2010 FIBA World Championship Final

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]

2010 FIBA World Championship Final
USA's Billups and Odom holding the trophy
United States Turkey
81 64
1234 Total
United States 22201920 81
Turkey 17151616 64
DateSeptember 12, 2010
VenueSinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
RefereesCristiano Jesus Maranho, Luigi Lamonica, Juan Arteaga
Attendance15,000

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 U.S. 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]

Turkey Round USA
Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result
 Ivory Coast 86–47 Match 1  Croatia 106–78
 Russia 65–56 Match 2  Slovenia 99–77
 Greece 76–65 Match 3  Brazil 70–68
 Puerto Rico 79–77 Match 4  Iran 88–51
 China 87–40 Match 5  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
Opponent Result Knockout stage Opponent Result
 France 95–77 Round of 16  Angola 121–66
 Slovenia 95–68 Quarter-finals  Russia 89–79
 Serbia 83–82 Semifinals  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]

September 12
21:30
Turkey  64–81 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)
Turkey
United States
Starters:PtsRebAst
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
Reserves:
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
Head coach:
Bogdan Tanjević
Game rules
Game was played under FIBA rules.


Sinan Erdem Dome

2010 World Champions

United States
4th title
Starters:PtsRebAst
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
Reserves:
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   DNP
F 13 Kevin Love 0 1 0
C 15 Tyson Chandler 0 0 0
Head coach:
Mike Krzyzewski

References
  1. "USA beat hosts Turkey to land first World Championship title since 1994". The Telegraph. 2010-08-13. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  2. "U.S. Olympic basketball team beats Turkey by 32 points". Full Court Press – A Detroit Pistons Blog. 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  3. "Last Day Preview". FIBA. 2010-09-12. Archived from the original on 15 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  4. "Americans face difficult challenge as Turkey thinks upset". NBA.com. 2010-09-11. Archived from the original on 15 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  5. "FIBA World Championships: USA-Turkey Live Blog". SI.com. 2010-09-12. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  6. "FIBA world championship final: USA defeats Turkey". USA Today. September 12, 2010. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
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