2007 FIBA Asia Championship explained

The 2007 FIBA Asia Championship for Men was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the men's basketball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. The tournament was held in Tokushima, Japan from July 28 to August 5, 2007.

Participating teams qualified through the previous edition of this tournament and others through regional qualifiers. Since China is assured of an automatic berth at the 2008 Olympics as the host nation, the champions will automatically qualify while the two best teams excluding China qualifies for the 2008 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men. This resulted in China deploying another team in this tournament, while their primary team led by NBA star Yao Ming and rookie Yi Jianlian participated in the Stankovic Cup and tournaments and friendlies with countries across Europe to prepare themselves.

Iran won their first championship after beating 2-time silver medalists Lebanon, 74–69. Korea upended Kazakhstan to clinch third place, and the last Asian berth in the FIBA pre-Olympic tournament, together with Lebanon.

Qualification

See main article: 2007 FIBA Asia Championship qualification.

According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Japan) and holders (China) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2005 FIBA Asia Championship.

Draw

The draw was held on June 6 at Tokushima. The teams were grouped first into four pots, each member of the pot is guaranteed not to face each other in the preliminary round; the top four finishers of 2005 FIBA Asia Championship are seeded in order of their finish and hence are on one pot. Japan as the host has the right to choose which group it will be under.

width=25%	Group A	width=25%	Group B	width=25%	Group C	width=25%	Group D
	*

* Saudi Arabia withdrew from the tournament, replaced them.

Squads

See main article: 2007 FIBA Asia Championship squads.

Preliminary round

Group A

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	212	191	+21	6
	3	2	1	216	201	+15	5
	3	1	2	224	233	−9	4
	3	0	3	207	234	−27	3

Group B

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	287	181	+106	6
	3	2	1	277	200	+77	5
	3	1	2	199	283	−84	4
	3	0	3	175	274	−99	3

Group C

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	268	163	+105	6
	3	2	1	273	203	+70	5
	3	1	2	195	269	−74	4
	3	0	3	164	265	−101	3

Group D

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	281	216	+65	6
	3	2	1	258	232	+26	5
	3	1	2	252	305	−53	4
	3	0	3	245	283	−38	3

Quarterfinal round

Group E

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	267	192	+75	6
	3	2	1	231	233	−2	5
	3	1	2	242	259	−17	4
	3	0	3	202	258	−56	3

Group F

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts	width=80	Tiebreaker
	3	2	1	241	240	+1	5	1–0
	3	2	1	236	223	+13	5	0–1
	3	1	2	239	254	−15	4	1–0
	3	1	2	215	214	+1	4	0–1

Group G

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	300	227	+73	6
	3	2	1	314	230	+84	5
	3	1	2	199	266	−67	4
	3	0	3	191	281	−90	3

Group H

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	295	171	+124	6
	3	2	1	211	261	−50	5
	3	1	2	234	238	−4	4
	3	0	3	200	270	−70	3

Classification 9th–16th

9th place

Classification 5th–8th

5th place

Final round

Final

Final standing

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"		Qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics
width=10px bgcolor="#ffffcc"		Qualified for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament

width=40	Rank	width=180	Team	width=60	Record
		7–1
		6–2
		6–2
4		4–4
5		5–3
6		3–5
7		5–3
8		4–4
9		5–2
10		3–4
11		3–4
12		2–5
13		3–4
14		1–6
15		2–5
16		1–6

Statistical leaders

Points

Pos.	Name	PPG
1		33.1
2		27.3
align=center rowspan=2	3		18.1
	18.1
5		17.6
6		17.4
7		17.3
8		16.6
9		16.0
10		15.5

Rebounds

Pos.	Name	RPG
1		10.6
2		9.6
3		9.1
4		8.9
5		8.1
6		7.6
7		7.4
8		7.1
align=center rowspan=2	9		7.1
	7.1

Assists

Pos.	Name	APG
1		4.0
2		3.1
3		3.1
align=center rowspan=2	4		2.9
	2.9
6		2.8
7		2.6
8		2.6
9		2.4
align=center rowspan=2	10		2.3
	2.3

Steals

Pos.	Name	SPG
1		2.3
2		1.8
3		1.7
4		1.6
align=center rowspan=2	5		1.6
	1.6
align=center rowspan=2	7		1.5
	1.5
9		1.4
10		1.4

Blocks

Pos.	Name	BPG
1		1.4
align=center rowspan=2	2		1.0
	1.0
4		0.9
5		0.7
align=center rowspan=2	6		0.6
	0.6
8		0.6
align=center rowspan=2	9		0.5
	0.5

References

• 2007 FIBA Asia Championship official website

External links

• FIBA Asia official website