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USA.

 

But if USSR is still a country as a whole. Malakas na team ito. Formidable opponent for the Dream team.

true. imagine a unified teams of russians, lithuanians, serbs, yugos, the old yet tough as a rock kazakhs....... vs US..

 

that's always a nuclear war waiting to happen. in this case, USSR ako.

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Best nation in basketball is a tie between the Philippines and Lithuania (at least in Vinlus)

 

Sa Pinas bawat barangay may basketball court and 85% of males can shoot and dribble but 99% knows the game. Proof? - what kind of country would elect former basketball players as mayors, vice mayors or councilors? We even sent two pros in the Senate! Even a referee Tito Varela one an election at some point <_< It is just part of Pinoy culture.

Of all the countries in Europe, only Lithuania has a basketball court in every village. They also know the game. You will have to wonder how a small country almost beat the USA Dream Team in the semifinals of the Olympics. They were the first team that proved that USA is not that dominant and they did not even have the legendary Sarunas or even the contemporary Zydrunas Ilgauskas or Darius Songaila. These former Soviet republic was a perrennial source of Olympians for the once proud giant USSR.

When its World Cup season, almost all the Europeans talk about it and enjoy sharing their insights with my singaporean and Korean colleagues. In a European conference, I was surprised when a diminutive Lithuanian approached me and asked me if only the two of us were out of place in the sports bar. We talked about X and O's of the game and laughed at the other Europeans after the soccer game ended in a draw zero-zero. I was just happy none of that ever happens in hoops :thumbsupsmiley:

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