The men's basketball tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was the 20th edition of the event for men at the Summer Olympic Games. It was held from 25 July to 7 August 2021. All games were played at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this pandemic, the games were played behind closed doors.
The United States won their 16th overall and fourth consecutive gold medal, after defeating France in the final. Australia won the bronze with a 107–93 win over Slovenia, winning its first medal in men's basketball after a series of losses in bronze medal games.
The medals for the competition were presented by IOC vice-president Anita DeFrantz and the medalists' bouquets by FIBA first vice-president Sheikh Saud Ali Al-Thani.
With a FIBA World Cup Changed a format & A Champions in FIBA World Cup will no longer be automatically qualify to the Olympics 11 Teams will battle for the Olympics through The 2019 FIBA World Cup along with 2 best teams in America & Europe, best teams in Asia, Africa and Oceania & 4 winners of 2020 FIBA Olympics Qualifying Tournament in different places alongside a host country Japan who automatically qualify to the Olympics as host & for the first time since 1996 that the slots are using 11 for qualify to the Olympics and the format will also change from 6 teams in each group (Group A & B) to 4 team in each group (Group A, B and C) The Top 2 teams in each group along with the 2 best 3rd place in their different group will advance to the knockout round.
Format The twelve teams were split into three groups of four teams, and a single round-robin was held within each group. The first- and second-placed teams of each group advanced to the quarterfinals as well as the two best third-placed teams. After the preliminary round, the teams were grouped according to their results (top four and bottom four), and a draw paired teams between the groups for the quarterfinals. From there on a knockout system was used.
Schedule The schedule of the tournament was as follows.
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31 Sun 1 Mon 2 Tue 3 Wed 4 Thu 5 Fri 6 Sat 7G G G G G G ¼ ½ F B
Qualified teams
Squads
Draw The draw was held on 2 February 2021.
The 12 teams were divided into four pots of three teams based on their FIBA World Ranking. The three groups were formed by drawing one team from each pot. Two teams from the same continent could not be placed into the same group, with the exception of European teams, where up to two teams could be in the same group.
Due to scheduling requests from the International Olympic Committee, defending champions the United States were drawn into either Group A or B, and hosts Japan were automatically allocated Group C.
Seeding As the four winners of the 2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQTs) were yet to be decided at the time of the draw, they were assigned placeholders of "OQT Belgrade", "OQT Kaunas", "OQT Split" and "OQT Victoria." Each of the four placeholders were seeded based on the highest-ranked team in each tournament.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
Notes
Referees The following 30 referees were selected for the tournament.
Juan Fernández Leandro Lezcano Scott Beker James Boyer Ademir Zurapović Guilherme Locatelli Andreia Silva Matthew Kallio Maripier Malo Michael Weiland Yu Jung Maj Forsberg Yohan Rosso Ahmed Al-Shuwaili Manuel Mazzoni Takaki Kato Yevgeniy Mikheyev Mārtiņš Kozlovskis Rabah Noujaim Samir Abaakil Kingsley Ojeaburu Gizella Györgyi Ferdinand Pascual Luis Vázquez Aleksandar Glišić Luis Castillo Antonio Conde Yener Yılmaz Amy Bonner Steven Anderson
Preliminary round All times are local (UTC+9).
In the preliminary round, teams received 2 classification points for a win, 1 classification point for a loss, and 0 classification points for a forfeit.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Third-placed teams ranking
Knockout stage A draw after the preliminary round decided the pairings, where a seeded team played an unseeded team. The draw was held after the last group stage match on 1 August. Teams qualified were divided into two pots:
Pot D comprised the three first-placed teams from the group phase, along with the best second-placed team. Pot E comprised the two remaining second-placed teams, along with the two best third-placed teams.
Draw principles:
Each game pairing had one team from Pot D and one team from Pot E. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other in the quarterfinals. The second-placed team from Pot D could not be drawn against a third-placed team from Pot E.
Ranking
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Team details SF 5 Nicolas Batum PF 7 Guerschon Yabusele SG 10 Evan Fournier SG 12 Nando de Colo C 27 Rudy Gobert PG 1 Frank Ntilikina G 3 Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot PG 4 Thomas Heurtel C 17 Vincent PoirierDid not play: -->Head Coach: Vincent Collet G 6 Damian Lillard F 7 Kevin Durant C 13 Bam Adebayo G 12 Jrue Holiday G 15 Devin Booker G 5 Zach LaVine F 10 Jayson Tatum F 14 Draymond Green F 8 Khris MiddletonDid not play: -->Head Coach: Gregg Popovich
Statistics and awards Statistical leaders Players
Points Player PPG Ricky Rubio 25.5 Luka Dončić 23.8 Patty Mills 23.3 Rui Hachimura 22.3 Jordan Nwora 21.0
Rebounds Player RPG Mike Tobey 10.5 Hamed Haddadi 9.7 Luka Dončić Rudy Gobert 9.3 Johannes Voigtmann 8.0 Yuta Watanabe
Assists Player APG Luka Dončić 9.5 Tomáš Satoranský 8.7 Patty Mills 6.3 Nando de Colo 6.2 Ricky Rubio 6.0
Blocks Player BPG Hamed Haddadi 1.7 Ondřej Balvín 1.3 Makoto Hiejima Precious Achiuwa Bam Adebayo 1.2 Kevin Durant Jayson Tatum
Steals Player SPG Matisse Thybulle 3.0 Jan Veselý 2.3 Alessandro Pajola 2.0 Tomáš Satoranský Arsalan Kazemi Chimezie Metu
Efficiency Player EFFPG Luka Dončić 29.2 Ricky Rubio 24.0 Kevin Durant Mike Tobey 21.3 Patty Mills 20.5
Teams
Points Team PPG 100.8 United States 99.0 90.2 85.8 84.3
Rebounds Team RPG 47.2 43.0 38.8 37.3 36.8 United States
Assists Team APG 24.7 United States 24.3 23.3 22.7 22.0
Blocks Team BPG United States 5.2 4.7 4.0 3.5 3.0
Steals Team SPG 11.0 United States 9.8 9.7 8.5
Efficiency Team EFFPG United States 121.7 118.7 106.5 102.5 95.8
Awards The awards were announced on 8 August 2021.
FIBA All-Star FiveGuardsForwardsCenter Patty Mills Ricky Rubio Luka Dončić Kevin Durant Rudy GobertMVP: Kevin Durant
Final ranking Rankings were determined by: 1st–4th: Results of gold and bronze medal games 5th–8th: Win–loss record of the teams eliminated in the quarterfinals 9th–12th: Teams eliminated in the preliminary round groups were classified 9th–12th based on the win–loss record in the preliminary round group.
Rank Team Pld W L PF PA PD Standing New rank United States 6 5 1 594 474 +120 1 () 6 5 1 515 466 +49 5 (2) 6 5 1 541 475 +66 3 () 4th 6 4 2 605 535 +70 4 (12)Eliminated at the quarterfinals 5th 4 2 2 330 323 +7 B–2nd 8 (2) 6th 4 2 2 337 338 −1 C–2nd 2 () 7th 4 1 3 327 373 −46 C–3rd 7 (3) 8th 4 1 3 327 367 −40 B–3rd 11 (6)Eliminated in the preliminary round 9th 3 1 2 245 294 −49 A–3rd 12 () 10th 3 0 3 230 263 −33 B–4th 23 (1) 11th 3 0 3 235 301 –66 C–4th 35 (7) 12th 3 0 3 206 283 −77 A–4th 22 (1)
See also Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
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