2017 FIBA 3x3 World Cup – Men's tournament explained

The 2017 FIBA 3x3 World Cup was held in Nantes, France, and was contested by 20 teams.

Participating teams

All five FIBA zones were represented. The top 20 teams, including the hosts, based on the FIBA National Federation ranking qualified for the tournament. ^[1]

+ FIBA Africa width=150 Team (16)

+ FIBA Americas width=150 Team (4) (15) (17)

+ FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania width=160 Team (12) (13) (14) (18) (19) (20)

+ FIBA Europe width=150 Team (1) (2) (3) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)

Players

Seed	Team	width=400px	Players
9		Oriol Fernández, Esteve Malet, Rafael Casals, Jordi Plasencia
16		Ahmed Elsabbagh, Ramy Ibrahim, Mido Mohamed, Haitham Kamal
15		Roberto Martinez Ramirez, Luis Escoto Bran, Carlos Arias Serrano, Julio Mancia Arias
11		Erik Luts, Jaagup Toome, Mario Polusk, Sander Viilup
10		Charles Bronchard, Dominique Gentil, Angelo Tsagarakis, Charly Pontens
13		Rivaldo Pangesthio, Fandi Ramadhani, Kevin Moses Poetiray, Vinton Surawi
5		Jesper Jobse, Joey Schelvis, Sjoerd Van Vilsteren, Bas Rozendaal
12		Karl Noyer, Marco Alexander, Aaron Bailey-Nowell, Angus Riley
18		Kobe Paras, Joseph Ronald Quiñahan, Kiefer Ravena, Jeron Teng
3		Szymon Rduch, Przemysław Rduch, Arkadiusz Kobus, Dawid Brek
17		Luis Hernandez, Jonathan Garcia, Wil Martinez, Gilberto Clavell
14		Abdulrahman Saad, Erfan Ali, Tanguy Ngombo, Fadi Abilmona
7		Bogdan Cezar Sandu, Mihai Vacarescu, Baragau Cezar, Marius Ciotlaus
8		Leo Lagutin, Ilya Alexandrov, Dmitrii Kriukov, Vasily Fedosov
1		Dušan Bulut, Marko Savić, Marko Ždero, Dejan Majstorović
2		Anže Srebovt, Gašper Ovnik, Simon Finžgar, Adin Kavgić
20		Choi Go-bong, Namkoong Jun-soo, Seung Jun-lee, Shin Yun-ha
19		Thimothi Nithushan, Roshan Sooriyaarachchi, Sudesh Paiva, Isuru Perera
6		Maksym Zakurdaiev, Stanislav Tymofeyenko, Sasha Kobets, Dmytro Lypovtsev
4		Craig Moore, Dan Mavraides, Damon Huffman, Zahir Carrington

Preliminary round

Pool D

Final standings

	width=180px	Team !	width=20px	Pld !	width=20px	W !	width=20px	L !	width=35px	PF !	width=35px	PA !	width=40px	PD
		7	7	0	140	102	+38
		7	6	1	128	88	+40
		7	5	2	130	98	+32
4th		7	5	2	129	105	+24
Eliminated in the quarterfinals
5th		5	4	1	98	75	+23
6th		5	3	2	89	54	+35
7th		5	3	2	94	69	+25
8th		5	3	2	86	81	+5
Eliminated in the preliminary round
9th		4	2	2	72	63	+9
10th		4	2	2	73	71	+2
11th		4	2	2	67	72	–5
12th		4	1	3	54	62	–8
13th		4	1	3	61	76	–15
14th		4	1	3	46	69	–23
15th		4	1	3	55	79	–24
16th		4	1	3	41	66	–25
17th		4	1	3	35	65	–30
18th		4	0	4	62	68	–6
19th		4	0	4	48	85	–37
20th		4	0	4	25	85	–60

Awards

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player

• Dejan Majstorović (SRB)

Team of the Tournament

• Dušan Bulut (SRB)
• Jesper Jobse (NED)
• Dejan Majstorović (SRB)

Individual contests

Dunk contest

Overall formatEach player had 75 seconds and 3 attempts per round to complete a dunk with the first successful dunk being considered as the valid one. A jury of five members rated each dunk by assigning 5 to 10 points to it (by each member) or 0 points if the dunk was unsuccessful.^[2]

Qualification

FormatThe qualification round took place on June 19. Each player competed in two rounds and four players with the highest score then advanced to the knockout stage. In a case of ties, the tied players would perform again and if they were still tied, the jury decided which player advanced.^[2]

Country	Dunker	1st round	2nd round	Total
	Chris Staples	30	27	57
	Rafal Lipinski	27	29	56
	Vadym Poddubchenko	28	28	56
	Jordan Southerland	27	27	54
		27	23	50
	Dmytro Kryvenko	21	23	44

Knockout stage

The knockout stage consisting of a semi-final and a final took place on June 21.^[2]

Semi-finalTop two players advanced to the final round.^[2]

Country	Dunker	1st round	2nd round	Total
	Chris Staples	28	28	56
	Rafal Lipinski	25	27	52
	Vadym Poddubchenko	24	28	52
	Jordan Southerland	26	21	47

FinalThe time limit was eliminated for the final and the two players competed over three rounds instead of two.^[2]

Country	Dunker	1st round	2nd round	3rd round	Total
	Rafal Lipinski	30	29	30	89
	Chris Staples	30	28	30	88

Results

	Team	Player
		Rafal Lipinski
		Chris Staples
		Vadym Poddubchenko

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. News: Team. https://web.archive.org/web/20170210200710/http://www.fiba.com/3x3worldcup/2017/teams. live. February 10, 2017. 10 June 2017. FIBA. 10 June 2017.
2. Web site: Dunk contest. https://web.archive.org/web/20170210222718/http://www.fiba.com/3x3worldcup/2017/dunk-contest. live. February 10, 2017. FIBA 3x3 World Cup 2017. FIBA. 25 June 2017.