2019 Italy FIBA Basketball World Cup team
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The 2019 Italy FIBA Basketball World Cup team represents Italy at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China. Italy qualified for the World Cup by taking the 2nd place in the European Second Round Group J. The team has been coached by Romeo Sacchetti.
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| Chairman | Giovanni Petrucci | ||
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| Head coach | Romeo Sacchetti | ||
| Preliminary round | 2nd | ||
| Second round | 3rd | ||
| Final standing | 10th | ||
| PIR leader | Danilo Gallinari 20 | ||
| Scoring leader | Danilo Gallinari 17 | ||
| Rebounding leader | Danilo Gallinari 6 | ||
| Assists leader | Marco Belinelli 3 | ||
| Highest home attendance | 15,000 vs Serbia (4 September 2019) | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 2,849 vs Spain (6 September 2019) | ||
| Biggest win | 108–62 Philippines (31 August 2019) | ||
| Biggest defeat | 77-92 Serbia (4 September 2019) | ||
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| All statistics correct as of September 8, 2019. | |||
The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup is the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup championship that is organized by FIBA.
Background
The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup represents the 18th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup where for the first time 32 teams from all over the world compete in the tournament. Italy has not qualified since the 2006 edition in Japan where it reached the playoffs. This year, with coach Sacchetti, the Italian national team aims to achieve at least the Olimpics qualifying tournament, which means qualify to the second round of World Cup.
Timeline
- 22 February 2019: Italy gains mathematical qualification to the world cup after winning against Hungary 75-41.[1]
- 16 March 2019: World Cup 2019 Draw:[2] Italy is in group D together with Angola, Philippines and Serbia.
- 1 July 2019: Submitted the 24 players long list preliminary convocation.[3]
- 12 July 2019: Submitted 19 players convocation for the summer preparation (Polonara, Pascolo, Flaccadori, Tonut and Moretti will not join the team for the World Cup preparation).[4]
- 22 July 2019: Start of the training camp.[5]
- 30 July 2019 - 26 August 2019: Friendly games.[6]
- 30 July 2019 - 31 July 2019: Trentino Basket Cup.
- 8 August 2019 - 10 August 2019: Verona Basketball Cup.
- 11 August 2019: 16 men roster cut (Cinciarini, M. Vitali and Moraschini leave the team).[7]
- 13 August 2019: Melli will not be part of the team due to a knee surgery.[8]
- 16 August 2019 - 18 August 2019: Acropolis Basketball Tournament.
- 17 August 2019: 14 men cut (Aradori leaves the team).[9]
- 23 August 2019 - 27 August 2019: Austiger Cup.
- 29 August 2019: Final roster announced.[10]
- 31 August 2019 - 15 September 2019: 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
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Qualification
First round
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Italy |
6 | 4 | 2 | 474 | 405 | +69 | 10 | Advance to the second round |
| 2 |  Netherlands |
6 | 3 | 3 | 434 | 416 | +18 | 9[a] | |
| 3 |  Croatia |
6 | 3 | 3 | 431 | 419 | +12 | 9[a] | |
| 4 |  Romania |
6 | 2 | 4 | 368 | 467 | −99 | 8 | Relegated to the EuroBasket Pre-Qualifiers second round |
Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
Notes:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
Notes:
- Netherlands 1–1, +3; Croatia 1–1, –3
Matches
| 24 November 2017 | Italy |
75–70 | Romania |
Turin, Italy |
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| 20:15 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 26-15, 16-13, 17-15, 16-27 | |||
| Pts: Della Valle, Aradori 16 Rebs: Gentile, Biligha 6 Asts: Filloy 4 PIR: Aradori, Filloy 12 |
Boxscore | Pts: Cățe 16 Rebs: Cățe 8 Asts: Watson 5 PIR: Cățe 25 |
Arena: PalaRuffini Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Nicolas Maestre (FRA), Haris Bijedic (BIH), Uros Nikolic (SER) |
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| 26 November 2017 | Croatia |
64–80 | Italy |
Zagreb, Croatia attendance = 5,000 |
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| 18:00 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 23-15, 9-20, 15-25, 17-20 | |||
| Pts: Planinić 20 Rebs: Planinić 10 Asts: Mavra 4 PIR: Planinić 22 |
Boxscore | Pts: Della Valle 25 Rebs: Gentile, Abass 5 Asts: Filloy 4 PIR: Della Valle 25 |
Arena: Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall Referees: Vicente Bulto (ESP), Panagiotis Anastopoulos (GRE), Yener Yilmaz (TUR) |
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| 23 February 2018 | Italy |
80–62 | Netherlands |
Treviso, Italy |
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| 20:15 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 26-13, 19-21, 18-14, 17-14 | |||
| Pts: Della Valle 22 Rebs: Burns 7 Asts: Filloy 6 PIR: Della Valle 22 |
Boxscore | Pts: Schaftenaar 17 Rebs: Kloof 9 Asts: De Jong 4 PIR: Schaftenaar 17 |
Arena: Palaverde Attendance: 5,300 Referees: Tanel Suslov (EST), Luis Castillo (ESP), Sebastien Clivaz (SUI) |
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| 26 February 2018 | Romania |
50–101 | Italy |
Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
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| 19:45 (CET) | 'Scoring by quarter: 12-35, 13-12, 11-29, 14-25 | |||
| Pts: Cățe 15 Rebs: Cățe 8 Asts: Mandache, Kuti 4 PIR: Cățe 23 |
Boxscore | Pts: Della Valle 29 Rebs: Burns 8 Asts: Filloy 6 PIR: Della Valle 28 |
Arena: BT Arena Attendance: 5,370 Referees: Antonio Conde (ESP), Sergiy Chebyshev (UKR), Marko Vladic (AUT) |
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| 28 June 2018 | Italy |
72–78 | Croatia |
Trieste, Italy |
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| 20:45 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 24-21, 15-20, 13-24, 20-13 | |||
| Pts: Aradori 15 Rebs: Burns 6 Asts: Vitali, Burns 3 PIR: Burns 19 |
Boxscore | Pts: Bogdanović 26 Rebs: Šarić 9 Asts: Bogdanović 26 PIR: Bogdanović 28 |
Arena: PalaTrieste Attendance: 5,500 Referees: Vicente Bulto (ESP), Georgios Poursanidis (GRE), Tanel Suslov (EST) |
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| 1 July 2018 | Netherlands |
81–66 | Italy |
Groningen, Netherlands |
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| 18:00 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 19-15, 19-15, 20-19, 23-17 | |||
| Pts: Kloof 21 Rebs: Hammink 8 Asts: Kloof 3 PIR: Hammink 23 |
Boxscore | Pts: Abass 18 Rebs: Abass, Sacchetti 5 Asts: Burns 2 PIR: Abass 20 |
Arena: MartiniPlaza Referees: Sergiy Zashchuk (UKR), Zdravko Rutesic (MNE), Arnis Ozols (LAT) |
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Second round
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Lithuania |
12 | 11 | 1 | 999 | 802 | +197 | 23 | Qualification to the FIBA Basketball World Cup |
| 2 | Italy |
12 | 8 | 4 | 940 | 836 | +104 | 20[a] | |
| 3 |  Poland |
12 | 8 | 4 | 958 | 886 | +72 | 20[a] | |
| 4 |  Hungary |
12 | 6 | 6 | 836 | 849 | −13 | 18 | Qualification to the EuroBasket Qualifiers |
| 5 | Croatia |
12 | 4 | 8 | 858 | 891 | −33 | 16 | |
| 6 | Netherlands |
12 | 3 | 9 | 895 | 944 | −49 | 15 |
Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
Notes:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
Notes:
- Italy 1–1, +3 PD; Poland 1–1, –3 PD
Matches
| 14 September 2018 | Italy |
101–82 | Poland |
Bologna |
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| 20:15 | Scoring by quarter: 25–25, 29–27, 19–13, 28–17 | |||
| Pts: Della Valle 28 Rebs: Melli 6 Asts: Vitali 6 |
Boxscore | Pts: Slaughter 28 Rebs: Cel 6 Asts: Ponitka 3 |
Arena: PalaDozza Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Sasa Maričić (SRB), Andris Aunkrogers (LAT) |
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| 17 September 2018 | Hungary |
63–69 | Italy |
Debrecen |
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| 18:00 | Scoring by quarter: 14–20, 14–19, 23–13, 12–17 | |||
| Pts: Vojvoda 25 Rebs: Golomán 7 Asts: Govens 4 |
Boxscore | Pts: Datome 18 Rebs: Brooks, Datome 7 Asts: Vitali 7 |
Arena: Főnix Hall Attendance: 5,652 Referees: Ademir Zurapović (BIH), Nicolas Maestre (FRA), Oskars Lucis (LAT) |
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| 29 November 2018 | Italy |
70–65 | Lithuania |
Brescia |
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| 20:15 | Scoring by quarter: 20–24, 22–11, 11–18, 17–12 | |||
| Pts: Awudu 13 Rebs: Aradori, Polonara 7 Asts: Vitali 8 |
Boxscore | Pts: Kalnietis 15 Rebs: Mačiulis 10 Asts: Kalnietis 6 |
Arena: PalaLeonessa Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Panagiotis Anastopoulos (GRE), Radomir Vojinović (MNE), Steve Bittner (GER) |
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| 2 December 2018 | Poland |
94–78 | Italy |
Gdańsk |
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| 20:15 | Scoring by quarter: 31–18, 21–23, 21–24, 21–13 | |||
| Pts: Lampe 22 Rebs: Lampe 8 Asts: Slaughter 11 |
Boxscore | Pts: Abass, Aradori 13 Rebs: three players 4 Asts: Vitali 4 |
Arena: Ergo Arena Attendance: 4,957 Referees: Gentian Cici (ALB), Boris Krejić (SLO), Saša Maričić (SRB) |
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| 22 February 2019 | Italy |
75–41 | Hungary |
Varese |
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| 20:15 | Scoring by quarter: 15–9, 19–6, 18–18, 23–8 | |||
| Pts: Della Valle 15 Rebs: Brooks 8 Asts: Vitali 4 |
Boxscore | Pts: Vojvoda 15 Rebs: Eilingsfeld 6 Asts: Eilingsfeld 2 |
Arena: Palasport Lino Oldrini Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Antonio Conde (ESP), Fernando Calatrava (ESP), Carsten Straube (GER) |
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| 25 February 2019 | Lithuania |
86–73 | Italy |
Klaipėda |
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| 19:30 | Scoring by quarter: 26–16, 21–13, 14–22, 25–22 | |||
| Pts: Masiulis 15 Rebs: Giedraitis 7 Asts: Janavičius, Vasiliauskas 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Vitali 22 Rebs: Vitali 4 Asts: Filloy 6 |
Arena: Švyturio Arena Attendance: 5,500 Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Kerem Baki (TUR), Zdenko Tomašovič (SVK) |
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Roster
The final 12-man roster was announced on 29 August.[10] Originally Nicolò Melli was included as well, but he was ruled out on the World Cup because of his knee surgery.[8][11]
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The teams are referred to the season 2018–19.
Depth chart
| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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| C | Paul Biligha | Amedeo Tessitori | |
| PF | Danilo Gallinari | Jeff Brooks | |
| SF | Luigi Datome | Alessandro Gentile | Awudu Abass |
| SG | Marco Belinelli | Amedeo Della Valle | |
| PG | Daniel Hackett | Luca Vitali | Ariel Filloy |
Candidate players
The following were candidates to make the team:
| Player | Team | Added | Removed | Reason |
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| Achille Polonara | Dinamo Sassari | July 1, 2019 | July 12, 2019 | 19-man roster cut[4] |
| Davide Pascolo | Aquila Trento | |||
| Diego Flaccadori | Aquila Trento | |||
| Stefano Tonut | Reyer Venezia | |||
| Davide Moretti |  Texas Tech Red Raiders | |||
| Andrea Cinciarini | Olimpia Milano | August 11, 2019 | 16-man roster cut[7] | |
| Michele Vitali | Dinamo Sassari | |||
| Riccardo Moraschini | Olimpia Milano | |||
| Nicolò Melli | New Orleans Pelicans | August 13, 2019 | Injured[8] | |
| Pietro Aradori | Fortitudo Bologna | August 17, 2019 | 14-men roster cut[9] | |
| Brian Sacchetti | Brescia Leonessa | August 29, 2019 | 12-men roster cut[10] | |
| Giampaolo Ricci | Virtus Bologna |
Staff
| Position | Staff member | Age | Team |
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| Head coach | Romeo Sacchetti | 66 | Vanoli Cremona |
| Assistant coaches | Emanuele Molin | 59 | Aquila Trento |
| Massimo Maffezzoli | 43 | Sidigas Avellino | |
| Paolo Conti | 49 | Pallacanestro Varese | |
| Physical trainer | Matteo Panichi | 46 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Physician | Sandro Senzameno | 67 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Orthopaedic | Raffaele Cortina | 59 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Osteopath | Roberto Oggioni | 44 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Francesco Ciallella | 39 | Italian Basketball Federation | |
| Team manager | Massimo Valle | 53 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Manager | Roberto Brunamonti | 60 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Video maker | Marco Cremonini | 31 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Warehouse manager | Curzio Garofoli | 49 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Andrea Annessa | 45 | Italian Basketball Federation |
Age – describes age on 31 August 2019
Exhibition games
Trentino Basket cup
Four teams took part in the Trentino Basket Cup: Ivory Coast and Italy, that were preparing for the World Cup. While Romania and Switzerland were preparing for the Eurobasket 2021.
Verona Basketball Cup
All the four team playing at the Verona Basketball Cup have been qualified for the World Cup: Italy, Russia, Senegal and Venezuela. The tournament is played in a round robin Format and the Russian team won the competition.[7]
| 8 August 2019 | |||||
Venezuela  | 54 –69 |  Russia | |||
| Italy | 111– 54 |  Senegal | |||
| 9 August 2019 | |||||
| Senegal | 75– 69 | Venezuela | |||
| Italy | 70 –72 | Russia | |||
| 10 August 2019 | |||||
| Russia | 73– 56 | Senegal | |||
| Italy | 72– 54 | Venezuela |
Updated to match(es) played on August 11, 2019. Source: FIP
| 8 August 2019 Match 1 |
Italy |
111–54 | Senegal |
Verona, Italy |
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| 20:30 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 31-10, 24-16, 30-15, 26-13 | |||
| Pts: Aradori, M.Vitali 15 Rebs: Della Valle 5 Asts: Della Valle 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Toure 15 Rebs: N'Doye 7 Asts: Adams 3 |
Arena: PalaOlimpia Attendance: 2000 Referees: Mazzoni, Boninsegna, Borgo |
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| 9 August 2019 Match 2 |
Italy |
70–72 | Russia |
Verona, Italy |
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| 20:30 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 22-7, 18-25, 25-21, 5-19 | |||
| Pts: Gentile, Sacchetti 13 Rebs: Biligha 7 Asts: Filloy 3 |
Boxscore | Pts: Fridzon, Kurbanov 16 Rebs: Andrey Vorontsevich 6 Asts: Andrey Vorontsevich 3 |
Arena: PalaOlimpia Attendance: 5000 Referees: Lanzarini, Begnis, Mazzoni |
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| 10 August 2019 Match 3 |
Italy |
72–54 | Venezuela |
Verona, Italy |
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| 20:30 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 20-14, 18-14, 15-10, 19-16 | |||
| Pts: Abass 16 Rebs: Della Valle, L. Vitali 5 Asts: L. Vitali 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Colmenares 12 Rebs: G. Vargas, Ruiz 6 Asts: Mijares 6 |
Arena: PalaOlimpia Attendance: 2500 Referees: Borgo, Lanzarini, Sardella |
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Acropolis Cup
The tournament is scheduled to be held from 16 to 18 August in Athens, Greece.[12]
| 16 August 2019 Game 1 |
Greece  |
83–63 | Italy |
Athens, Greece |
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| 20:30 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 27-13, 22-15, 16-19, 18-16 | |||
| Pts: G. Antetokounmpo 18 Rebs: Bourousis 17 Asts: Calathes 7 PIR: G. Antetokounmpo 21 |
Boxscore | Pts: Belinelli 13 Rebs: Biligha, Hackett 8 Asts: Vitali 4 PIR: Biligha 17 |
Arena: Olympic Indoor Hall Attendance: not available Referees: Koromilas, Papapetrou, Andrikopoulos |
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| 17 August 2019 Game 2 |
Italy |
64–96 |  Serbia |
Athens, Greece |
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| 18:00 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 15-14, 17-31, 17-24, 15-27 | |||
| Pts: Belinelli 16 Rebs: Tessitori 5 Asts: Biligha, Vitali 3 PIR: Gentile 9 |
Boxscore | Pts: Jokić 20 Rebs: Bjelica, Marjanović 7 Asts: Micić 5 PIR: Jokić 24 |
Arena: Olympic Indoor Hall Attendance: not available Referees: Schinas, Tsaroucha, Kardaris |
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| 18 August 2019 Game 3 |
Turkey  |
72–70 | Italy |
Athens, Greece |
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| 18:00 (CET) | Scoring by quarter: 12-19, 26-16, 10-26, 24-9 | |||
| Pts: Osman 20 Rebs: İlyasova 11 Asts: Wilbekin 4 PIR: Osman 22 |
Boxscore | Pts: Gentile 26 Rebs: Brooks 9 Asts: Belinelli 4 PIR: Gentile 32 |
Arena: Olympic Indoor Hall Attendance: not available Referees: Karakatsounis, Somos, Zacharis |
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AusTiger Cup
The tournament is scheduled to be held from 23 to 27 August in Shenyang, China.
| 25 August 2019 Match 2 |
Italy |
80–82 |  France |
Shenyang, China |
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| (UTC+8) | Scoring by quarter: 18-20, 20-19, 19-26, 23-17 | |||
| Pts: Belinelli 20 Rebs: Tessitori 7 Asts: Datome, Hackett 3 |
Boxscore | Pts: Fournier 29 Rebs: Batum 5 Asts: Okobo 4 |
Arena: Liaoning Gymnasium Attendance: 1500 Referees: Sasa Maricic,  Xin Geng Wei,  Martin Davison |
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| 26 August 2019 Match 3 |
Italy |
82–88 | New Zealand |
Anshan, China |
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| (UTC+8) | Scoring by quarter: 14–26, 23–20, 24–18, 21-24 | |||
| Pts: Gallinari 22 Rebs: Brooks 8 Asts: Vitali, Gallinari 2 |
Boxscore | Pts: C. Webster 21 Rebs: Fotu, Loe 6 Asts: C. Webster, T. Webster 6 |
Arena: Anshan Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium Attendance: 2000 Referees: Sasa Maricic, Xing Jin Ming, Nicolas Maestre |
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Tournament
Preliminary round
Italy was drawn into Group D with Angola, Philippines, and the Serbia and will play all of its group phase matches in Foshan at the Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center from 31 August to 4 September.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Serbia |
3 | 3 | 0 | 323 | 203 | +120 | 6 | Second round |
| 2 | Italy |
3 | 2 | 1 | 277 | 215 | +62 | 5 | |
| 3 |  Angola |
3 | 1 | 2 | 204 | 278 | −74 | 4 | 17th–32nd classification |
| 4 |  Philippines |
3 | 0 | 3 | 210 | 318 | −108 | 3 |
All times are local (UTC+8).
Philippines vs. Italy
This will be the second game between the Philippines and Italy in the World Cup. The Italians won the first meeting in 1978, which was also the last competitive game between the two teams.
31 August 2019 19:30 |
| Philippines |
62–108 | Italy |
| Scoring by quarter: 8–37, 16–25, 15–23, 23–23 | ||
| Pts: Blatche, Perez 15 Rebs: Blatche 10 Asts: Perez 3 |
Pts: Datome, Della Valle 17 Rebs: Tessitori 8 Asts: Vitali 5 | |
Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 10,500 Referees: Steve Anderson (USA), Yohan Rosso (FRA), Yu Jung (TPE) |
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- Top Performer: Danilo Gallinari
Italy vs. Angola
This will be the second game between Angola and Serbia in the World Cup. The Italians won the first meeting in 1990, which was also the last competitive game between the two teams.
2 September 2019 15:30 |
| Italy |
92–61 | Angola |
| Scoring by quarter: 25–11, 19–10, 26–21, 22–19 | ||
| Pts: Belinelli 17 Rebs: Brooks 11 Asts: Hackett 3 |
Pts: Moreira 15 Rebs: Moreira 8 Asts: Morais 2 | |
Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Steven Anderson (USA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ) |
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- Top Performer: Jeff Brooks
Italy vs. Serbia
This will be the first game between Italy and Serbia in the World Cup. Serbia won in its last competitive game against Italy, in EuroBasket 2017.
4 September 2019 19:30 |
| Italy |
77–92 | Serbia |
| Scoring by quarter: 23–28, 19–22, 15–20, 20–22 | ||
| Pts: Gallinari 26 Rebs: Gallinari 8 Asts: Belinelli 4 |
Pts: Bogdanović 31 Rebs: Bjelica 7 Asts: Bjelica 9 | |
Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 15,000 Referees: Steve Anderson (USA), Yohan Rosso (FRA), Yu Jung (TPE) |
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- Top Performer: Bogdan Bogdanović
Second round
Italy finished second in the preliminary group and advanced to the second round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. It will play against two top finishers of Group C, Spain and Puerto Rico, in Wuhan.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Spain |
5 | 5 | 0 | 395 | 319 | +76 | 10 | Quarter-finals |
| 2 | Serbia |
5 | 4 | 1 | 482 | 331 | +151 | 9 | |
| 3 | Italy |
5 | 3 | 2 | 431 | 371 | +60 | 8 | |
| 4 |  Puerto Rico |
5 | 2 | 3 | 349 | 402 | −53 | 7 |
All times are local UTC+8.
Spain vs. Italy
6 September 2019 20:30 |
| Spain |
67–60 | Italy |
| Scoring by quarter: 18–18, 12–13, 20–17, 17–12 | ||
| Pts: J. Hernangómez 16 Rebs: Claver 9 Asts: Fernández 5 |
Pts: Gallinari 15 Rebs: Hackett 8 Asts: Belinelli 4 | |
Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium, Wuhan Attendance: 2,849 Referees: Steve Anderson (USA), Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Omar Bermúdez (MEX) |
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- Top Performer: Danilo Gallinari
Puerto Rico vs. Italy
8 September 2019 16:30 |
| Puerto Rico |
89–94 (OT) | Italy |
| Scoring by quarter: 24–13, 22–13, 18–24, 19–33, Overtime: 6–11 | ||
| Pts: Balkman 14 Rebs: Clemente 9 Asts: Rodríguez 5 |
Pts: Belinelli 27 Rebs: Abass 8 Asts: Gallinari 5 | |
Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium, Wuhan Attendance: 4,264 Referees: Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Zdenko Tomašovič (SVK), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT) |
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- Top Performer: Marco Belinelli
Statistics
Individual statistics
| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | EF | PPG |
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| Awudu Abass | 4 | 1 | 21.0 | 52.2% (3.0/5.8) | 30.8% (1.0/3.2) | 100% (1.0/1.0) | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 8.5 | 8.0 |
| Marco Belinelli | 5 | 5 | 29.0 | 30.0% (4.8/12.0) | 33.3% (1.8/5.4) | 72.0% (3.6/5.0) | 4.0 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 13.2 | 15.0 |
| Paul Biligha | 5 | 5 | 19.2 | 57.1% (2.4/4.2) | - (0.0/0.0) | 37.5% (0.6/1.6) | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 7.0 | 5.4 |
| Jeff Brooks | 5 | 0 | 17.0 | 56.2% (1.8/3.2) | 33.3% (0.4/1.2) | 66.7% (0.4/0.6) | 4.2 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 10.4 | 4.4 |
| Luigi Datome | 4 | 4 | 22.6 | 59.3% (4.0/6.8) | 50.0% (1.5/3.0) | 80.0% (1.0/1.2) | 2.8 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 12.5 | 10.5 |
| Amedeo Della Valle | 5 | 0 | 10.6 | 38.5% (2.0/5.2) | 29.4% (1.0/3.4) | 100% (1.2/1.2) | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 6.2 |
| Ariel Filloy | 3 | 0 | 14.4 | 41.7% (1.7/4.0) | 28.0% (0.7/2.3) | 100% (0.3/0.3) | 2.0 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 6.3 | 4.3 |
| Danilo Gallinari | 5 | 5 | 29.8 | 53.1% (5.2/9.8) | 50.0% (2.4/4.8) | 78.6% (4.4/5.6) | 5.6 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 20.2 | 17.2 |
| Alessandro Gentile | 4 | 0 | 18.9 | 32.0% (2.0/6.2) | 75.0% (0.8/1.0) | 61.1% (2.8/4.5) | 2.8 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 7.5 |
| Daniel Hackett | 5 | 5 | 24.3 | 31.2% (2.0/6.4) | 31.6% (1.2/3.8) | 65.0% (2.6/4.0) | 4.8 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 8.2 | 7.8 |
| Amedeo Tessitori | 5 | 0 | 9.6 | 70.0% (2.8/4.0) | 0.0% (0.0/0.2) | 66.7% (0.8/1.2) | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 8.0 | 6.4 |
| Luca Vitali | 4 | 0 | 8.6 | 20.0% (0.2/1.2) | 0.0% (0/0.5) | - (0.0/0.0) | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Total | 4 | 200 | 47.0% (29.2/62.2) | 39.3% (10.5/26.8) | 69.3% (15.2/22.0) | 35.8 | 17.0 | 8.8 | 3.0 | 93.3 | 84.3 | |
Source: FIBA Basketball World Cup
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| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3FG% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | EF | PIR per game |
Statistical leaders
Updated: August 31, 2019
Individual game highs
Team game highs
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Conclusion
Italy ended the championship at the 10th place overall, position that allows Italy the qualification to the Olympic qualifying tournament.