USA vs URSS David Robinson vs Arvydas Sabonis (ROUND 1)
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- 1986 FIBA World Championship in Spain. Robinson & Sabonis two of the best centers in history face to face for the first time.
Both players in All-Tournament Team.
USA team roster: David Robinson, Muggsy Bogues, Charles Smith, Kenny Smith, Sean Elliot,Steve Kerr...
URSS team roster: Arvydas Sabonis, Vladis Valters, Valdemaras Chomicius, Valeri Thikhonenko, Vladimir Tkachenko, Rimas Kurtinaitis…
Campeonato del Mundo en España en 1986. Robinson y Sabonis, dos de los mejores pívots de la historia, frente a frente por primera vez.
Ambos jugadores nombrados en el Quinteto Ideal.
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This guy would have been the greatest basketball player of all time, he has 0 flaws, there's nothing he cant do, defense,athleticism, shooting,strength, terrific passing,speed, rebounding,7. Foot tall, high iq, crafty, has post moves, acrobatic finisher . WOW!
7 foot 2 or 3 , insane
Nzinn73 He would have been an all time NBA player, I think. The greatest? Don't know, as he was well past this prime when he got to the NBA. Superior passer, would have been one of the better shooting centers. And very athletic and strong at 7 3. Wilt Chamberlain type strength. Better than someone like Olajuwon? Again, can't say. But the NBA players in the 80s knew how good he was from what he did in the Olympics.
7.3 feet tall... You can see he is towering over Robinson....
1985 XIII Summer Universiade miraculous gold medal USA VS USSR Arvydas Romas Sabonis
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sabonis prior to the injury was the athletic version of jokic. he would wreck the league today.
He was the skyscraper who runs like a forward, shoots like a guard and thinks like a playmaker.
he had 16 pts this game. Jokic averages +10 more than that. AVERAGES. You're insane.
@@LeNoLi. this is fiba basketball. it's different. go look at the stats in the euroleage, no one scores 26 a game
@@4747da Robinson dropped 20 on him this game
@@LeNoLi. so? Robinson is a legend. all I'm saying, not just based on this game by the way, is the pre injury sabonis could have been a top 5 player in the league
Dude was a giant
If he had played for Portland before he got old, they'd had forgotten all about Walton, Bowie, etc.
He was a beast.
Best center from Europe ever... Agree
@@deso224 one of the best in the world in my opinion. If eg. you compare his technique with Shaq's- there's simply no comparison. Shaq's play was based on his unbelievable strength only. A pity Sabas didn't play earlier in NBA. Despite his knees and back were in bits in Blazers' time he still was playing fantastic games like the one vs Utah in play-offs. Americans don't remember him as when you look at the stats for the whole NBA career these aren't impressive. But they should remember as Blazers' medical team said that Sabas could easy claim for parking spot for disabled as his body was so devastated. In my personal opinion there was only one center far better than Sabas in that days when you look at the whole Sabas' career. That was Hakeem- and he's not American too ;) not originally. Born and grew up in Nigeria.
@@krzysiekklejszmit6967 yes, you are correct. I remember duels Zalgiris Cibona!He is real master
@@deso224 I pay tribute to Croatian and Yugoslavian basketball too:) It's amazing how countries so small as Croatia or Lithuania can create such great teams and players. Recpect from me! :)
@@krzysiekklejszmit6967 I am from, Serbia, but never mind, sport is sport.Homichus was Litvania too?
Sabonis looks like father introducing basketball game to four and five year old kids.
And he is trying to be gentle with them while they are openly hacking him.
Robinson was the player of the game. He had more points and rebounds. He had the win.
Sabonis had been a professional for years (debut 1981). Robinson was still in college and would not enter the NBA until 1989.
Robinson is one of the greatest C's of all time. Sabonis wishes he had one season as good as Robinson's worst.
@@LeNoLi. What happened when you woke up? Pfahahahaha
@@milosobrenovic1241 i realized that sabonis was a nobody.
@@LeNoLi. In your dreams, in real life you're nobody and Robinson was a mediocre center even for NBA.
My god, Sabonis had like 3 posterizing dunks in one game over Robinson and blocked him like 5 times crazy... To bad he didint came in the NBA when he was young, when he came was beaten down by injury and past his prime, probably the bigest what ifs.
Not to mention how badly they are hacking him every chance they get.
The big dunk was awesome 👌. He was very skilled on both ends of the floor. A true HOF player.
Sabonis had been a professional for years (debut 1981). Robinson was still in college and would not enter the NBA until 1989.
Robinson STILL had the better game. And the W.
@@LeNoLi. pffffs
@@LeNoLi. And your point is? They're literally 7 months different in age, which makes them pretty equal playing fields. Your comment is misrepresenting history and its obvious to any real NBA fan.
Sabonis played professionally, but it was WHILE HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. He wasn't even allowed to play college basketball, so that's what he did, as the USSR prohibited their players from leaving to play in the USA. I honestly don't realize why you brought it up. He dominated by the way, as a teenager against grown men, winning the Euroscar Player of the Year (best player in Europe) award six times. Furthermore, Robinson entered the NBA in 1989 because he was enlisted in the Navy for 2 years, it's not like he was 15 here and Sabonis was 20. He would have been in the same draft as Sabonis, had he left after his junior year and not stayed all 4 years for his college career. He also got to develop his basketball talents in the basketball capital of the world, the USA, against top competition, so don't act like Sabonis had some unfair advantage. Get your facts right and do some critical thinking next time you leave a comment.
This dude was scary good...thats one of the top 10 NBA centers ever and Sabonis is just in another level!
Wow
In his prime top 5
David Robinson didn't have the competition level of the other greats and he's pretty young here relative to his playing days.
@@kingcam0775 wtf u talking bout 1989 Admiral rookie season was 1 of top 5 in NBA history. Guy was already Xp as hell.
He didnt had NBA xp longevity but he was already top level. Spurs drafted him 2 years prior and literally let man in Navy seals and u saying Admiral was young and not great. Aahahahha do u even know how great Admiral is /?? Literally only Wilt, Wes Unseld and Jordan rookie season they looked like top 10 players in NBA. Admiral was top 5 in scoring, top 5 in rebounds top 2 in blocksk 1989 rookie season, by your statement he was top 10 in all stats but somehow dont know how to play here and suddenly young ?? aahahahaahha
@@cullenbaker7642 Robinson didn't have NBA longevity because he came into the league as a 24 year old. He's 21 in this clip, not a spring chicken, but not the grown man taking the NBA by storm as a rookie. He still would have been great as a 21 year old, but he wouldn't have been so immediately NBA ready, I don't think, if he hadn't of been so old and played so much international basketball. Case in point: The U.S. won this game and David Robinson played as well as Sabonis. 2 years later The U.S. lost, but David Robinson had been the best player by far. He would debut in the NBA the next year and immediately became a top 10 center. What a difference three years can make, you dumb fuck.
Sabonis had been a professional for years (debut 1981). Robinson was still in college and would not enter the NBA until 1989.
Robinson STILL had the better game. And the W.
And Sabonis is on another level? What the fuck are you smoking my bro?
Arvydas Sabonis is definitely top 5 centers of all time.
Such a shame that Sabonis didn't come to the NBA earlier. He outplayed one of the best prospects of the 90s when they were roughly at the same age (though it's important to note that Robinson was quite raw before he came to the league).
Have you seen a matchup between young Sabonis and Ralph Sampson? I think that I've seen it long ago somewhere on YT.
70sFan, I am not sure Robinson developed whole lot from his final year at Navy to his rookie season in the NBA. His game was still based primarily on athleticism, and he really had rudimentary low post skills. In fact, Robinson's game never developed much in his entire career as a pro either. So I think this is a fair comparison at a similar stage. And my conclusion remains the same as it was when I saw this game and the 88 Olympics game as they occurred: Sabonis was far superior skill-wise; and what was surprising was that Sabonis was on par even athletically as well.
One year different
@@rv1251 Arvydas is 7 months and 21 days older than Admiral.
Sabonis was the greatest center ever ask Shaq
Sabas was #1 prospect in nba for over a decade so basically look at the 10 players taken #1 overall in that stand he would went ahead of them
Wilt Chamberlain.
Lol...... you can’t be serious. I’d certainly say top ten.
Kareem
Hakeem
Wilt
Shaq
@@jasonpetersen7986 He said for the decade when he was the #1 prospect....which was basically between 1985 - 1995....The first 3 were before that. Outside of Shaq, I would take a Non-injured Arvydas over ANY center drafted in that timeframe, and probably over any since. The man averaged 14 and 8 on 55% shooting, was the runner-up for the ROTY AND 6th Man of the Year awards despite his X-Rays, as the Blazers Team Doctor stated, "....qualifying him for a handicapped parking spot...", at age 30! His skillset was virtually the same as Jokic's, but was also a MUCH better athlete.
The fact that the ONLY players that we rate above him are Top 10-15 players pretty much says it all.
@@twilitezn obviously after first couple he has much more experience. Lol
Sabonis was the only center in existence that could play from 1 to 5 on an equal level
Sabonis playing like a guard and like a forward soon in my channel!
@@sabonistkachenko8778 not my quote btw, a known Greek coach had mentioned it years ago.
3:50-4:00. That's the famous Sports Illustrated photo of Sabonis dunking on young Naval officer David Robinson. For me, of all the images of the Cold War......that was it!
I have to check that out, didn't know it was a Sports Illustrated cover
@@JulioLeonFandinho It wasn't a cover, but there was a photo and story of that game!
Сабонис, невероятный игрок. Феномен. Интеллект, невероятная самобытная техника, на фоне фантастических данных. Здесь он в лучшей своей форме, он не просто доминирует, он создаёт игру в матче с соперниками, которые лучшие в мире и они деклассированы на его фоне.
arvydas was a man among boys here - literally and figuratively
Sabonis played them like a child.
That USSR team was 75% Lithuanian
At first USSR team was 50% Lithuanian in 1986 FIBA World Championship.
At second Lithuania as part of USSR become sport and industry developed. USSR spend best of its resources in human specialists and money to make good alternative to Western Bloc. So Sabonis and other Lithuania sportsman and signers and so on, WAS the result of it!
If you need proof - just name me Lithuanian basketball players paying in NBA right now. Or maybe name me then Lithuania win euro championship?
@@barbuhin 8 литовцев играют сейчас в НБА. Сабонис играл бы за Портленд ещё в 1986. Прям без засельсоветского союза ничего в мире не было бы.
@@barbuhin idi v bar dalshe buchat, Vasia..
@@985viper в Литве бы не было. И глупо это отрицать. Сколько дал СССР для развития Прибалтики и то место, которое она занимала в СССР. Где сейчас ваш кинематограф? Где ваша промышленность? А как у вас с работой? Куда предпочитаете ездить на заработки и ПМЖ? Молодежь почему-то не сильно хочет оставаться в современной и такой сильно-развитой Литве. И это при том ресурсе который вам достался после СССР. Уверен, что многие литовцы старшего поколения разделяют это сожаление и ностальгию.
Funny enough Domantas Sabonis is dominating right now :D@@barbuhin
Sabonis was so smooth and natural. He was a joy to watch.
Me acuerdo perfectamente, fue el Mundial España 86, un domingo a las 9 de la noche y el partido ya imposible para la URSS pero fueron remontando y terminó muy apretado.
Robinson aún no estaba maduro, a pesar de tener la misma edad que Sabonis, entonces Sabonis era muy superior, pero Robinson creció 5 cm más en dos años o menos, y echó un gran físico y paso a ser uno de los mejores jugadores de la historia, y Sabonis por el contrario el telón de Aquiles le pasó gran factura y aún así, y cojo jugó hasta los 37 años y a gran nivel, un superclase.
Sabonis prior to the 1987 injury was one of the best players in the 80's and would have been a top 6-7 center ever!
@Coureur de Bois
No way.
Wilt Chamberlain is the number 1.
Better than Ewing, Robinson, Moses (all around), Parish, Gilmore, Pau, etc. The guys that might have really given it to Sabonis would have been Moses when cookin, Kareem of course, Hakeem, Yao Ming when healthy give it to ANYBODY, and of course Shaq, but he would have got his on the offensive side, he was just too big, skilled, and smart for anybody to shut down. Not possible. An all time great, maybe top 5 center...?? Anyone disagree??
Wow if we (Portland) would have had long haired Sabonis, we would have won 3 rings!
If he would of came to the NBA without the injuries, you would be talking about the true GOAT. Unbelievable skill for his size!. I remember him in Europe back in the 90’s. Unfortunately you did not see the best of him!
@@digenis5203 I've always heard that, he was a decent player when he did come here, but it is sad we missed seeing a prime Sabonis !
I'm sure that he would have had more than six rings at any team.
@@digenis5203
Just speculation.
@@KOTAPA true but he probably would be at least top 20 centers if not 10 all time
Que tiempos, recuerdo ligeramente estos duelos de Gigantes, la temible URSS de Sabonis y Tkachenko contra los Yankees con Jordan y David Robinson. Que Tiempos de niñez!!!
Aquellos gigantes soviéticos fueron algo casi mítico en la niñez y juventud de muchos de nosotros...
El destrozo de Sabonis en la NBA en finales de los 80y ppios. de los 90 hubiera sido legendario
The sad fact is that the Dream Team was made because of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and both countries have disintegrated when they supposed to measure forces with the Americans at full strength.
Jordan never played against Sabonis in the Olympics.
In 1984, USSR did not attend the LA Games.
In 1988, Jordan did not play for the USA team.
@@c.r.m476 lastima no poder verlo, hacia lo que le daba la gana
He would have dominated the NBA in his prime.
Ha ha, no he wouldnt. Look at 92 Olympics game USA vs Lithuania, Sabonis is already slower and less mobile than Admiral. Maybe in 1988 he was better, but 4 years later it was the other way around. David Robinson was 2nd best center of his era, close to Olajuwon, one year even better. Sabonis would fight with Ewing for the 3rd place if he went to the NBA in early 90's.
@@piotrpacholczak Dude, do you even know what happened to Sabonis in 88-89? Two major injuries of his achilis. It was miracle that he walked after this, and you are saying he was not so good in 92' ? :D :D :D
He didn't even dominate Europe. You are high.
Sabonis had been a professional for years (debut 1981). Robinson was still in college and would not enter the NBA until 1989.
Robinson STILL had the better game. And the W.
@@LeNoLi. 1981 Sabonis was 16 yrs old, you dumb :) this video shows how Sabonis just crashed Robinson. Totally. All the way.
@@LeNoLi. age difference between Sabonis and Robinson is less than 8 months :D :D
Dude was athletic and all skilled 3s for a big men, Shaq can’t even make free throws.
I have always believed that is because Shaq was lazy. He hit the genetic lottery and was far bigger than anyone else, it would be like me posting up a 6th grader. He never worked on improving his game and how by on pure physicality.
Look at bogues, man
Can't see him lol. When I do it's just too funny. It's like someone cut copied pasted him from a middle school game.
I bet they’ve had never seen anyone like muggsy!
So lucky for Hakeem and Shaq that this guy was grandpa when he enter NBA. If he was in his prime, we would never heard about them. Probably even the greatest would not have 6 titles.
If the greatest not stopped for two years, he would have 8 titles. With or without Sabonis being at its peak.
3:53 what the fk was that 🤠
humiliation
its called rape
That was an example of what if you could create a 7'4 player who had athleticism and skill. Wilt and Shaq were athletic but they could not hit free throws. Sabonis could do everything on the court and what is crazy that he developed his skill set without having the luxury of top level competition to refine it against.
I didnt realize how big sabonis is he makes Robinson look like a power forward when he does things like knock his own teammate to the floor , as he reaches up , and over to block a stretched out arm by robinson designed to use Sabonis own teammate to create space. Just ruthless defense .
Sabonis was 7'2" or even 7'3", but what people commenting here don't understand is that Robinson played college basketball at that time while Sabonis was full time pro basketball player. This is one the biggest misteries why NBA werent allowed to play because they were "proffesional athletes" while all the European players were all pro players too, being paid money to play. They were by no means amateurs.
Arvidas was schooling Robinson
If you compare to Jokic, he had the smarts and court sense, but is bigger, faster, and stronger.
Imagínense si Sabas hubiera ido ese año a la NBA. Ahora sería top 3 de pívots de la Historia.
Por qué no quiso venir acá a estados unidos?
@@marcoantonioacosta3476 A ver, cuando todavía Lituania pertenecía a la URSS era literalmente imposible que la URSS dejara a un jugador ir a USA. Luego cuando Lituania se independizó estaba la política de que si jugabas en la NBA no podías jugar con tu selección. Esto fue así hasta el 92. Luego tuvo las lesiones del talón de aquiles y supongo que en la NBA cayó el interés. Pero demostró en Valladolid y Madrid que aún sin saltar era mejor que todos los demás pívots. Finalmente fue a Portland ya veterano demostrando lo buenísimo que era.
@@rimaskurt8076 una verga. Me quedé, como un putero, con ganas de verlo en la NBA en su mejor momento. Lo recuerdo ya con limitaciones pero ni modo.
no
Nzinn73 si!
Robinson playing exactly like you think someone who feasted on only college level talent up until this point would play going up against a seasoned pro.
Robinson played against who he could. Robinson's rookie season was better than any professional season Sabonis ever played in Europe or NBA.
Robinson had more points and rebounds this game. He would not enter the NBA until 3 years later. Sabonis debuted as a pro in 81. Robinson still had the better game.
There was a time when Sabonas was the best player in the world.
He did not go to the NBA until way late in his career. He was an amazing talent. Loved watching him play.
Would have been considered the most skilled center ever if he enters the NBA as a young man. You need to know just how good Robinson was early in his career to appreciate these clips.
Here Robinson is a RAW college kid vs a pro basketball player playing with the best in Europe. It's a shame Sabonis didnt go to the NBA after that, because 4 years later Admiral was already way ahead of him, NBA training was what Sabonis needed to be the best center of his era, maybe even better than Olajuwon. We will never know.
@@piotrpacholczak Robinson is a year younger than Sabonis. He was 21 and was anything but raw as he was a scoring machine in college. He was drafted the very next year and had an immediate impact in the league in 89 after a year in the Navy. Not sure what you’re talking about.
Also if the NBA training was superior as you say why would it matter if Sabonis was pro? Our college stars were winning Olympic gold before the dream team.
@@jessefontenot9846 Robinson was drafted in 88, but spent 2 years serving in the Navy, że he joined the NBA in 89/90 season, yes he was already a force to be reconed with but 3,5 years is a lot for a still growing young man. Like I said, że here David is a young college kid playing vs a year older, but already a star European pro player. Sabonis played pro since he was 16 or 17, same as Doncic now.
@@piotrpacholczak yeah Sabonis played pro but this was in the 80’s. European basketball ball had yet to be anything special. Again David Robinson was not raw, not in the slightest. He was so skilled that even time away from top level organized ball and he still won rookie of the year averaged 24 and 12 with nearly 4 blocks. He was phenom and a physical specimen in 86. As was Sabonis, who clearly had a much larger skill set than David. David was 21 in this video and was drafted in 87 after his senior season, spent 2 years in the Navy and the 89-90 season was his rookie year.
Sabonis’s time playing pro in the early 80’s has no parallel to any modern player. Again our college players regularly beat the best outside the country. European basketball didn’t rise in quality til the late 90’s early 2000’s.
We are now far away from your first post. David Robinson was not raw and Sabonis didn’t have better coaching or development from pro ball as it was the early 80’s.
@@jessefontenot9846 No he was not 21. It is mathematically impossible for a person born in 1965 to be aged 21 in 1988. Please revise.
'Arvydas was way much better, more superior and better IQ than any other bigs in his era..., including NBA players..'
0:29 that was clean.
Sabonis when he played in the NBA just had the look of a man you didn’t want to mess with. Not an instigator or a bad ass just someone you knew not to f-k with. So talented and that rare instinctive feel for the game. Certainly could have been an important part of a championship team maybe even the No.2/Robin. Of course now with the three and rules designed to enable constantly open shots it’s a different game.
He'd be even MORE dangerous NOW...offensively at least....with his passing skills and shooting range???
Sabonis. The original Unicorn.
Gracias
De nada
Sabonis menudo trilero!!
Jajajajajaja no puede ser, abuelonchos al podee
Que grandeee trilero du Lituania jajajajajaj
Menudo genio el trilero
Es un genio
No me imaginaba ver a un genio del canal por aquí, esto es magia. Grandes partidos en triple amenaza
Acabo de recordar la película 3 segundos el juego de la URSS contra usa en los olímpicos
Sabonis goated. Conspiracy has it that the NBA wouldn’t let him join til past his prime because he would’ve slapped everyone
Never heard of that conspiracy because it's bullshit. The only reason why he got to the NBA so late was that the Soviet Union didn't let him earlier.
@@arturliiv Exactly, the Soviet Union was not letting that man come over to the U.S. Unfortunate for sure, he showed flashes with Portland but was a shell of how he was with the Soviet team
Sabonis EAT Robinson !!
Whatever. How many titles does Sabonis have? Robinson is better.
@@rubenpena4984 how many rings does Robinson have before spurs draft duncan?Sabonis came to the NBA when he was 32,not in her prime, do the research ,man
@@rubenpena4984 th-cam.com/video/C22g5cjGRh8/w-d-xo.html Even hall of fame players like Kevin McHale recognized his ability, you just a hater bro
Portland would have won at least 1 Championship in the 90’s if they had Young Sabonis
I wish he had joined the Blazers when they drafted him, Clyde and him would’ve won a few championships
It was one of the hottest day of that game for the USA Team as they were so spoiled playing in air condition arenas of their Colleges in US, with no air conditioning vs USSR that day, they didnt care because of the heat and humidity that broke them down. In USSR team, their training much like Rocky 3 and they broke them pretty good..
Sabonis un de los poco q tenía fuerza para luchar contra el shak y eso q ya era viejo. Como sería si jugaba en la NBA en sus mejores años.
Yep ..had sa o is entered the league in his prime ...he would probably be in the goat conversation .....at 7 , 4. Could run jump shoot etc etc ...hw would have been the dominant player in the nba for a decade had he got there in 85/86 ....
Sabonis vaya crack si las lesiones le hubiese respetado
It's Wild that Arvydas Sabonis is in the HOF considering the limited amount of time he spent in the NBA. His Olympic/Pan Am games were crazy impressive though.
He is in the Hall!
@@thescatman5029 I know he is in the HOF. I was posting how surprised I was that he got in since he barely did anything in the NBA. However since the Basketball HOF isn't an NBA HOF but rather a Basketball HOF he sure as hell does belong there. Crazy his son grew up to be a 3x All Star in the NBA. They are probably the best father/son Duo in basketball History. We have a HOF'er and a 3x All-Star is incredible.
Robinson was getting absolutely destroyed in this game. He was so lucky that injuries derailed Sabonis’s Carter only a year later.
Robinson..from 2.11m to 2.16m.....wow
Clean block at :30
I prefer Sabonis
such a pitty Sabonis didn't join the NBA early. He would be, by now the GOAT of bigs.
He couldnt of done it even if he wanted to because russia took over lithuania and forced him to join cccp and he like a slave to them. They even said they would have done even worse things rather than a torn acl, because they were so obsessed with winning.
Sabonis awesome Player
3:50
Crazy put back.
The Sabonis from the NBA had bad knees.
and i think several achilles surgeries
Tkachenco,forse pivot ,pero' supporto a Sabonis.
i cant believe that time there are 8 people in the free throw area including the shooter hahahaha
Saba !!!
Too Big ,Too Smart,Too Agile.
Sabonis was crazy good in his prime, but Robinson looks like he is 17 years old here. Is this the olympic USA team? Like college guys?
yea this was when only amatuers where allowed to play he was 21 here i think
Muggsy looks like glitch in 2k
Shame he didn’t come to the NBA until he was old had had back problems. In his prime he was scary.
Sabois vs Drazen!Two bigest Europe players ever played basketball
Dirk is above both of them though. And arguably Pau is too! Career-wise at least. Talent-wise, it's debatable. Probably Sabas no.1
@@jay_kulina I just hope you are young, because otherwise so sorry for you...
@@deso224 Patronizing much? I don't know if you call 32 "young", but i've been watching basketball like crazy since i was 4. Played for like 12 years and still do at an amateur level. I can write you an essay to prove my point as to why Dirk is the best European ever(till today at least, cos we don't know what Giannis, Luka and the Joker will achieve later on in their careers). I prefer not to do that. But let's hear you out, oldie! Let's see you elaborate on your thesis as to why those 2 surpass Dirk and Pau. Where is your statement based on? Don't tell me you're just a "what if" kinda guy. Is that your game? Sure, both Sabas and Drazen are big what ifs. You know who are bigger what ifs? Grant Hill, T-Mac and D-Rose! Guess what, they're rarely mentioned nowadays.
marciulionis
@@ji3535 close,but no. Left hand master
Кто 4 номер USA ? Какой его рост ?
Muggsy Bogues, 160 см. Самый низкий игрок в истории NBA.
3:53😱😱😱
he reminds me of ralph sampson nuff said
Sabonis, I want meet with you, can we arange apointment in Palanga?
I felt robbed whenever I think about the 92 US Dream Team and the late 1980's teams of the old Yugoslavia and Soviet Union.
Blame that on Gorbachev🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
Sabonis should have played for Bulls.
Jordan and sabas
hmmm . . . the Usa team was flopping alot . . and getting more calls in thier favor.
Im telling yall , as spirts Guru i would know , its very likely that the best team wasnt even a Usa team.
Thats just the way this world works .
Those who are hyped as the best . . never are.
I know this is college dudes against older dudes . . but just saying . . that IS how the old world works.
Sabonis clearly played better than Robinson here, we can say that.
Also wow Sabonis had nice hang time but was a seven footer .
Robinson ended up getting a good jump too.
SABONIS TOP❣
Mano a boyo
if Robinson was replaced by O'neal, he would look even worse
Why did you include footage of them shooting free throws? Pretty boring stuff there.
Stop complaining🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
@@allengreene9954 No.
@@libertarian4323 Yes.
@@allengreene9954 Kinda sucks when people don't listen to your stupid requests, doesn't it? I'll expect your reply in 2 months.
@@libertarian4323 Free throws are part of the game remember?? Slow as hell🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
I bet Sabonis could dominate Shaq
Haha, apperently the entire teams were allowed to line up during free throws back then =D
there was a 1+1 rule back then. If you missed your first free throw the rebound was up for grabs. If and ONLY if you scored your first free throw, were you given a second one. I always liked that rule, to be honest. Imagine Ben Simmons playing with that free throw rule :P
3:51!!!!
Il pivot chi e' dell' America.
URSS??
It's how CCCP/USSR is spelled in Spanish ("Union de Republicas Socialistas Sovieticas"). I guess uploader is Spanish, since this is Spanish channel RTVE.
@@FaltaDeRiego Same in French
The Russian spelling of it is SSSR. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik.
@@allengreene9954 All my life reading that word, "Soyuz" (those legendary aircrafts) and I've just known it was part of the nation's name (facepalm to myself).
@@FaltaDeRiego Don’t feel bad. I didn’t know until this year myself.
Sabonis is great and insane with all due respect but david robinson held his own here
Europe united i think is better than every dream team
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.........😂😂😂😂
Yugoslavia and ussr United would have beaten the NBA USA much sooner
@@petr79 uhhhhhh.... let’s see- Magic, Hakeem, Bird, Barkley, Malone, Stockton, Drexler, ....
lol....... keep dreaming Euros....
@@jasonpetersen7986 1996 final: Yugoslavia was 13 points up on first half and was behind one point till 30,forcing the nba usa to take first time out in history. and they had Savic absent due to injury. He was the specialist to fool the centres and foul them out. Imagine help from Croatian and Lithuanian players, though without Petrovic. And they did have Hakeem and Robinson.
@@petr79 yes, two players from the dream team. And, these players were far from their prime at the current time. With that said, Sabonis was an amazing player and did dominate a this time. It’s too bad that he could not have went to the nba sooner.
3:53... stop it
It is crazy how the USA used to send college players to play against the worlds best and still won 99% of the time.
Not that kind of crazy considering Americans invented the sport and were playing it about 70 years before the rest of the world even tried. What is crazy is that once the rest of the world started paying attention it took them about 20 years to catch up with America and now they are far better.
@@truthhurts837 Really, doesn't America win every tournament they send NBA players to?
Still for young ages 16-23, USA does not dominate in basketball.
@@truthhurts837
Basketball was an important sport in several countries as early as 1950s.
And USA remain the best.
Robinson looks amateur near sabonis 😂😂
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he did not defend and was a great rebounder that is a typical european center
Sabonis,forse dico mille ala piccola.
Можно на русском коменты оставлять? Авто?
Может, тебе лучше английский выучить?)
mozno
Que dices!!! Que raro escribes, eso sí sabonis el mejor
Sabonis wins FATALITY
America,2-3
1985 XIII Summer Universiade miraculous gold medal USA VS USSR Arvydas Romas Sabonis
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even at 22 healthy he was not fast
Watcing this I feel indifferently. Sabonis is one of the greats from Lithuania, however he and other Lithuanians were forced to play for Soviet Union back then. Them and their families could have faced serious sanctions from the communist government if they've refused to play for team USSR.
А почему ори должны были отказываться? Они жили в СССР и играли за ссср-это было самое справедливое государство в мире
There wasn't a Lithuanian team in 1986
Stop making shit up🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
@@user-qu6xo9bi8f это было самое справедливое государство в мире LMAO
@@spamandjamjamandspam8669 посмейся,идиот
La Russia di allora 2-1-3.
Giocavano in 6 ?
robinson outplayed him
URSS baka USSR 😅😅😅
The guy is obviously Spanish, what is the big deal?
ussr sabonis chomicius kurtinaitis marchiulionis plus volkov , that guy not from ussr.
@@ji3535 Lithuania and the Ukraine was part of the USSR🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
The narrator speaks spanish, for the spanish TV. URSS --> Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas.
Vaya arbitraje...
It's shame team called USSR while top players of the team are Lithuanians.