Jordan: “Dream Team would have no problem vs. London Gold Medalists”

Bryant’s sound argument was based in part on the advantage in athleticism for the 2012 team. From James to Russell Westbrook to Kevin Durant to Andre Iguodala to James Harden and on, the 2012 version wins the foot race and — sacrilege thought it may seem with Jordan and Drexler on the other side — the Chris Mannix: Picking the 2016 U.S. Olympic team]

“Granted, I think those guys are much more athletic than maybe we were at that particular time, but I’d like to think that we were a little bit smarter and well-groomed about playing at that level of basketball,” Jordan said. “So in all honesty, I don’t think we would’ve had any problems with them, as much as they think they probably would’ve given us a lot more difficulties. I think our team would’ve been a lot better in terms of all-around basketball game.”

Celtics coach Doc Rivers said during NBC’s coverage that the London team’s incredible shooting was superior to that of the ’92 team, though Jordan didn’t cover that topic. In the most rudimentary of comparisons of their undefeated runs, the original Dream Teamers hold the edge in margin of victory (an average of 43.8 points in wins over Angola, Croatia, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Puerto Rico, Lithuania and Croatia compared to the 2012 team’s margin of 32.1 points against France, Tunisia, Nigeria, Lithuania, Argentina, Australia, Argentina and Spain), scoring (117.3 points for the ’92 team, 115.5 for ’12) and points allowed (73.5 for ’92, 83.4 per for ’12).

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