Stockton VS Isiah

[thetropicalthug2]

reviewing some of the dream team footage.

stockton deserves being there, but not including Zeke? it is an embarrasment,

if someone needs to be dropped, then it would be Clyde, or Chris.

was there some sort of politicking that kept Zeke off the team?

 

[Phantim3dx2]

i have no idea but i tihnk even stuart here agrees that isiah deserved to be on the dream team. IMHO laettner did not deserve to be there with all those other high profiled and veteran status players.

 

[Saskibaloia2]

reviewing some of the dream team footage.

stockton deserves being there, but not including Zeke? it is an embarrasment,

if someone needs to be dropped, then it would be Clyde, or Chris.

was there some sort of politicking that kept Zeke off the team?

Yeah of course there was politics going on.
Reading from a biography of Jordan (I think it was "Rebound") there mentions how there was tension between USA Basketball and Jordan if Isiah was chosen on the team.

I don't think anybody on that team deserves to be dropped.
Though Mullins is the weakest link watching him team up with Mitch and Timmy Hardaway to for Golden State's Run TMC you would definitely say that that Mullins was a superstar though not immortal like Jordan or Magic (state the obvious) or even a megastar like Malone or Ewing (though that is debateable - feel free to criticise me because Ewing was my favourite NBA player during the 1990s).
Cheers.

 

[23_for_life2]

reviewing some of the dream team footage.

if someone needs to be dropped, then it would be Clyde, or Chris.

Don't agree here, Clyde deserved his spot on this team. Like Phantim3dx said, I think Laettner did not deserve a spot in this team, his place should have been taken by Isiah even Shaq could have taken Laettners place.

 

[FanBoy2]

Well I agree on the idea isiah should have been on the orignal dream team.
Hes on of the best PG ever.
And I do fail to see why he didnt make it to the team,after bringing the motor city "back to back" titels in the 'bad boy' era.
Stock is one of the true great PG true,but hes overall skills fail short when you compare them to that isiahs abilites.

 

[Saskibaloia2]

I think Laettner did not deserve a spot in this team, his place should have been taken by Isiah even Shaq could have taken Laettners place.

Definitely Shaq over Laettner.

 

[stuart2]

Looking back from the perspective we have now, Stockton's inclusion
on the Dream Team only made that team the more legendary, but at the time, his inclusion was definitely controversial as Isiah was coming off a couple championships two years before. Sure, he wasn't at this peak any more, but he was closer to being the player he was in 1988 than either Magic Johnson or Larry Bird, both of whom got free passes for past accomplishments. Isiah should have gotten that same pass. Only Magic, Bird and Jordan were bigger names in the 1980s and Isiah was the only one to defeat all three more than the three defeated him.

I've watched the tapes, studied the dream team as much as I could, Mullin was a legit player back then and I believe he peformed the best during the Olympics (along with Clyde Drexler and Charles Barkley). I can understand why many would think that he should not have been on the roster seeing as his iconic status wasn't nearly on the same level as others on the team , and even now, he stands out like a sore thumb.

With 20/20 hindsight, the one college player would have been Shaquille o'neal and Isiah would have taken Mullin's spot.

But the committee did the best that they could seeing as Laettner was the concensus college-player-of-the year and Jordan, reportedly, not participating if Isiah was on the team. No one would win that fight, whatever Jordan wanted at the time, he would get. Because a dream team without him wasn't a dream team.

With all that said, I am still pissed when I think about it.

From FoxSports.com - These conspiracies are hard to ignore
"9. Isiah Thomas is left off the 1992 Olympic Dream Team. Isiah Thomas should have been on the 1992 Olympic Dream Team. He should have been on the team even ahead of Michael Jordan. Jordan won Gold for the USA in 1984. Thomas didn't have that collegiate opportunity, because President Jimmy Carter pulled the plug on Thomas' chance when he stopped the United States from sending a team to Russia in 1980.

Wouldn't you think that a member of the 1980 team — and a two-time NBA champion still only 31 years old — would have been a rock-solid choice, especially considering the USA coach was Pistons head coach Chuck Daly? In this case, it might have been a conspiracy of one (Jordan) that left Thomas off."

Stuart