In the inaugural episode of the Draymond Green Show, Draymond Green reviews Team USA’s dominant 3‑0 start at the 2024 Olympic basketball tournament. He highlights Ant‑Man (the bench’s leading scorer at 16.6 ppg) and Kevin Durant (16 ppg) as the primary offensive engines, while noting the veteran leadership of LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and KD. Green praises the integration of younger talent, describing Ant‑Man’s confidence and near‑cocky demeanor as a hallmark of greatness, and lauds LeBron’s point‑forward role, the big‑man trio of Anthony Davis, Draymond Green, and Bam Adebayo, and Joel Embiid’s breakout performance against Puerto Rico. He then argues that the 2024 roster would defeat the legendary 1992 Dream Team in five of seven games, citing superior versatility, star power, and the absence of Shaquille O’Neal from the Dream Team as a key factor. While acknowledging Curry’s shooting slump and Devin Booker’s role as an X‑factor, Green maintains that the team’s overall talent and depth make another gold medal inevitable. The episode blends enthusiastic commentary, player analysis, and bold comparative claims, ending with a confident prediction of continued dominance.
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Welcome to the brand new Draymond Green Show YouTube channel. Hit subscribe so you don't miss out on any of our content. And man, I just put this thing on for the first time in a long time and it just made me feel really good. Like, so I feel like I need to go get my other one outta storage and put that one on too so I can look like the athletes like Simone Biles and stuff. Although she got a lot of gold medals, but you know how they layer 'em. Feels good. Anyway, USA, Team USA, who we are all watching basketball in the Olympics for, off to a 3-0 start, kind of dominating just about everyone that they face up against, which was to be expected. We got Ant-Man leading the team in scoring off the bench with 16.6 a game. KD is slightly behind at 16 a game. Those two guys have been shouldering much of the scoring load, which I think is pretty expected. KD is the all-time leading scorer in Team USA history. And Ant-Man, if you watched him last year on the FIBA stage, I think it was last year. Yeah, it was last year. World Championships, if you watch him on the FIBA stage, like you could tell he would be a guy in this setting that like those guys are not fast enough, not strong enough, don't jump high enough. And quite frankly, just not good enough to stop him. And you've kind of seen that in FIBA play and now you're seeing it in the Olympics. That man is special and he continues to grow. And I think what I love most Is the way Bron, Steph, and KD are embracing him to like be that next young guy up and kind of giving him the keys to the team in a sense. Like they're, if you're watching these games, he's running the show whenever he's on the floor, it's his show. And I'm sure like Ant-Man is a very confident, confident player. Um, I think that's what we all love about him. He was half joking when he said, "Now they're gonna have to learn how to fit around me." But I said half joking because he was definitely serious and he meant it. But he says it and doesn't go about it in a way where— He's confident as hell and very close to cocky. But if you understand anything about greatness, you got to be very close to cocky in order to be great at anything. Because that belief, the belief is actually one of the things that separate you, because most people can't reach that level of belief in themselves. And so having that belief, being a little cocky, is actually what separates him. And obviously you got to have the talent to go with it, and he got more than enough talent. And so it's been interesting to watch Ant-Man kind of run the show, kind of watching Bron play kind of the point forward, like real point forward role. Bron, his whole career, he's really played point guard, but he's been a true point forward in this setting. And I think it's been beautiful to see. I think AD, Draymond Green and Bam have been incredible at the big spot. Joel had his best game of the series today versus Puerto Rico. So it's good to see him have a good game. I think the first couple games he had been struggling a bit. Oh well, played one, sat one. But he had also been struggling for most of the exhibition games, especially the ones in America. He was a little better at Abu Dhabi. In London, but not your typical Joel and trying to figure it out. As I said, he was better today. Probably his best game of the tournament so far. And with this team being so dominant, with this team pretty much doing exactly what we expected them to do on their way to another gold medal, it's only right that you draw the comparisons to what is believed to be the greatest Team USA ever assembled, which is the Dream Team. And this 2024 team, you got the Dream Team, you got the Redeemed Team. This 2024 team are definitely drawing those comparisons to the Dream Team. And quite frankly, I'm taking the 20— 24 team. Yeah. 7 days a week. I think the 2024 team beats the Dream Team 5 outta 7 games. Gotta give the Dream Team some respect. They got GOATs, we get it. They got Hall of Famers, we get it. 5 outta 7 games at least for the 2024 team. I just think the versatility on that team.
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The star power, the scoring, I don't think the Dream Team can do anything with that. Oh, and by the way, now if the Dream Team has Shaq on it and not Christian Laettner, maybe a different story because the versatility that Shaq would bring to that team is just a different thing that you have to deal with it. But we know Shaq was not on the Dream Team, which I think was a big mistake. Yeah. But nonetheless, it is what it is. And I got the 2024 team winning easy. Pretty simple. The game is different. The game is better now. And against better talent, we see what's happening. There's nothing that no one can do to even come remotely close to beating this team. It's just not happening. Yeah. Too good, too much star power. Oh, and by the way, Steph Curry has not played well. Steph Curry has not shot the ball well. Devin Booker has been an X factor, but Steph hasn't shot well at all. And we're winning by 25, 30 points. That's interesting. Very interesting. And that's why I don't think the Dream Team could come close I wouldn't say come close. It's a 10-point loss. Double digits. By 2024, Team USA, you can book it. You heard it here. It's what it is. Winning, no problem. Just like they're about to win the gold medal. No problem.
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