Talk:EuroBasket 2007

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[edit] New templates

Everyone is encouraged to use the templates to make Wiki-ing easier. Thanks. --Howard the Duck 16:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The set of templates in that deprecated category have been replaced by Template:bk. Andrwsc 21:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Information

How would be best to mention that Slovenia forward Bostjan Nachbar decided not to play and will focus on his contract with the New Jersey Nets? Wausauplanet 17:17, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I would suggest creating a new "Eurobasket 2007" section in the Slovenia national basketball team article and perhaps can work that into there with a reference. Let me know if you need any help in doing this. :) // laughing man 17:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Of course, you might be consider adding to the Boštjan Nachbar article also. // laughing man 17:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Squads

How do Y'all think, maybe we could start a new article about team's squads in Eurobasket 2007, like it is with 2006 FIBA World Championship? Now, when 12 men-rosters are not known, there could be written all candidates, who are participating with the team. -- Mrom 08:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes. --Howard the Duck 16:11, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Shall we create new article for qualifying tournaments as I've already done on Serbian Wikipedia? --BokicaK 07:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes. --Howard the Duck 16:11, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] formatting/presentation

Can the people here allow the article to conform to the presentation like the one used at FIBA Asia Championship 2007, FIBA Oceania Championship 2007 and FIBA Americas Championship 2007? Currently the article looks awful. Or you can use the simpler formatting at FIBA Africa Championship 2007. --Howard the Duck 06:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Qualifying round tiebreak

Does anyone know the tiebreak criteria for the qualifying round? Parutakupiu 01:49, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Head to head, then goal averages between tied teams, then goal averages for all teams. --Howard the Duck 01:54, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Then the group E standings displayed on the official website are wrong, no? Greece and Portugal should be above Croatia and Israel, respectively. Parutakupiu 02:40, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
We talked about this at Talk:FIBA Americas Championship 2007. It was agreed upon we follow what's on the website, but at the end of the stage (in this case, the qualifying round), we'd apply the tiebreakers. --Howard the Duck 02:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rankings

How is the ranking calculated for the teams that don't reach the quarterfinals, i.e. those that will be ranked #9-12 (qualification round) and #13-16 (preliminary round)? Parutakupiu 22:49, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

By win loss records, I presume? And via the tiebreakers if they're tied. But I'd rather wait for the FIBA announcement, IMHO. --Howard the Duck 23:11, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Actually, the official rankings doesn't rank these teams. They are officially ranked 9-12 and 13-16.--Vitriden 23:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
From what I've seen on previous EuroBasket articles, it seems that way. So Portugal, Israel and Turkey (and Italy/Germany) are all ranked #9, right?
I think FIBA could at least rank the second round fifth-placed teams as #9 and the sixth-placed ones as #11. These teams in group E never faced those in group F so they cannot tiebreak, but same-group eliminated teams can, so they should be ranked differently, IMHO. Parutakupiu 00:06, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
I checked out the FIBA archives and they're ranked as 9-12/13-16 no matter what their records were. --Howard the Duck 06:05, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

At the FIBA Americas tournament, Panama was ranked 9th and the Virgin Islands 10th. The procedure seems to be applied different ways in different tournaments.Joel225sp 16:34, 12 September 2007 (UTC)