FIBA EuroBasket 2007

The European Basketball Championship 2007 ( officially: Euro Basket 2007) was the 35th edition of this tournament and took place from 3 to 16 September 2007 in Spain instead. In the tournament, it was at the same time to qualify for the Olympic Games 2008. Both finalists qualified directly for the games, the teams ranked 3-7 participate in a qualifying tournament in July 2008. However, Spain, the reigning world champions already qualified, reached the final, handed the third place also for direct qualification.

The European Basketball Championship is a biennial basketball competition between European powers teams, which is organized by the Munich-based FIBA Europe, the European Basketball Federation.

4.1 Group E - Madrid
4.2 Group F - Madrid

5.1 mode
5.2 tournament tree 5.2.1 Places 5-8

8.1 Overall
8.2 Most points
8.3 Most points per game
8.4 Most rebounds per game
8.5 Most assists per game

Qualifying round

→ see also: Division A

A total of 16 teams took part in the Euro Basket 2007 who qualified in different ways for the tournament:

Greece was set automatically as defending champions.

The eight European participants in the Basketball World Championship 2006 - Germany, France, Italy, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey - were directly qualified for the Euro Basket 2007.

Six other participants qualified in a qualifying round from 31 August to 16 September 2006 in the Division A: Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Russia and the Czech Republic.

As the 16th and final team to Israel was in another qualifying tournament, which took place from 29 to 31 August 2007, securing the participation in the European Championships.

Venues

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round of four teams playing in four groups against each other. The winner of the match was awarded two points, the loser one point. On October 19, 2006, the following groups were drawn in Madrid:

Greece Greece
Russia Russia
Serbia Serbia
Israel Israel

Spain
Croatia Croatia
Latvia Latvia
Portugal

Germany Germany
Lithuania Lithuania
Czech Republic Czech Republic
Turkey Turkey

Italy Italy
France France
Poland Poland
Slovenia Slovenia

Group A - Granada

In group A, the European vice champion Greece was the start of his favorite role is not met, a lackluster victory over Israel left the team following a hard-fought 68:67 victory over Serbia in the last game they lost even against the surprisingly freed aufspielende team from Russia with 53:61.

The surprise of the first round was the team from Russia, which won all three games for themselves, in the first game Serbia was beaten with 73:65. In the second match Russia won against Israel clearly with 90:56. In the last game of the favorites from Greece was defeated, so that Russia moved as group winners in the second round.

Israel held a long well with against Greece, but still lost with 66:76. In the second game but lost to Russia significantly with 56:90. In the last game of the underdogs surprisingly won with 87:83 against Serbia and moved into the second round.

Serbia turned out to be big disappointment out and lost all his games but without even clear to lose, the team stepped up as the youngest team in the Championship, even NBA star Milicic was just 22 years old, this afforded in the last game a great outburst and insulted the referee.

Group B - Sevilla

Croatia played up and down in the first days of the tournament, the team in the first game little of their true class showed and lost to Latvia at 77:85. In the second match they were significantly improved, and beat Portugal, the outsider of the group with 90:68. In the last game we had against the reigning world champions Spain already with 40:50 back and already looking like the loser, but the Croats showed an incredible performance, leaving the Spaniard superstar Gasol no longer come into play and won with 85:84.

Spain already in the first game did a great job and won with 82:56 against Portugal. In the second game they beat Latvia with 93:77 also because Pau Gasol contributed 26 points at the moment. In the last game they had long against Croatia and looked like the winner, but Croatia took impressively and Spain still lost with 84:85, the second big surprise of the tournament was hereby perfect.

Portugal was the underdogs of the group, they lost against world champions Spain as high as expected with 56:82. In the second match against Croatia, they played on despondent, afraid to be little to lose and much to 68:90. Only in the third game showed the Portuguese that they had collected a pretty good team: In the game against Latvia, they won clearly with 77:67 points, which was not expected from the previous tournament.

Latvia beat in the first game the favorite Croatian selection with 85:77. In the second match against Spain, the team conceded defeat with the expected 77:93. You did not expect that Latvia was eliminated, but they lost to Portugal. Thus, another pretty good team adopted earlier than expected.

Group C - Palma de Mallorca

Lithuania, the Seventh World Championship of the previous year, was next to Spain and Greece as the big favorite of this tournament and showed this in the first game against the highly con creatures from Turkey impressive than they with 85:69 aufzeigten the Turks their limits. They had beaten Lithuania at the 2006 World Championships twice. In the second game the team around superstar Šarūnas Jasikevičius also gained significantly against the Czech Republic with 95:75. In the third match against Germany, the Lithuanians playful a 53:32 lead, yet they won with 84:80.

In the first match Germany superstar Nowitzki showed a faint idea and got lucky that the Czech Republic narrowly led at halftime; after extra time, the German team prevailed. In the game against Turkey, the Germans showed their best performance of the tournament, beating Turkey clearly with 79:49. In the last game they lost narrowly to Lithuania hottie with 80:84.

Turkey not at all convinced in the first days of the tournament and lost the first two games clear against Lithuania and Germany. Only in the last game, the class of the team flashed in part, as they defeated the Czech Republic 80:72.

The Czechs showed a spirited performance against Germany and missed nearly the great sensation when you had to admit defeat after extra time. In the second game, however, the team had no chance against Lithuania and lost significantly with 75:95. In the last game the team lost pretty nearly with 72:80 and that was eliminated as expected, but the team had not disappointed.

Group D - Alicante

Slovenia was the surprise team in this group, in the three World Cup participants last year played along, all had been considered one of the favorites. In the first game, the Slovenes Italy struck with 69:68. In the second game they let outsiders Poland no chance and won 70:52. Against France Slovenia could also win with 67:66, so that Slovenia had mastered the most difficult group of the tournament.

France could not convince correctly, they beat Poland, although with 74:66, but did you look at for a long time very hard despite stars like Turiaf and Tony Parker. Against Italy, they showed a stronger performance, but won the French just barely, thanks to 36 points with 69:62 Parker. Against Slovenia, the French lost then with 66:67.

Italy was followed by the great misfortune, we led in the first game just before the end 68:66 and still conceded a threesome and lost. In the second game we slept through the third quarter and also lost, so you had to win the last game against Poland; only here the Italians played with the young NBA players Belinelli and Bargnani much more experienced and won with 79:70 and prevented an early exit.

For Poland outsider was in the toughest group of the tournament, they lost all three games, but the team did against France with a long time. Against Slovenia, the team had no chance against Italy, the team was constantly having from 7 to 12 points behind and lost at the end with 9 points difference.

Second round

After the preliminary competition, the first three teams qualified in each group for the second round. The three teams of groups A and B formed the group E, C and D were the skilled workers of the groups, the new group F. Each team met once against each of the three teams from the other Preliminary Round group. The points from the preliminaries were continued.

The groups were as follows:

Russia Russia
Greece Greece
Israel Israel
Croatia Croatia
Spain
Portugal

Lithuania Lithuania
Germany Germany
Turkey Turkey
Slovenia Slovenia
France France
Italy Italy

Group E - Madrid

Group F - Madrid

Final round

Mode

After the second round to the first four teams qualified in each of the two groups E and F for the final round. It was played in the quarter final cross against an opponent from the other sub-lap group. Then clashed both the winners of the quarter finals in the semifinals, and the losers in the placement round the ranks 5 through 8 The winners of the semi-finals contested the final, the losers playing for 3rd place Winners of the placement games played for 5th place, the losers to 7th place

Tournament tree

All times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST )

Places 5-8

Quarterfinals

Placement matches

Semifinal

Game for 7th place

Match for 5th place

3rd Place Match

Final

End figures

Honors

To the best players of the tournament ( MVP ) of the Russian Andrei Kirilenko Gennadjewitsch was chosen. In a total of nine games Kirilenko scored an average of 18.0 points, 8.6 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.8 blocks per game. He had a hit rate of 47.3 % (53 of 112 ) from the field and 82.8 % (48 of 58) from the free throw line.

Ins All- Tournament team alongside Kirilenko the Spaniard Pau Gasol and Jose Calderon, the German Dirk Nowitzki and the Lithuanians Ramūnas Siskauskas were elected.

Statistics

Overall

54 Games
7,940 points
3,749 rebounds ( 1,105 of them offensively and defensively 2644 )
1,233 assists
2,368 Fouls
1,361 turnovers
687 steals
281 Block Throws

Most points

Most points per game

Most rebounds per game

Most assists per game

The German team

The German team consisted of Stephen Arigbabu, Mithat Demirel Patrick Femerling, Robert Garrett, Demond Greene, Guido Grünheid, Steffen Hamann, Johannes Herber, Jan Jagla, Dirk Nowitzki, Ademola Okulaja, Pascal Roller, ( Coach: Dirk Bauer man)

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