Can you say DREAM TEAM II?

Yes I know it is still early, but the 2008 USA Basketball team improved to 4-0 today with a Win over Angola. This is Angola's fifth consecutive Olympic appearance as the African champion. The Redeem Team stretched its muscles, got in a good conditioning run and left a chalk outline of Angola with a 97-76 thumping on Tuesday. While the Americans are fielding a smallish lineup with only Dwight Howard and Chris Bosh taller than 6-9, the Angolans were still overwhelmingly undersized with just one player as tall as 6-8. How easy was it? LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony were a combined perfect 18-for-18 shooting in the first half.

In 1992 the Dream Team lit up Angola with a plethora of exciting baskets and ending up winning by 68 points. Today when a player from Angola received the ball in the low post memories of 92' were in the air. Felizardo Ambrosio took the feed in the post turned and intended to score over Carlos Boozer, but before Ambrosio could even get to the apex of his jump, LeBron James flashed in like a rolling ball of thunder and swatted down the shot like it was a fly on the wall.

Kobe Bryant was an eyeful in the second half, stepping into the passing lanes for steals, kissing the ball in off the glass and giving the worshipping Chinese crowd all that it wanted with a breakaway 360-spin for a dunk in the third quarter.

Angola's Carlos Almeida said after the game, "What I will remember is the play in the second quarter, the USA was on a fast break and somebody passed the ball to LeBron and he dunked it with his left hand. I think it was amazing."

When Wade took a bounce pass from Deron Williams and climbed the ladder on the left baseline for a one-handed tomahawk slam, all it did was evoked more memories from '92. USA will win the Gold Medal this year, but will they play well enough to be finally dubbed Dream Team II?