
Which is a good thing imo Fiba should be for the secondary stars and Olympics for the best of the best atleast for the USA anyways. That’s way tons of different guys can experience playing for their country
Like you said, none stand a chance. But France, if you just wanna throw a name out there.
Canada? Lol no.
@@JohnWick-qr4yc I think FIBA would prefer it to be more like soccer, where the World Cup is the prestigious competition and the Olympics are a U-23 tournament. You can't fake history, though, and America has more history with the Olympics.
@marvelfan7720 SGA is one of a handful of international players who would be good enough to be in the US starting lineup. Their star power falls off steeply after him (and maybe Murray if he has a good night), but they are at least stocked with NBA-caliber players. Nowhere near the level of even the US bench, but there are no "Who He Play For?" entries, which is more than France can say.
It'd take a lack of effort from the US and/or an insane night from SGA, but it wouldn't be impossible for them to steal a win in the knockout round.
Another underrated advantage, that i don't see too many talking about, is the USA also has not one but TWO of the named 15 greatest coaches of all time in Steve Kerr as head coach and Eric Spoelstra as an assistant. Yes, Rudy and Wemby will make scoring in the paint hard but the US are fully capable of scoring from anywhere. They have no shortage of all time great shooters on the roster. I'm not an all time great coach and even i can come up with a line up of like KD at the 4 and which one of those guys is going to defend him on the permeameter? lol.
Ego is the main concern for the American team every Olympics. It is & has been the difference between gold & lesser medals.
ego hasn't hurt them in past decade
NBA style of basketball is the difference. International basketball plays the more traditional style, which is what you see in college basketball. Coach K was almost unbeatable in international play, and a coach NBA players listened too. NBA coaches struggle also.
They dont play defense in the nba and the refs dont call the game by the rules
After 35 years old, Michael Jordan shruggled to average 20 points a game and Shaq couldn’t score 10 a game. What LeBron is doing at 39 is not real
At Age 35..36 Jordan won an NBA championship and MVP. From ages 38 to 40 Jordan Averaged over 20 points a game when Healthy. He did that AFTER not playing for 2YRS. Lebron also has the Advantage of MODERN medicine (and rumored other 'under the table' enhancements) that Jordan couldn't take advantage of in the early 2000s. Plus the Early 2000s was a much more physical league that emphasized Defense over Offense much more than today's NBA.
@@gabrielalele8603 Bro Jordan got started in the STEROID era. WYTA modern medicine? Jordan had personal trainers, Chefs everything LeBron uses and the NBA wasn’t testing him for steroids. 😂
@jeffwilliams2828 : Off Course there were Modern medicinal practices in the early 2000s but we're talking about 2DECADES later of medical evolution concerning nutrition & training in the 2020s.
A 36 to 39 year old athlete in the early 2000s medically is at a disadvantage compared to a 36 to 39 year old athlete with the medical advantages of today's technology.
I would love more Olympic content as we get closer to Paris. Maybe some reactions to gymnastics. Women like Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Shilese Jones, Jade Carey, and non-US gymnasts like Melanie de Jesus dos Santos from France and Rebecca Andrade from Brazil. Plus you can't forget the men!
Pros have been allowed in the Olympics starting in 1992
I believe there was pros before 1992. I think the USA started sending pros in 1992 to match what other countries were doing. I can be mistaken, but I believe that countries were sending pros that were playing in the euro leagues
@@garydomingos5562 Incorrect the OP was correct. The USA could not send pros because the NBA was considered being a pro athlete. THey change the rule when Other countries could have their pros play because they were considered amateurs. 1992 Dream Team was the FIRST basketball team to have professional NBA players on it.
Great vid Blokes!
Serious question: y do Brits pronounce 'th' w just the T sound in Anthony? Antony Edwards. Mark Antony,
17:05 Carlos Boozer was a pretty good NBA player too lol. In the Key and Peele skit; East/West Bowl, they referenced him as “Coolous Boozler” or something like that 😂😂
I love that you guys know Purdue.
Embiid got his French citizenship to play for France, even asked Macron personally to get it sorted so he could represent them but now doing a 180...
basketball, soccer, and ice hockey (with NHLers) are the best olympic sports
Speaking for Swimming, I’ve had friends that have gotten Olympic trial cuts. You just have to place to make the US team there
First time NBA player played in Olympics was '92 in Barcelona.
Soccer still have restrictions, FIFA have restricted participation of elite players in the men's tournament in various ways: currently, squads for the men's tournament are required to be composed of players under 23 years of age, with three permitted exception
As an American, I feel like Team USA should always dominate basketball. Just like Canada should dominate Hockey
”Should” lol
Pick up hockey is played on frozen ponds in the northern US and Canada.
They added break dancing to this years summer olympics
It's not hard at all to rig basketball. 2 early fouls on the best player early in the 1st quarter can severely hurt a team's chances.
But you cant control who's making shots or any of the pure luck things that happen during the course of a game.
Embiid is a dual citizen. He had the choice to play for USA or Cameroon and chose USA
L3bron would be having so much fun being a point guard and mak8ng plays on this team. 🙌
Shaedon Sharpe is a beast🥶
It's going to be a lot of load management for that team.
Edey is about to be drafted into the NBA.. the same thing happened back in the day when Christian Laetner was put on the dream team just coming out of college.
Zach Edey is already gonna be drafted by then
i'm most excited to watch gobert and wemby. with the international 3 second and goaltending rules, most teams in this tournament are going to have an impossible time scoring on them. even team USA would be in for a rough time if Embiid didn't decide to play for them.
"The worst player on the American team would be better than the best player on any other team."
The MVP of the NBA hasn't been won by an American born player since Harden won in 2017-2018....
Basketball has been an Olympic sport since 1936. It was always amateur players until 1992, when professional players were first allowed.
rules are different in Olympics, and Euros play defense
There was a team back in the 90’s… the original Dream Team, that woulda whiped the floor with this team.
Any team can be beaten--except one--the "Dream Team" from 1992 Olympics. Nope, sorry, no one.
Ya our USA team is stacked, but look into that Canada team they are damn well pretty stacked as well!
A lot off ppl think the Canadian players are American 😂
@@yahiaali4059 cause Canada is in North America....
@@5h4d1q so is Mexico?
Pfft America has the best lineup
@@deadboltzz5199 they did in 04. And still lost
We don't need Embiid. It should have been Chet Holgrem to guard Wemby. That boy Haliburton is gonna have like 15-20 assists a game. 😂
I feel like when it comes USA and Canada basketball is the opposite of hockey. Where both are full of NBA/NHL players but one has many more of the top players in that league. USA-NBA CAN-NHL
3 best players are international.
AD won national championship at Kentucky then that summer won a gold medal in summer Olympics same year in 2012
Embiid also has French citizienship.
Imagine a front court of Gobert, Embiid, and Wemby. They could easily coexist with Wemby on the wing.
Yes, that would be a problem
with that lineup embiid should be the one on the wing
@@dre27321 I'd have Gobert and Embiid lock down the paint, and Wemby as a roaming wing.
Embiid a bitch for joining the US team
Just rotate them. These 3 never getting fatigued would be a frontcourt nightmare to any opponents
*Sometimes, too much **_”stars”_** in one team is not advantageous. Egos here and there might happen.*
This year the super stars don’t appear to have big egos imo. Health will be the factor.
Olympic BB is played by FIBA rules, and life time NBA players have hard time adjusting to foul and travel rules
Canada stacked too
Joel is Cameroonian and French but since he has lived here for over 5 years he qualifies to become a citizen of America through naturalization so he is allowed to play for the US now.
You could do this for any athlete and since most of the best players in American Football, basketball and more sports come to the US they will eventually be allowed to play for the US. This doesn't work as well in a sport like soccer as the MLS isn't the league where the best players end up going but technically those players could play for the US
It’s not really a problem for American football. NFL is 97% born in the US
@@mattwonder4657 I don’t see it as a problem at all. I think it’s cool people can earn citizenship and then represent the US
He has been living in América since he was 16 and now he’s 29 .He played at college Kansas and his son was born in USA.
I’d say it’s due to NBA doesn’t have any in-season breaks for national team matches like in European football leagues. Embiid had nearly no time to play for Cameroon, no wonder he lost such sense of representation, nationalism, or whatever you call the desire to play for his home country as
Imagine if Embid would’ve played for France 🔥
America number 1
As an American I lose no respect but I do frown upon players playing for the U.S who were not born here
No. They can't. And as much as ppl wanna tell you the talent gap is closing, it's still pretty big.
Only annoying part is US basketball's same routine. Win the Olympics. Send shtty players to the Fiba World Cup and lose. Then assemble an unbeatable team to dominate the Olympics again and win. Rinse and repeat.
But hey, at least other countries get to have fun at the World Cup lol.
They should something like what USA Hockey does which is if you want to eligible to play in the Olympics (when allowed by NHL CBA), they have to show up to a one week camp in the summer. So USA Basketball should do something like you have to play in at least one World Cup in order to play for the Olympics unless your NBA team makes the final every single year in that Olympic cycle.
Those players have to play together. Not only that but they are old and at the end of their careers. If they dont take Gold its over for their popularity.
Ulike basketball soccer in the Olympics is a U23 tournament
Like you were saying about India beating England at Cricket... it is like Japan beating USA recently in the World Baseball Classic!
I do think it helps the NBA to have more nations able to compete. It helps grow their brand globally.
Japanese baseball is legit, don't knock it. They treat their baseball like we treat the NFL.
@rdramos13 Oh, for sure! 💯Definitely not saying anything negative about the quality of Japanese players.
Just comparing the similarity between England introducing a sport to other countries only to have those countries become really good and eventually beat them. I'm not mad at it at all. Competition is great!
That’s the thing tho America didn’t create basketball a Canadian did
It all depends who plays, if USA sent their greatest players, not necessarily most talented, they'd win.
embiid came to america when he was in highschool
We lose in tournaments like FIBA because we change teams EVERY TIME, and the best players aren't interested in FIBA, so there's virtually no continuity. This last team tried to throw together a few young stars with a BUNCH of 6th Men and role-players, in about a month. The problem with these teams is no one knows what to do when they NEED to score. Guys get too selfless and they end up floundering. I think half the team got sick too.
Best assembled sports team ever in history is the Dream Team across all sports in my opinion. Olympics are my favorite because all the crap that goes on in the world its 1 time where everyone comes together peacefully from different countries to compete and its all peaceful.
Don't be fooled. We EXPECT to win Gold but it's still a big deal, to the players most of all. It's part of the players code for those aspiring to HOF status.
Canada is almost entirely American trained so they have the best chance but only if we are ice cold and don't play defense, which I don't see happening with this coaching staff, especially not with bad blood between Anthony Edwards and Denver's whole team.
The ant 🐜 took out the joker 🃏 🔥🔥 LFG Celtic's tho 🍀
I believe the Netherlands is the tallest country on average.
Yeah I think they slightly edge out Sudan but yeah I think it is the Dutch by a little bit
@@JohnWick-qr4yc I mean, Sudan might be taller on average if they all had food. But the tallest countries are all European. According to the internet.
I’m hoping Canada can shock the world. The fact that Canada will have nba players that do not make the team is so crazy. It’s been too long since they’ve even qualified for a Olympics.
Embiid could have played for either the US or Cameroon. His choice
Or France
@@sportgeek2028 True
I have France winning the whole thing. Rules are different court is different size, goaltending rules, smaller courts and closer 3 point line allows for true zones to be effective. No defensive 3 second rules. France might have Wemby and Gibert to clog the middle. USA should be favored but I’m not sure it’s a lock.
FIBA rules, not NBA rules. It will be hard for the US team against the best European teams even I think they gonna win the gold.
"First" US team is good in names only, "second" team will do much better under FIBA rules.
Durant, lebron are past their prime………….what needs to happen is USA vs world like the Ryder cup
Can be beaten easy.. the average age of the team is in mid 30s so just field a young team that likes to just run all out all game and push the pace and will have this team winded by the third quarter
Hockey is in hot areas in the usa...
The Netherlands has the tallest men in the world.
Maybe, but South Sudan has the biggest Dinka.
If the US team take every game seriously. Take every opponent seriously. Then Team USA will win dominantly.
any team can be beaten in any one game
KA KAW
Embiid ain't playing. lol. He's too injured, even for this waltz. KAT should be on the team but I think he played for his mother's old country year's ago. Kawhi might not play either, although I think he wants to. It's the only thing left for his HOF career, similar to Curry. They might add Jarret Allen for Embiid and probably will add Paolo Banchero.
embid was suppose to play for france as its naturlized player! he will be playing with RUDY GOBERT & VICTOR WEMBANYAMA ... but embid has now chosen to play of USA for some reason .. what a shame😅😂😂 as if USA is not strong already ...
That would be three centers though. The spacing would be pretty poor
Big names are great, but as always, it's all about how those names play together. Sometimes, it just doesn't work. USA Basketball can't just win through name power alone anymore, they have to play well the whole Olympics. International basketball has evolved so much. It would be a big upset if the US lost, but not like it was in 2004, not even close.
The fact that international basketball has different rules to the NBA is really dumb. Americans, who created the sports, are disadvantaged when playing outside of there own country. Just weird.
I think this is the best team in the United States US is going to win the gold med
Season average not career average
Says 'experts' as they show J.J. Reddick 😒
Their frauds, they don’t even got Kyrie signed to team USA so they gonna struggle
Basketball has been rigged for a looong time, it’s all gambling related. Tim Donaghy was just a fall guy, but it’s still going on.
Embiid is indeed from Cameroon. I imagine he has dual citizenship and is allowed to choose.
The American players arent as good in international basketball because they dont play defense or follow the rules of basketball (no travel, extremely soft fouls etc). Nba is more entertainment than actual basketball
Alot of teams will include at least one collegiate athlete. Christian Latener a college player was on the original dream team over Isiah Thomas an all time player because Michael Jordan didn't like Thomas and didn't want him on the team.
Thomas was hated, by the other guys, especially Jordan, that's why they didn't want him. He deserved it too
"A lot"
The only sport America can't be beat in is football. Everything else is up for grabs.
That’s every country in the world
Spoken like a true delusional american
These nba players have never played defense in their life.
casual
CLICK BAIT. they dont have VICTOR 😂😂😂
Basketball was invented by a canadien
Nope, USA invented Basketball.
He was a Canadian by birth but lived in the USA and came up with basketball while in the USA and he had American citizenship as well as Canadian.
I would say he was more American then but who’s to say what
Joel’s country wouldn’t have been represented, he did originally get citizenship in France, and it look like he was gonna play for them, and then got US citizenship, the president of the France National Team hates Joel for that
Why not? If it's a team composed of Entitled Divas, then they would need their nba referees to help them win.
All I have to do is find someone dumb enough to bet against the us team each game lol. Easy money
2004 was so embarrassing. I was only 14, but there had only been 2 summer Olympics between the Dream Team and that debacle.. it was rough. Our coach that year was a bonehead, the great players were either not there or far too young, it was just bad all around. We should never finish lower than 1st in the sport we invented.
The narrator sounds like he was hired by the Olympic committee to get other countries interested in BB. We all know what's going to happen. This isn't Cricket. And lets not forget that a lot of those top foreign players train in the USA, under US coaches. And they're are only a few who could be considered NBA material, let alone NCAA worthy. I'd be willing to bet some of our top HS teams could beat some of those runabout Euro teams.
All the French players carry a white flag just in case 😮