I was gonna say, regardless of whether or not he's right (about his own ability or if they would win), it's just refreshing to see an athlete giving an honest answer to something like this, instead of giving a no content PC response.

KG is still the best PF in the world.

Pippen says 1992 team wins by 25 points. He's high.

Anthony Davis sighting!

[ ] 92 barkley's prime

this is close....

but because of this...

this is even closer.

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anyone who picks the '12 team is embarrassing themselves. you want to argue lebron over jordan, fine. I know you're wrong, but at least you can make some points in your favor. but arguing '12 over '92?

drexler's speed and pippen's D are being massively underrated itt. and "dominate down low" is a huge understatement. whatever advantage the '12 backers are projecting at PG (imo ignoring that the DT doesn't have to play at the '12 team's pace and that magic would post up all day) is negated at sg. overall, 3/4/5 goes to the DT and depth goes to the DT (by 1 mirrion percent). it really wouldn't be close.

you '12 backers, how do you envision the game going? are you guys going to play your best 5 all 40 minutes?

No one on '92 can slow down CP3, Bron, and KD. Bron would punk Jordan inside and KD would stroke over him with ease. Cp3 wouldn't break a sweat tearing stockton apart.

'92 has pretty big advantage up front and more depth, but loldepth.

Bron and KD can play 40 mins easy.

Fat Magic and Brokeback Bird would present problems tho.

How many '12 backers actually saw the origional Dream Team play?

It was like watching a baseball team w/ Ruth, Mantle, Gehrig, DiMaggio,Cobb, Mays and Aaron all in their prime.

Magic ain't posting **** on LBJ.

its funny how underrated jordans athleticism is nowadays. People bringing up pippen as the second most unique athlete to play in the league..haha. Jordan was just as good of an athlete as lebron, probably more but was just 2 inches shorter. oh, and 92. And if you drop off magic and bird pick up gary payton and say reggie miller its a real blow out.

Chicago fans continue to suck

jordan and pippen could guard any two of those 3 (I'd put pippen on kd, just like he guarded magic in the finals). and I think you're forgetting durant weighs 2 bills.

so there wouldn't be any matchup problems for the '12 team on the defensive end?

so magic couldn't do an equal or better job of stopping russel westbrook than chalmers did in the Finals this year when rwb went apesh*t and okc still lost?

stopping point guard penetration is one of the most overrated aspects of effective team defense.

pg penetration is a given in basketball. that is one of the main aspects of the position and it is built into the game of basketball like paying the blinds is in poker.

only a handful of athletes in the history of the game were athletic enough to consistently stop super-quick pg's like chris paul or kevin johnson from getting in the lane. literally, only mj, lebron, scottie, maybe two or three others that i'm missing could do it.

russel westbrook and tim hardaway penetrate when they want to. no one is stopping them, not magic, not deron williams not anybody.

it is not coinicidence that since 1980, there has been exactly 2 nba champions that had "penetrating" pgs, and magic is excluded from this, because that is who i'm defending here.

tony parker and isiah thomas. that's it. they are only guys. the only other guy to come close to sniffing a ring was john stockton, and we all know why he didn't win.

and it isn't a coincidence that the pg games of these three pg's was far more sophisticated and nuanced than most other pg's whose teams failed to reach these heights, but i won't get into that.

the point is that so what if magic can't stay in front of deron williams. he couldn't stay in front of isiah thomas either, but it didn't stop his team from winning.

derek fisher allowed guys to go by him like he was getting bonuses for doing it, yet it didn't stop the lakers from winning.

stopping pg penetration is a relatively insignificant aspect of effective team defense and would not be a factor in assessing whether 2012 team usa would have a chance against the dream team.