EuroBasket 2007 Final

The EuroBasket 2007 Final was the championship game of the EuroBasket 2007 tournament. The game was played on 16 September 2007 at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in Madrid, Spain.

EuroBasket 2007 Final

Event	EuroBasket 2007
Spain Russia 59 60
1 2 3 4 Total Spain 11 20 15 14 60 Russia 22 12 15 10 59
Date	16 September 2007
Venue	Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
Referees	Nikolaos Zavlanos Ilija Belošević Zoran Šutulović
Attendance	15,500

Russia won their first title after the Soviet Union dissolution by defeating Spain 60–59. Naturalized J.R. Holden scored the last basket with only 2.1 seconds left and Pau Gasol missed the last shot at the buzzer. Andrei Kirilenko was named MVP of the tournament.[1]

Final

16 September 21:30

Boxscore

Spain	59–60	Russia
Scoring by quarter: 22–11, 12–20, 15–15, 10–14
Pts: Calderón 15 Rebs: P. Gasol 14 Asts: P. Gasol 3		Pts: Kirilenko 17 Rebs: Khryapa 12 Asts: Khryapa 4

Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid Attendance: 15,500 Referees: Nikolaos Zavlanos (GRE), Ilija Belošević (SRB), Zoran Šutulović (MNE)

Game Statistics

Spain # Player Min played Pts FT 2-FG 3-FG Rebs Assists 4 Pau Gasol 33 14 5/12 3/12 1/1 14 3 5 Rudy Fernández 24 5 2/2 0/2 1/3 2 1 6 Carlos Cabezas 10 2 - 1/2 0/1 – 1 7 Juan Carlos Navarro 17 – - 0/3 0/2 – 1 8 José Manuel Calderón 28 15 - 0/2 5/7 4 2 9 Felipe Reyes 21 5 1/2 2/9 – 8 – 10 Carlos Jiménez 28 5 2/4 0/2 1/4 5 2 11 Sergio Rodríguez 2 – - – 0/1 – – 12 Berni Rodríguez 1 – – – – – – 13 Marc Gasol 6 5 5/6 0/1 – – – 14 Álex Mumbrú 12 – - 0/1 – 1 – 15 Jorge Garbajosa 18 8 - 1/1 2/5 – – TOTALS (Team) 200 59 15/26 7/35 10/24 43 11 Head coach: Pepu Hernández

Russia # Player Min played Pts FT 2-FG 3-FG Rebs Assists 4 Nikita Shabalkin – – – – – – – 5 Jon Robert Holden 39 8 - 4/9 0/4 1 1 6 Sergei Bykov – – – – – – – 7 Andrei Kirilenko 30 17 6/7 4/6 1/4 5 2 8 Nikita Morgunov 9 4 - 2/5 0/1 2 – 9 Petr Samoylenko 16 – - 0/2 – 2 1 10 Victor Khryapa 35 7 - 2/2 1/6 12 4 11 Zakhar Pashutin 18 3 - 0/2 1/2 3 1 12 Sergei Monia 9 3 - – 1/2 1 1 13 Anton Ponkrashov 18 8 3/4 1/1 1/1 3 2 14 Aleksey Savrasenko 24 10 2/4 4/8 – 1 1 15 Nikolay Padius 4 – – – – – – TOTALS (Team) 200 60 11/15 17/35 5/20 38 13 Head coach: David Blatt

Legend: PTS = points, FT = free-throws (made/attempts), 2-FG = 2-point field goals (made/attempts), 3-PG = 3-point field goals (made/attempts), Rebs = Rebounds

References

1. "CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!". FIBA Europe. 16 September 2007. Retrieved 29 January 2016.