2007 FIBA Asia Championship


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

According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts and holders were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2005 FIBA Asia Championship.
East Asia Gulf Middle Asia Southeast Asia West Asia

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.
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D










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* Saudi Arabia withdrew from the tournament, replaced them.

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Quarterfinal round

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Classification 9th–16th

15th place

13th place

11th place

9th place

Classification 5th–8th

Semifinals

7th place

5th place

Final round

Semifinals

3rd place

Final

Final standing

RankTeamRecord
7–1
6–2
6–2
44–4
55–3
63–5
75–3
84–4
95–2
103–4
113–4
122–5
133–4
141–6
152–5
161–6

Awards

Statistical leaders

Points
Pos.NamePPG
1 Michael Madanly33.1
2 Fadi El Khatib27.3
3 Chen Hsin-an18.1
3 Rasheim Wright18.1
5 Anton Ponomarev17.6
6 Joe Vogel17.4
7 Ha Seung-jin17.3
8 Nour Al-Samman16.6
9 Jimmy Alapag16.0
10 Kim Joo-sung15.5

Rebounds
Pos.NameRPG
1 Wissam Yakoub10.6
2 Hamed Haddadi9.6
3 Ha Seung-jin9.1
4 Joe Vogel8.9
5 Michael Madanly8.1
6 Fong Shing Yee7.6
7 Radwan Hasaballah7.4
8 Asi Taulava7.1
9 Anton Ponomarev7.1
9 J. R. Sakuragi7.1

Assists
Pos.NameAPG
1 Sambhaji Kadam4.0
2 Poon Chi Ho3.1
3 Sam Daghlas3.1
4 Kim Seung-hyun2.9
4 Yang Dong-geun2.9
6 Jimmy Alapag2.8
7 Mehdi Kamrani2.6
8 Sharif Al-Sharif2.6
9 J. R. Sakuragi2.4
10 Daoud Musa2.3
10 Michael Madanly2.3

Steals
Pos.NameSPG
1 Sambhaji Kadam2.3
2 Kei Igarashi1.8
3 Rashed Al-Rabah1.7
4 Saad Abdulrahman1.6
5 Saqer Abdulredha1.6
5 Michael Madanly1.6
7 Mehdi Kamrani1.5
7 Yang Dong-geun1.5
9 Poon Chi Ho1.4
10 Hamed Afagh1.4

Blocks
Pos.NameBPG
1 Hamed Haddadi1.4
2 Ha Seung-jin1.0
2 Joe Vogel1.0
4 Wu Tai-hao0.9
5 Sulaiman Al-Tabakh0.7
6 Yasseen Ismail0.6
6 Omer Abdelqader0.6
8 Wu Qian0.6
9 Kim Joo-sung0.5
9 Oshin Sahakian0.5