I think he maybe could’ve averaged 28 pts 7 reb 1 ast in his prime, I think he would be 2nd team all NBA every year

He probably wouldn't have done as good. But thats just my guess. I love your videos mike, keep it up

If he had tried it out for at least 1 season in the NBA and did better than expected, it would have been a believable what-if story. Dominating the olympics back then is the same as an ex NBA player dominating the china league right now so it's a really farfetched statement for him to say he could be top 10 without even trying.

He would have been a step up from Toni Kukoc. Which is a great player but not even top 111.

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Good point

Man, that really puts things into perspective.

Wow

Most elite NBA scorers (beside Wilt) didn't play 40+ mins.

You comparison of the 40 & 48 minutes are irrelevant since that's not the actual minutes being played by the players. Nonetheless, I have no doubt Oscar would have ended up in the NBA's top5 all-time scorers if he had played in the NBA, but top-10 players of all-time, no. It takes more than just scoring.

It honestly looks like watching an old school version of Luka Doncic or something.

DammitBobby420 Oscar himself said he sees much of him in Luka (but obviously his champ mentality makes him say he was way better than him)

Kobe was a real student and historian of the game, one of the greatest of all time

Johnny Purple yea but he wasn’t even the best Laker

he lit up the NBA highschool team like Mike said when he went against NBA talent which he was forced fed the ball he only averaged 24 points how sure are we he would've been able to do that on a 82 game season and is constantly facing that top tier talent the Olympic game is much different then the nba

For sure, I'm not going to say he couldn't be top 10 all-time just because he didn't play in the NBA. It seems that both Bird and Kobe respected him and he was pretty dominant vs the US in the Olympics.

Oscar played at italian league against Kobe's father. He has a 3 point contest threre that he made 22 of 25.

Ecu!! Go Pirates!!

@@DaniloOliveira36 Man, Oscar is the best scorer to ever grace the European courts and that says a lot... European leagues have had Drazen Petrovic, Toni Kukoc, Manu Ginobili, Arvydas Sabonis and none of them even came close to Oscar... Also, people need to realize that in the NBA Oscar would not be as dominant... cause they wouldn't let him shoot... Larry Bird was probably the best shooter of all time before Curry showed up and they only let him shoot 2-3 3pt shots per game... Oscar's big weapon was how he stretched the floor... shooting from 30ft away like it was nothing... NBA coaches would have chewed him out for it and throw him on the bench cause back then NBA was clueless about how dominant 3pt shooting really is... European teams shot a ton of 3pt shots even back then... Oscar Schmidt would have won a scoring title in the NBA for sure if they let him play his game... hands down... he would score almost 40ppg in 48minute games... he scored over 30ppg in 40min games in Europe most seasons which is absurd... but Americans will never admit it... they are way too ignorant even now... Oscar Schmidt in terms of scoring was almost an exact copy of Larry freakin Bird in the absurd amount of different ways he could score... and Larry is a top 5 player of all time hands down... however Oscar wasn't a godly passer like Larry was... not even close...

@@sportschool3537 I know man. I'm a Brazilian. He told his coach at NBA in pre season. "Here, I'll score one point a minute". 2 pre season games he played, that's what happened.

Insane

Biblical.

He played pro until 47 and was still the top scorer. 34 is nothing as a Pro Athlete nowadays. And back then He was at his peak at 35, my uncle trained him.

He was 34 not 104, still a very young man and wasn't at his peak yet if you saw him play. Could have played NBA for another 10 years. His training regime was 30 years ahead of other Athletes.

@@andrewstuart8736 34 years at 1992, was a old player. At that age, he hasn't muscles...

Verdade, mano. Pelo menos a gente tem uma coisa pra se orgulhar.

PedroHsl could he guard? I think that would have effected his planning time in the nba. The guy looks like an incredible shooter but if he was scoring 30 was he also giving up 30 on the other end? This tape looks like he was a bit slow and could not jump. But you could also say those things about Larry bird.

@@blankname6629 He wasn't a top tier defender, but he could help when he needed. He was like a James Harden. Scoring in one end and lacking in the other. But he was a little bit better then Harden in the defensive end

@Show Genius I know he defends. I never said that he didn't. All I said was: "James Harden is not a super defender".

Brazil Porra

That's what we call my uncle.

@@DaleSandusky lmaooo

Yep

@@DaleSandusky I can't even imagine the circumstances that led to a situation like this. Hahahaha

Thats a cool nickname for him...and that guys uncle

Yes. He looks like Bird. And Bird recognizes his talent. He always remember Schmidt in his interviews about the past out of NBA.

Oscar in his Hall Of Fame Tribute said Larry Bird is his greatest basketball idol. He recognized himself in Bird game

He looks way faster than Bird though

Enough of the idiotic Larry wasn’t athletic talk. You don’t play at that level and dominate without having athletic ability! Full stop!

@@maxwelldewinter John said that despite Oscar LOOKS/SEEMS unathletic... He didn't say that Oscar is REALLY unathletic, just looks like. But we all know that Oscar is a high athletic player, the reason why he desearves all the tribute!

Kobe mentioned him

Yeah, as basketball fans we a did. Most of the "NBA fans" probably never heard of him though.

As a basketball fan you should know how to write basketball!

@@calcifiedbonecollector3222 haha right, I'm from Belgium so I forget in eng, there is no space

Source that Kobe looked up to this nobody

Young Medi lol nobody. Dudes the all time Olympic scorer.

Young Medi ur an idiot

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Young Medi this nobody is one of the 10 basketball hall of famers that never played in the NBA.

Really? I never seen. Im gonna look for him. What his Ovr?

@@abnerstefani5092 "should" put, there's no Oscar Schmidt in 2k

I was going to look after the video. You guys saved me some time. That's too bad, I wanted to get him.

GOLDGAMER 287 ohh.. my bad. 🙏🏼

@@abnerstefani5092 np

Andre Silva I was a “federado” as a teenager and I remember Oscar would come to my club to train sometimes and me and my friends witnessed him practicing, it was insane, he would be shooting non stop for hours, alone, a crazy human!

After every practice he always did like 100 shots to became the scoring machine he was

Noted

You mean soccer

QWERTY 4747 No, I meant football, the correct name for the sport.

In Brazil, we call him Holly Hands. The Mão Santa.

He’s in the hall of fame btw

@@sergiotavares9347 Fasho fam. He's a hella basketball player!

He was a beast. He just beat cancer

He is a legend here in Brazil.

Top demais esse reconhecimento mano

Primeira vez que vejo o Korzemba dedicando um vídeo pra um Brasileiro.

@@eliasferreira9 exatamente mano.. são coisas assim que fazem meu dia

É uma lenda e merece todo o reconhecimento possível, de fato! Possivelmente o maior pontuador da história do Brasil. Mas GOATs do Brasil são Wlamir Marques e Amaury Pasos. Vamos ser justos e reconhecer a história riquíssima do basquete nacional.

@@matheusg.4953 confesso que não conheço a história dos dois... mas vou procurar saber um pouco mais, sem duvidas dois monstros tambem

Every great player put numbers in nba. Those who said anything different are just dumbs. There’s a lot of examples. And the nba today it’s the house of foreigners.

The NBA's style of play is different now. It's a European style of play

The way he shot the rock he would have been just fine in the NBA

I agree. This dude could have been “bird-like” with mvps and rings. We never know.

And to top it all off, Oscar played 40 minute games overseas, vs the 48 minute games of the NBA. He would’ve averaged a lot more points with the extra time

🤣🤣🤣

He wasnt worth any more. He was only used to playing 40 minute games once a week, not 82 games a season with play-offs to come and 80s NBA physical defence. Without an NBA physique, he'd wash out like many rookies who were hot in college, and even as a Reggie Miller type 6'8" shooting guard, even coming off the bench, he never once in his career hit an NBA distance three-pointer with a NBA size defender in his face. There's a reason that a scrub team like New Jersey Nets only offered him scrub money.

@@CaesarCassius ok buddy

@@CaesarCassius No, he was. He later did it against NBA greats, so we know he could do it. The NBA just wasn't open enough.

mao santa 🙏

boa

Yes he is man! He was another reason why I watch Basketball in the Olympics other than the Dream Team.

minha inspiração

Eles acham que Michel Jordan é o GOAT, coitados... Kkkk

Kyle Snyder how many? Make me impressed .

Someone has to shoot the ball. If had had 50+ shots the coach trusted him more than other player.

Kyle Snyder what? You are using the same argument they used for Kobe all his career. Someone had to shoot the ball. The coach goes with his best player to do the job. Basketball is a team work but it’s not a demonstration of socialism.

Kyle Snyder if you don’t give a fuck why spend your time here ?

Kyle Snyder if you don’t give a fuck why waste your time here ?

It is important to mention that in FIBA ​​basketball (outside the NBA) games last only 40 minutes, not 48 minutes as in the NBA, that is, if FIBA ​​games had 48 minutes, Oscar would score even more points.

Representando Brasil

Felipe Gonçalves that makes me like him so much more

🤣

Wtf guys how old are you, get over it.

He sounds like he was better than Steph lol

bnne137 damn chill it was just a joke

Lmaoooo

It is important to mention that in FIBA ​​basketball (outside the NBA) games last only 40 minutes, not 48 minutes as in the NBA, that is, if FIBA ​​games had 48 minutes, Oscar would score even more points.

That's fucking awesome

That’s cocky. His ego is so big that he can’t even stand the fact that people remind him that he has been lucky to be granted with such amount of talent. He want to believe that everything he achieved is due purely to his work ethic, which again is very cocky. There are millions of basketball player that work their ass off night and day to try and become a professional basket athlete, but only like 0,001 of them achieve that goal. Is that because the 99,9% others arent working hard enough ? Of course not, it’s just that they weren’t talented enough to begin with, no matter how hard they trained. So being pissed off at someone calling you talented when you’re a world class athlete is not only delusional, it’s also extremely cocky and disrespectful. It’s basically like saying "if you don’t go pro, it’s because you’re lazy".

@@trgrgtgrtgr7724 To be fair, talent alone isn't enough to make it to where he was as a player. I think the point he was trying to make was that his talent wasn't the only thing that helped him in his career but his will to put in work when it is needed of him, which is something most people aren't willing to do. After all, you can be the most talented baller on the planet but still play like shit compared to other more experienced and hard-working players if you don't have the work ethic to go with it.

@@trgrgtgrtgr7724 if you think these millions of wannabe basketball players work as much as guys like Oscar and MJ did you are sadly mistaken. These guys are the kind that will be in the gym before everyone and will also leave after everyone else. Not even fair to put Oscar and MJ in same sentence because MJ's athleticism is not even comparable, like Oscar says MJ and Kobe just fly anywhere it isnt even fair.. Oscar is a great player but mostly a great shooter, so yea it is more normal that his skills were acquired through grind and training, he didnt become a great shooter because of talent. When he gets called talented he thinks people are taking off his merits from all the hard work. Surely his height helped though which seems to be the main attribute for a basket player.

@@trgrgtgrtgr7724 go read the book Mindset by Carol Dweck, it's a reference in this topic and all based in science. Easy to read and very constructive. If you really want to learn if what you're saying is true, just read it, otherwise continue to spread misinformation.

Pippen did lock him down. He played college player team USA

@@FunwiththeCoopers that 1992 game, he was mostly guarded by Barkley and Bird (my mistake) and score 24 points, basically he was not getting that much attention, for obvious reasons. Then, Atlanta 1996 he was guarded by Pippen, remember this is the same Pippen from 1996 Bulls. Brazil never was a threat to US winning but Pippen wanted to really stop him. Even so, Oscar score 26 on him. In 1996 Oscar was 38 years old. You mean someone at 38, the only scorer in that team, score 26 on you at your prime, is put a stop?

@@dragonmaldito he committed 7 turnovers and his shooting percentage is bad even he scored 26 points it's not efficient game for him and 92 dream was killing Brazil larry and Barkley wasnt even trying to play defense I'm not saying his not good Olympics is not the same level as nba if Barkley played overseas he would've same or even more points than him. Petrovic during that time was the best European player imo

Pippen goaded him in the 2nd half watch it again.

@@FunwiththeCoopers im not saying by any means that Brazil could be a threat to US. By talent or phisically, no way Brazil could compete straight to the end. All im saying is, even when trying to stop he still had his points, even well past his prime.

Yep. The arrogance of the U.S. rears its ugly head😔🤦

@@marcuswalker6764 That's no arrogance that's pragmatism. He never played here. Olijuwon was drafted first that same year.

HNIC look at what Olajuwon had to do to get drafted first though. And look who drafted him. It’s arrogance for sure.

Still dont

He would’ve been a solid role player or maybe an all star. Look at jimmer ferdette in China? Dude was a legend but sucked in the nba. Calm down

Oscar missed a shot over Sabonis that him regrets a lot. Sabonis was great!

What a casual, I can do that

man got 10 minutes left on his contract

Dude thinks he’s nice

@@jakelamoreaux634 has anybody even heard of this dude?

Imma be doing that by June

Amazing game! good memories, my goodness

Wow. Never heard about this. 🔥 I'll try to find some video to watch.

I am from Brazil, i have a lot of respect for Oscar. But i miss Drazen.... RIP

Drazen and Oscar score more than 100 points combined... historical Battle!

Wow I wonder if there was a clip recorded.

idk if his nickname came from italy and idk how is the word hand in italian, but mano is in spanish, in portuguese is mão

Mão* not mano

@@antoniovinicius4177 Mano means hand in Italian too. Oscar played most of his career in Italy

He's 38 years old in 1996... lol 😂

2 Saucy LMFAOOO

I mean, if the guy is averaging 40something "just" scoring 31 is a "bad" game. But he definitely worded it like he was about to say held to 10 points or something.

Hissoka he a bucket fr fr

Horrible defense by the USA .....lol

Stop lying, he was better than college kids in the Olympics!

yessssir

It would be nasty.

He Said no because he could not represent the Brazilian National team internationaly back them.

Drazen died young :/

denis gomes yeah... we watched the video...

IIrc he touched the ball twice, and hit both shots. Ended up with 4 points in ~3 minutes or something like that

He also forgot to say that Europe has their own "3PT shooting contest" (very similar to the one of the all star weekend), Oscar competed, won and the most impressive is: HE ALMOST GOT EVERY TREY RIGHT. I mean, EVERY trey (I think he missed like 1 or 2 shots), which was NEVER ever done by an American in the all star game Weekend.

2 shots, 4 points, 100%FG after 2 brain surgeries to treat brain cancer at age of 59/60 years old.

WTF! You forgot to say it was a celebrity basketball game with actors and musicians not NBA!

@@maxwelldewinter And those celebrities certainly play better than u.

was he a german brazilian? Interesting last name being from brazil! What a legend you guys had

awa red is ok l

His leg went like dancing 🤯👌🏾

Said the samething...had to watch it again, because I thought he traveled

YES PLEASE

What if kawhi joined the lakers *plays worlds smallest violin*

What if kawhi doesn’t get hurt in the warriors series 😔

What if the knicks got the first pick in the 2019 draft...

Jordan Renville what if the knicks weren’t run by james dolan

As a Brazilian, That's fucking true

@@dugarsaddy4523 weak.

He had a holy hand, or trained hand because he trained his hand doing something. And he thought it was trained because he did it perfect every single time...

My uncle trained my hand with his meat hammer.

Yeap... Until today he's considered the best, by far.

Hahaha... in Brazil we always joked about the similarity

What a charming man!

Yeah! And that joke will always be funny.

Brazilian Morrissey! 🤣

@@stevengrounds3131 " Brazilian Morrissey". LOL! Do they laugh the same too??

Omg that looked so painful!!

Easy? 1. Michael 2. Wilt 3. Kareem 4. Lebron 5. Kobe 6. Shaq 7. Bird 8. Magic 9. Hakeem 10. Jerry West

Different eras bro easy to score in the NBA now but back in Oscar time way waaay tougher defense in the NBA ! Oscar would have been for the NBA but it wouldn't have been a cake walk

@@coolioth2843 Wheres Gorgui dieng

Oscar would have been a bust sorry to tell you

@@RaulFlores-ge7uh That's like saying Petrovic would been a bust, you lost your mind if you think Oscar would have been a bust!!

Best scorer ever

Andrés Carc he’s not Durant

@@Big_Cap51 and u know that how? exactly u don't.

@Kyle Snyder Jordans 3pt shooting is no where near KD 3pt shooting

Kyle Snyder KD was way more ways to score and he’s more efficient

That's what my uncle made me call him.

His sense of nationalism over personal gain adds immensely to the legend of Oscar Schmidt.

But he hates this nickname cause he used to practice a lot

@@edimarjake That's right, he said he prefers to be called "trained hand" lol. Dude is a legend

Oh, isso é interessante. Usei o Google Translate para isso para poder me comunicar. Ele é como o Kobe ou a Jordânia do Brasil?

@@clizal6047 basically it was kind of a jordan and larry bird

@@clizal6047 he is definetly our "Jordan", but basketball is not very recognized here in brazil, i'd say that at best, basketball would be our third sport, behind football and voleyball, but even people that never watched a full game of basketball can recognize him as a legend of the sport here. It's interesting to say that the sport is growing in brazil right now, so i believe he is legend is gonna get bigger in the next few years with new generations hearing his stories

vai ficar aqui jogando em ginásio fodido e com publico de 200 pessoas ou vai pra lá ficar rico, famoso e jogar pra milhares de fans?

@@vinipcplayer certo eles, tem aí ganhar grana mesmo, meter a vara na mulherada, aqui no Brasil é só banheira mesmo

Well you ever watch a soccer match

Lmfaoooo 😭😭😂

If I played pan American games and if I was on a stretch against the best players in the world I would celebrate like that too lmfao

Yung CA lmao haha

who tf is flight

I just spit beer all over my keyboard

ANIME LOVER 2020 stop hating bitch

ANIME LOVER 2020 ignorant, you gotta have some type of skill to be 40 and still in the nba

ANIME LOVER 2020 yea and Karl Malone is trash too, never one a ring, no skill, only knows how to play basketball 🤦‍♂️

oscar actually played until he was 45, in his last year, he averaged 33.1

Oscar had no defense skills, just did not defense, he was a ballhog, never played in any strong league, never won a real tittle. This video is a joke, it’s proof how weak is mike korzemba’s knowledge about the game. Sorry to break it up to you

mohamed ali ali he never said he was a good defender he’s talking about scoring

What is \m/

@@c4de. 🤘

@@c4de. literally translated sign of the devil used but Rock and metal fans is he sign of rock on or this is really awesome

@爪卂尺匚 卂匚乇几ㄖᐯ乇ㄥ丂 Yes I know there was an actor but his name isn't Trevor Phillips that's the full name of Trevor, his real name is Steven Ogg

Because they were in college at the time

@Azahr Malik you think that's really dudes picture? Come on man, and YOU'RE gonna threaten to clown someone? Be better. Peace.

Cuz he was like Steph

LOL We've seen this before, the scouts figured him out right, he's got no NBA game, and would have been exposed, lucky to be drafted at all, he never played againt NBA players, Olympics were amateur then, his 28 ppg needs to be adjusted to reality, in the NBA, more like 2.8 ppg #LOL

Tamo ganhando reconhecimento aos poucos 🤞🏿 DORIME AMENO

Yeah , that bitch didnt let him play , ill never get over it

@@stuff48 same bro. I'm Brazilian and on this day a lot of our people who loves basketball was waiting to see him playing. And that fucking stupid bitch fucked up with the show. I'll never forget that

@@gabrielmarlley2808 sou brasileiro tbm porra

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He probably wouldn’t be as good.They developed him very slowly and carefully,which is why he such an efficient scorer.

His jumpshot wouldn't have been as elite as it is now, coming into the league he wasnt a shooter, and Chip England is one of the best shooting coaches in the league

Joe Hammond was better.

😂

Shaq: "You know, there's no I in TEAM" Kobe: "But there's a M-E on that bitch, I learned with Oscar" saw that on the internet, must be true LOL

Marcelo Viana- it was hilarious watching that video bro😂

@@LuisSanchez-oh1nl hahhahaha right? Lost my shit when I watched

He's in another patamar

Pedro Henrique u don’t post to idol no one 😂

@@tiagozimermann9028 OTO

I believe that, at the time(late 80s /early90s), watching FIBA x NBA matches would be one of the best attractions during All Star Weekends

SanFranFan30 Imagine if u could fly! Imagine if Trump wasn't President!!

@@snapstradamus888 imagine all the people...

Only Šarūnas Marčiulionis is missing.

That's actually very sad to imagine. I wish we could have seen it.