Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's basketball

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Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Tournament
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1 Medalists
2 Tournament Summary

[edit] Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Argentina (ARG)	Italy (ITA)	United States (USA)

[edit] Tournament Summary

[edit] Pool Play: Group A

Spain was one of two teams to go undefeated in the preliminary round – the other being Lithuania in Group B. World champions Serbia & Montenegro played its worst Olympic performance ever, finishing last in the pool having lost to all but Italy.

Team	P	W	L	F	A	Pts
Spain	5	5	0	405	339	10
Italy	5	3	2	371	341	8
Argentina	5	3	2	414	396	8
China	5	2	3	303	382	7
New Zealand	5	1	4	399	413	6
Serbia and Montenegro	5	1	4	377	388	6

August 15	11:15	Italy	71	–	69	New Zealand
	14:30	China	58	–	83	Spain
	16:45	Argentina	83	–	82	Serbia & Montenegro
August 17	09:00	New Zealand	62	–	69	China
	16:45	Serbia & Montenegro	74	–	72	Italy
	20:00	Spain	87	–	76	Argentina
August 19	09:00	Serbia & Montenegro	87	–	90	New Zealand
	11:15	Italy	63	–	71	Spain
	20:00	Argentina	82	–	57	China
August 21	11:15	Spain	76	–	68	Serbia & Montenegro
	14:30	New Zealand	94	–	98	Argentina
	16:45	China	52	–	89	Italy
August 23	09:00	Spain	88	–	84	New Zealand
	16:45	Serbia & Montenegro	66	–	67	China
	20:00	Italy	76	–	75	Argentina

[edit] Pool Play: Group B

Lithuania, like Spain, went undefeated in the preliminaries. The United States, the defending champions, overcame losses to Puerto Rico and Lithuania to advance to the quarter finals.

Team	P	W	L	F	A	Pts
Lithuania	5	5	0	468	414	10
Greece	5	3	2	389	343	8
Puerto Rico	5	3	2	410	411	8
United States	5	3	2	412	395	8
Australia	5	1	4	388	411	6
Angola	5	0	5	327	415	5

August 15	09:00	Angola	73	–	78	Lithuania
	20:00	Puerto Rico	92	–	73	United States
	22:15	Greece	76	–	54	Australia
August 17	11.15	Australia	83	–	59	Angola
	14:30	Lithuania	98	–	90	Puerto Rico
	22:15	United States	77	–	71	Greece
August 19	14:30	United States	89	–	79	Australia
	16:45	Puerto Rico	83	–	80	Angola
	22:15	Greece	76	–	98	Lithuania
August 21	09:00	Australia	82	–	87	Puerto Rico
	20:00	Lithuania	94	–	90	United States
	22:15	Angola	56	–	88	Greece
August 23	11.15	Lithuania	100	–	85	Australia
	14:30	United States	89	–	53	Angola
	22:15	Greece	78	–	58	Puerto Rico

[edit] 9th to 12th place classification

August 24	14:30	(11th) Serbia & Montenegro	85	–	62	Angola (12th)
August 24	16:45	(10th) New Zealand	80	–	98	Australia (9th)

Serbia and Montenegro's 11th-place finish is their worst in Olympic history.

Leading scorers for 9th to 12th place classification:

Serbia and Montenegro: Vlado Šćepanović 18 pts
Angola: Gerson Monteiro 26 pts
Australia: Shane Heal 30 pts
New Zealand: Phillip Jones 18 pts

[edit] Quarter finals

August 26	14:30	Spain	94	–	102	United States
	16:45	Lithuania	95	–	75	China
	20:00	Italy	83	–	70	Puerto Rico
	22:15	Greece	64	–	69	Argentina

In spite of an undefeated preliminary round, the Spaniards were ousted by the "Dream Team" to the jeers of the crowd assembled in the arena and to the chagrin of Spanish head coach Mario Pesquera.

Unlike their Spanish counterparts, however, the Lithuanians had an easy time disposing of the Del Harris-led Chinese squad.

Argentina, led by 13 points from both Manu Ginobili and Fabricio Oberto, disposed of the home squad, led by the 12 points from Nikolaos Chatzivrettas.

Leading scorers for the quarter finals:

Spain: Pau Gasol 29 pts
United States: Stephon Marbury 31 pts
Lithuania: Arvydas Macijauskas 32 pts
China, People's Republic of: Yao Ming 29 pts
Italy: Massimo Bulleri 20 pts
Puerto Rico: Elias Ayuso 24 pts

[edit] 5th to 8th place classification

August 28	09:00	(8th) China	76	–	92	Spain (7th)
August 28	11:15	(6th) Puerto Rico	75	–	85	Greece (5th)

Leading scorers for 5th to 8th place classification:

China: Li Nan 16 pts
Spain: Jorge Garbajosa 20 pts
Puerto Rico: Elias Ayuso 14 pts
Greece: Michalis Kakiouzis 20 pts

[edit] Semi finals

August 27	20:00	United States	81	–	89	Argentina
August 27	22:15	Lithuania	91	–	100	Italy

Leading scorers for the semi finals:

United States: Stephon Marbury 18 pts
Argentina: Manu Ginobili 29 pts
Lithuania: Arvydas Macijauskas 26 pts
Italy: Gianluca Basile 31 pts

[edit] Bronze Medal Match

August 28

20:00

United States

104

–

Lithuania

The United States won its first bronze medal since 1988 by avenging the preliminary loss to Lithuania of one week earlier.

Leading scorers:

United States: Shawn Marion 22 pts
Lithuania: Arvydas Macijauskas 24 pts

[edit] Final

August 28

20:00

Argentina

–

Italy

Argentina won its first ever Olympic gold medal in basketball and became the first nation other than the United States to win the gold medal since 1988. Manu Ginobili was named the Most-Valuable Player.

Leading scorers:

Argentina: Luis Alberto Scola 25 pts
Italy: Matteo Soragna and Gianmarco Pozzecco 12 pts

[edit] Final ranking

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