2005 FIBA Americas Championship

FIBA Americas Championship 2005
12th FIBA American Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Dominican Republic
Dates	August 24 – September 4
Teams	10 (from 44 federations)
Venues	1 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Brazil (3rd title)
MVP	Marcelo Machado
Tournament leaders
Players Teams Points Marcelo Machado (23.4)  Brazil (91.6) Rebounds Esteban Batista (15.6)  Panama (40.4) Assists Daniel Farabello (5.9)  Argentina (16.8)
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The 2005 FIBA Americas Championship (The Tournament of the Americas) was hosted by the Dominican Republic from August 24 to September 4, 2005. The games were played in Santo Domingo. This FIBA Americas Championship was to earn the four berths allocated to the Americas for the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan. Argentina had already qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics. Brazil won the tournament, the country's third Americas championship.

Venues

All games were played at the Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto.

Santo Domingo
Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto Capacity: 8,337

Qualification

Eight teams qualified during the qualification tournaments held in their respective zones in 2004; two teams (USA and Canada) qualified automatically since they are the only members of the North America zone.

• North America:  Canada,  United States
• Caribbean and Central America: Dominican Republic,  Puerto Rico,  Panama,  Mexico
• South America:  Argentina,  Brazil,  Uruguay,  Venezuela

The tournament draw took place Monday, April 18, in Santo Domingo. The teams were split into 5 pots; those drawn first went to Group A, those drawn last went to Group B.^[1]

The draw split the tournament into two groups:

Group A  Brazil  Canada  Panama  United States  Venezuela

Group B  Argentina  Dominican Republic  Mexico  Puerto Rico  Uruguay

Format

• The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals.
• Results and standings among teams within the same group are carried over.
• The top four teams at the quarterfinals advance to the semifinals (1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3).
• The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, where both are guaranteed of berths in the 2006 FIBA World Championship. The losers figure in a third-place playoff. The semifinal losers were also given berths in the 2006 World Championship. Also, should Argentina reach one of the first four places in the tournament, due to their obtaining the gold medal in the 2004 Olympic Tournament in Athens, the fifth best team in the quarterfinals stage was also qualified for the 2006 World Championship.

Tie-breaking criteria

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

1. Head to head results
2. Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams
3. Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Squads

Preliminary round

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Times given below are in Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4).

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Brazil	4	3	1	393	342	+51	7	1–0
Venezuela	4	3	1	330	342	−12	7	0–1
United States	4	2	2	336	329	+7	6
Panama	4	1	3	298	302	−4	5	1–0
Canada	4	1	3	318	360	−42	5	0–1

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Argentina	4	3	1	348	307	+41	7	1–0
Dominican Republic	4	3	1	325	333	−8	7	0–1
Puerto Rico	4	2	2	354	339	+15	6
Uruguay	4	1	3	312	313	−1	5	1–0
Mexico	4	1	3	324	371	−47	5	0–1

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Quarterfinal Group

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Fifth place

The top four teams in both Group A and Group B advanced to the quarterfinal group. Then each team played the four from the other group once to complete a full round robin. Records from the preliminary groups carried over, but only against teams that also advanced. The top four teams advanced to the semifinals. The fifth-place team (Panama) did not continue competing for the Americas Championship, but qualified for the 2006 FIBA World Championship.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Argentina	7	5	2	665	583	+82	12
Brazil	7	4	3	723	661	+62	11	1−1 (0.522)
United States	7	4	3	688	664	+24	11	1−1 (0.509)
Venezuela	7	4	3	636	679	−43	11	1−1 (0.484)
Panama	7	2	5	627	590	+37	9
Dominican Republic	7	3	4	648	675	−27	10	1−0
Puerto Rico	7	3	4	677	679	−2	10	0−1
Uruguay	7	0	7	628	672	−44	7

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Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	September 3 – 19:00
	United States	75
	Brazil	93
					September 4 – 21:00
					Brazil	100
					Argentina	88
					Third place
	September 3 – 21:30			September 4 – 18:00
	Argentina	104		United States	83
	Venezuela	93			Venezuela	93

Semifinals

Third place game

Final

Awards

2005 Tournament of the Americas Winners
Brazil Third title

Statistical Leaders

Individual Tournament Highs

Points[2] Pos. Name PPG 1 Marcelinho Machado 23.4 2 Leandro Barbosa 21.2 3 Nicolás Mazzarino 21.0 4 Larry Ayuso 18.9 4 Francisco García 18.9 6 Rick Apodaca 18.4 7 Esteban Batista 18.0 8 Óscar Torres 17.7 9 Luis Flores 17.0 10 Nicolás Mazzarino 16.7

Rebounds[3] Pos. Name RPG 1 Esteban Batista 15.6 2 Antonio García 12.9 3 Jack Michael Martínez 11.9 4 Peter John Ramos 9.8 5 Tiago Splitter 9.6 6 Jaime Lloreda 9.4 7 Héctor Romero 7.7 8 Óscar Torres 7.6 9 Kris Lang 7.4 10 Aaron McGhee 6.9

Assists[4] Pos. Name APG 1 Daniel Farabello 5.9 2 Marcelinho Machado 5.6 3 Leandro Barbosa 4.2 4 Nicolás Mazzarino 4.1 5 Diego Guevara 3.4 6 Christian Dalmau 3.1 7 Bobby Joe Hatton 3.0 8 Luis Flores 2.9 9 Tyus Edney 2.7 10 Charlie Bell 2.5 10 Lynn Greer 2.5

Steals[5] Pos. Name SPG 1 Leandro Barbosa 2.2 1 Paolo Quinteros 1.9 3 Francisco García 1.7 3 Danilo Pinnock 1.7 5 Daniel Farabello 1.6 5 Marcelinho Machado 1.6 7 Rick Apodaca 1.5 7 Esteban Batista 1.5 9 Jaime Lloreda 1.4 10 Charlie Bell 1.3

Blocks[6] Pos. Name BPG 1 Richard Lugo 2.8 2 Peter John Ramos 2.0 3 Tiago Splitter 1.6 3 Francisco García 1.6 5 Kris Lang 1.4 5 Josh Asselin 1.4 7 Jack Michael Martínez 1.1 8 Esteban Batista 1.0 8 Jaime Lloreda 1.0 10 Antonio García 0.9

Minutes[7] Pos. Name MPG 1 Marcelinho Machado 36.7 2 Nicolás Mazzarino 36.0 3 Leandro Barbosa 35.4 4 Esteban Batista 34.3 5 Rick Apodaca 33.8 6 Larry Ayuso 32.9 7 Héctor Romero 32.3 7 Francisco García 32.3 9 Tiago Splitter 32.0 10 Luis Flores 31.5

Individual Game Highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points	Marcelinho Machado	42	Canada
Rebounds	Antonio García	22	Canada
Assists	Marcelinho Machado	10	Puerto Rico
Steals	Paolo Quinteros	5	Puerto Rico
Blocks	Peter John Ramos	8	Uruguay
Turnovers	Mauricio Aguiar	8	Dominican Republic

Team Tournament Highs

Offensive PPG[8] Pos. Name PPG 1  Panama 91.6 2  Venezuela 85.7 3  Canada 84.6 4  Uruguay 84.6 5  Brazil 82.2

Defensive PPG Pos. Name PPG 1  Panama 84.3 2  Argentina 86.2 3  Venezuela 88.8 4  Canada 90.0 5  Mexico 92.8

Rebounds[9] Pos. Name RPG 1  Panama 40.4 2  Dominican Republic 39.9 2  Brazil 37.9 4  United States 37.6 5  Puerto Rico 37.1

Assists[10] Pos. Name APG 1  Argentina 16.8 2  Brazil 16.6 3  United States 15.3 4  Mexico 14.8 5  Venezuela 14.6

Steals[11] Pos. Name SPG 1  Argentina 8.8 2  Brazil 8.5 3  Panama 8.5 4  Uruguay 7.8 5  Venezuela 6.9

Blocks[12] Pos. Name BPG 1  Dominican Republic 5.6 2  Venezuela 3.8 3  Panama 3.8 4  Mexico 3.5 5  Argentina 3.3

Team Game highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points	Brazil  United States	111	Venezuela  Dominican Republic
Rebounds	Dominican Republic	52	Puerto Rico
Assists	Brazil	26	Canada
Steals	Brazil	17	Venezuela
Blocks	Venezuela	10	United States
Field goal percentage	Venezuela	66.7%	Uruguay
3-point field goal percentage	United States	58.8%	Uruguay
Free throw percentage	Canada	94.1%	Venezuela
Turnovers	Brazil  United States	25	Argentina  Brazil

Final standings

	Qualified for 2006 FIBA World Championship
	Qualified for the 2006 FIBA World Championship as wild cards

Rank	Team	Record
01 !	Brazil	7–3
02 !	Argentina	7–3
03 !	Venezuela	6–4
4	United States	4–5
5	Panama	5–3
6	Dominican Republic	4–4
7	Puerto Rico	4–4
8	Uruguay	1–7
9	Canada	1–3
10	Mexico	1–3

			4th
Brazil Marcelinho Machado Nezinho dos Santos Murilo Becker Marcelinho Huertas Leandro Barbosa Jefferson Da Silva Alex Garcia Anderson Varejão Guilherme Giovannoni Rafael Hettsheimeir Caio Torres Tiago Splitter	Argentina Antonio Porta Julio Mázzaro Román González Diego Lo Grippo Daniel Farabello Gabriel Fernández Leonardo Gutiérrez Martín Leiva Juan Pedro Gutiérrez Paolo Quinteros Hernán Jasen Federico Kammerichs	Venezuela Víctor Díaz Luis Julio Ernesto Mijares Richard Lugo Tomás Aguilera Óscar Torres Askia Jones Miguel Ángel Marriaga Héctor Romero Diego Guevara Heberth Bayona Carlos Morris	United States Tyus Edney Marque Perry Lynn Greer Charlie Bell Alex Scales Tang Hamilton Ron Slay Adam Chubb Noel Felix Aaron McGhee Jerome Beasley Kris Lang

References

External links

• http://www.fibaamerica.com/torneos1_us.asp?t=XGLQKBLQOI
• http://www.usabasketball.com/men/2005/05_mtoa_results.html

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