I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is you can't make this up as the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind

your favorite Netflix documentaries and films. On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary, The Redeem team.

I remember everybody's in the locker room already after the loss,

and I'm just on the court and we're looking at the celebration and it was just like we could never have this feeling ever again.

Today we're talking to director and executive producer John Weinbach.

When the U.S. added NBA players to their men's Olympic basketball team in 1992, it seemed they'd never lose again. But in the years after that first

dream team, the international competition got better and the American teams began

to coast.

After a humiliating bronze medal performance in 2004,

organizers shook up the US system.

A legendary coach assembled the nation's greatest players with a renewed sense of purpose and

is shot at redemption.

But can these superstars learn to play together and bring the gold medal home?

We have to learn their game and quit making excuses and

quit trying to impose our game on theirs. If we learn their game, we will be able to beat them. And I'm joined by executive producer and director John Weinbach.

Welcome to you can can make this up.

Thank you for having me.

So you focused on sports stories

throughout your career.

You worked on 30 for 30 and the last dance, great what is it about that human drama of

athletic competition that sucks you write in you know I think ultimately it's

kind of why we gravitate it's's kind of why we gravitate.

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