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Article: Dream Team III free to have serious fun.(Atlanta '96)(The Centennial Olympics)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 18, 1996
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There we go. No need to panic.
The final scores are starting to look familiar again.
You see U.S. 118, Australia 77. You see see U.S. 119, China 58. You see U.S. 109, Brazil 68.
You have seen enough until the Atlanta Games, and only then for the novelty of it: of watching Grant Hill feed Shaquille O'Neal for a dunk; of Reggie Miller hitting a jumper after running off a screen set by Hakeem Olajuwon; of Anfernee Hardaway and Scottie Pippen working a 2-on-1 fastbreak.
Otherwise, you can forget the men's basketball competition, or at least the gold-medal portion of it.
The world keeps talking about closing the basketball ...