2010 FIBA World Championship final

2010 FIBA World Championship final Billups & Odom holding World Cup trophy.jpg USA's Billups and Odom holding the trophy United States Turkey USA 30px TUR 30px 81 64 22 20 19 20 17 15 16 16 September 12, 2010 Sinan Erdem Dome Istanbul 15,000 Cristiano Jesus Maranho, Luigi Lamonica, Juan Arteaga 2006 2014 The 2010 FIBA World Championship final was a basketball game between the men's national teams of Turkey and the United States that took place on September 12, 2010, at Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, to determine the winner of the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The US team won the world title after defeating Turkey 81–64.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/basketball/7999270/USA-beat-hosts-Turkey-to-land-first-World-Championshp-title-since-1994.html USA beat hosts Turkey to land first World Championship title since 1994 2010-08-13 The Telegraph 2010-09-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20100914020932/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/basketball/7999270/USA-beat-hosts-Turkey-to-land-first-World-Championshp-title-since-1994.html 14 September 2010 live This was the first match-up in any major international competition between the United States and Turkey. The last time the two teams faced each other in a match was at an exhibition game before the 2008 Summer Olympics. At that meeting, the U.S. won 114–82.http://blog.mlive.com/fullcourtpress/2008/07/us_olympic_basketball_team_bea.html U.S. Olympic basketball team beats Turkey by 32 points 2008-07-31 2010-09-12 Full Court Press – A Detroit Pistons Blog Route to the final Both teams qualified to the tournament automatically, the United States by winning the gold medal at the Olympics in Beijing, and Turkey as hosts.http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/10/fwcm/news/p/eid/4728/nid/44567/sid/4728/article.html Last Day Preview 2010-09-12 2010-09-12 FIBA https://web.archive.org/web/20100915205613/http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/10/fwcm/news/p/eid/4728/nid/44567/sid/4728/article.html 15 September 2010 dead Historically, the teams were polar opposites. America had 16 Summer Olympics medals and 10 FIBA World Cup medals, while Turkey's only previous international medal of any kind was a silver at the EuroBasket 2001. The US brought the top scoring offense into the final, averaging 94.3 points and 18.5 assists per game. Nevertheless, Turkey's vaunted 2–1–2 zone made it the top defensive team (64 points per game) in the tournament heading into the final,http://www.nba.com/2010/news/features/john_schuhmann/09/11/us-turkey-preview/?ls=iref:nbahpt1 Americans face difficult challenge as Turkey thinks upset 2010-09-11 2010-09-12 NBA.com https://web.archive.org/web/20100915224134/http://www.nba.com/2010/news/features/john_schuhmann/09/11/us-turkey-preview/?ls=iref%3Anbahpt1 15 September 2010 dead and a commentator on NBA.com wrote that the European crowd would "be the most hostile crowd most of these [U.S.] players, with the exception of maybe Chauncey Billups and Lamar Odom, have ever seen." The U.S. had an easier route to the final, winning all of their games in runaway fashion, with the sole exception of their preliminary round game against Brazil. Turkey, on the other hand, had close games against Puerto Rico in the preliminary round, and against Serbia in the semifinals, in which Kerem Tunçeri scored the go-ahead basket, with less than a second left, after picking up Hedo Türkoğlu's fumble, to give Turkey the 83–82 win. Both teams were undefeated going into the final. TurkeyRoundUSAOpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResultCIV86–47Match 1CRO106–78RUS65–56Match 2SLO99–77GRE76–65Match 3BRA70–68PRI79–77Match 4IRN88–51CHN87–40Match 5TUN92–57Team Pld Played W Won L Lost PF Points for PA Points against PD Points difference Pts PointsTurkey 5 5 0 393 285 +108 10Russia 5 4 1 365 346 +19 9Greece 5 3 2 403 370 +33 8China 5 1 4 360 422 −62 6Puerto Rico 5 1 4 386 401 −15 6Côte d'Ivoire 5 1 4 334 417 −83 6Final standingTeam Pld Played W Won L Lost PF Points for PA Points against PD Points difference Pts PointsUSA 5 5 0 455 331 +124 10Slovenia 5 4 1 393 376 +17 9Brazil 5 3 2 398 354 +44 8Croatia 5 2 3 395 407 −12 7Iran 5 1 4 301 367 −66 6Tunisia 5 0 5 300 407 −107 5OpponentResultKnockout stageOpponentResultFRA95–77Round of 16ANG121–66SLO95–68Quarter-finalsRUS89–79SRB83–82SemifinalsLIT89–74 Match details The game was close for the first half — Turkey even led at one point during the first quarter — but the American athleticism was too much for the Turks, and the U.S. was able to pull away on easy baskets.http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/nba/09/12/usa.turkey.blog/index.html?eref=sihp FIBA World Championships: USA-Turkey Live Blog SI.com 2010-09-12 2010-09-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20100914212101/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/nba/09/12/usa.turkey.blog/index.html?eref=sihp 14 September 2010 dead Kevin Durant was the game's leading scorer, with 28 points, including seven three-point field goals. Durant scored 20 of his points in the first half. Lamar Odom came up big when it mattered most, scoring all fifteen of his points in the second half, and grabbing eleven rebounds overall. Hedo Türkoğlu was Turkey's leading scorer with 16 points, despite suffering a knee injury during the first half.http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2010/09/fiba-world-championship-final-usa-vs-turkey/1 FIBA world championship final: USA defeats Turkey USA Today September 12, 2010 September 12, 2010 Ersan İlyasova had seven points and eleven rebounds. With the win, Mike Krzyzewski became the first U.S. national basketball head coach to win an Olympic Gold Medal and a FIBA World Cup. The U.S. also clinched an automatic berth in the 2012 Summer Olympics. main Match details dm September 12 21:30 Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul Turkey 64 USA United States 81 17–22 15–20 16–19 16–20 https://archive.today/20121205060454/http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/10/fwcm/p/gid/A/grid/80/rid/6948/game.html Report Türkoğlu 16 Durant 28 İlyasova 11 Odom 11 Tunçeri 5 Rose 6 15,000 Cristiano Jesus Maranho (BRA), Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Juan Arteaga (ESP) _adidasonwhite _adidasonwhite E30A17 E30A17 Turkey 000033 _whitethinlines 000033 United States yes yes yes #E30A17 PG 10 Kerem Tunçeri 7 2 5 SG 7 Ömer Onan 7 0 1 SF 15 Hidayet Türkoğlu 16 7 1 PF 8 Ersan İlyasova 7 11 0 C 14 Ömer Aşık 5 4 0 yes yes yes G 4 Cenk Akyol 0 0 0 G 5 Sinan Güler 0 0 0 G 6 Barış Ermiş 0 0 0 C 9 Semih Erden 9 0 0 C 11 Oğuz Savaş 0 2 0 F 12 Kerem Gönlüm 4 6 1 G 13 Ender Arslan 6 0 1 MNE Bogdan Tanjević Game rules Game was played under FIBA rules. 250px|border Sinan Erdem Dome 2010 World ChampionsUSA 100px United States4th title yes yes yes #000033 PG 4 Chauncey Billups 4 3 2 SG 6 Derrick Rose 8 1 6 SF 9 Andre Iguodala 4 5 3 PF 5 Kevin Durant 28 5 0 C 14 Lamar Odom 15 11 0 yes yes yes G 7 Russell Westbrook 13 6 3 F 8 Rudy Gay 6 4 0 F 10 Danny Granger 0 0 0 G 11 Stephen Curry 3 0 0 G 12 Eric Gordon yes yes F 13 Kevin Love 0 1 0 C 15 Tyson Chandler 0 0 0 USA Mike Krzyzewski References External links http://www.fiba.com FIBA official website https://www.eurobasket.com/world-cup/basketball.aspx EuroBasket.com FIBA Basketball World Cup Page Final Category:Turkey national basketball team games Category:United States national basketball team games Category:Sports competitions in Istanbul 2010 Category:FIBA Basketball World Cup finals Final Final Category:September 2010 sports events in Turkey Category:Sport in Bakırköy