The Redeem Team

["Tehran" by HEEN playing] 657 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,240 [announcer] Greece are the European Champions. 658 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,960 That's how good these guys are that the USA are playing. 659 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,720 You know, I remember that game like it was yesterday. 660 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,720 They had a guy, "Baby Shaq." 661 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,920 [announcer] And Baby Shaq, Schortsanitis, he is a huge human being. 662 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,840 [announcer 2] Up ahead to big man Schortsanitis for the dunk! 663 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,840 And just like that, it's 36-35! 664 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,200 For one quarter, the third quarter, 665 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,560 we were horrible, and they were great. 666 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,840 [announcer] The problem for the US team 667 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,240 is they haven't defended the pick-and-roll. 668 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,280 -What a lovely pass! -[announcer 2] What a pass! 669 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,680 [announcer] Oh my goodness me, that's how it's done. 670 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,600 They're being picked to bits. 671 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,440 [Dwyane] They beat us with our own offense. 672 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,680 The NBA, at that point, is now a high pick-and-roll league. 673 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,240 They beat us with high pick-and-roll. 674 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,320 [announcer] Diamantidis, a pass back inside to go to the hoop… 675 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,760 It might look on the TV like, "Why don't they just stop 'em?" 676 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,360 When you're playing in real time, it's hard to figure out 677 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,040 what the hell is going on. 678 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,960 And they confidence kept going. 679 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,680 They was making shots. 680 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,640 They played the perfect game, 681 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,920 and we never got back. 682 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,440 [announcer] He misses. That's it. It's Greece! 683 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,600 They have defeated the United States! 684 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:47,080 The United States have crashed and burned once again by the semifinal match. 685 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,000 [somber music playing] 686 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,120 [Krzyzewski] When we lost in 2006 in Japan, 687 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,680 I've never had a defeat worse than that. 688 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,600 [crowd cheering] 689 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,000 I mean, you're coaching your country's team, and you lose. 690 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,200 [Carmelo] I remember everybody's in the locker room already after the loss, 691 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,520 and I'm just on the court, and we looking at the celebration. 692 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,560 And it was just like… [clicks tongue] 693 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,160 …"We can never have this feeling ever again." 694 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,160 [Dwyane] We did not want to go up and get on that stand 695 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,640 and take those bronze medals, 696 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,160 'cause we was like, "We are better than this." 697 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,960 It wasn't time. 698 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,880 You can't think that things are gonna happen on your term. 699 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:36,680 I know I didn't feel as shitty as I did when we lost in Athens, 700 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,120 but it wasn't the right time. 701 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,080 [pensive music playing] 702 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,240 On behalf of USA Basketball, I just want to welcome you back. 703 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:04,080 Last summer, we fell short of something we wanted to do, 704 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,400 and that was win the World Championships 705 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,320 so that we wouldn't have to qualify this summer. 706 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,400 And it didn't happen. 707 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,360 [Krzyzewski] We lost in '06 708 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:19,800 because we thought we knew the landscape, and we didn't. 709 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,440 We were gonna now learn the game we were playing 710 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,760 instead of the game that we played in the NBA. 711 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,240 I just want to tell you some… some things that we're gonna do. 712 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:31,360 It wasn't natural. 713 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,960 That game was not natural for our play-- 714 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,160 It's a different ball. 715 00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:37,480 It has 12 panels instead of 8. 716 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,240 You can walk through the free-throw line when someone's shooting. 717 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,760 You can touch the ball off the rim