Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament explained

Size:	150
City:	London
Country:	United Kingdom
Dates:	29 July – 12 August
Num Teams:	12
Confederations:	5
Venues:	2
Cities:	1
Champion Other:	United States
Count:	14
Second:	ESP
Third:	RUS
Fourth:	ARG
Games:	38
Top Scorer:	Patty Mills (21.2 points per game)
Prevseason:	Beijing 2008
Nextseason:	Rio 2016

The men's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, began on 29 July and ended on 12 August, when the United States defeated Spain 107–100 for the gold medal. All preliminary games were held at the Basketball Arena within the Olympic Park, while the knockout matches took place at The O2 Arena (renamed North Greenwich Arena due to the IOC's commercialisation policy).

Qualification

See main article: Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.

Means of qualification^[1]	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	6 July 2005		1
	28 August – 12 September 2010		1
	17–28 August 2011		1
	30 August – 11 September 2011		2
	7–11 September 2011		1
	31 August – 18 September 2011		2
	15–25 September 2011		1
	2–8 July 2012^[2]		3

Squads

See main article: Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.

Competition format

Twelve qualified nations were drawn into two groups, each consisting of six teams. Each game result merits a corresponding point:

Result	Points
Win	2
Loss	1
Loss via default*	1
Loss via forfeiture**	0

• The team has fewer than two players available to play on the court at some point during the game.
  **A team cannot put forward at least five players at the start of the game, or its own actions prevent play from being resumed.

In case teams are tied on points, the tiebreaking criteria are used, in order of first application:^[3]

1. Results of the games involving the tied teams (head-to-head records)
2. Goal average of the games involving the tied teams
3. Goal average of all of the games played
4. Points scored
5. Drawing of lots

The teams with the four best records qualified for the knockout stage, which was a single-elimination tournament. The semifinal winners contested for the gold medal, while the losers played for the bronze medal.

Preliminary round

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout round

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Statistical leaders

Individual tournament highs

Points

Pos.	Name	G	Pts
1	Patty Mills	6	127	21.2
2	Kevin Durant	8	156	19.5
3	Manu Ginóbili	8	155	19.4
4	Pau Gasol	8	153	19.1
5	Luis Scola	8	144	18.0
6	Andrei Kirilenko	8	140	17.5
7	Carmelo Anthony	8	130	16.3
8	Leandro Barbosa	6	97	16.2
9	Luol Deng	5	79	15.8
10	Tony Parker	6	94	15.7

Rebounds

Pos.	Name	G	Reb.
1	Yi Jianlian	5	51	10.2
2	Salah Mejri	5	50	10.0
3	Ike Diogu	5	45	9.0
4	Makrem Ben Romdhane	5	43	8.6
5	Nenê Hilário	5	40	8.0
6	Pau Gasol	8	61	7.6
	Kevin Love	8	61	7.6
8	Andrei Kirilenko	8	60	7.5
9	Pops Mensah-Bonsu	4	29	7.2
10	Anderson Varejão	6	42	7.0

Assists

Pos.	Name	G	Ass.
1	Pablo Prigioni	6	39	6.5
2	Marcelinho Huertas	6	36	6.0
3	Alexey Shved	8	47	5.9
4	LeBron James	8	45	5.6
5	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	6	32	5.3
6	Chris Paul	8	41	5.1
7	Mantas Kalnietis	6	29	4.8
8	Luol Deng	5	23	4.6
	Deron Williams	8	37	4.6
10	Matthew Dellavedova	6	27	4.5

Blocks

Pos.	Name	G	Blocks
1	Salah Mejri	5	17	3.4
2	Yi Jianlian	5	11	2.2
3	Andrei Kirilenko	8	14	1.8
4	Nicolas Batum	6	9	1.5
5	Serge Ibaka	8	11	1.3
	Kevin Seraphin	6	8	1.3
7	Pau Gasol	8	9	1.1
8	Paulius Jankūnas	6	6	1.0
	Nenê Hilário	5	5	1.0
10	Sasha Kaun	8	6	0.8

Steals

Pos.	Name	G	Stls
1	Chris Paul	8	20	2.5
2	Al-Farouq Aminu	5	10	2.0
3	Andrei Kirilenko	8	15	1.9
4	Makrem Ben Romdhane	6	11	1.8
	Matthew Nielsen	5	9	1.8
	Pablo Prigioni	6	11	1.8
7	Nando de Colo	6	10	1.7
8	Manu Ginóbili	8	13	1.6
	Kevin Durant	8	13	1.6
10	LeBron James	8	11	1.4

Minutes

Pos.	Name	G	Min.
1	Luol Deng	5	173	34.6
2	Makrem Ben Romdhane	5	169	33.8
3	Yi Jianlian	5	166	33.2
4	Andrei Kirilenko	5	165	33
5	Ike Diogu	5	162	32.4
	Joe Ingles	5	162	32.4
	Salah Mejri	5	162	32.4
8	Nate Reinking	5	153	30.6
9	Derrick Obasohan	5	151	30.2
10	Patrick Mills	5	149	29.8

Individual game highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points		39
Rebounds		14
Assists		13
Steals		4
Blocks		7
Field goal percentage		88.9% (8/9)
3-point field goal percentage		100% (4/4)
Free throw percentage		100% (8/8)
Turnovers		7	United States

Team tournament highs

Offensive PPG

Pos.	Name	PPG
1	United States	115.5
2		86.3
3		82.7
4		80.9
5		79.8

Defensive PPG

Pos.	Name	PPG
1		69.8
2		71.8
3		74.6
4		75.6
5		78.8

Rebounds

Pos.	Name	RPG
1	United States	44.6
2		41.3
3		41.0
4		40.5
5		38.8

Assists

Pos.	Name	APG
1	United States	25.0
2		19.8
3		19.6
4		19.3
5		18.2

Steals

Pos.	Name	SPG
1	United States	10.4
2		6.7
3		6.5
4		6.3
5		6.2

Blocks

Pos.	Name	BPG
1		5.0
		5.0
3		4.2
		4.2
5		3.9

Team game highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points		156
Rebounds	United States	56
Assists		41
Steals		17
Blocks		9
Field goal percentage		71.1% (59/83)
3-point field goal percentage		63% (29/46)
Free throw percentage		100.0% (10/10)
Turnovers		25	United States

ESPN All-Olympics Teams

Pos.	First Team	Second Team
G		Patty Mills
G		Marcelinho Huertas
F		Joe Ingles
F		Carmelo Anthony
C		Luis Scola

Honorable Mentions:^[4]

Carlos Delfino

Leandro Barbosa

Yi Jianlian

Nicolas Batum

Boris Diaw

Joel Freeland

Alexey Shved

Marc Gasol

Chris Paul

Kevin Love

Final standings

Rankings are determined by:

• 1st–4th
  • Results of gold and bronze medal games.
• 5th–8th:
  • Win–loss record in the preliminary round group
  • Standings in the preliminary round group (i.e. Group A's #3 is ranked higher than Group B's #4.)
  • Goal average in the preliminary round group
• 9th–10th and 11th–12th:
  • 5th placers in the preliminary round groups are classified 9th–10th; 6th placers classified *11th–12th
  • Win–loss record in the preliminary round group
  • Goal average in the preliminary round group

Rank	width=150px	Team !	width=20px	Pld !	width=20px	W !	width=20px	L !	width=30px	PF !	width=30px	PA !	width=30px	PD !	Standing	GAvg	New rank
Gold medal game participants
		8	8	0	924	667	+257			1
		8	5	3	647	619	+28			2
Bronze medal game participants
		8	6	2	623	577	+46			6 (5)
4th		8	4	4	690	691	−1			3
Eliminated at the quarterfinals
5th		6	4	2	479	431	+48	B–2nd	1.152	9 (4)
6th		6	4	2	435	444	−9	A–2nd	0.995	8 (4)
7th		6	3	3	496	492	+4	B–4th	1.099	10 (1)
8th		6	2	4	469	482	−13	A–4th	0.990	5
Preliminary round 5th placers
9th		5	1	4	380	405	−25		0.938	23 (20)
10th		5	1	4	338	456	−118		0.741	17 (4)
Preliminary round 6th placers
11th		5	0	5	320	411	−91		0.779	22 (10)
12th		5	0	5	313	439	−126		0.713	11 (1)

See also

• Women's Tournament

External links

• Schedule
• Statistics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Qualification System – Games of the XXX Olympiad . . May 2010 . 10 September 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120106012237/http://www.comiteolimpicoportugal.pt/media/60891/basquetebol.pdf . 6 January 2012 .
2. http://www.sportingnews.com/us/athletics-news/2935955-london-2012-summer-olympics-current-mens-basketball-teams-schedule-qualifiers
3. News: FIBA's Official Basketball Rules 2012-p.68. FIBA.com. 2012-04-29. 2012-08-06. 2013-09-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20130903042259/http://www.fiba.com/downloads/Rules/2012/OfficialBasketballRules2012.pdf. dead.
4. Web site: The all-Olympics team. go.com. 13 August 2012. 8 April 2018.

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