2010 FIBA World Championship final

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2010 FIBA World Championship final
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USA's Billups and Odom holding the trophy
United States Turkey
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United States 2220192081
Turkey 1715161664
DateSeptember 12, 2010
Venue Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Referees Cristiano Jesus Maranho, Luigi Lamonica, Juan Arteaga
Attendance15,000
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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. [1]

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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. [2]

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. [3] 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, [4] 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." [4]

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. [3]

TurkeyRoundUSA
OpponentResult Group stage OpponentResult
Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast 86–47 Match 1Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 106–78
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 65–56 Match 2Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 99–77
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 76–65 Match 3Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 70–68
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 79–77 Match 4Flag of Iran.svg  Iran 88–51
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 87–40 Match 5Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 92–57
Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
Turkey 550393285+10810
Russia 541365346+199
Greece 532403370+338
China 514360422−626
Puerto Rico 514386401−156
Côte d'Ivoire 514334417−836
Final standing
Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
USA 550455331+12410
Slovenia 541393376+179
Brazil 532398354+448
Croatia 523395407−127
Iran 514301367−666
Tunisia 505300407−1075
OpponentResult Knockout stage OpponentResult
Flag of France.svg  France 95–77 Round of 16Flag of Angola.svg  Angola 121–66
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 95–68 Quarter-finalsFlag of Russia.svg  Russia 89–79
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 83–82 SemifinalsFlag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 89–74

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. [5]

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. [6] Ersan İlyasova had seven points and eleven rebounds. [5]

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. [5] The U.S. also clinched an automatic berth in the 2012 Summer Olympics. [5]

12 September
21:30
Turkey  Flag of Turkey.svg64–81Flag of the United States.svg United States
Scoring by quarter: 17–22, 15–20, 16–19, 16–20
Pts: Türkoğlu 16
Rebs: İlyasova 11
Asts: Tunçeri 5		Pts: Durant 28
Rebs: Odom 11
Asts: Rose 6
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
Referees: Cristiano Jesus Maranho (BRA), Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Juan Arteaga (ESP)
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Turkey
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United States
Starters:PtsRebAst
PG 10 Kerem Tunçeri 725
SG 7 Ömer Onan 701
SF 15 Hidayet Türkoğlu 1671
PF 8 Ersan İlyasova 7110
C 14 Ömer Aşık 540
Reserves:
G 4 Cenk Akyol 000
G 5 Sinan Güler 000
G 6 Barış Ermiş 000
C 9 Semih Erden 900
C 11 Oğuz Savaş 020
F 12 Kerem Gönlüm 461
G 13 Ender Arslan 601
Head coach:
Flag of Montenegro.svg Bogdan Tanjević
Game rules
Game was played under FIBA rules.

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Sinan Erdem Dome

2010 World Champions
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United States
4th title
Starters:PtsRebAst
PG 4 Chauncey Billups 432
SG 6 Derrick Rose 816
SF 9 Andre Iguodala 453
PF 5 Kevin Durant 2850
C 14 Lamar Odom 15110
Reserves:
G 7 Russell Westbrook 1363
F 8 Rudy Gay 640
F 10 Danny Granger 000
G 11 Stephen Curry 300
G 12 Eric Gordon   Cruz Roja.svg DNP
F 13 Kevin Love 010
C 15 Tyson Chandler 000
Head coach:
Flag of the United States.svg Mike Krzyzewski

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