EuroBasket 2011

FIBA EuroBasket 2011
37th FIBA European Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Lithuania
Dates	31 August – 18 September
Teams	24 (from 51 federations)
Venues	6 (in 6 host cities)
Champions	Spain (2nd title)
MVP	Juan Carlos Navarro[1]
Tournament leaders
Players Teams Points Parker (22.1)  Spain (85.2) Rebounds Kaman (10.0)  Lithuania (39.0) Assists Teodosić (5.7)  Spain (19.5)
Official website
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EuroBasket 2011 was the 37th men's European Basketball Championship, held by FIBA Europe. The competition was hosted by Lithuania. This was the second time EuroBasket had been held in Lithuania, the country having also hosted the 1939 championship. FIBA Europe asserted that Lithuania managed to organize the best European championship in its history.^[2] The top two teams are guaranteed spots at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

EuroBasket 2011 was the largest sporting event in the history of the Baltic states both in terms of the number of national teams (24), matches (90) and that of spectators (158 000 tickets sold with most tickets valid for 3 separate matches.)^[3]

Spain won the title for the second consecutive tournament after defeating France 98–85 in the final.^[4]

Venues and attendances

The group matches were played in four arenas, namely Alytus Arena, Šiauliai Arena, Cido Arena in Panevėžys and an arena in Klaipėda. The second stage matches were played at the Siemens Arena in the capital Vilnius and the playoffs at the new Žalgiris Arena in Kaunas.

All tickets were sold for matches in which Lithuania played in a matter of several hours after the start of sale. Other tickets were also sold out in advance for all venues except for Alytus (75% of available tickets sold in total). However the Organizing Committee's policy of selling tickets as a 3-game package meant that in some cases the sold-out arenas were not full as some fans would choose to go to only some of the games their ticket entitled them to. This policy was altered in Panevėžys where there were separate tickets for the games Lithuania played.

20 000 foreign visitors went to Lithuania for the championship. 135 000 local fans visited the arenas. 120 000 people (both local and foreign) watched EuroBasket 2011 matches in special fan zones that were constructed beside every arena with a large screen and outdoor seating available.^[3]

Among the foreign teams the Georgian, Slovenian, Russian and Latvian national teams had the most fans travelling from their home countries. Georgians had certain city squares decorated in their flags in both Klaipėda and Vilnius.

Several famous people and heads of states went to championship. This included the president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov and prince of Spain Felipe.

Location	Picture	City	Arena	Capacity	Status	Round
Kaunas		Kaunas	Žalgiris Arena	15,442	Opened in 2011	Knockout stage
Vilnius		Vilnius	Siemens Arena	11,000	Opened in 2004	Group E, Group F
Šiauliai		Šiauliai	Šiauliai Arena	5,700	Opened in 2007	Group B
Panevėžys		Panevėžys	Cido Arena	5,656	Opened in 2008	Group A
Alytus		Alytus	Alytus Arena	5,500	Opened in 1981, reopened after reconstruction in 2011	Group C
Klaipėda		Klaipėda	Švyturio Arena	5,486	Opened in 2011	Group D

Teams

It was first decided that 16 teams would participate in Eurobasket 2011, however FIBA Europe decided on 5 September 2010, in a meeting in Istanbul, that there would be 24 teams in the tournament, after the Qualifying Round was concluded.^[5]

Lithuania automatically received a place as the hosts, nine other countries that competed in the 2010 FIBA World Championship also received a place, 12 Countries were determined through qualifying matches played on August 2010 (five had initially qualified, and seven were added after the decision to expand the tournament to 24 teams),^[6] and two more qualifiers were decided in an additional qualifying tournament that took place in August 2011. All but one of the 15 countries that participated in the Qualifying Round qualified for the final tournament.

Qualification

Qualified teams

Competition	Date	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–	1	Lithuania
Participant of 2010 FIBA World Championship	28 August – 12 September 2010	9	Croatia  France  Germany  Greece  Russia  Serbia  Slovenia  Spain  Turkey
Qualified through Qualifying Round	2 August 2010 – 29 August 2010	5	Belgium  Great Britain  Israel  Macedonia  Montenegro
Qualified through FIBA Europe decision	5 September 2010	7	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bulgaria  Georgia  Italy  Latvia  Poland  Ukraine
Qualified through Additional Qualifying Round	9 August 2011 – 24 August 2011	2	Finland  Portugal

Squads

Each team consisted of 12 players. Only 1 among the 12 could be a naturalised foreign player, who could not have been in the national team of another nation. Some of the teams had players that traced their ancestry to the teams they represent and were allowed to play for that team, such as Germany (US-born Chris Kaman) and Israel (US-born David Blu, who as Jewish was entitled to Israeli citizenship from birth). Other teams naturalised players participating in their country's league system, among them Spain (Congolese-born Serge Ibaka), Croatia (US-born Dontaye Draper), Bulgaria (US-born E. J. Rowland), Belgium (US-born Marcus Faison), and Poland (US-born Thomas Kelati, who qualified for Polish citizenship through marriage to a Pole). Montenegro and Macedonia each naturalised US-born players who had never played in their league system, but had played in neighbouring Serbia, respectively Omar Cook and Bo McCalebb. Other naturalised players moved to their current countries in their youth, with a notable example being Great Britain's Luol Deng, who fled the Sudanese Civil War with his family as a child.

Lithuania, Serbia, Portugal (Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony) and Finland are notable exceptions, with all of their players having been born in Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia and Finland respectively. Another exception was Latvia playing without foreign players. Turkey had Enes Kanter, who was born to Turkish parents in Switzerland as well as Emir Preldzic, who was born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina and had already played on the national team of Slovenia in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in 2008 and Slovenian youth national teams.

Some of the Eastern European national teams, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, were composed mainly or entirely from players playing abroad. This was primarily true for countries that have good basketball players but no powerful clubs or leagues to match that.

On the other hand, for countries with strong leagues, such as Italy, the National teams were primarily composed of players playing in the local league. The same was true for countries weak in basketball (i.e. with both weak national team and local league) as their players are unable to get into strong foreign leagues. Portugal could be an example here.

Many NBA players represented their national teams, with the Spanish team having 6 NBA stars, the French team having 5, the Turkish team having 4, and so on. It was one of the strongest European basketball competition ever organized as a lot of European stars helped their nations.

Notable players and coaches

Spain: Pau Gasol Marc Gasol Rudy Fernández Ricky Rubio Juan Carlos Navarro José Manuel Calderón Serge Ibaka Sergio Scariolo (coach) France: Tony Parker Joakim Noah Nicolas Batum Boris Diaw Mickaël Gelabale Nando De Colo Russia: Andrei Kirilenko Victor Khryapa Timofey Mozgov Andrey Vorontsevich Vitaly Fridzon Alexey Shved Sergei Monia David Blatt (coach) Macedonia: Bo McCalebb Vlado Ilievski Pero Antić

Lithuania: Šarūnas Jasikevičius Jonas Valančiūnas Darius Songaila Rimantas Kaukėnas Kšyštof Lavrinovič Greece: Ioannis Bourousis Nikos Zisis Nick Calathes Kostas Papanikolaou Kosta Koufos Slovenia: Jaka Lakovič Goran Dragić Erazem Lorbek Mirza Begić Božidar Maljković (coach) Serbia: Miloš Teodosić Nemanja Bjelica Nenad Krstić Duško Savanović Dušan Ivković (coach) Germany: Dirk Nowitzki Chris Kaman Turkey: Ersan İlyasova Ömer Aşık Enes Kanter Hedo Türkoğlu

Georgia: Zaza Pachulia Giorgi Shermadini Tornike Shengelia Croatia: Ante Tomić Marko Popović Bojan Bogdanović Dontaye Draper Great Britain: Luol Deng Pops Mensah-Bonsu Joel Freeland Israeli: Omri Casspi Poland: Thomas Kelati Dardan Berisha Bosnia and Herzegovina Mirza Teletović Italy: Andrea Bargnani Marco Belinelli Danilo Gallinari Simone Pianigiani (coach) Montenegro: Omar Cook Nikola Peković Nikola Vučević Latvia: Dāvis Bertāns Belgium: Tomas Van Den Spiegel D. J. Mbenga Portugal: Mário Palma (coach)

Group draw and championship system

The draw ceremony held on 30 January 2011 in the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, divided the qualified teams into four groups of six, groups A, B, C, and D. The hosts of the evening were Jurgita Jurkutė and Vytautas Rumšas. The balls were drawn by retired basketball players European champions and Olympic medalists Stasys Stonkus, Modestas Paulauskas, Dino Meneghin, Sergėjus Jovaiša, Alexander Anatolyevich Volkov and Arvydas Sabonis. A special concert followed the draw where a song was dedicated for each of the participating nations.

It was decided that Group A games would take place in Panevėžys, Group B in Šiauliai, Group C in Alytus and Group D in Klaipėda.

Line 1	Line 2	Line 3	Line 4	Line 5	Line 6
Spain  Serbia  Greece  Slovenia	France  Croatia  Russia  Turkey	Lithuania  Germany  Montenegro  Belgium	Great Britain  Macedonia  Israel  Georgia	Italy  Bulgaria  Poland  Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ukraine  Latvia  Portugal  Finland

In the first stage every team had to play against every other team of their group (round robin). This meant five matches per team.

From every group the 3 best teams advanced to the second stage and the 3 worst teams were eliminated. In the second stage 2 new groups were formed. The 3 best teams from groups A and B were united to form group E whereas the 3 best teams from groups C and D were united to form group F.

In these two new groups of the second stage only matches by teams that had not yet played each other had to be played. As for the matches that had already happened in the first stage their results would also count in the second stage. Therefore, every team played 3 matches and there were 12 teams in the second stage.

Out of the second stage the 4 best teams from each of the two groups advanced to the quarterfinals (8 teams in total) whereas the 2 worst teams were eliminated from championship (4 teams in total).

Logo, official song and mascot of the championship

	"Celebrate Basketball" (2011) Official EuroBasket 2011 song
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A Public contest was introduced to create the logo for the competition. 49 designs were presented initially to the organizers and the best 3 were sent to FIBA Europe, which selected the winning design. The author of it was designer Kęstutis Koira. The EuroBasket 2011 logo was unveiled on 24 January 2009 in Cido Arena, Panevėžys, during the final game of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation Cup. It displays the Columns of Gediminas overlaid on a backboard.

Lithuania is the first host country of EuroBasket to have an official EuroBasket song. A song Celebrate basketball written by Marijonas Mikutavičius and performed by Mia, Mantas Jankavičius and Marijonas Mikutavičius was chosen by a televoting in Lithuania. There are two versions of the song – in Lithuanian^[7] and English.^[8] Later, another version was added – "Nebetyli sirgaliai" (lit. The Fans are no Longer Quiet).

The mascot of the championship was Amberis. Its head was in the form and color of a piece of amber. The name "Amberis" is a pormanteau of the English word "Amber" and the Lithuanian nominative case masculine gender ending "is". The real word for "Amber" in Lithuanian is "Gintaras". There was an Amberis in every arena and quite frequently there were more than a single Amberis at a time interacting with each other as well as spectators. On the screens in the arenas a "legend" was shown where a piece of amber was given by a coach to a young basketball player to bring him luck and this piece turned into Amberis.

Special events

Basketball enjoys extraordinary popularity in Lithuania. As such, many events were organized to mark the championship, including:

• In summer 2011 a dribble marathon around the whole of Lithuania was organized. Groups of people would dribble from one town to the next one, where they would give the balls to another set of people who would then dribble to the next town and so on. Every town of Lithuania was visited with TV documenting the events every day. Among the people who took part in the event were the president of Lithuania, several ministers, mayors, sportsmen, opera and ballet stars and so on. In the end the 13 balls were given to the Lithuanian National Basketball team on 29 August 2011.
• On 29 August 2011, Lithuania set a new record for simultaneous dribbling, previously held by Poland. 60,000 Lithuanians from Vilnius, Kaunas, Panevėžys, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Alytus dribbled Molten balls simultaneously, beating Poland's record of 30,000 people.
• The Vilnius TV Tower observation deck was turned into a large basketball basket. It was made of lights that shone in the dark. The "basket" was 160 meters tall, higher than any other building in Lithuania.
• Composer Vidmantas Bartulis and poet Gintaras Patackas wrote an oratorio for basketball called "That Space-like Feeling of Basketball" ("Tas kosminis krepšinio jausmas"). This oratorio, praising basketball and Kauno Žalgiris team, was performed during the opening of Kaunas Arena on 16 August 2011.

Additionally, from Spring 2011, many of the TV and newspaper advertisements became basketball-oriented. Each of the cities where EuroBasket 2011 would take place received many minor details marking the championship: for example, the trash bins in Panevėžys were repainted to look like basketballs, an abandoned building in Vilnius had its windows covered by flags of the participant nations while balls were drawn on the pavement in some places.

Many ordinary Lithuanians decorated their cars with small Lithuanian flags flying above side windows (like during every other basketball championship). Flags covering the opposite side of the car mirrors are also popular. Some foreign fans who visited Lithuania during the championship adopted this practice as well.

A major Lithuanian news company adopted the practice of predicting each Lithuania national basketball team match in the EuroBasket. Lazdeika the Crab served as the oracle. The crab selected one of the two coconut shells to hide in when light was shone on it. Each of the two coconut shells has a country's flag – Lithuania's flag and opponent flag. At the beginning the crab's guesses would prove to be correct yet in the end they went wrong. Some people believe that the predictions were fixed - that is, the crab would be filmed many times and only when its "prediction" would match that of bookmakers would the "prediction" be aired on TV.

Final ranking

The results of the championship included some surprises. Finland and Georgia, the latter supported by some 1500 fans who had travelled to Lithuania, managed to reach the second stage despite of being allowed to take part in the championship only after FIBA Europe decision. In fact Finland had the possibility of advancing to the quarterfinals until the very last game against Slovenia.

Croatia on the other hand was a powerful team that failed to reach even the second stage. Turkey with 5 NBA players failed to reach quarterfinals.

The biggest surprise was probably Macedonia, a country that had had no major basketball victories prior to this championship. Having lost only two games in the first and second stages and these two by just a single point each (one of them after overtime) Macedonia easily advanced to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the Macedonians defeated the hosts Lithuanians and went to the semifinals.

A match between Georgia and Russia in Klaipėda was regarded to have political significance due to these countries having recently fought a war (the South Ossetia War). There were more than 1000 Georgians and under 1000 Russians in the arena during the game and large police forces were amassed to prevent possible riots. Despite the tight battle the Russians defeated the Georgians and prevented any surprise result. No riots happened.

This is the final ranking. Two countries, Spain and France, qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics basketball tournament outright. Four more qualified for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament, with Russia and Lithuania obtaining qualification through the tournament. In addition, Great Britain qualified as host.

For the results of every match see below.

	Qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
	Qualified as host nation for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
	Qualified for the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Rank	Team	Record
01 !	Spain	10–1
02 !	France	9–2
03 !	Russia	10–1
4	Macedonia	7–4
5	Lithuania	8–3
6	Greece	7–4
7	Slovenia	6–5
8	Serbia	5–6
9-10	Germany	4–4
	Finland	3–5
11-12	Turkey	3–5
	Georgia	2–6
13-16	Croatia	2–3
	Bulgaria	2–3
	Great Britain	2–3
	Israel	2–3
17-20	Ukraine	2–3
	Poland	2–3
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–3
	Italy	1–4
21-24	Montenegro	1–4
	Latvia	0–5
	Belgium	0–5
	Portugal	0–5

FIBA broadcasting rights

At least some matches were broadcast in 150 countries and territories all over the world.^[3]

Country Broadcaster  Albania SuperSport Albania  Argentina DirecTV  Belgium Be TV TELENET  Bosnia and Herzegovina BHRT  Brazil SporTV ESPN Brasil Band Sports TV Esporte Interativo  Bulgaria BNT  Croatia HRT  Czech Republic ČTV Sport 1  Cyprus Lumiere TV  Denmark Viasat Sport  Great Britain ESPN BBC Red Button  Estonia Viasat Sport  Finland Viasat Sport Nelonen Pro  France Sport+  Macedonia Sitel Sitel 3  Georgia 1TV  Germany Sport1  Greece ERT  Hungary Sport 1  Israel IBA Charlton

Country Broadcaster  Italy RAI  Latvia TV6[9] TV commentators for EuroBasket 2011  Lithuania TV3 Viasat Sport  Japan J Sports  Montenegro RTCG  Norway Viasat Sport  Philippines Basketball TV/AKTV  Poland TVP  Portugal Sport TV  Qatar Al Jazeera Sports  Russia NTV Plus Russia 2  Romania Sport 1  Serbia RTS 1  Slovakia Sport 1  Slovenia RTVSLO Šport TV  South Africa SuperSport  Spain La Sexta Marca TV  Sweden TV10  Taiwan Videoland  Turkey NTV Spor  Ukraine 2+2  USA ESPN3

Financial details

According to the Lithuanian Basketball Association the championship expenses were 32 million Litas and the income was 34.8 million Litas, which means the profit of the event was 2.8 million Litas.^[3]

Out of the 32 million Litas expenses some 9.8 million were funded by the Lithuanian state institutions whereas the remaining 22.2 million were amassed from sponsors or other sources. It is assumed that the state earned 11.9 million Litas due to VAT taxes paid by 20 000 foreign visitors therefore earning a 2.1 million Litas profit.^[3]

Out of the 34.8 million litas income 24.7 million Litas were amassed by selling tickets (TV rights and certain other rights are owned by FIBA rather than the local basketball association and therefore are not included in the revenues).^[3]

During the championship there were 3984 people responsible for safety and 1500 volunteers responsible for various duties such as helping spectators or giving the balls for play. The 1500 volunteers were chosen out of 6000 persons who wanted to volunteer.

1300 journalists worked in the championships, out of them 200 were TV and radio commentators. 1300 media accreditations were issued.^[3]

Preliminary round

Teams played each other once. The top three placed teams move on to the next round. In the event of a tie on points, direct matches between (points and goal average, i.e. points for/points against) were taken into account, if still tied, goal average in all matches was used as tiebreaker and not points difference.^[10][11]

All times are local (UTC+3)

Group A

Venue: Cido Arena, Panevėžys

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	GA	Pts.	Tie
Spain	5	4	1	404	364	1.109	9	1–0
Lithuania	5	4	1	429	374	1.147	9	0–1
Turkey	5	3	2	385	333	1.156	8
Great Britain	5	2	3	372	410	0.907	7	1–0
Poland	5	2	3	401	424	0.945	7	0–1
Portugal	5	0	5	344	430	0.800	5

31 August 2011
Spain	83–78	Poland
Turkey	79–56	Portugal
Lithuania	80–69	Great Britain
1 September 2011
Portugal	73–87	Spain
Great Britain	61–90	Turkey
Poland	77–97	Lithuania
2 September 2011
Spain	86–69	Great Britain
Portugal	73–81	Poland
Turkey	68–75	Lithuania
4 September 2011
Great Britain	85–73	Portugal
Poland	84–83	Turkey
Lithuania	79–91	Spain
5 September 2011
Great Britain	88–81	Poland
Spain	57–65	Turkey
Portugal	69–98	Lithuania

Group B

Venue: Šiauliai Arena, Šiauliai

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	GA	Pts.
France	5	5	0	438	391	1.120	10
Serbia	5	4	1	432	386	1.119	9
Germany	5	3	2	377	357	1.056	8
Israel	5	2	3	399	448	0.891	7
Italy	5	1	4	380	405	0.938	6
Latvia	5	0	5	385	424	0.908	5

31 August 2011
Serbia	80–68	Italy
France	89–78	Latvia
Germany	91–64	Israel
1 September 2011
Latvia	77–92	Serbia
Israel	68–85	France
Italy	62–76	Germany
2 September 2011
Serbia	89–80	Israel
Latvia	62–71	Italy
France	76–65	Germany
4 September 2011
Israel	91–88	Latvia
Italy	84–91	France
Germany	64–75	Serbia
5 September 2011
Israel	96–95 (OT)	Italy
Latvia	80–81	Germany
Serbia	96–97 (OT)	France

Group C

Venue: Alytus Arena, Alytus

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	GA	Pts.	Tie
Macedonia	5	4	1	362	337	1.074	9	1–0
Greece	5	4	1	360	324	1.129	9	0–1
Finland	5	2	3	373	366	1.019	7	1–1, 1.155
Croatia	5	2	3	396	404	0.980	7	1–1, 0.959
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	2	3	380	409	0.929	7	1–1, 0.907
Montenegro	5	1	4	357	388	0.921	6

31 August 2011
Montenegro	70–65 (OT)	Macedonia
Greece	76–67	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia	84–79	Finland
1 September 2011
Bosnia and Herzegovina	94–86	Montenegro
Finland	61–81	Greece
Macedonia	78–76	Croatia
3 September 2011
Finland	92–64	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Greece	58–72	Macedonia
Croatia	97–81	Montenegro
4 September 2011
Macedonia	72–70	Finland
Montenegro	55–71	Greece
Bosnia and Herzegovina	92–80	Croatia
5 September 2011
Finland	71–65	Montenegro
Greece	74–69	Croatia
Macedonia	75–63	Bosnia and Herzegovina

Group D

Venue: Klaipėda Arena, Klaipėda

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	GA	Pts.	Tie
Russia	5	5	0	371	321	1.155	10
Slovenia	5	4	1	356	324	1.098	9
Georgia	5	2	3	352	343	1.026	7	1–1, 1.045
Bulgaria	5	2	3	339	357	0.949	7	1–1, 0.993
Ukraine	5	2	3	322	327	0.984	7	1–1, 0.960
Belgium	5	0	5	304	372	0.817	5

31 August 2011
Belgium	59–81	Georgia
Slovenia	67–59	Bulgaria
Russia	73–64	Ukraine
1 September 2011
Bulgaria	68–65	Belgium
Georgia	58–65	Russia
Ukraine	64–68	Slovenia
3 September 2011
Ukraine	67–56	Bulgaria
Slovenia	87–75	Georgia
Russia	79–58	Belgium
4 September 2011
Georgia	69–53	Ukraine
Bulgaria	77–89	Russia
Belgium	61–70	Slovenia
5 September 2011
Georgia	69–79	Bulgaria
Slovenia	64–65	Russia
Ukraine	74–61	Belgium

Second round

Group E

The group composed of the three best ranked teams from Groups A and B. Teams coming from the same initial group didn't play again vs. each other, but "carried" the results of the matches played between them for the first round.

Four teams with the best records advanced to the quarter finals.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	GA	Pts.	Tie
Spain	5	4	1	405	340	1.191	9	1–0
France	5	4	1	383	388	0.987	9	0–1
Lithuania	5	3	2	405	397	1.020	8
Serbia	5	2	3	388	412	0.942	7
Germany	5	1	4	345	379	0.910	6	1–0
Turkey	5	1	4	331	341	0.991	6	0–1

7 September 2011
Germany	68–77	Spain	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Turkey	64–68	France	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Serbia	90–100	Lithuania	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
9 September 2011
Spain	84–59	Serbia	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Germany	73–67	Turkey	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Lithuania	67–73	France	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
11 September 2011
Serbia	68–67	Turkey	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
France	69–96	Spain	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Lithuania	84–75	Germany	Siemens Arena, Vilnius

Group F

The group composed of the three best ranked teams from groups C and D. Teams coming from the same initial group didn't play again vs. each other, but "carried" the results of the matches played between them for the first round.

The four teams with the best records advanced to the quarter finals.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	GA	Pts.
Russia	5	5	0	355	310	1.145	10
Macedonia	5	4	1	338	313	1.079	9
Greece	5	3	2	348	336	1.036	8
Slovenia	5	2	3	337	337	1.000	7
Finland	5	1	4	338	372	0.909	6
Georgia	5	0	5	329	377	0.873	5

8 September 2011
Georgia	63–65	Macedonia	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Finland	60–79	Russia	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Slovenia	60–69	Greece	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
10 September 2011
Georgia	73–87	Finland	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Macedonia	68–59	Slovenia	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Greece	67–83	Russia	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
12 September 2011
Slovenia	67–60	Finland	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Greece	73–60	Georgia	Siemens Arena, Vilnius
Russia	63–61	Macedonia	Siemens Arena, Vilnius

Knockout stage

All matches were played in: Žalgiris Arena, Kaunas^[12]

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	14 September
	Spain	86
					16 September
	Slovenia	64
					Spain	92
	14 September
					Macedonia	80
	Macedonia	67
									18 September
	Lithuania	65
									Spain	98
	15 September
									France	85
	France	64
					16 September
	Greece	56
					France	79			Third place
	15 September
					Russia	71
	Russia	77							Macedonia	68
	Serbia	67							Russia	72
									18 September

5th place bracket

	Semi-finals				Fifth place
	15 September
	Slovenia	77
	Lithuania	80
					17 September
					Lithuania	73
					Greece	69
					Seventh place
	16 September			17 September
	Greece	87		Slovenia	72
	Serbia	77			Serbia	68

Quarterfinals

Classification 5–8

Semifinals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

EuroBasket 2011 Champions
Spain Second title

Statistical Leaders

Individual Tournament Highs

Points Rank Name G Pts PPG 1 Tony Parker 10 221 22.1 2 Bo McCalebb 11 235 21.4 3 Pau Gasol 10 201 20.1 4 Dirk Nowitzki 8 156 19.5 5 Juan Carlos Navarro 11 206 18.7 6 Nenad Krstić 10 155 15.5 7 Chris Kaman 8 124 15.5 8 Andrei Kirilenko 10 146 14.6 9 Nicolas Batum 10 142 14.2 10 Marc Gasol 10 135 13.5

Rebounds Rank Name G Rbs RPG 1 Chris Kaman 8 80 10.0 2 Pero Antić 10 88 8.8 3 Ömer Aşık 8 68 8.5 4 Pau Gasol 9 73 8.1 5 Joakim Noah 9 72 8.0 Viktor Sanikidze 8 64 8.0 7 Marc Gasol 10 74 7.4 8 Dirk Nowitzki 8 53 6.6 9 Ersan İlyasova 8 52 6.5 10 Mirza Begić 11 71 6.5

Assists Rank Name G Ast APG 1 Miloš Teodosić 11 63 5.7 2 Victor Khryapa 10 51 5.1 3 Šarūnas Jasikevičius 11 51 4.6 4 Teemu Rannikko 8 36 4.5 5 Tony Parker 9 39 4.3 6 Heiko Schaffartzik 8 31 3.9 7 Mantas Kalnietis 11 42 3.8 Nick Calathes 11 42 3.8 9 Bo McCalebb 11 41[13] 3.7 10 Giorgi Tsintsadze 6 20 3.3

Steals Rank Name G Stl SPG 1 Andrei Kirilenko 10 29 2.9 2 Nicolas Batum 10 21 2.1 3 Bo McCalebb 11 23[13] 2.1 4 Tuukka Kotti 8 15 1.9 5 Vojdan Stojanovski 10 18 1.8 6 Tony Parker 9 15 1.7 7 Goran Dragić 11 18 1.6 Nick Calathes 11 18 1.6 9 Rudy Fernández 10 16 1.6 10 Manuchar Markoishvili 8 12 1.5

Blocks Rank Name G Blk BPG 1 Mirza Begić 11 21 1.9 2 Chris Kaman 8 14 1.8 3 Pau Gasol 10 17 1.7 4 Timofey Mozgov 10 15 1.5 Ömer Aşık 8 12 1.5 6 Serge Ibaka 11 13 1.2 7 Jonas Valančiūnas 10 11 1.1 8 Kostas Koufos 11 12 1.1 9 Predrag Samardžiski 11 10 0.9 10 Todor Gečevski 6 5 0.8

Minutes Rank Name G Min MPG 1 Vlado Ilievski 10 375 37.5 2 Tony Parker 9 311 34.6 3 Pero Antić 10 344 34.4 4 Bo McCalebb 11 376[13] 34.2 5 Manuchar Markoishvili 8 260 32.5 6 Viktor Sanikidze 8 257 32.1 7 Nicolas Batum 10 314 31.4 8 Petteri Koponen 8 250 31.3 9 Heiko Schaffartzik 8 241 30.1 10 Dirk Nowitzki 8 239 29.9

Individual Game Highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points	Andrea Bargnani	36	Latvia
Rebounds	Pero Antić	19	Finland
Assists	Dontaye Draper	12	Montenegro
Steals	Nicolas Batum Tony Parker	6	Israel  Serbia
Blocks	Serge Ibaka	5	France
2-point field goal percentage	Joel Freeland	100% (11/11)	Poland
3-point field goal percentage	Vojdan Stojanovski	100% (5/5)	Lithuania
Free throw percentage	Tony Parker Miguel Minhava	100% (12/12)	Serbia  Great Britain
Turnovers	Miloš Teodosić	9	Russia

Team Tournament Highs

Offensive PPG Pos. Name PPG 1  Spain 85.2 2  Lithuania 82.3 3  Serbia 81.1 4  Poland 80.2 5  Israel 79.8 6  Croatia 79.2 7  France 79.1 8  Latvia 77.0 9  Bosnia and Herzegovina 76.0 9  Italy 76.0

Defensive PPG Pos. Name PPG 1  Russia 63.3 2  Macedonia 65.2 3  Ukraine 65.4 4  Greece 65.7 5  Turkey 67.8 6  Slovenia 68.7 7  Spain 69.3 8  Georgia 71.0 9  Bulgaria 71.4 10  Finland 73.1 10  Germany 73.1

Rebounds Pos. Name RPG 1  Lithuania 39 2  Spain 38.7 3  Georgia 37.6 4  Turkey 37.1 5  Slovenia 36.4 6  Macedonia 35.4 7  Russia 34.7 8  Germany 34.5 9  Serbia 34.5 10  France 34.2

Assists Pos. Name APG 1  Spain 19.2 2  Russia 19.0 3  Lithuania 17.7 4  Croatia 17.4 5  Serbia 17.3 6  Poland 15.4 7  Israel 14.8 8  Finland 14.6 9  Belgium 14.6 10  Montenegro 13.8

Steals Pos. Name SPG 1  Spain 8.6 2  Macedonia 8.4 3  France 7.6 4  Great Britain 7.6 5  Slovenia 7.5 6  Russia 7.5 7  Portugal 7.2 8  Greece 7.1 9  Poland 7.0 10  Israel 6.4

Blocks Pos. Name BPG 1  Greece 3.7 2  Turkey 3.4 3  Russia 3.3 4  Spain 3.1 5  Ukraine 3.0 6  Germany 2.6 7  Italy 2.6 8  France 2.4 9  Lithuania 2.2 10  Great Britain 2.2

2-point field goal percentage Pos. Name % 1  Bosnia and Herzegovina 58.3 2  Poland 56.3 3  Lithuania 55.4 4  Croatia 54.7 5  Russia 54.6 6  Georgia 52.9 7  Spain 52.8 8  Turkey 52.0 9  Serbia 51.6 10  France 51.5

3-point field goal percentage Pos. Name % 1  Lithuania 41.1 2  Germany 39.2 3  Finland 39.1 4  Bosnia and Herzegovina 36.6 5  Ukraine 36.3 6  Serbia 36.1 7  France 35.7 8  Russia 35.6 9  Belgium 35.6 10  Latvia 35.5

Free throw percentage Pos. Name % 1  Italy 84.6 2  France 81.3 3  Germany 80.1 4  Spain 79.7 5  Greece 79.5 6  Serbia 79.4 7  Croatia 78.9 8  Portugal 78.4 9  Macedonia 77.7 10  Poland 75.8

Team Game highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points	Lithuania	100	Serbia
Rebounds	Montenegro	50	Macedonia
Assists	Croatia	26	Montenegro
Steals	France  Russia	14	Serbia  Finland
Blocks	Spain	10	France
2-point field goal percentage	Lithuania	78.4% (29/37)	Poland
3-point field goal percentage	Lithuania	63.3% (7/11)	Portugal
Free throw percentage	Spain	100% (16/16)	Great Britain
Turnovers	Montenegro  Ukraine	23	Macedonia  Georgia

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team:^[14]

PG – Tony Parker

SG – Bo McCalebb

SF – Juan Carlos Navarro (MVP)

PF – Andrei Kirilenko

C – Pau Gasol

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