EuroBasket 2007

FIBA EuroBasket 2007
35th FIBA European Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Spain
Dates	3–16 September
Teams	16 (from 49 federations)
Venues	6 (in 4 host cities)
Champions	Russia (1st title)
MVP	Andrei Kirilenko
Tournament leaders
Players Teams Points Nowitzki 24.0  Spain 82.1 Rebounds Green 9.3  Lithuania 39.8 Assists Jasikevičius 5.6  Russia 14.3
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The 2007 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2007, was the 35th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe, which also served as Europe qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics, giving a berth to the champion and runner-up teams (or to the third-placed team in case Spain should reach the final). It was held in Spain between 3 September and 16 September 2007. Sixteen national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The cities of Alicante, Granada, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and Seville hosted the tournament. Russia won its first FIBA European title since the dissolution of the Soviet Union by defeating hosts Spain with a 60–59 score in the final. Russia's Andrei Kirilenko was voted the tournament's MVP.

Venues

Location	Picture	City	Arena	Capacity	Status	Round
Alicante Granada Madrid Palma de Mallorca Seville		Alicante	Centro de Tecnificación de Alicante	5,425	Opened in 1993	Group D
		Granada	Palacio Municipal de Deportes de Granada	7,500	Opened in 1991	Group A
		Madrid	Madrid Arena	10,500	Opened in 2002	Second round
		Madrid	Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid	15,500	Opened in 1960 Re-opened in 2005	Knockout stages and final
		Palma de Mallorca	Palma Arena	6,000	Opened in 2007	Group C
		Seville	Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo	10,000	Opened in 1988	Group B

Qualification

Of the sixteen teams that participated in EuroBasket 2005, hosts Spain plus the eight European teams that participated in the 2006 FIBA World Championship (France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey) qualified directly. The other seven teams earned their berths via a qualifying tournament. The draw for FIBA EuroBasket 2007 was held in Madrid, 19 October 2006.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Greece  Russia  Serbia  Israel	Spain  Croatia  Latvia  Portugal	Germany  Lithuania  Turkey  Czech Republic	France  Slovenia  Italy  Poland

Format

• The top three teams from each group advance to the qualifying round, in which they are separated into two groups (A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3 on Group E; C1, C2, C3, D1, D2, D3 on Group F).
• Results and standings among teams within the same group are carried over.
• The top four teams at the qualifying round advance to the knockout quarterfinals (E1 vs. F4, E2 vs. F3, and so on).
• The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, where both are guaranteed of berths in the 2008 Olympics. The losers figure in a third-place playoff. Before the tournament, the semifinal losers and the teams participating in the 5th-place playoff were assured of berths to the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2008.
  • Spain, which lost in the final to Russia, had already qualified for the Olympics as reigning world champions. Since they occupied what would otherwise be a qualifying place, third-place Lithuania received a direct Olympic berth, and seventh-place Slovenia advanced to the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2008.

Tie-breaking criteria

Ties are broken via the following 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

At the start of tournament, all 16 participating countries had 12 players on their roster.

Preliminary round

Qualified for the second round

Times given below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Russia	3	3	0	224	174	+50	6
Greece	3	2	1	197	194	+3	5
Israel	3	1	2	209	249	−40	4
Serbia	3	0	3	215	228	−13	3

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Croatia	3	2	1	252	237	+15	5	1–0
Spain	3	2	1	259	218	+41	5	0–1
Portugal	3	1	2	201	239	−38	4	1–0
Latvia	3	1	2	229	247	−18	4	0–1

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Lithuania	3	3	0	265	224	+41	6
Germany	3	2	1	242	211	+31	5
Turkey	3	1	2	198	237	−39	4
Czech Republic	3	0	3	225	258	−33	3

Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Slovenia	3	3	0	206	186	+20	6
France	3	2	1	209	195	+14	5
Italy	3	1	2	209	208	+1	4
Poland	3	0	3	188	223	−35	3

Second round

Advanced to the knockout round

Group E

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Spain	5	4	1	422	341	+81	9
Russia	5	4	1	381	325	+56	9
Greece	5	3	2	353	348	+5	8
Croatia	5	2	3	398	396	+2	7
Portugal	5	1	4	350	420	−70	6
Israel	5	1	4	360	434	−74	6

Group F

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Lithuania	5	5	0	417	357	+60	10
Slovenia	5	4	1	340	312	+28	9
France	5	3	2	371	347	+24	8
Germany	5	2	3	339	346	−7	7
Italy	5	1	4	346	359	−13	6
Turkey	5	0	5	308	400	−92	5

Knockout stage

Championship bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	13 September – 21:30
	Spain	83
					15 September – 19:00
	Germany	55
					Spain	82
	14 September – 21:30
					Greece	77
	Slovenia	62
									16 September – 21:30
	Greece	63
									Spain	59
	13 September – 19:00
									Russia	60
	Russia	75
					15 September – 21:30
	France	71
					Russia	86			Third place
	14 September – 19:00
					Lithuania	74
	Lithuania	74							Greece	69
	Croatia	72							Lithuania	78
									16 September – 19:00

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Game Statistics

Spain # Player Min played Pts FT 2-FG 3-FG Rebs Assists 4 Pau Gasol 33 14 5/12 3/12 1/1 14 3 5 Rudy Fernández 24 5 2/2 0/2 1/3 2 1 6 Carlos Cabezas 10 2 - 1/2 0/1 – 1 7 Juan Carlos Navarro 17 – - 0/3 0/2 – 1 8 José Manuel Calderón 28 15 - 0/2 5/7 4 2 9 Felipe Reyes 21 5 1/2 2/9 – 8 – 10 Carlos Jiménez 28 5 2/4 0/2 1/4 5 2 11 Sergio Rodríguez 2 – - – 0/1 – – 12 Berni Rodríguez 1 – – – – – – 13 Marc Gasol 6 5 5/6 0/1 – – – 14 Álex Mumbrú 12 – - 0/1 – 1 – 15 Jorge Garbajosa 18 8 - 1/1 2/5 – – TOTALS (Team) 200 59 15/26 7/35 10/24 43 11 Head Coach: Pepu Hernández

Russia # Player Min played Pts FT 2-FG 3-FG Rebs Assists 4 Nikita Shabalkin – – – – – – – 5 Jon Robert Holden 39 8 - 4/9 0/4 1 1 6 Sergei Bykov – – – – – – – 7 Andrei Kirilenko 30 17 6/7 4/6 1/4 5 2 8 Nikita Morgunov 9 4 - 2/5 0/1 2 – 9 Petr Samoylenko 16 – - 0/2 – 2 1 10 Victor Khryapa 35 7 - 2/2 1/6 12 4 11 Zakhar Pashutin 18 3 - 0/2 1/2 3 1 12 Sergei Monia 9 3 - – 1/2 1 1 13 Anton Ponkrashov 18 8 3/4 1/1 1/1 3 2 14 Aleksey Savrasenko 24 10 2/4 4/8 – 1 1 15 Nikolay Padius 4 – – – – – – TOTALS (Team) 200 60 11/15 17/35 5/20 38 13 Head Coach: David Blatt

Legend: PTS = points, FT = free-throws (made/attempts), 2-FG = 2-point field goals (made/attempts), 3-PG = 3-point field goals (made/attempts), Rebs = Rebounds

5th to 8th place

	Classification round				Fifth place
	15 September – 14:00
	France	69
	Croatia	86
					16 September – 16:30
					Croatia	71
					Germany	80
					Seventh place
	15 September – 16:30			16 September – 14:00
	Germany	69		France	74
	Slovenia	65			Slovenia	88

Statistical Leaders

Individual Tournament Highs

Points[1] Pos. Name PPG 1 Dirk Nowitzki 24.0 2 Tony Parker 20.1 3 Hedo Türkoğlu 19.2 4 Pau Gasol 18.8 5 Andrei Kirilenko 18.0 6 Marco Belinelli 15.5 7 Yotam Halperin 14.0 8 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 13.8 9 Matjaž Smodiš 13.4 10 Marko Popović 13.1

Rebounds[2] Pos. Name RPG 1 Yaniv Green 9.3 2 Dirk Nowitzki 8.7 3 Andrei Kirilenko 8.6 4 Victor Khryapa 7.8 5 Mehmet Okur 7.7 6 Radoslav Nesterović 7.6 7 Pau Gasol 7.0 8 Ademola Okulaja 6.9 9 Angelo Gigli 6.0 10 Felipe Reyes 5.9

Assists[3] Pos. Name APG 1 Šarūnas Jasikevičius 5.6 2 Meir Tapiro 5.0 3 Jaka Lakovič 4.3 3 Massimo Bulleri 4.0 4 Victor Khryapa 3.2 4 Filipe da Silva 3.2 7 Tony Parker 2.8 7 Zoran Planinić 2.8 7 Yotam Halperin 2.8 10 José Calderón 2.6 10 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 2.6

Steals[4] Pos. Name SPG 1 Andrei Kirilenko 2.2 2 Victor Khryapa 2.1 2 Zoran Planinić 1.6 4 Angelo Gigli 1.5 4 Meir Tapiro 1.5 6 Tariq Kirksay 1.4 6 Jaka Lakovič 1.4 6 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 1.4 9 Dimitris Diamantidis 1.3 9 Rudy Fernández 1.3 9 Matteo Soragna 1.3

Blocks[5] Pos. Name BPG 1 Radoslav Nesterović 1.9 2 Pau Gasol 1.8 2 Andrei Kirilenko 1.8 4 Yaniv Green 1.5 5 Angelo Gigli 1.2 6 Ronny Turiaf 1.1 6 Dimitris Diamantidis 1.0 8 Dirk Nowitzki 0.9 9 Darjuš Lavrinovič 0.8 9 Kaya Peker 0.8

Minutes[6] Pos. Name MPG 1 Jon Robert Holden 35.3 2 Jaka Lakovič 34.3 3 Dirk Nowitzki 33.9 4 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 33.0 5 Dimitris Diamantidis 32.8 6 Andrei Kirilenko 32.4 7 Yotam Halperin 31.5 8 Tony Parker 30.9 9 Victor Khryapa 30.6 10 Hedo Türkoğlu 30.2

Individual Game Highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points	Tony Parker	36	Italy
Rebounds	Andris Biedriņš	18	Portugal
Assists	Łukasz Koszarek	11	Italy
Steals	Andrei Kirilenko Zoran Planinić	7	France  Lithuania
Blocks	Radoslav Nesterović	5	Greece
Turnovers	Šarūnas Jasikevičius Rimantas Kaukėnas	7	Italy  Czech Republic

Team Tournament Highs

Offensive PPG[7] Pos. Name PPG 1  Spain 82.1 2  Lithuania 82.0 3  Croatia 78.2 4  Latvia 76.3 5  Czech Republic 75.0 5  Russia 75.0

Rebounds[8] Pos. Name RPG 1  Lithuania 39.8 2  Serbia 39.7 3  Germany 37.9 4  Turkey 37.0 5  Spain 35.2

Assists[9] Pos. Name APG 1  Czech Republic 14.3 2  Russia 14.1 3  Israel 13.7 4  Lithuania 13.4 5  Croatia 13.2 5  Spain 13.2

Steals[10] Pos. Name SPG 1  Russia 8.4 2  Czech Republic 8.0 3  Greece 7.9 4  Spain 7.8 5  Serbia 7.7

Blocks[11] Pos. Name BPG 1  Serbia 4.3 2  Russia 3.8 3  Poland 3.3 3  Slovenia 3.1 5  Greece 2.9 5  Spain 2.9

Team Game highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points	Spain	99	Israel
Rebounds	Germany	52	Italy
Assists	Russia	23	Croatia
Steals	Spain	13	Portugal
Blocks	Spain	8	Germany
Field goal percentage	Lithuania	62.5% (35/56)	Czech Republic
3-point field goal percentage	Lithuania	61.9% (13/21)	Czech Republic
Free throw percentage	Portugal	100% (3/3)	Spain
Turnovers	Portugal	24	Spain

Awards

2007 FIBA European Champions
Russia 1st title

2007 FIBA European Championship MVP: Andrei Kirilenko ( Russia)

All-Tournament Team[12]
José Calderón
Ramūnas Šiškauskas
Andrei Kirilenko (MVP)
Dirk Nowitzki
Pau Gasol

Final standings

	Qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics
	Qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics as World Champion
	Qualified for the 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Rank	Team	Record
01 !	Russia	8–1
02 !	Spain	7–2
03 !	Lithuania	8–1
4	Greece	5–4
5	Germany	5–4
6	Croatia	3–6
7	Slovenia	6–3
8	France	4–5
9	Italy	2–4
	Portugal	2–4
11	Israel	2–4
	Turkey	1–5
13	Latvia	1–2
	Czech Republic	0–3
	Poland	0–3
	Serbia	0–3

			4th
Russia Nikita Shabalkin Jon Robert Holden Sergei Bykov Andrei Kirilenko Nikita Morgunov Petr Samoylenko Victor Khryapa Zakhar Pashutin Sergei Monia Anton Ponkrashov Aleksey Savrasenko Nikolay Padius	Spain Pau Gasol Rudy Fernández Carlos Cabezas Juan Carlos Navarro José Calderón Felipe Reyes Carlos Jiménez Sergio Rodríguez Berni Rodríguez Marc Gasol Álex Mumbrú Jorge Garbajosa	Lithuania Rimantas Kaukėnas Giedrius Gustas Jonas Mačiulis Darjuš Lavrinovič Ramūnas Šiškauskas Darius Songaila Simas Jasaitis Linas Kleiza Kšyštof Lavrinovič Šarūnas Jasikevičius Paulius Jankūnas Robertas Javtokas	Greece Theodoros Papaloukas Ioannis Bourousis Nikolaos Zisis Vassilis Spanoulis Panagiotis Vasilopoulos Michalis Pelekanos Nikos Chatzivrettas Dimos Dikoudis Kostas Tsartsaris Dimitris Diamantidis Lazaros Papadopoulos Michalis Kakiouzis

FIBA broadcasting rights

•  Bosnia and Herzegovina: BHRT
•  Bulgaria: BNT
•  Croatia: HRT
•  Cyprus: RIK 2
•  Czech Republic: Česká televize
•  France: Sport+ / Canal+
•  Germany: DSF
•  Greece: ERT
•  Israel: Sport 5/Channel 10
•  Italy: RAI
•  Latvia: TV3 Latvia
•  Lithuania: TV3 Lithuania
•  Philippines: Basketball TV
•  Poland: Polsat
•  Portugal: RTP
•  Russia: RTR Sport
•  Romania: Sport.ro
•  Serbia: RTS
•  Spain: LaSexta
•  Slovenia: RTV Slovenija
•  Turkey: NTV
•  Ukraine: Megasport / Sport 1 Ukraine

References

External links

• Eurobasket 2007 Official Site
• 2005 EuroBasket, FIBA.com.
• Information on tickets and venues

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