{"id":2537,"date":"2009-12-16T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2024-02-17T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:31:54","slug":"fiba-world-championship-2010-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/fiba-world-championship-2010-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA World Championship 2010 Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2538\" title=\"FIBA_2010_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FIBA_2010_logo.png\" alt=\"FIBA_2010_logo\" width=\"187\" height=\"214\" \/>The FIBA Basketball World Championship draw was held yesterday 16th December. The groups turned out to be very interesting as old rivals and difficult games were drawn from. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Spain face an all European group with particular interest on France and Lithuania while tournament hosts Turkey will be facing arch rivals Greece and Russia in group C.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina who are ranked No 1 by FIBA World Ranking will have difficult games in group A with Serbia, African powerhouse Angola, Australia, Germany and Jordan. Team USA will also have very interesting games with clashes with Slovenia, Brazil, Croatia, Iran and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We respect all of our rivals that have quality,\u201d said Spain\u2019s Sergio Scariolo, the coach who guided the team to a EuroBasket gold medal this year in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s difficult to evaluate them without knowing which players they will take. Lithuania is the most complicated rival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2539\" title=\"Basketball World Championship groups\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Basketball-World-Championship-groups.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball World Championship groups\" width=\"148\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Basketball-World-Championship-groups.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Basketball-World-Championship-groups-124x360.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/>Lithuania underachieved this year and needed a wild card just to play at the FIBA World Championship and have changed coaches to Kestutis Kemzura.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our group is not a bad one,&#8221; Kemzura said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spain is a clear favorite, but our friendly game in Vilnius and the beginning of EuroBasket 2009 showed that sometimes, they also face problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;France has lots of talent. They have NBA players and are very athletic, but they have some weaknesses. I don&#8217;t know much about the others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much will depend on a team that we will be able to bring to Turkey, but I do not expect easy games. We will have to fight in every game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All eyes will be on Ankara because that&#8217;s where hosts Turkey are set to go up against rivals Greece.<\/p>\n<p>EuroBasket 2007 gold medalists Russia, who received a wild card, are also in Group C along with Puerto Rico, Ivory Coast and China.<\/p>\n<p>Greece edged Turkey 76-75 in overtime in the EuroBasket 2009 Quarter-Finals and went on to capture the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>They could be stronger next year with the possible return of Theo Papaloukas, Panagiotis Vasilopoulos and Konstantinos Tsartsaris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIBA Basketball World Championship draw was held yesterday 16th December. The groups turned out to be very interesting as old rivals and difficult games were drawn from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1230,127,1633],"tags":[3387,3385,3392,3394,3388,3386,6757,3391],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-basketball","category-sport","category-turkey-sport","tag-basketball-world-championship-2010","tag-basketball-world-championship-draw","tag-basketball-world-championship-greece","tag-basketball-world-championship-russia","tag-fiba-basketball-world-championship-draw-2010","tag-fiba-world-championship-2010-draw","tag-poland","tag-team-usa-fiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79293,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/79293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}