Normally when it comes to USA Olympic basketball, the debate is 99 out of 100 times about who would win between the 1992 Dream Team and the 2012 Re-Dream Team.
The question is extremely valid, until you realize that it’s not. The players played in a different era, with different rules, different styles, different everything. Case closed.
The other one percent of the time is spent debating who should start for the present Olympic squad.
Usually, with the likes of the consensus elite players in the mix, the question is fairly simple to answer but this year, with the amount of absences on the Olympic roster, a final starting five is much more difficult to deduce.