The Redeem Team is a documentary about the 2008 US Men's Olympic basketball team and so much more!! It encompasses all of what went into USA Men's basketball leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, including the long streak of unbeaten games where the US used collegiate athletes including the 1972 controversial game in Munich Germany where more time was put back on the clock and the USSR defeated the USA handing the Americans their first loss in a gold medal game. A loss in the 1988 Seoul Olympics had the US Men's basketball committee panicking as the world had finally caught up with the Americans talent wise at the amateur level, thus professional NBA players were used in the 1992 Barcelona Summer games where the much talked about Dream Team crushed the competition. All was well for American basketball again as they were dominate on the World stage until early in the 2000's when the world caught up with Uncle Sam once again. Countries like Germany, Spain, and Argentina were fielding teams that were giving the professional American team a run for its money so much so that Argentina won the 2004 Olympic gold medal in Athens, not even facing the US in the gold medal game who were relegated to play for the bronze. Much was wrong for Team USA in that Olympics, from a split in the team - a young generation of guys that never really gelled with the older group - and a coach (coach Larry Brown) that really never got the team to see his vision. Enter Jerry Coangelo and Coach K of Duke who reshaped Team USA basketball, and with the addition of a veteran by the name of Kobe Bryant, Team USA went on to great things in the 2008 Summer Olympics!! Great basketball highlights, great interviews, a well written documentary, good file video, and a great sense of fun have this as a video that any basketball fan should see!! 8 out of 10 stars!!
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