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Article: Dream Team about due for an explosion
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 24, 1996
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What is wrong with Dream Team III?
If anything, it's probably boredom.
Maybe it's the absence of Michael Jordan. It definitely is not
the absence of Christian Laettner.
The American men's Olympic basketball team has defeated two
opponents by an average of 30.5 points per game. And yet, there is
general dissatisfaction with the play of the Dreamers. Why?
The obvious answer is that the Dream Team struggled at times
against the flimsy opposition of Argentina and Angola. Dream Teams
are not supposed to do that. Dream Team I never scored fewer than
100 points. Dream Team I never called a timeout. Dream Team I won
by an average of more than 40 points per game. Etc.
In fact, it doesn't make much ...