2019 Italy FIBA Basketball World Cup team explained

Club:	Italy
Chairman:	Giovanni Petrucci
Manager:	Romeo Sacchetti
League:	Preliminary round
League Result:	2nd
League2:	Second round
League2 Result:	3rd
Cup1:	Final standing
Cup1 Result:	10th
Pir Leader:	Danilo Gallinari
Pir:	20
Top Scorer:	Danilo Gallinari
Ppg:	17
Rebounds Leader:	Danilo Gallinari
Rpg:	6
Assists Leader:	Marco Belinelli
Apg:	3
Largest Win:	(31 August 2019)
Largest Loss:	(4 September 2019)
Highest Attendance:	15,000 vs (4 September 2019)
Lowest Attendance:	2,849 vs (6 September 2019)
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Nextseason:	2022 EuroBasket qualification

The 2019 Italy FIBA Basketball World Cup team represents Italy at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China. Italy qualified for the World Cup by taking the 2nd place in the European Second Round Group J. The team has been coached by Romeo Sacchetti.

The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup is the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup championship that is organized by FIBA.

Background

The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup represents the 18th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup where for the first time 32 teams from all over the world compete in the tournament. Italy has not qualified since the 2006 edition in Japan where it reached the playoffs.This year, with coach Sacchetti, the Italian national team aims to achieve at least the Olimpics qualifying tournament, which means qualify to the second round of World Cup.

Timeline

• 22 February 2019: Italy gains mathematical qualification to the world cup after winning against Hungary 75-41.^[1]
• 16 March 2019: World Cup 2019 Draw:^[2] Italy is in group D together with Angola, Philippines and Serbia.
• 1 July 2019: Submitted the 24 players long list preliminary convocation.^[3]
• 12 July 2019: Submitted 19 players convocation for the summer preparation (Polonara, Pascolo, Flaccadori, Tonut and Moretti will not join the team for the World Cup preparation).^[4]
• 22 July 2019: Start of the training camp.^[5]
• 30 July 2019 - 26 August 2019: Friendly games.^[6]
• 30 July 2019 - 31 July 2019: Trentino Basket Cup.
• 8 August 2019 - 10 August 2019: Verona Basketball Cup.
• 11 August 2019: 16 men roster cut (Cinciarini, M. Vitali and Moraschini leave the team).^[7]
• 13 August 2019: Melli will not be part of the team due to a knee surgery.^[8]
• 16 August 2019 - 18 August 2019: Acropolis Basketball Tournament.
• 17 August 2019: 14 men cut (Aradori leaves the team).^[9]
• 23 August 2019 - 27 August 2019: Austiger Cup.
• 29 August 2019: Final roster announced.^[10]
• 31 August 2019 - 15 September 2019: 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

Kit

Supplier: Spalding / Sponsor: Barilla

Qualification

First round

Matches

Second round

Matches

Roster

See also: 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup squads.

The final 12-man roster was announced on 29 August.^[10] Originally Nicolò Melli was included as well, but he was ruled out on the World Cup because of his knee surgery.^{[8] [11]}

The teams are referred to the season 2018–19.

Depth chart

Candidate players

The following were candidates to make the team:

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Team	Added	Removed	Reason
				19-man roster cut
	Aquila Trento
	Aquila Trento
	Reyer Venezia
	Texas Tech Red Raiders
				16-man roster cut
	Dinamo Sassari
	Olimpia Milano
				Injured
				14-men roster cut
				12-men roster cut
	Virtus Bologna

Staff

Position	Staff member	Age	Team
Head coach			Vanoli Cremona
Assistant coaches	Emanuele Molin		Aquila Trento
			Sidigas Avellino
	Paolo Conti		Pallacanestro Varese
Physical trainer	Matteo Panichi		Italian Basketball Federation
Physician	Sandro Senzameno		Italian Basketball Federation
Orthopaedic	Raffaele Cortina		Italian Basketball Federation
Osteopath	Roberto Oggioni		Italian Basketball Federation
	Francesco Ciallella		Italian Basketball Federation
Team manager	Massimo Valle		Italian Basketball Federation
Manager	Roberto Brunamonti		Italian Basketball Federation
Video maker	Marco Cremonini		Italian Basketball Federation
Warehouse manager	Curzio Garofoli		Italian Basketball Federation
	Andrea Annessa		Italian Basketball Federation

Age – describes age on 31 August 2019

Source: http://fip.it/nazionale-staff.aspx?Tipo=M&Naz=AM

Exhibition games

Trentino Basket cup

See main article: Trentino Basket Cup.

Four teams took part in the Trentino Basket Cup: Ivory Coast and Italy, that were preparing for the World Cup. While Romania and Switzerland were preparing for the Eurobasket 2021.

Verona Basketball Cup

All the four team playing at the Verona Basketball Cup have been qualified for the World Cup: Italy, Russia, Senegal and Venezuela. The tournament is played in a round robin Format and the Russian team won the competition.^[7]

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8 August 2019
		54 –69
		111– 54
9 August 2019
		75– 69
		70 –72
10 August 2019
		73– 56
		72– 54

Acropolis Cup

See main article: 2019 Acropolis Cup.

The tournament is scheduled to be held from 16 to 18 August in Athens, Greece.^[12]

AusTiger Cup

See main article: 2019 Austiger Cup.

The tournament is scheduled to be held from 23 to 27 August in Shenyang, China.

Tournament

Preliminary round

See main article: Group D. Italy was drawn into Group D with Angola, Philippines, and the Serbia and will play all of its group phase matches in Foshan at the Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center from 31 August to 4 September.

All times are local (UTC+8).

Philippines vs. Italy

This will be the second game between the Philippines and Italy in the World Cup. The Italians won the first meeting in 1978, which was also the last competitive game between the two teams.

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Philippines Statistics Italy 22/41 (54%) 2-pt field goals 24/36 (67%) 3/23 (13%) 3-pt field goals 15/31 (48%) 9/12 (75%) Free throws 15/21 (71%) 13 Offensive rebounds 10 21 Defensive rebounds 28 34 Total rebounds 38 10 Assists 30 23 Turnovers 13 5 Steals 13 1 Blocks 3 22 Fouls 16

• Top Performer: Danilo Gallinari

Italy vs. Angola

This will be the second game between Angola and Serbia in the World Cup. The Italians won the first meeting in 1990, which was also the last competitive game between the two teams.

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Italy Statistics Angola 21/36 (58%) 2-pt field goals 23/47 (38%) 12/30 (40%) 3-pt field goals 2/18 (11%) 14/22 (64%) Free throws 9/15 (60%) 12 Offensive rebounds 12 30 Defensive rebounds 23 42 Total rebounds 35 16 Assists 6 13 Turnovers 16 10 Steals 6 7 Blocks 1 17 Fouls 20

• Top Performer: Jeff Brooks

Italy vs. Serbia

This will be the first game between Italy and Serbia in the World Cup. Serbia won in its last competitive game against Italy, in EuroBasket 2017.

• Top Performer: Bogdan Bogdanović

Second round

See main article: Group J. Italy finished second in the preliminary group and advanced to the second round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. It will play against two top finishers of Group C, Spain and Puerto Rico, in Wuhan.All times are local UTC+8.

Spain vs. Italy

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Spain Statistics Italy 18/38 (47%) 2-pt field goals 19/45 (42%) 6/23 (26%) 3-pt field goals 4/20 (20%) 13/27 (76%) Free throws 10/15 (67%) 10 Offensive rebounds 10 33 Defensive rebounds 26 43 Total rebounds 36 12 Assists 11 15 Turnovers 10 7 Steals 5 2 Blocks 2 22 Fouls 16

• Top Performer: Danilo Gallinari

Puerto Rico vs. Italy

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Puerto Rico Statistics Italy 29/61 (48%) 2-pt field goals 23/42 (55%) 5/24 (21%) 3-pt field goals 7/25 (28%) 16/22 (73%) Free throws 27/36 (75%) 18 Offensive rebounds 7 31 Defensive rebounds 34 49 Total rebounds 41 14 Assists 23 17 Turnovers 15 9 Steals 7 0 Blocks 7 27 Fouls 20

• Top Performer: Marco Belinelli

Statistics

Individual statistics

Player
	4	1	21.0	52.2% (3.0/5.8)	30.8% (1.0/3.2)	100% (1.0/1.0)	3.0	0.8	0.8	0.3	8.5	8.0
	5	5	29.0	30.0% (4.8/12.0)	33.3% (1.8/5.4)	72.0% (3.6/5.0)	4.0	3.2	1.2	0.0	13.2	15.0
	5	5	19.2	57.1% (2.4/4.2)	- (0.0/0.0)	37.5% (0.6/1.6)	3.2	0.2	0.8	0.6	7.0	5.4
	5	0	17.0	56.2% (1.8/3.2)	33.3% (0.4/1.2)	66.7% (0.4/0.6)	4.2	1.0	1.6	1.2	10.4	4.4
	4	4	22.6	59.3% (4.0/6.8)	50.0% (1.5/3.0)	80.0% (1.0/1.2)	2.8	2.0	0.8	0.8	12.5	10.5
	5	0	10.6	38.5% (2.0/5.2)	29.4% (1.0/3.4)	100% (1.2/1.2)	1.2	1.2	0.6	0.0	5.0	6.2
	3	0	14.4	41.7% (1.7/4.0)	28.0% (0.7/2.3)	100% (0.3/0.3)	2.0	2.7	1.0	0.0	6.3	4.3
	5	5	29.8	53.1% (5.2/9.8)	50.0% (2.4/4.8)	78.6% (4.4/5.6)	5.6	2.8	1.0	0.4	20.2	17.2
	4	0	18.9	32.0% (2.0/6.2)	75.0% (0.8/1.0)	61.1% (2.8/4.5)	2.8	1.8	0.3	0.0	4.8	7.5
	5	5	24.3	31.2% (2.0/6.4)	31.6% (1.2/3.8)	65.0% (2.6/4.0)	4.8	2.8	1.2	0.0	8.2	7.8
	5	0	9.6	70.0% (2.8/4.0)	0.0% (0.0/0.2)	66.7% (0.8/1.2)	2.4	0.6	0.0	0.6	8.0	6.4
	4	0	8.6	20.0% (0.2/1.2)	0.0% (0/0.5)	- (0.0/0.0)	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.5
Total	4		200	47.0% (29.2/62.2)	39.3% (10.5/26.8)	69.3% (15.2/22.0)	35.8	17.0	8.8	3.0	93.3	84.3

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3FG%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	EF	PIR per game

Statistical leaders

Updated:

Individual game highs

Statistic	Name	Total	Opponent
Points		27
Total Rebounds		11
Assists		5
Blocks		2
Steals		3
Efficiency		27
Field goal percentage^1		83% (5/6)
2-point field goal percentage^1		100% (6/6)
3-point field goal percentage		100% (3/3)
Free throw percentage		100% (6/6)
Turnovers		5
Minutes		40:09

• ¹– at least 5 attempts

Statistic	Name	Total	Opponent
Field goals made		8
Field goals attempted		17
2-point field goals made		6
2-point field goals attempted		17
3-point field goals made		4
3-point field goals attempted		8
Free throws made		10
Free throws attempted		12
Offensive Rebounds		5
Defensive Rebounds		8
+/-		38

Team game highs

Statistic	Total	Opponent
Points	108
Total Rebounds	42
Assists	30
Blocks	7
Steals	13
Efficiency	141
Field goal percentage	58.2% (39/67)
2-point field goal percentage	66.7% (24/36)
3-point field goal percentage	48.4% (15/31)
Free throw percentage	75% (27/36)
Turnovers	17

Statistic	Total	Opponent
Field goals made	39
Field goals attempted	67
2-point field goals made	24
2-point field goals attempted	45
3-point field goals made	15
3-point field goals attempted	31
Free throws made	27
Free throws attempted	30
Offensive Rebounds	12
Defensive Rebounds	34
+/-	46

Conclusion

Italy ended the championship at the 10th place overall, position that allows Italy the qualification to the Olympic qualifying tournament.

External links

• Official website
• 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Profile at FIBA Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Italy return to World Cup for first time since 2006 after thrashing Hungary . 22 February 2019 . fiba.basketball . 26 July 2019 .
2. Web site: Star-studded FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Draw completed in Shenzhen . 16 March 2019 . fiba.basketball . 26 July 2019 .
3. Web site: Belinelli, Gallinari and Della Valle in 24-man strong Italy squad ahead of World Cup . 1 July 2019 . fiba.basketball . 26 July 2019 .
4. Web site: I 19 Azzurri convocati dal CT Sacchetti per il training camp di Pinzolo e per la Trentino Basket Cup . 12 July 2019 . fip.it . 26 July 2019 . Italian.
5. Web site: L'Italbasket si presenta! Meo: "Se troviamo il giusto equilibrio possiamo andare lontano". Petrucci: "Spero sia inizio di una nuova era" . 23 July 2019 . fip.it . 26 July 2019 . Italian.
6. Web site: La via verso la Cina. I programmi della Nazionale maschile per l'estate 2019: Training camp a Pinzolo e 11 gare di preparazione . 3 June 2019 . fip.it . 26 July 2019 . Italian.
7. Web site: Verona Basketball Cup. Italia-Venezuela 72-54. Cinciarini, Moraschini e M. Vitali lasciano il raduno. Meo: "Scelte sofferte. Atteggiamento in campo da rivedere" . 11 August 2019 . fip.it . 8 August 2019 . Italian.
8. Web site: FIP . Nicolò Melli non parteciperà alla FIBA World Cup. Azzurri in raduno a Roma. Domani scrimmage col Venezuela e il 15 agosto partenza per la Grecia . fip.it . FIP . 13 August 2019.
9. Web site: FIP . Pietro Aradori non parteciperà alla FIBA World Cup 2019 per scelta tecnica. L’Azzurro autorizzato a lasciare il raduno di Atene domani in mattinata . fip.it . FIP . 17 August 2019.
10. Web site: FIP . FIBA World Cup. Meo ha scelto i 12. Fuori dal roster Giampaolo Ricci e Brian Sacchetti. Esordio il 31 agosto contro le Filippine . fip.it . FIP . 29 August 2019.
11. Web site: Nicolò Melli autorizzato a non partecipare al training camp di Pinzolo . 16 July 2019 . fip.it . 26 July 2019 . Italian.
12. Web site: Τα εισιτήρια για το τουρνουά "Ακρόπολις" . allstarbasket.gr . 13 August 2019.

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