In 1992, when the Dream Team defeated Croatia 117-85 to win the gold medal...
"They knew they were facing the best team in the world," said then-Team USA coach Chuck Daly after the game. "They can go home and tell their children later in life, 'I played against Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird.' The more they play against our top players, the more confident they'll become."
Without a doubt, the Dream Team from sixteen years ago swept through the entire world of basketball with an invincible demeanor.
Back then, The New York Times even described it this way: "We dominated the Olympics in an extremely unfair way. We sent the planet's best basketball players and doused the enthusiasm of other countries participating in Olympic basketball with one boring slaughter after another."
However...
