The 2004 USA men's basketball team is viewed as a failure due to poor roster construction and coaching, and rightfully so. But you know what? I actually respect these players. They easily could have just gone into the tank, but they still managed to win the bronze and bring something back for themselves and their country. Team USA has never failed to medal in any Olympics they entered, and this flawed team did just enough to keep that streak intact.
Yes that humiliating first game 19 point loss to Puerto Rico was team USA's worst game ever but after that they went 5-2 including wins over the 2006 WC gold and silver medalists Spain and Greece and this revenge game against Lithuania who beat them in pool play.
@@kardu2063 curious about how you guys felt getting dismantled by Serbia in the quarterfinals, then missing the Paris Olympics after losing to Puerto Rico in San Juan in the FIBA OQT.
No Shaq, no Kobe, No KG, No T-Mac. No Ray Allen, No Kidd, No Mike Bibby. Kobe was in court in Colorado. Others declined the invitations due to security concerns.
*So this NBA team was not the maximum force but it was a respect team that could see some buried in the ball in the basket of some players from the Unidet States.* 03 / 11 / 2021 • 01:54
Wrong, this was a mediocre team. It's an NBA somewhat super team but a below Allstar team line up. No where near our best of the best. There's barely any champions or super stars on it.
2004 USA 🇺🇸 Nightmare Bronze Medal 🥉 Team: Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan, Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Amare Stoudimire, Richard Jefferson, Carlos Boozer, Stephon Marbury, Lamar Odom and Shawn Marion. Potential 2004 USA 🇺🇸 Team: Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, SHAQ, KG, J. Kidd, K. Mart, T. Mac, VC, Jermaine O’Neal, Ray Allen and Mike Bibby.
you saw 1 alley oop to James and he's dominating? are you clown or what? :DDD you have no clue about basketball. If james was on the floor instead of RJ15 then Lithuania would have bronze.
Props to Lithuania for being a basketball champ of around 2.8 million people, but USA seemed disinterested in bronze medal after that Argentinian humiliation lol
Watch the full documentary online on how a once-in-a-generation Argentina team, led by Manu Ginobili, brought down the USA and won gold at the 2004 Olympic Games: bit.ly/2Pw99Tx
still dont understand why ai was the scapegoat when most of the all star players withdrawn from the team with different reason and ai was obviously trying his very best for the team usa...
pennyccw Don’t forget Tim Duncan, he along with Iverson was with the US squad for the 2003 FIBA America’s Championship, which they won gold, punching the US ticket to the 2004 Olympics.
@@nikolamilenkovic5267 no it's not david stern who controlled the olympic team, it's just that coach k don't want a ballhog player in his team. and that was iverson.
@@allahupakyu1117 that "ballhog" nonsense is fake news. No player that had 6,2 assists per game and had numerous 7+ assists per game seasons is considered a ballhog. If you watched the USA team games of Iverson and came to the conclusion that he holds the ball too much, then sth is wrong.
In terms of pure basketball skills and basketball IQ Lithuania's so much better. Basketball really is a spot in which athleticism compensates for teammwork and systems. Too bad the best athletes in the world turn out to be "better" basketball players even though skillwise they're much inferior to players that are considered not as good as them.
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22:10 Lamar Odom has won his 2 time championship in ‘’09 and ‘10, so how was the commentator already knows about that when still they are in 2004 😅 Time travel commentator 😩🤣
Carmelo's Play is perfect in the Intl play, he would unstoppable if he played intense defense Three Guys would made difference in this Squad G Kidd/Marbury G Wade/Iverson/Allen C Duncan/Amare F McGrady/Marion F Odom/Carmelo/LBJ Then Run N Gone
Modern day athletes losing to scrubs in Lithuania, yet Bronsexuals say the modern game is better when 40 year old Stockton dropped 25 on prime Kidd, 40 year old Malone dropped 35 on young Amare and MVP KG, and fat MJ was abusing Vince Carter and Paul Pierce.
Состав США был боевой на той Олимпиаде. Считаю провал той сборной был из-за неправильного подбора личностей,где каждый тянул одеяло в свою сторону, доказывая,что он лидер и лучший игрок. Им нужен был жёсткий тренер, который мог бы дать подзатыльник этим звездам
*Tim Dancans o grande craque da NBA dessa época acabou o jogo para os jogadores da NBA ganharam a medalha de Bronze era como se não fossem como nada 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️👉🏿🥉🥉🥉* 03 / 11 / 2021 • 02:06
Well to be fair Jordan played in the 90's ...im not trying to take away anything from anyone but i feel as if basketball in Europe has only gotten better ...while alot of people feel liek basketball in USA has gotten "worse"
@@conflicto7575 not to mention ...idk where i seen this statictic but with all NBA refs...the US won more games...but with international refs..the numbers are more close...but that argument can go both ways
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I mean, only because the international refs of this era were absolutely horrible. Duncan is one of the best defensive players in the history of basketball. But because of incompetent refs, he was in foul trouble early in seemingly every game. There's a reason he never came back.
@@bigbuffguy9589 yes he fouled out of the semi-final game against Argentina. It is also because Marbury and Iverson never passed him the ball. Look how dominant Shaq was in international play but mind you that was 10 years before this game
Lithuania - The basketball gem of Europe
Greece beat usa as well
@@timchris2681 no one deny it, but lithuania is so small, so little amount of people yet they were top 4 top 5 in bastketball always
Sardinas Marciulionis
and
Arvydas Sabonis
Paved the way
@@WeCube1898 actualy it was frank lubinas
@@timchris2681 srsly we know how great greese is
Lithuanian faces are like steel, even the situation is soooo exiting !
😂 they simply are goating it like they mean it without no drama 😌😉 🏀
The 2004 USA men's basketball team is viewed as a failure due to poor roster construction and coaching, and rightfully so. But you know what? I actually respect these players. They easily could have just gone into the tank, but they still managed to win the bronze and bring something back for themselves and their country. Team USA has never failed to medal in any Olympics they entered, and this flawed team did just enough to keep that streak intact.
Yes that humiliating first game 19 point loss to Puerto Rico was team USA's worst game ever but after that they went 5-2 including wins over the 2006 WC gold and silver medalists Spain and Greece and this revenge game against Lithuania who beat them in pool play.
Well said
Arvydas Macijauskas played so well
You like blonds, Sarunas is better on this place
History repeating tomorrow 3/09/2023🇱🇹
🎉🎉🎉🇱🇹🎉🎉🎉Congratulations Lithuania!
Usa 🇺🇸 104-110 Lithuania 🇱🇹
@@kardu2063 That wasn’t our A squad just like this wasn’t. We have busted your asses enough times. USA remains superior in basketball
@@kardu2063 curious about how you guys felt getting dismantled by Serbia in the quarterfinals, then missing the Paris Olympics after losing to Puerto Rico in San Juan in the FIBA OQT.
Remember how we owned you ever since. Take that 2004 all you want, we'll take the rest of the W's and you can keep those L's from 2008 and on.
No Shaq, no Kobe, No KG, No T-Mac. No Ray Allen, No Kidd, No Mike Bibby. Kobe was in court in Colorado. Others declined the invitations due to security concerns.
*So this NBA team was not the maximum force but it was a respect team that could see some buried in the ball in the basket of some players from the Unidet States.*
03 / 11 / 2021 • 01:54
Wrong, this was a mediocre team. It's an NBA somewhat super team but a below Allstar team line up. No where near our best of the best. There's barely any champions or super stars on it.
I wish the commentater didn't drop spoilers all throughout. I hadn't seen this even though it's an old game.
Agreed 100%
2004 USA 🇺🇸 Nightmare Bronze Medal 🥉 Team: Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan, Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Amare Stoudimire, Richard Jefferson, Carlos Boozer, Stephon Marbury, Lamar Odom and Shawn Marion.
Potential 2004 USA 🇺🇸 Team: Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, SHAQ, KG, J. Kidd, K. Mart, T. Mac, VC, Jermaine O’Neal, Ray Allen and Mike Bibby.
Watching these games of the 2004 USA team, whenever Lebron is on the floor they start to dominate. It's so dumb that Coach Brown barely played him.
😂😂😂😂😂
Larry Brown should of played more LeBron and Wade. But he wanted to stick to the veterans.
you saw 1 alley oop to James and he's dominating? are you clown or what? :DDD you have no clue about basketball. If james was on the floor instead of RJ15 then Lithuania would have bronze.
clown, 😂😂😂
idiotic! how do you leave that kind of talent on the bench???
Props to Lithuania for being a basketball champ of around 2.8 million people, but USA seemed disinterested in bronze medal after that Argentinian humiliation lol
it was Argentia humiliation this year
@@gabepizzaI somehow confused it with 2006 FIBA 😂
Watch the full documentary online on how a once-in-a-generation Argentina team, led by Manu Ginobili, brought down the USA and won gold at the 2004 Olympic Games: bit.ly/2Pw99Tx
Arvydas Macijauskas was bombing this game, no wonders his nickname is AK-47
Wrong. AK-47 Stands for Andrei Kirilenko. He wore #47 Utah Jazz.
@@DiegoCamarero Macijauskas had a nickname the Kalashnikov
Thats # 6 from LTU 🔥🔥😱
still dont understand why ai was the scapegoat when most of the all star players withdrawn from the team with different reason and ai was obviously trying his very best for the team usa...
Some people believe that David Stern hated him, so because of that he didn't get invited for the 2008 Olympics
pennyccw Don’t forget Tim Duncan, he along with Iverson was with the US squad for the 2003 FIBA America’s Championship, which they won gold, punching the US ticket to the 2004 Olympics.
@@nikolamilenkovic5267 no it's not david stern who controlled the olympic team, it's just that coach k don't want a ballhog player in his team. and that was iverson.
@@allahupakyu1117 that "ballhog" nonsense is fake news. No player that had 6,2 assists per game and had numerous 7+ assists per game seasons is considered a ballhog. If you watched the USA team games of Iverson and came to the conclusion that he holds the ball too much, then sth is wrong.
All to diminish LeBron. That's all it is. Ignore them. They sound idiotic.
In terms of pure basketball skills and basketball IQ Lithuania's so much better. Basketball really is a spot in which athleticism compensates for teammwork and systems. Too bad the best athletes in the world turn out to be "better" basketball players even though skillwise they're much inferior to players that are considered not as good as them.
😭😭😭 everyone plays to their strengths
whne you can chose from 350+ million people instead of 100 times less then you have more options.
Staring Marbury AND AI in the back court is puzzling
They were the better players at the time.
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its lithuanian dream team
Lithuania
Astonishing
insane game！！incredible threes！
22:10 Lamar Odom has won his 2 time championship in ‘’09 and ‘10, so how was the commentator already knows about that when still they are in 2004 😅
Time travel commentator 😩🤣
Carmelo's Play is perfect in the Intl play, he would unstoppable if he played intense defense
Three Guys would made difference in this Squad
G Kidd/Marbury
G Wade/Iverson/Allen
C Duncan/Amare
F McGrady/Marion
F Odom/Carmelo/LBJ
Then Run N Gone
There isn't team defence in NBA,only personal defence.That is the reason the matches in NBA have high scores.
Modern day athletes losing to scrubs in Lithuania, yet Bronsexuals say the modern game is better when 40 year old Stockton dropped 25 on prime Kidd, 40 year old Malone dropped 35 on young Amare and MVP KG, and fat MJ was abusing Vince Carter and Paul Pierce.
Who you calling scrubs
Facts OP.
Alguem tem este jogo completo?
USA doesn't have our professional players anymore !!!! We know they wouldn't lose any game !!!!
They lost to Argentina in Olympics also theyre not performing well in the World Cup
Состав США был боевой на той Олимпиаде. Считаю провал той сборной был из-за неправильного подбора личностей,где каждый тянул одеяло в свою сторону, доказывая,что он лидер и лучший игрок. Им нужен был жёсткий тренер, который мог бы дать подзатыльник этим звездам
Nice 🇺🇸
i would say nice lithuania lol,there is no countries who play usa that close ,except for lithuania and spain
Lithuania !
Sometimes they won Bronze
Is Austin here
*Tim Dancans o grande craque da NBA dessa época acabou o jogo para os jogadores da NBA ganharam a medalha de Bronze era como se não fossem como nada 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️👉🏿🥉🥉🥉*
03 / 11 / 2021 • 02:06
Comments from the arbiter is a pity. Self boast just help us to beat us in 04 ;) so calm down , u guys have no team play bzzzzz
Imagine, Lebron was benched.
Christian Laettner in '92 played more minutes than him
Jordan never lost in the olympics, while lebron james....... :( jordan's GOAT!
Well to be fair Jordan played in the 90's ...im not trying to take away anything from anyone but i feel as if basketball in Europe has only gotten better ...while alot of people feel liek basketball in USA has gotten "worse"
@@Red4350 jordan won gold medal in 84olympics with collage teammates too
@@conflicto7575 yeah hes definitely great there no denying that... arguably the goat
@@conflicto7575 not to mention ...idk where i seen this statictic but with all NBA refs...the US won more games...but with international refs..the numbers are more close...but that argument can go both ways
@@conflicto7575 And Jordan won in 84 with a college team
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Where is Lithuania and where is USA. Lituania have only 3 😁 million peoples
You lost, you didn’t win when a medal was on the line, scrub!
And LeBron still playing
Were is the killer Sarunas ?
😂😂😂 4th QTR Sue Storm aka Lebronze. 😂
Isn’t a Embarrassment lost to Argentina and struggled , nearly lost to Lithuania for the bronze ? Just sharing,plse don’t get angry, just when wrong ?
only Olympics USA with NBA players ever lost and they still won bronze.
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Only gold is acceptable with talent like this. Bad coaching.
Mix 6💭👟👋
Correct the title pls, africa vs lithuania thank you
USA is multi culture country
Learn the history stupid bom!
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Tf you mean
The Matrix!
This commentary is embarrassing lebron the greatest ever 😴
duncan was completely useless in international play. his style was ill suited for that type of basketball.
I mean, only because the international refs of this era were absolutely horrible. Duncan is one of the best defensive players in the history of basketball. But because of incompetent refs, he was in foul trouble early in seemingly every game. There's a reason he never came back.
@@bigbuffguy9589 yes he fouled out of the semi-final game against Argentina. It is also because Marbury and Iverson never passed him the ball. Look how dominant Shaq was in international play but mind you that was 10 years before this game
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