What would your Country's Dream Team Look Like? (Past won't return...)

[LuDux]

Lithuania:

PG: Šarūnas Jasikevičius
SG: Šarūnas Marčiulionis
SG: Ramūnas Šiškauskas
SF: Artūras Karnišovas
C: Arvydas Sabonis

PG: Modestas Paulauskas
SG: Valdemaras Chomičius
SG: Arvydas Macijauskas
SG: Rimas Kurtinaitis
SF: Saulius Štombergas
PF: Darius Songaila
C: Žydrūnas Ilgauskas

head coach: Jonas Kazlauskas

worth to be mentioned:

Pranas Lubinas - godfather of Lithuanian basketball, captain and leader of USA's gold medal winning team in Berlin olympics(1936), european champion with Lithuanian NT in 1939

Modestas Paulauskas was 194cm forward. He could replace Siskauskas in starting five


Other worth to be mentioned: Sergejus Jovaisa (Zalgiris leader after Paulauskas and before Sabonis), Alfredas Vainauskas (best lithuanian PF in 80's?) Gintaras Einikis. In 1947-1957 USSR NT alwayes had 2-4 lithuanians

[ajaxballer]

Canadian NT: players from the last 10 yrs.

Pg- Steve Nash
Sg- Rowan Barret
SF- Rick Fox
Pf- Jamall Maglorie
C- Todd MacCulloch

Bench
Sg- Denham Brown
Sg- Carl English
C- Samuel Dalembert
Pf- Juan Mendez
C- Bill Wennington
Pf- Michael Meeks
Pg- I need help with this one lol. I can't think of any other good
pg's other than Nash.

[Kobe24]

C Kareem
PF Karl Malone
SF Larry Bird
G Jordan
G Magic

Bench
Bernard King
Isiah Thomas
Chris Mulllin 3 point specialist
David Robinson
Charles Barkley
Clyde Drexler
Reggie Miller

Head Coach - Chuck Daly

[asdzas]

Brazil

1-Leandro Barbosa
2-Wlamyr Marques
3-Amaury Passos
4-Oscar Schmitd
5-Ubiratan

6-Jorge Guerra
7-Marcél de Souza
8-Rosa Branca
9-Anderson Varejão
10-Nenê
11-Pipoka
12-Marcelo Machado

[critter out on a walk]

Turkey:
pg: Erman Kunter
sg: Harun Erdenay
sf: Hidayet Turkoglu
pf: Mehmet Okur
c: Efe Aydan

Ene, Yörükoğlu, Kutluay, Türkcan, Büyükaycan, Besok, Döğüşken




Italy: starting 5:Brunamonti, Myers, Riva, Fuc.ka, Magnifico
bench: Premier, Bargnani, Rusconi, Boni, Abbio, Dino Meneghin, Basile

Croatia: starting 5: Petrovic, Komazec, Kukoc, Radja, Vrankovic
bench: Perasovic, Vujcic, Sobin, Tabak, Veljko Mrsic, Ukic, Mulaomerovic

Spain: starting 5: Corbolan, Villacampa, SanEpifanio, Gasol, Fernando Martin
bench: Herreros, Garbasoja, R. Jofresa, Antonio Martin, Navarro, Vasquez, Sibilio

France: starting 5: Parker, Rigaudeau, Diaw, Bilba, Ostrwoski
bench: Bonato, Occansey, Demory, Moiso, T. Gadou, Foirest, M. Pietrus

Israel: starting 5: Kattash, Jamchy, Berkowitz, Hanefeld, Steinhouer
bench: Amsalem, Leaf, Fleisher, Adi Gordon, Kattash, Daniel, Burstein


Germany: starting 5: Nuernberger, Koch, Schrempf, Nowitzki, Welp
bench: Gnad, Okulaja, Harnisch, Baeck, Kujawa, Ortmann, Bogojevic

Greece: starting 5: Giannakis, Galis, Christodolou, Ekonomou, Fassoulas
bench: Papaloukas, Liadelis, Dikoudis, Kakiouzis, Papadopoulos, Alvertis, Diamantidis/Sigalas

Slovenia: starting five: Zdovc, Hauptmann, Milic, Alibegovic, Nesterovic
bench: Kotnik, Smodis, Gorenc, Nachbar, Udrih, Becirovic, E. Lorbek

Serbia&Montenegro: starting five: Djordjevic, Danilovic, Bodiroga, Stojakovic, Divac
bench: Prelevic, Savic, Paspalj, Tarlac, Rebraca, Jaric, Vujanic

Lithuania: starting five: Marciulionis, Kurtiniatis, Karnisovas, Songaila, Sabonis
bench: Jasikevicius, Stombergas, Macijauskas, Ilgauskas, Lavrinovic, Einikis, Chomichius

Russia: starting five: Bazarevich, Babkov, Kirilenko, Mischkin, Mikhailov
bench: Karasev, Fetissov, Khryapa, Monia, Savrasenko, Tikhonenko, Tarakanov

USA: starting five: M.Johnson, Jordan, Bird, Malone, Shaq
bench: Isiah Thomas, Olajuwan, Robinson, Duncan, Dominique Wilkins, Drexler, Kobe Bryant

Ukraine: Murzine, Meleshenko, Belostenny, Volkov, Potapenko

Bulgaria: Natov, Glouchkov, Mladenov, Videnov, Stoykov

Argentina: Milanesio, Ginobili, Nocioni, Oberto, Scola
bench: Sconochini, Nicola, Montenegro, Delfino, Espil, Wolkowysky, Montecchia

Brazil: Barbosa, Klafke, Schmidt, Splitter, Nene

Canada: Nash, Fox, Triano, Magloire, Gminski

Australia: Bogut, Bradtke, Heal, Vlahov, Gaze

[ctongco]

My Philippine Dream Team (most of the players I know are from 1998 onwards)

Starting 5:
C - Asi Taulava
F - Eric Menk
F - Danny Seigle
G - Allan Caidic
G - Johnny Abarrientos

Reserves:
Alvin Patrimonio
Samboy Lim
Robert Jaworski
Jojo Lastimosa
Kenneth Duremdes
Ren-Ren Ritualo
Willie Miller

[Joško Poljak Fan]

Croatia: Petrovic, Komazec, Kukoc, Radja, Vrankovic

Croatia definately had better players than Vrankovič or Komazec: Čošić, Giergia or Skansi would deserve to be in instead of them imho

[critter out on a walk]

Croatia definately had better players than Vrankovič or Komazec: Čošić, Giergia or Skansi would deserve to be in instead of them imho

I watched Cosic only once and that was almost ten years ago. I have never watched Giergia or Skansi play.

p.s. I updated my list to include more teams.

p.s.s. I can scantly recall several good Slovenian players. Namely, Tovornik, Petranovic and Vilfan. Could you be kind enough to tell me if they ever played/started for the Yugoslavian national team. Oh, Jelovac, too.

[Joško Poljak Fan]

p.s.s. I can scantly recall several good Slovenian players. Namely, Tovornik, Petranovic and Vilfan. Could you be kind enough to tell me if they ever played/started for the Yugoslavian national team. Oh, Jelovac, too.

Tovornik never got to play for Yugoslav NT, he was called up for Slovenia though... he played bball through all the leagues untill the very late age, and by 41 (or sth. like that) he was still the best scorer of our 1st division.

I think Petranovič was at his best one of those 10 ( ) borderline players that didn't manage to qualify for Yugoslavia (to be honest, a lot of players didn't get the chance because at 1 player from all 6 repoublics had to be picked in the team, so being Croatian- as Petranovič who has double citizenship- or Serbian it was much tougher to qualify to NT as if being from Montentegro, FYROM or Slovenia)... at 47 (!!!) I think he is still playing in 1. B division, while I believe he scored 100 points in a cup game 2 years back to some 4th division club... a pure legend...

Vilfan played for quite a long period for Yugo NT, he ended up as a commentator on national TV.

Jelovac has double citizenship as well, while his games goes far beyond my birth... don't know about the NT.

considering the competition on all 5 positions it was incredibly tough to qualify for Yugo NT

[EverGreen]

All time Greek 12

1)Panayiotis Giannakis
2)Nikos Galis
3)Fanis Christodoulou
4)Dimos Dikoudis
5)Panayiotis Fassoulas

6)Theo Papaloukas
7)Dimitris Diamantidis
8)Giorgos Amerikanos (lead AEK to Champions Cup semifinal's and the CWC in 1967)
9)Giorgos Trontzos (same as Amerikanos)
10)Giorgos Kolokithas (scoring machine, played for PAO in 1970's)
11)Lazros Papadopoulos
12) Nikos Economou

damn it's hard to choose. I'm quite sure I will change it in the future. Players like Spanoulis, Sigalas, Alvertis etc are left out.

[rchos7]

damn it's hard to choose. I'm quite sure I will change it in the future. Players like Spanoulis, Sigalas, Alvertis etc are left out.

alvertis and sigalas should be left out!they don't deserve to be in this list!as for spanoulis will have to wait and see!also i don't think dikoudis deserves to be in the starting 5!

[EverGreen]

alvertis and sigalas should be left out!they don't deserve to be in this list!as for spanoulis will have to wait and see!also i don't think dikoudis deserves to be in the starting 5!

I regard Sigalas one of the biggest leaders and proabbaly the best defender of his generation whilst Alvertis is the greatest shooter we ever had.

I had to pick between Economou and Dikoudis for the PF position and decided on Dikoudis because he was more the team player playing for big european teams for a longer time.

Other playes I could have mentioned was Mimis Stefanidis - Panellinios(from the 50's) and Olimpia Milano, Faedon Mattheou 50's- PAO and Olimpia Milano, Charis Papageorgiou - Aris (late 70's -80's).

By the way, I just remembered Vasilis Goumas who is 2nd all-time scorer!!! He's definately be my 1st choice at PF.

[critter out on a walk]

Thanks, Matiz.

[jramoyo]

I would have Caidic over Duremdes.

And Samboy Lim for Jaworski

[sickcurtain_16]

Philippines

First 5

PG - Johnny Abbarientos
SG - Allan Caidic
SF - Danny Seigle
PF - Ramon Fernandez
C - Carlos Loyzaga

The rest of the team will be
PF - Alvin Patrimonio
PF - Nelson Asaytono
C - Asi Taulava
G - Ato Agustin
PF - Benjie Paras
PF - Eric Menk
G - Mark Caguioa

[donmar]

PHILIPPINES

Starting Line-up
C - Paul Asi Taulava
PF - Rommel Adducul
SF - Alvin Patrimonio
SG - Allan Caidic
PG - Hector Calma

Reserves
R - Carlos Loyzaga
R - Jun Papa Jr.
R - Johnny Abarrientos
R - Samboy Lim
R - Danny Seigle
R - Ramon Fernandez
R - Robert Jaworski

[Saskibaloia]

Canadian NT: players from the last 10 yrs.

Pg- Steve Nash
Sg- Rowan Barret
SF- Rick Fox
Pf- Jamall Maglorie
C- Todd MacCulloch

Bench
Sg- Denham Brown
Sg- Carl English
C- Samuel Dalembert
Pf- Juan Mendez
C- Bill Wennington
Pf- Michael Meeks
Pg- I need help with this one lol. I can't think of any other good
pg's other than Nash.

I remembered that there was one Canadian point guard who played for the LA Lakers once. He was white.

[liucunxing]

we china‘s history dream team is：

pg：FENGWU_SUN
sg：WEIDONG_HU
sf：SUN_JUN
pf：YUDONG_LIU
C:MING_YAO

BENCH:

PGIJIANG_A,XIAOYONG_LI
SG:WU_ZHENG
SF:WEIPING_ZHANG
PF:ZHIZHI_WANG,JIANLIAN_YI
C:TAO_SHAN,BATTER

coach:JONAS

[mvblair]

pg：FENGWU_SUN
sg：WEIDONG_HU
sf：SUN_JUN
pf：YUDONG_LIU
C:MING_YAO

Good choice for center. I think I would start Wang Zhizhi at PF though. People forget just how powerful he is/was. Maybe it's just my ignorance about Chinese basketball, but I haven't heard of Liu, so I would start Wang!

Welcome to the boards, liucunxing!

--Matt

[liucunxing]

thank you，YUDONG_LIU and ZHIZHI_WANG from same team
of 81 rockets，at the rockets LIU played PF，and wang played C，LIU is a slight PF just like Charles Barkley ，he's heught only 198 but very strong，
at YAO‘s last season in the CBA，the CBA's final game is played with 81 rockets between YAO'S shanghai sharks，yao’s coach said if they can limited liu‘s point blow 45 is a victory

Good choice for center. I think I would start Wang Zhizhi at PF though. People forget just how powerful he is/was. Maybe it's just my ignorance about Chinese basketball, but I haven't heard of Liu, so I would start Wang!

Welcome to the boards, liucunxing!

--Matt