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EuroBasket 2005

International basketball event

EuroBasket 2005

International basketball event

FieldValue
tourney_nameEuroBasket 2005
other_titlesЕвропско првенство у кошарци 2005.
imageEurobasket05 logo.jpg
countrySerbia and Montenegro
dates16–25 September
num_teams16
venues5
cities4
championGreece
count2
secondGermany
thirdFrance
third-flagvar1974
fourthSpain
games40
mvpGER Dirk Nowitzki
top_scorerGER Dirk Nowitzki
(26.1 points per game)
prevseason2003
nextseason2007

| third-flagvar = 1974 (26.1 points per game) The 2005 FIBA European Championship, commonly known as FIBA EuroBasket 2005, was the 34th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe. It also served as the European qualifier for the 2006 FIBA World Championship, awarding berths to the top six teams in the final standings. It was held in Serbia and Montenegro from 16 to 25 September 2005. Sixteen national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The cities of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Podgorica and Vršac hosted the tournament. It was the third time that the championship was hosted by the city of Belgrade (previous times were in 1961 and 1975). Greece won its second FIBA European title by defeating Germany with a 78–62 score in the final. Germany's Dirk Nowitzki was voted the tournament's MVP.

Venues

Belgrade

Awarded hosting rights in March 2002, Belgrade (the capital of Serbia and Montenegro) was the main stage of the EuroBasket 2005 action. The Pionir Hall hosted Group C's six preliminary round games, while the Belgrade Arena hosted the competition following the preliminary round.

This was the third time that the championship was hosted by the city of Belgrade. Belgrade previously hosted the European basketball championships in 1961 and 1975.

Podgorica

Podgorica's Morača Sports Center hosted Group B, where six games were played. Being in Montenegro, it was the farthest locale from the central venue.

Novi Sad

Novi Sad, nicknamed "The City of Sports", is the capital of the province of Vojvodina and home to the Spens Sports Center. The six Group D games were played there.

Vršac

Vršac was home to Group A during the tournament, and also had a total of six games played in the 5,000-person capacity Millennium Center.

BelgradePodgoricaNovi SadVršac
Belgrade Arena
Capacity: 18,386Pionir Hall
Capacity: 8,178Morača Sports Center
Capacity: 4,570Spens Sports Center
Capacity: 11,000
[[File:Beogradska Arena - panoramio.jpg170px]][[File:Hala Pionir Beograd.jpg150px]][[File:Sports_Center_Moraca.jpg150px]][[File:NLB-Vojvodina-Partizan-2009-02-28.JPG150px]]

Qualification

Main article: FIBA EuroBasket 2005 qualification

CompetitionDateVacanciesQualified
Host nation–1
Participant of 2004 Summer Olympics15 – 28 August 20044
Qualified through Qualifying Round8 – 25 September 200410
Qualified through Additional Qualifying Round19 August – 13 September 20051
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D

Format

  • The teams were split in four groups of four teams each where they played a round robin. The first team from each group qualified directly to the knockout stage. To define the other four teams that advanced to the knockout stage, second and third-placed teams from each group where cross-paired (2A vs. 3B, 3A vs. 2B, 2C vs. 3D, 3C vs. 2D) and the winner from each match advanced to the quarterfinals.
  • In the knockout quarterfinals, the winners advanced to the semifinals. The winners from the semifinals competed for the championship in the final, while the losing teams play a consolation game for the third place.
  • The losing teams from the quarterfinals play in a separate bracket to define 5th through 8th place in the final standings.

Squads

Main article: FIBA EuroBasket 2005 squads

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

Preliminary round

Qualified for the play-off games

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

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Championship bracket

20 September 2005 22–23 September 2005 24 September 2005 25 September 2005 | team-width= | score-width=

| RD1-seed1 = | RD1-team1 =**** | RD1-score1 = 66 | RD1-seed2 = | RD1-team2 = | RD1-score2 =57

| RD1-seed3 = | RD1-team3 =**** | RD1-score3 = 74 | RD1-seed4 = | RD1-team4 = | RD1-score4 =66

| RD1-seed5 = | RD1-team5 =**** | RD1-score5 = 67 | RD1-seed6 = | RD1-team6 = | RD1-score6 =61

| RD1-seed7 = | RD1-team7 = | RD1-score7 =71 | RD1-seed8 = | RD1-team8 =**** | RD1-score8 = 74

| RD2-seed1 = | RD2-team1 = | RD2-score1 =62 | RD2-seed2 = | RD2-team2 =**** | RD2-score2 = 76

| RD2-seed3 = | RD2-team3 =**** (OT) | RD2-score3 =101 | RD2-seed4 = | RD2-team4 = | RD2-score4 =85

| RD2-seed5 = | RD2-team5 = | RD2-score5 =61 | RD2-seed6 = | RD2-team6 =**** | RD2-score6 = 66

| RD2-seed7 = | RD2-team7 = | RD2-score7 =47 | RD2-seed8 = | RD2-team8 =**** | RD2-score8 = 63

| RD3-seed1 = | RD3-team1 = **** | RD3-score1 = 74 | RD3-seed2 = | RD3-team2 = | RD3-score2 =73

| RD3-seed3 = | RD3-team3 = **** | RD3-score3 = 67 | RD3-seed4 = | RD3-team4 = | RD3-score4 =66

| RD4-seed1 = | RD4-team1 = | RD4-score1 =62 | RD4-seed2 = | RD4-team2 = **** | RD4-score2 = 78

| RD4b-seed1 = | RD4b-team1 = | RD4b-score1 =68 | RD4b-seed2 = | RD4b-team2 = **** | RD4b-score2 = 98

Play-offs

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Third place

Final

5th to 8th place

View of Belgrade Arena from the upper bowl before the start of the Greece vs. Germany final.

|23 September – 15:30||78||89 |24 September – 15:30||89||80 |25 September – 14:15||79||70 |25 September – 12:00||74||92

Statistical Leaders

Individual Tournament Highs

Points

Pos.NamePPG
1GER Dirk Nowitzki26.1
2ESP Juan Carlos Navarro25.2
3RUS Andrei Kirilenko17.5
4SCG Igor Rakočević16.3
5CRO Gordan Giriček15.7
6ESP Jorge Garbajosa14.5
7LTU Ramūnas Šiškauskas14.0
8FRA Boris Diaw13.7
9SLO Jaka Lakovič12.8
10RUS Jon Robert Holden12.5

Rebounds

Pos.NameRPG
1RUS Andrei Kirilenko11.8
2GER Dirk Nowitzki10.6
2RUS Victor Khryapa8.7
4ESP Felipe Reyes7.7
5FRA Florent Piétrus7.1
6CRO Gordan Giriček6.5
7ESP Jorge Garbajosa6.2
7SLO Radoslav Nesterović6.2
9CRO Mario Kasun6.0
10FRA Frédéric Weis5.9

Assists

Pos.NameAPG
1GRE Dimitris Diamantidis5.0
2SCG Marko Jarić4.3
3ISR Tal Burstein4.0
3SCG Igor Rakočević4.0
3ISR Meir Tapiro4.0
6CRO Marko Popović3.5
7FRA Boris Diaw3.4
8TUR Kerem Tunçeri3.0
9FRA Tony Parker2.4
10SLO Jaka Lakovič2.3
10LTU Ramūnas Šiškauskas2.3

Steals

Pos.NameSPG
1RUS Andrei Kirilenko3.3
2ISR Dror Hajaj3.0
2ISR Meir Tapiro3.0
4GRE Dimitris Diamantidis2.9
5SLO Sani Bečirovič2.3
5TUR Ender Arslan2.3
7LTU Vidas Ginevičius2.2
7CRO Zoran Planinić2.2
9SCG Marko Jarić2.0
9TUR Kerem Tunçeri2.0

Blocks

Pos.NameBPG
1RUS Andrei Kirilenko2.8
2GER Dirk Nowitzki1.9
3FRA Boris Diaw1.3
4SCG Darko Miličić1.2
4LTU Darjuš Lavrinovič1.2
4ESP Fran Vázquez1.2
7SLO Radoslav Nesterović1.0
7CRO Mario Kasun1.0
7ISR Yaniv Green1.0
7ITA Denis Marconato1.0
7TUR Mehmet Okur1.0

Minutes

Pos.NameMPG
1GER Dirk Nowitzki36.9
2ESP Jorge Garbajosa35.3
3CRO Gordan Giriček34.7
4ISR Tal Burstein34.5
5ESP Juan Carlos Navarro33.5
5RUS Andrei Kirilenko33.5
7ESP José Calderón31.7
8SLO Jaka Lakovič31.5
9GRE Dimitris Diamantidis31.4
10FRA Boris Diaw31.3
10ISR Meir Tapiro31.3

Individual Game Highs

DepartmentNameTotalOpponent
PointsESP Juan Carlos Navarro36
ReboundsGER Dirk Nowitzki19
AssistsGRE Dimitris Diamantidis10
StealsRUS Andrei Kirilenko5
BlocksRUS Andrei Kirilenko5
TurnoversISR Tal Burstein8

Team Tournament Highs

Offensive PPG

Pos.NamePPG
1****87.0
284.0
380.9
480.3
579.8

Rebounds

Pos.NameRPG
1****41.3
240.9
340.8
436.7
535.5

Assists

Pos.NameAPG
1****14.3
214.0
313.8
413.4
512.3

Steals

Pos.NameSPG
1****13.3
211.8
311.3
410.3
410.3

Blocks

Pos.NameBPG
1****4.0
23.9
33.8
33.5
52.9

Team Game highs

DepartmentNameTotalOpponent
Points114
Rebounds48
Assists23
Steals19
Blocks8
Field goal percentage62.7% (37/59)
3-point field goal percentage51.7% (15/29)
Free throw percentage95% (19/20)
Turnovers
27

Awards

2005 FIBA EuroBasket MVP: Dirk Nowitzki (GER Germany)
All-Tournament Team
GRE Theodoros Papaloukas
ESP Juan Carlos Navarro
GRE Dimitris Diamantidis
GER Dirk Nowitzki (MVP)
FRA Boris Diaw

Final standings

Results
Lithuania and Croatia in press conference
Qualified for the 2006 FIBA World Championship as wild cards
RankTeamRecord
6–1
5–2
4–3
43–3
55–1
64–2
74–3
82–4
92–2
2–2
2–2
1–3
130–3
0–3
0–3
0–3
** Theodoros Papaloukas
Vassilis Spanoulis
Nikolaos Zisis
Ioannis Bourousis
Panagiotis Vasilopoulos
Antonis Fotsis
Nikos Chatzivrettas
Dimos Dikoudis
Kostas Tsartsaris
Dimitris Diamantidis
Lazaros Papadopoulos
Michalis Kakiouzis**Mithat Demirel
Robert Garrett
Demond Greene
Marko Pešić
Denis Wucherer
Pascal Roller
Misan Haldin
Sven Schultze
Stephen Arigbabu
Patrick Femerling
Dirk Nowitzki
Robert MarasFrédéric Fauthoux
Mickaël Gelabale
Antoine Rigaudeau
Cyril Julian
Mickaël Piétrus
Tony Parker
Mamoutou Diarra
Florent Piétrus
Jérôme Schmitt
Boris Diaw
Frédéric Weis
Sacha GiffaRudy Fernández
Iker Iturbe
Carlos Cabezas
Juan Carlos Navarro
José Calderón
Felipe Reyes
Carlos Jiménez
Sergi Vidal
Sergio Rodríguez
Iñaki de Miguel
Fran Vázquez
Jorge Garbajosa

References

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  2. "KOMBANK ARENA 18,386 seats. 70 luxury boxes with total capacity of 860 seats.".
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