Talk:Oscar Schmidt
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[edit] Michael Jordan
Keep in mind this is a place for discussion but I'm just expressing my opinion to see what other people think about the same subject, not about my opinion. Keep in mind that I am, just as I look, brazilian, american, and human.
By the way, I was watching both Utah Jazz vs Chicago Bulls finals and I was cheering for Utah, although I started watching NBA thanks to Chicago and Mega Drive games, starting with Boston vs Celtic. I still think that both results as a whole was decided on details prior to final seconds of each game, most likely near the half time, where the Bulls was favored by enough judge's mistakes, including shooting clock issues.
I do, like any basketball's fan, greatly admire Jordan (and most of 1992 Dream Team, mainly John Stockton). He was and still is the greatest and more complete basketball player. To me Jordan is to basketball the same Pele is to soccer.
My point, tho, is analysing things in perspective. Brazil never had basketball history, and don't have money or structure to build a dream team the same way it happens to soccer. Basically because the government and the people don't care enough, since we already have soccer.
Under that perspective I would say Oscar was not only greater than Jordan, but also could prove that in Olympic games, while Jordan was limited to do it. Don't get me wrong, Jordan would destroy Oscar in 1 on 1. But playing a basketball game, 5 against 5, with two great teams, Oscar not only could lead to better results as he did.
Of course I'm talking about 1987 and I know that wasn't the best team USA could bring. But it was the team that was there, and that was the best effort of USA in that time. Of course it was overlooking Brazil, but that's my point... Even while overlooking, USA could have won, if Oscar wasn't there, with the rest of the team.
I don't want to get in details such as "what if". This is just an opinion and I just want to see other people's point of view about the same subject: talking about greatest players of any game, focusing on basketball.
To me, considering everything I can think of, Oscar was a greater player even than Jordan. Note that I'm not saying just "basketball player", because I'm considering in-game and everything around it.
I hope this can bring to a good discussion. Thanks for reading. :)
--Cacumer 20:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
