2010 FIBA World Championship explained

Tourney Name:FIBA World Championship
Year:2010
Other Titles:2010 FIBA Dünya Basketbol Şampiyonası
Size:140
Country:Turkey
Dates:28 August – 12 September
Opened:Abdullah Gül
Num Teams:24
Confederations:5
Venues:5
Cities:4
Champion:United States
Count:4
Second:Turkey
Third:Lithuania
Fourth:Serbia
Fourth-Flagvar:2006
Games:80
Mvp: Kevin Durant
Top Scorer: Luis Scola
(27.1 points per game)
Prevseason:2006
Nextseason:2014

The 2010 FIBA World Championship was the 16th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship contested by the men's national teams. The tournament ran from 28 August to 12 September 2010. It was co-organised by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Turkish Basketball Federation and the 2010 Organising Committee. It was considered as prestigious a competition as the Olympic Basketball Tournament.[1] The tournament was hosted by Turkey.

For the third time (after the 1986 and 2006 tournaments), the World Championship had 24 competing nations. As a result, the group stage games were played in four cities, and the knockout round was hosted by Istanbul.

The United States won the tournament for their fourth time after going undefeated in the Opening Round and beating host Turkey in the final.

The draw for the Championship took place on 15 December 2009 in Istanbul.[2] Teams were drawn into four preliminary round groups of six teams each. Teams first played a round-robin schedule, with the top sixteen teams advancing to the knockout stage.[3]

Bid

2010 FIBA World Championship bidding results
NationsRound 1Round 2
Turkey
France
Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro and Slovenia

Three bids from six countries – France, Turkey, and a joint bid from former Yugoslav republics Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia – made their final presentation during the FIBA's 20-member Central Board in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 5 December 2004. Previously, Australia and New Zealand, Italy, Russia and Puerto Rico announced their intention to bid from the tournament, but withdrew their bids prior to the votes. France won the first round of voting, but Turkey eventually won the right to host after the joint bidders were knocked out in the first round.[4]

The tournament was the first time that Turkey has hosted the event and marked the first World Championship held in Europe since the 1998 FIBA World Championship was held in Greece.

Venues

Below is a list of the venues which hosted games during the 2010 FIBA World Championship. Each preliminary round group was hosted in a single arena in Kayseri (Group A), Istanbul (Group B), Ankara (Group C), and İzmir (Group D). The knockout phase then moved to Istanbul's Sinan Erdem Dome. Ankara Arena, completed in 2010, and Kadir Has Arena, completed in 2008, were built for the championships, while the other three arenas underwent renovations for the event.

TurkeyIstanbul
Preliminary roundKnockout stage
width=20%Ankarawidth=20%İzmirwidth=20%KayseriIstanbul
Ankara Arena
Capacity: 11,000[5]
Halkapınar Sport Hall
Capacity: 10,000[6]
Kadir Has Arena
Capacity: 7,500[7]
width=20%Abdi İpekçi Arena
Capacity: 12,500[8]
width=20%Sinan Erdem Dome
Capacity: 16,500 (22,500)[9]

Qualifying

See main article: 2010 FIBA World Championship qualification.

Turkey automatically qualified as the host country, and the United States also received an automatic berth for winning the 2008 Olympic men's basketball tournament.

Most other teams secured their places in continental qualifying tournaments (three from Africa, three from Asia, two from Oceania, four from the Americas, and six from Europe). FIBA invited four "wild card" teams to fill out the twenty-four team field.

Wild cards

The four wild cards were determined by FIBA through criteria. For example, a team must have played in the Zone's qualification tournament to receive recommendation.[10] Also, in order for every team to have an opportunity for a wild card, a maximum of three teams from any Zone can be allotted a wild card entry. Once these requirements are satisfied, FIBA then looks at other important factors. Those include popularity of basketball within the country, success of the team, and government support for the team's National Federation. As of 2009, FIBA now requires that wild card candidates pay a late registration fee to be considered.[11]

Fourteen teams paid the 500,000 € fee to apply for one of the four wild card spots. FIBA then whittled down the teams to eight semifinalists – Cameroon, Germany, Great Britain, Korea, Lebanon, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Russia.[12] On Saturday 12 December 2009, FIBA awarded Germany, Lebanon, Lithuania and Russia the four wild cards.[13]

List of qualified teams

The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament (FIBA World Ranking at start of tournament in parentheses):[14]

EventDateLocationBerthsQualified
Host nation5 December 2004 Kuala Lumpur1
2008 Olympics10–24 August 2008 Beijing1
AfroBasket 20094–14 August 2009 Tripoli and Benghazi3

2009 FIBA Asia Championship6–16 August 2009 Tianjin3

23–25 August 2009 Sydney
Wellington
2
2009 FIBA Americas Championship26 August–6 September 2009 San Juan4


EuroBasket 20097–20 September 20096




Wild cards12 December 2009 Istanbul4


TOTAL 24

The draw for the championship took place in Istanbul on December 15, 2009.

Group draw

The draw was held on 15 December 2009 at the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Hotel in Istanbul, which divided the qualified teams into four groups of six, groups A, B, C, and D, as listed for the preliminary round.[15] Aside from the fact that those teams in the same line would not be in the same preliminary round groups, there were no other restrictions on how teams may be drawn.

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United States

















Squads

See main article: 2010 FIBA World Championship squads.

At the start of tournament, all 24 participating countries had 12 players on their rosters. Final squads for the tournament were due on August 26, two days before the start of competition.[16]

Angola and the United States were the only teams made up of entirely domestic players (Jordan and Russia each had 11 domestic players). Slovenia was the only team composed entirely of individuals playing outside the domestic league. The Canada squad also consisted entirely of individuals playing outside the country, but at that time Canada had no professional league operating exclusively in the country (a minor professional league was scheduled to begin play in 2011). The National Basketball Association, based in the U.S., has a Canadian team, and several minor leagues operate on both sides of the U.S.—Canada border. Four Canadian squad members played in U.S.-based competitions—two with U.S.-based NBA teams, and two for Gonzaga University's team. Forty-one NBA players were selected to compete in the tournament, the most of any league.

Preparation matches

Acropolis tournament

See also: Acropolis International Tournament 2010.

Greece and Serbia both began the tournament shorthanded when each had two players suspended for their roles in a brawl at the World Championship tuneup Acropolis Tournament, held in mid-August. The two teams engaged in a chaotic brawl with 2:40 left when Greece's Antonis Fotsis threatened Serbia's Miloš Teodosić after Teodosić committed a foul.[17] The fight spilled off the floor and into the locker room tunnel; the game was thus terminated with final score the score at the time of the interruption (74–73 for Greece). Serbian center Nenad Krstić was arrested and held overnight for throwing a chair in the brawl.

For their roles in the melee, Krstić was suspended for the first three games of the tournament, while Teodosić, and Greece's Fotsis and Sofoklis Schortsanitis were suspended for the first two games. Both Greek coach Jonas Kazlauskas and Serbian coach Dušan Ivković criticized FIBA for waiting until less than 48 hours before the tournament – over a week after the brawl – to announce the suspensions, citing the unfairness of playing shorthanded for the first games.[18] Greece eventually won their first two games in spite of the suspensions, while Serbia won two of their first three games.

Bamberg Super Cup

See also: 2010 Bamberg Super Cup.

Preliminary round

The top four finishers in each of the four preliminary round groups advanced to the sixteen team, single-elimination knockout stage, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams and Group C would meet Group D. European teams proved the most successful in the first round, as nine of the ten teams advanced to the knockout stage (only Germany did not progress). Both Oceanian teams qualified for the next round, as did three of the five FIBA Americas teams. The three African and four Asian teams struggled, with only Angola and China reaching the knockout stage after each finished fourth place in their group.

There were few surprises in the early round; each team that advanced to the knockout stage was ranked in the top 20 of the FIBA World Ranking at the time of the tournament. Defending champions Spain struggled early, losing two of their first three games before recovering to finish second in Group D. Argentina and the United States, the two top teams in the FIBA rankings, both cruised to the knockout phase, as the United States went 5–0 and Argentina went 4–1, with their only loss coming to Number 5 ranked Serbia.

Tie-breaking procedure

At the end of the preliminary round, any ties will be broken by the following criteria, ordered from the one that will be applied first to the last:

  1. Game results between tied teams
  2. Goal average between games of the tied teams
  3. Goal average for all games of the tied teams
  4. Drawing of lots

Group A (Kayseri)

See main article: 2010 FIBA World Championship Group A.

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28 August 2010
76–75 Kadir Has Arena, Kayseri
44–94 Kadir Has Arena
74–78 Kadir Has Arena
29 August 2010
65–79 Kadir Has Arena
81–82 2OT Kadir Has Arena
74–72 Kadir Has Arena
30 August 2010
69–112 Kadir Has Arena
78–43 Kadir Has Arena
70–91 Kadir Has Arena
1 September 2010
94–79 Kadir Has Arena
88–92 OT Kadir Has Arena
88–79 Kadir Has Arena
2 September 2010
55–76 Kadir Has Arena
82–84 Kadir Has Arena
73–91 Kadir Has Arena

Group B (Istanbul)

See main article: 2010 FIBA World Championship Group B.

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28 August 2010
56–80 Abdi İpekçi Arena, Istanbul
United States 106–78 Abdi İpekçi Arena
65–81 Abdi İpekçi Arena
29 August 2010
77–99 United StatesAbdi İpekçi Arena
75–54 Abdi İpekçi Arena
80–65 Abdi İpekçi Arena
30 August 2010
91–84 Abdi İpekçi Arena
58–71 Abdi İpekçi Arena
70–68 Abdi İpekçi Arena
1 September 2010
84–64 Abdi İpekçi Arena
51–88 United StatesAbdi İpekçi Arena
77–80 Abdi İpekçi Arena
2 September 2010
92–57 Abdi İpekçi Arena
65–60 Abdi İpekçi Arena
92–74 Abdi İpekçi Arena

Group C (Ankara)

See main article: 2010 FIBA World Championship Group C.

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28 August 2010
89–81 Ankara Arena
75–66 Ankara Arena
47–86 Ankara Arena
29 August 2010
83–73 Ankara Arena
80–83 Ankara Arena
65–56 Ankara Arena
31 August 2010
72–66 Ankara Arena
84–76 Ankara Arena
65–76 Ankara Arena
1 September 2010
80–89 Ankara Arena
60–97 Ankara Arena
79–77 Ankara Arena
2 September 2010
79–88 Ankara Arena
69–73 Ankara Arena
87–40 Ankara Arena

Group D (Izmir)

See main article: 2010 FIBA World Championship Group D.

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28 August 2010
79–92 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall, İzmir
71–81 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
72–66 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
29 August 2010
70–68 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
59–86 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
101–84 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
31 August 2010
108–76 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
68–63 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
73–76 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
1 September 2010
61–71 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
57–91 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
69–55 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
2 September 2010
89–67 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
66–84 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
82–70 İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall

Final round (Istanbul)

See main article: 2010 FIBA World Championship knockout stage.

5th–8th classification

Fifth place playoff

Final

See main article: 2010 FIBA World Championship Final.

Statistical leaders

Individual tournament highs

Points[19]

Pos. Name G Pts
1 Luis Scola9 244 27.1
2 Kirk Penney6 148 24.7
3 Kevin Durant9 205 22.8
4 Carlos Delfino9 185 20.6
5 Yi Jianlian5 101 20.2
6 Hamed Haddadi5 100 20
7 Linas Kleiza9 171 19
8 Juan Carlos Navarro8 135 16.9
9 José Barea5 84 16.8
10 Leandro Barbosa6 97 16.2

Rebounds[20]

Pos. Name G Reb.
1 Yi Jianlian5 51 10.2
2 Hamed Haddadi5 43 8.6
3 Zaid Abbas5 42 8.4
4 Luis Scola9 71 7.9
5 Lamar Odom9 69 7.7
6 Ersan İlyasova8 61 7.6
7 Levon Kendall5 38 7.6
8 Nenad Krstić6 45 7.5
9 Arsalan Kazemi5 37 7.4
David Andersen5 37 7.4

Assists[21]

Pos. Name G Ass.
1 Pablo Prigioni9 58 6.4
2 Marcelinho Huertas6 35 5.8
3 Miloš Teodosić7 39 5.6
4 Osama Daghlas5 28 5.6
5 José Barea5 27 5.4
6 Ricky Rubio9 46 5.1
Anton Ponkrashov9 46 5.1
8 Mouloukou Diabate5 22 4.4
9 Patrick Mills6 25 4.2
10 Goran Dragić9 37 4.1

Blocks[22]

Pos. Name G Blocks
1 Mamadou Lamizana5 16 3.2
2 Hamed Haddadi5 13 2.6
3 Marc Gasol9 21 2.3
4 Joel Anthony5 11 2.2
Salah Mejri5 11 2.2
6 Fran Vázquez9 14 1.6
7 Sergey Monya9 12 1.3
8 Ömer Aşık9 11 1.2
9 Timofey Mozgov9 9 1
10 Matthew Nielsen6 6 1

Steals[23]

Pos. Name G Stls
1 Arsalan Kazemi5 14 2,8
2 Ali Mahmoud5 13 2.6
3 Mouloukou Diabate5 12 2.4
4 Sinan Güler8 17 2.1
5 Carlos Delfino9 18 2
Pablo Prigioni9 18 2
7 Leandro Barbosa6 12 2
Sun Yue6 12 2
9 Makrem Ben Romdhane4 8 2
Olimpio Cipriano4 8 2

Minutes[24]

Pos. Name G Min.
1 Carlos Delfino9 327 36.3
2 Liu Wei5 180 36
3 Luis Scola9 323 35.9
4 Mouloukou Diabate5 177 35.4
5 Yi Jianlian5 175 35
6 Osama Daghlas5 172 34.4
7 Rasheim Wright5 169 33.8
8 Hamed Haddadi5 163 32.6
9 Javad Davari5 161 32.2
Fadi El Khatib5 161 32.2

Individual game highs

Department Name Total Opponent
Points[25] 38 (9/11)
Rebounds[26] 14 (9/1) (OT)
(9/1)
(9/2)
(8/28)
Assists[27] 11 (8/28)
(8/29)
(9/11)
Steals[28] 8 (9/2)
Blocks[29] 5 (8/28)
(9/2)
(8/28)
(8/29)
Field goal percentage[30] 100% (9/9) (9/2)
3-point field goal percentage[31] 100% (6/6) (8/31)
Free throw percentage[32] 100% (10/10) (8/28)
Turnovers[33] 7 (8/30)

Team tournament highs

Offensive PPG[34]

Pos. Name PPG
1 United States 92.8
288.9
385.2
483.3
582.9

Defensive PPG

Pos. Name PPG
1 United States 65.9
268.2
371.3
471.3
572.3

Rebounds[35]

Pos. Name RPG
1 United States 41.7
240.4
337.8
437.2
537

Assists[36]

Pos. Name APG
1 United States 18.2
18.2
318.1
416.6
516

Steals[37]

Pos. Name SPG
1 United States 10.4
2 8.4
3 8.2
4 8.1
5 7.8

Blocks[38]

Pos. Name BPG
1 United States 4.9
24.8
34
43.8
53.4

Team game highs

Department Name Total Opponent
Points[39] 121 (9/6)
Rebounds[40] United States
50 (8/29)
(9/7)
Assists[41] 30 (9/6)
Steals[42] 15 (8/28)
(8/30)
Blocks[43] 9 (9/2)
Field goal percentage[44] 66.7% (32/48) (9/8)
3-point field goal percentage[45] 61.1% (11/18) (9/7)
Free throw percentage[46] 100.0% (10/10) (9/2)
Turnovers[47]
25 United States (9/1)
(8/29)

Final standings

Method of breaking ties:

RankTeamRecord
1 United States9–0
28–1
Eliminated in Semi-Finals
38–1
46–3
Eliminated in Quarter-Finals
57–2
65–4
76–3
85–4
Eliminated in Round of 16Preliminary Round Points Average
93–31.124
103–31.117
113–31.089
123–31.060
133–31.035
142–40.971
152–40.821
161–5
5th place in Preliminary Round groupsPreliminary Round Points Average
172–3
181–40.963
191–40.820
201–40.770
6th place in Preliminary Round groupsPreliminary Round Points Average
211–4
220–50.871
230–50.809
240–50.737

Awards

All-Tournament Team

See main article: FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team.

Referees

On August 18, 2010, FIBA named the forty referees that officiated at the tournament.[48] Below are the referees, along with the first round group that each was assigned to:

Broadcasting

Rights

FIBA announced that the championship will be shown in 183 countries, beating the record set be the 2006 championship which was 132. Countries that aired the championship for the first time were India and the United Kingdom, while Canada covered the event for the first time since hosting the 1994 FIBA World Championship.[49]

TV ratings

According to FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann, the TV ratings for the 2010 championship exceeded the 2006 FIBA World Championship's and the FIBA EuroBasket 2009 numbers, with an expected audience close to 1 billion people in 200 countries, while 30 million people visited the official website.[50]

The preliminary round game between China and Greece was watched by around 65 million Chinese.

The U.S. TV ratings for the Final between the U.S. and Turkey, on the other hand, was watched by less than 900,000 viewers in American cable network ESPN, worse than the average audience of the broadcast of the 2009-10 NBA season, but double than the airing of the first game of the 2010 WNBA Finals on its sister terrestrial network ABC which was aired on the same timeslot.[51]

List of broadcasters

TV broadcasters[52]

align=center Countryalign=center Broadcaster
align=left Top Channel
align=left TPA
align=left TV Pública
TyC Sports
DIRECTV Sports[53]
align=left Fox Sports
align=left BeTV
align=left BHRT
align=left TV E+I
SporTV
ESPN Brasil
BandSports
align=left BNT
align=left TSN
align=left CCTV
align=left HRT
align=left Lumiere TV
Alfa TV
align=left ČTV
Sport 1
align=left TV 2 Sport
align=center Countryalign=center Broadcaster
align=left TV6
Viasat Sport
align=left Nelonen Sport Pro
align=left Sport+
align=left SPORT1
align=left ERT
align=left iCable Sports
align=left Sport 1
align=left TEN Sports
align=left RAI
align=left J Sports
align=left LBC
align=left TV3
Viasat Sport
align=left TDM
align=left Astro
align=left Sitel
align=left RTCG
align=left TV9
align=left Sky Sports
align=center Countryalign=center Broadcaster
align=left Solar TV
BTV
align left TVP
align=left Sport TV
align=left Al Jazeera Sports
align=left Sport 1
align=left SuperSport
align=left NTV Plus
align=left RTS
align=left STV
Sport 1
align=left RTVSLO
Šport TV
align=left LaSexta
MARCA TV
align=left Viasat Sport
align=left Videoland
align=left NTV
NTV Spor
HDen
align=left ESPN
align=left ESPN
NBA TV

See also

Notes and References

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