
The Other Dream Team
Welcome back
to this eighth Olympic meeting
between the USA and USSR.
Last time they played
was 16 years ago in Munich.
The only time the American team
has ever lost an Olympic basketball game.
The Soviet Union, that was the team
we wanted to play and beat the worst.
They had size, they had height...
7'4" Sabonis.
They were menacing.
In those old days, if you were willing
to paint the world in a cartoon,
and we always were,
the Soviets were the grim,
unsmiling, unfeeling,
cheating...
The "other. " The other guys.
I remember the backdrop
and all those things.
The ultimate war was always going to
be with the Soviet Union.
What a rejection by Robinson.
As he says "No, no,"
"Nyet, nyet" to Marciulionis.
The perception of Russian athletes
was that they trained harder
than anyone else in the world.
How we viewed them,
that's just what they were born to do.
They were trained since they could walk,
probably, to play basketball.
I must break you.
Right into Volkov, who takes it away.
John Thompson said that
the old Lenin prophecy was coming true.
The U.S. Is not playing well.
"The capitalists will sell us the rope
with which we'll hang them. "
It's a 2-on-1 break.
Marciulionis!
And that will do it for the Soviets.
The United States goes home stunned.
USSR.
Imagine having to compete
for another country
when they have everything going for them,
and knowing full well that since 1940
the Russians have occupied and oppressed
and just destroyed every bit of hope
that an entire country, their homeland,
had ever even thought about.
The dream of freedom.
The dream of independence.
to chart your own destiny
and make your own choice tomorrow,
yeah, that was the bigger dream.
It was about a 20-year period,
the '20s and '30s,
where the country had its independence.
And in two of those years, in the late '30s,
they actually won as Lithuania.
As an independent state, they actually won
European basketball titles.
There was a guy, a Lithuanian-American
who lived in LA, who came back to Lithuania
to help them win those titles.
Those European championships
in the late '30s.
And to this day in Lithuania,
if you're talking about a leviathan,
people will refer to a "Lubinas. "
That's how much
in the Lithuanian imagination
this guy remains to this day.
Almost every kid
was just trying, how to get into the team.
How to play it.
Now basketball is still today number one
and I believe it's going
to stay for a long time.
An iron curtain has descended
across the continent.
Lithuania and the Baltic states in general
played between
the two greatest totalitarian
forces the world has ever known,
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
I was 17 years of age
when I was... When I left Lithuania.
There was a mass retreat.
People or whoever could,
ran away by all kinds of means.
Walking, using the trains.
It was a massive, massive chaos.
The amount of deportation
and gratuitous punishment
especially during the Stalinist era,
boggles the mind.
A guy who ran and jumped
in a way that shouldn't
be possible for someone that size.
He was a 7'3" version of Larry Bird.
He could do everything.
he could rebound,
he could block shots, he could pass,
he could think, he could lead the team.
Sarunas' story
is nothing short of miraculous.
He left home at an early age,
seeking his basketball dream.
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