The Truth Behind the 2004 Olympic Basketball Team 😱#shorts

Worldwide, basketball fans remember two U.S. Olympic teams the most. The ‘92 Dream Team for being great. And the 2004 “nightmare team” for being a disappointment. The 2004 team finished 5-3, losing to Argentina in the semifinals and settling for a Bronze Medal. But what happened?

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[TheRealReal]

I’ve been pointing out this very issue with that team for years. I watched every game from that Olympics and Brown is the only reason they lost. I witnessed him consistently pull AI & Melo out of the game when they were clearly hot, like he had a vendetta against them or he just didn’t like winning. It was a pathetic display of team management to say the leash smh. Being a hall of fame coach doesn’t always = being the right coach for the job. You can’t tell a bunch of superstars who volunteered to play that your way is the only way. This is why coach K was probably the best coach team USA every had, he knows how to manage personalities & he tailored the game plan to their strengths instead of trying to force feed his playbook down their throats.

[neo]

In 04? Their talent levels should've blown the other countries out of the water.

[gabrielnardin]

Hell no, in the Olympics you get eliminated in just one game so the only thing that matters is the game against Argentina, when the opposing team just played better and eventually got the gold medal. But US media still likes to talk about the big ones losing instead of giving the underdog the deserved credit just like these last playoffs where Jokic swept LeBron and everypne focused on the Lakers losing instead of todays best player of the world winning...

[mattiasantangelo]

"Lack of talent": that team would be the greatest team in history of any other nation in the world.

[JayRicoche]

That 2004 was the coaches responsibility but the players took the biggest hits. They will always have that stain on them no matter how great their careers were and they don't deserve it.

[Zarain]

This shows that no matter how much talent you have, you need good management

[alexandradaniels]

The media in sports really pushed the “talent” level argument but…these are the people who think Brown was the issue:
Gregg Poppovich
Jason Kidd
Shaq said “Larry Brown still thinks this is 1982”
Coach K
George Karl (who coached the team at the world championships and noted the team at the Olympics was “running a dinosaur college offense”)

[RestrictedAirspacePodcast]

92 was the best team and we all know it. Blaming coach Brown is ridiculous.

[mattstratton]

Any one watching & reading this : watch Richard Jefferson's explanation as to why this team was so bad. 30 players were asking to join the team who turned it down. The year before US was up by 40 @ halftime against Argentina in a game played in that country. The team fielded the next year was a completely different team from the year before. That team had very few players with international BB experience & had nowhere near the number of games played together as the Argentinian team did. That team had played together for years. Plus we had Larry Brown to deal with who was not the coach he used to be. Not making excuses here, just stating what I believe the situation was @ that time. Props to Argentina. They got it done. We didn't.

[sly_guy_sam]

Look up Carlos arroyos performance. That’s why they lost. Truly awe-inspiring

[nolanrussell]

Iverson and Marbury were a big part of the problem too though. Both were ball dominant shot checkers, who were bad defenders, provide minimal shooting/spacing/cutting off the ball, and were generally just a bad fit for Team USA

[yurzruly]

I remember the 2008(The redemption team) Kobe came back and showed them how its done 🏅

[denniseudela]

Brown treated the team like a high school team instead of allowing them to feel they are fully grown man.
With the proper coaching style, that team without the other bests, was still a no doubt Chip Team!
The NBA Olympic teams will always be superior, considering they only truly assemble on the summer of the event itself BUT, their only enemy & downfall will be from WITHIN.
No question.

[chadbinette]

Seems the 2020 Olympic team is gonna bump 04 team out. And they can't complain about talent with Durant, Tatum, Lillard, Beal, and so on. Coach? Greg popavich, which most consider the best NBA coach in the past 20 years. Sometimes certain players just don't go together, no matter how much talent. Hense why some team ups in the NBA never live up to the hype.

[RealRigoberto]

I blame Manu Cuz we spanked that #VamosArgentina

[michaelb]

A lot of those teams from other countries practice and play together for years so they have a much stronger team dynamic than the USA team that only has a few weeks of playing together. That makes a huge difference when playing under international rules. That’s one of the reasons the USA started playing nba players instead of just using college basketball players.

[MyNamelsName]

I’m a Puerto Rican so i have to say this


They lost 92-73 to Puerto Rico and Carlos Arroyo

[CSDonohue]

That’s Real.
This is the best of these damn things I’ve ever seen.
Usually the story telling ones, especially the sports 1’s are trash.
This is legit

[benji]

Bad coaching or not, there's no excuse for that team to get Bronze.

[MrJholm]

That team was still stacked regardless.