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2005 FIBA Americas Championship

International basketball competition

2005 FIBA Americas Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Dominican Republic
City	Santo Domingo
Dates	August 24 – September 4
Teams	10
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (3rd title)
Runners-up	Argentina
Third place	Venezuela
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
MVP	Marcelo Machado
Top scorer	Marcelo Machado (23.4 points per game)
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The 2005 FIBA Americas Championship, later known as the FIBA AmeriCup (also known as The Tournament of the Americas), was hosted by the Dominican Republic, from August 24, to September 4, 2005. The games were played in Santo Domingo. This FIBA AmeriCup was to earn the four berths allocated to the Americas for the 2006 FIBA World Championship, in Japan. Argentina had already qualified, by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics. Brazil won the tournament, the country's third AmeriCup championship.

Venues[edit]

All games were played at the Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto.

Qualification[edit]

Eight teams qualified during the qualification tournaments held in their respective zones in 2004; two teams (USA and Canada) qualified automatically since they are the only members of the North America zone.

• North America:  Canada,  United States
• Caribbean and Central America: Dominican Republic,  Puerto Rico,  Panama,  Mexico
• South America:  Argentina,  Brazil,  Uruguay,  Venezuela

The tournament draw took place Monday, April 18, in Santo Domingo. The teams were split into 5 pots; those drawn first went to Group A, those drawn last went to Group B.^[1]

The draw split the tournament into two groups:

Format[edit]

• The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals.
• Results and standings among teams within the same group are carried over.
• The top four teams at the quarterfinals advance to the semifinals (1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3).
• The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, where both are guaranteed of berths in the 2006 FIBA World Championship. The losers figure in a third-place playoff. The semifinal losers were also given berths in the 2006 World Championship. Also, should Argentina reach one of the first four places in the tournament, due to their obtaining the gold medal in the 2004 Olympic TournamentinAthens, the fifth best team in the quarterfinals stage was also qualified for the 2006 World Championship.

Tie-breaking criteria[edit]

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

1. Head to head results
2. Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams
3. Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Squads[edit]

Preliminary round[edit]

Times given below are in Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4).

Group A[edit]

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Brazil	4	3	1	393	342	+51	7	1–0
Venezuela	4	3	1	330	342	−12	7	0–1
United States	4	2	2	336	329	+7	6
Panama	4	1	3	298	302	−4	5	1–0
Canada	4	1	3	318	360	−42	5	0–1

United States	94–72	Panama
Scoring by quarter: 30–24, 20–11, 24–17, 20–20
Pts: Scales18 Rebs: Hamilton, McGhee7 Asts: Edney6		Pts: Cardenas13 Rebs: A. García9 Asts: Hicks3

Venezuela	88–111	Brazil
Scoring by quarter: 23–30, 7–28, 30–26, 28–27
Pts: Romero24 Rebs: Romero, Torres5 Asts: Guevara7		Pts: Barbosa28 Rebs: Barbosa 7 Asts: Barbosa 6

Brazil	94–96	United States
Scoring by quarter: 21–25, 22–21, 25–18, 26–32
Pts: Barbosa37 Rebs: Varejão11 Asts: Machado6		Pts: Bell20 Rebs: McGhee14 Asts: Greer, Slay4

Canada	91–100	Venezuela
Scoring by quarter: 27–24, 16–26, 20–28, 28–22
Pts: English25 Rebs: Mendez8 Asts: Anderson4		Pts: Lugo, Torres24 Rebs: Romero, Torres 8 Asts: Guevara7

Panama	77–83	Brazil
Scoring by quarter: 23–18, 11–19, 23–28, 20–18
Pts: Hicks30 Rebs: Lloreda11 Asts: Pinnock, Peralta2		Pts: Machado21 Rebs: Giovannoni, Becker8 Asts: Machado 6

United States	76–92	Canada
Scoring by quarter: 13–26, 15–23, 20–21, 28–22
Pts: Greer21 Rebs: McGhee7 Asts: Beasley, Slay2		Pts: Brown28 Rebs: Mendez14 Asts: Brown, English, Nohr3

Venezuela	71–70	United States
Scoring by quarter: 13–26, 15–23, 20–21, 28–22
Pts: Romero21 Rebs: Romero 12 Asts: Guevara5		Pts: Bell21 Rebs: Hamilton, Lang8 Asts: Edney, Hamilton 3

Panama	79–54	Canada
Scoring by quarter: 16–15, 20–10, 24–13, 19–16
Pts: Hicks, Pinnock14 Rebs: García22 Asts: Peralta4		Pts: English16 Rebs: Brown, English, Mendez7 Asts: English 4

Brazil	105–81	Canada
Scoring by quarter: 30–26, 23–13, 18–24, 34–18
Pts: Machado42 Rebs: Machado 11 Asts: Machado 7		Pts: Brown25 Rebs: English9 Asts: English 5

Panama	70–71	Venezuela
Scoring by quarter: 18–23, 12–15, 18–20, 22–13
Pts: Lloreda, Pinnock16 Rebs: Lloreda 11 Asts: Lloreda 3		Pts: Guevara23 Rebs: Torres11 Asts: Guevara 4

Group B[edit]

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Argentina	4	3	1	348	307	+41	7	1–0
Dominican Republic	4	3	1	325	333	−8	7	0–1
Puerto Rico	4	2	2	354	339	+15	6
Uruguay	4	1	3	312	313	−1	5	1–0
Mexico	4	1	3	324	371	−47	5	0–1

Argentina	82–96	Mexico
Scoring by quarter: 28–18, 17–22, 19–26, 18–30
Pts: Jasen21 Rebs: Farabello, Fernández, Kammerichs, Quinteros4 Asts: Farabello 8		Pts: Beck28 Rebs: Ávila8 Asts: Llamas, Quintero4

Uruguay	69–72	Dominican Republic
Scoring by quarter: 22–14, 13–16, 27–26, 7–16
Pts: Mazzarino26 Rebs: Batista17 Asts: Mazzarino 4		Pts: García, Martínez15 Rebs: Martínez 13 Asts: Flores, García 2

Mexico	60–91	Uruguay
Scoring by quarter: 20–15, 13–23, 12–34, 15–19
Pts: Ávila, Pedroza12 Rebs: Pedroza 7 Asts: Zúñiga4		Pts: Batista23 Rebs: Batista 12 Asts: Mazzarino6

Puerto Rico	79–96	Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 28–22, 16–17, 19–32, 16–25
Pts: Apodaca23 Rebs: Narvaez9 Asts: Dalmau5		Pts: Quinteros30 Rebs: Quinteros 7 Asts: Farabello7

Uruguay	80–95	Puerto Rico
Scoring by quarter: 20–19, 19–33, 21–20, 20–23
Pts: Mazzarino23 Rebs: Batista19 Asts: Batista, Mazzarino 4		Pts: Ayuso19 Rebs: Ramos21 Asts: Ayuso, Dalmau, Hatton4

Dominican Republic	104–94	Mexico
Scoring by quarter: 28–19, 17–24, 32–26, 27–25
Pts: García24 Rebs: Martínez14 Asts: Flores6		Pts: Beck29 Rebs: Ávila, Parada, Quintero7 Asts: Zúñiga4

Argentina	86–72	Uruguay
Scoring by quarter: 19–19, 22–19, 21–20, 24–14
Pts: Kammerichs16 Rebs: Quinteros7 Asts: Farabello7		Pts: Batista19 Rebs: Batista 13 Asts: Mazzarino3

Puerto Rico	86–89	Dominican Republic
Scoring by quarter: 22–15, 27–18, 23–25, 14–31
Pts: Dalmau27 Rebs: Ramos9 Asts: Apodaca, Latimer6		Pts: Martínez23 Rebs: Martínez 21 Asts: Flores4

Mexico	74–94	Puerto Rico
Scoring by quarter: 13–19, 14–23, 27–19, 20–33
Pts: Quintero28 Rebs: Llamas10 Asts: González, Llamas, Quintero 3		Pts: Ayuso27 Rebs: Ramos14 Asts: Hatton6

Dominican Republic	60–84	Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 14–12, 11–29, 27–19, 8–24
Pts: García22 Rebs: Martínez10 Asts: Arias4		Pts: L. Gutiérrez19 Rebs: Jasen12 Asts: Porta7

Quarterfinal group[edit]

The top four teams in both Group A and Group B advanced to the quarterfinal group. Then each team played the four from the other group once to complete a full round robin. Records from the preliminary groups carried over, but only against teams that also advanced. The top four teams advanced to the semifinals. The fifth-place team (Panama) did not continue competing for the Americas Championship, but qualified for the 2006 FIBA World Championship.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Argentina	7	6	1	665	583	+82	13
Brazil	7	4	3	723	661	+62	11	2−1 (1.103)
United States	7	4	3	688	664	+24	11	2−1 (1.097)
Venezuela	7	4	3	636	679	−43	11	2−1 (1.000)
Panama	7	4	3	627	590	+37	11	0-3
Dominican Republic	7	3	4	648	675	−27	10	1−0
Puerto Rico	7	3	4	677	679	−2	10	0−1
Uruguay	7	0	7	628	672	−44	7

Argentina	84–89	Panama
Pts: Kammericks18 Rebs: Jasen7 Asts: Lo Grippo5		Pts: Peralta24 Rebs: García16 Asts: Peralta 6

Brazil	89–69	Uruguay
Pts: Barbosa27 Rebs: Splitter12 Asts: Machado5		Pts: Batista20 Rebs: Batista 17 Asts: Mazzarino, Osimani5

Venezuela	82–73	Puerto Rico
Pts: Romero27 Rebs: Torres12 Asts: Bayona, Lugo, Romero 2		Pts: Ayuso22 Rebs: Ramos13 Asts: Dalmau3

Dominican Republic	86–111	United States
Pts: García26 Rebs: López, Martínez6 Asts: López, Martínez 3		Pts: Bell20 Rebs: Hamilton6 Asts: Bell 5

Uruguay	99–101	Venezuela
Pts: Batista25 Rebs: Batista 18 Asts: García Morales7		Pts: Torres26 Rebs: Lugo7 Asts: Torres 5

Puerto Rico	107–101	Brazil
Pts: Ayuso29 Rebs: Narvaez15 Asts: Ayuso 4		Pts: Machado34 Rebs: Splitter18 Asts: Machado 10

United States	67–84	Argentina
Pts: Edney, Lang11 Rebs: Hamilton11 Asts: Edney, Greer3		Pts: Quinteros21 Rebs: González7 Asts: Farabello6

Panama	88–78	Dominican Republic
Pts: Lloreda18 Rebs: García13 Asts: Hicks5		Pts: Flores, Martínez18 Rebs: Martínez 12 Asts: Ramírez5

Argentina	78–60	Venezuela
Pts: González, Mázzaro16 Rebs: Kammerichs7 Asts: Farabello6		Pts: Romero15 Rebs: Aguilera10 Asts: Marriaga, Mijares2

Uruguay	77–91	United States
Pts: Mazzarino32 Rebs: Batista11 Asts: Mazzarino 4		Pts: Bell20 Rebs: Lang11 Asts: Scales5

Puerto Rico	55–74	Panama
Pts: Dalmau15 Rebs: Ramos8 Asts: Dalmau, Ramos 5		Pts: Hicks31 Rebs: García16 Asts: García, Muñoz3

Dominican Republic	72–80	Brazil
Pts: Flores17 Rebs: Asselin, Martínez12 Asts: Arias3		Pts: Machado23 Rebs: Becker11 Asts: Barbosa4

Panama	78–71	Uruguay
Pts: Hicks17 Rebs: García13 Asts: García, Lloreda4		Pts: Mazzarino25 Rebs: Batista18 Asts: García Morales3

Brazil	60–71	Argentina
Pts: Garcia12 Rebs: Becker13 Asts: Huertas3		Pts: González, Jasen12 Rebs: González 7 Asts: Lo Grippo, Porta3

United States	83–88	Puerto Rico
Pts: Beasley18 Rebs: Beasley 10 Asts: Greer5		Pts: Apodaca34 Rebs: Hatton10 Asts: Hatton 6

Venezuela	63–87	Dominican Republic
Pts: Romero22 Rebs: Romero 10 Asts: Jones, Romero 3		Pts: Martínez21 Rebs: Flores9 Asts: García6

Knockout stage[edit]

	Semi-finals				Final
	September 3 – 19:00
	United States	75
					September 4 – 21:00
	Brazil	93
					Brazil	100
	September 3 – 21:30
					Argentina	88
	Argentina	104
	Venezuela	93
					Third place
					September 4 – 18:00
					United States	83
					Venezuela	93

Semifinals[edit]

United States	75–93	Brazil
Scoring by quarter: 17–25, 24–26, 19–23, 15–19
Pts: Lang14 Rebs: Lang 9 Asts: Slay6		Pts: Machado19 Rebs: Splitter17 Asts: Splitter 5

Argentina	104–93	Venezuela
Scoring by quarter: 33–30, 20–20, 23–19, 28–24
Pts: Quinteros15 Rebs: Kammerichs7 Asts: Farabello6		Pts: Torres26 Rebs: Romero8 Asts: Guevara, Mijares, Romero 3

Third place game[edit]

United States	83–93	Venezuela
Scoring by quarter: 18–20, 14–17, 24–27, 27–29
Pts: Lang30 Rebs: Lang 14 Asts: Bell5		Pts: Torres23 Rebs: Romero9 Asts: Mijares5

Final[edit]

Brazil	100–88	Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 21–32, 28–11, 18–23, 33–22
Pts: Barbosa29 Rebs: Garcia9 Asts: Machado6		Pts: González23 Rebs: González 8 Asts: Porta4

Awards[edit]

2005 Tournament of the Americas winners
Brazil Third title

Statistical leaders[edit]

Individual Tournament Highs[edit]

Points[2] Pos. Name PPG 1 Marcelinho Machado 23.4 2 Leandro Barbosa 21.2 3 Nicolás Mazzarino 21.0 4 Larry Ayuso 18.9 4 Francisco García 18.9 6 Rick Apodaca 18.4 7 Esteban Batista 18.0 8 Óscar Torres 17.7 9 Luis Flores 17.0 10 Héctor Romero 16.7

Rebounds[3] Pos. Name RPG 1 Esteban Batista 15.6 2 Antonio García 12.9 3 Jack Michael Martínez 11.9 4 Peter John Ramos 9.8 5 Tiago Splitter 9.6 6 Jaime Lloreda 9.4 7 Héctor Romero 7.7 8 Óscar Torres 7.6 9 Kris Lang 7.4 10 Aaron McGhee 6.9

Assists[4] Pos. Name APG 1 Daniel Farabello 5.9 2 Marcelinho Machado 5.6 3 Leandro Barbosa 4.2 4 Nicolás Mazzarino 4.1 5 Diego Guevara 3.4 6 Christian Dalmau 3.1 7 Bobby Joe Hatton 3.0 8 Luis Flores 2.9 9 Tyus Edney 2.7 10 Charlie Bell 2.5 10 Lynn Greer 2.5

Steals[5] Pos. Name SPG 1 Leandro Barbosa 2.2 1 Paolo Quinteros 1.9 3 Francisco García 1.7 3 Danilo Pinnock 1.7 5 Daniel Farabello 1.6 5 Marcelinho Machado 1.6 7 Rick Apodaca 1.5 7 Esteban Batista 1.5 9 Jaime Lloreda 1.4 10 Charlie Bell 1.3

Blocks[6] Pos. Name BPG 1 Richard Lugo 2.8 2 Peter John Ramos 2.0 3 Tiago Splitter 1.6 3 Francisco García 1.6 5 Kris Lang 1.4 5 Josh Asselin 1.4 7 Jack Michael Martínez 1.1 8 Esteban Batista 1.0 8 Jaime Lloreda 1.0 10 Antonio García 0.9

Minutes[7] Pos. Name MPG 1 Marcelinho Machado 36.7 2 Nicolás Mazzarino 36.0 3 Leandro Barbosa 35.4 4 Esteban Batista 34.3 5 Rick Apodaca 33.8 6 Larry Ayuso 32.9 7 Héctor Romero 32.3 7 Francisco García 32.3 9 Tiago Splitter 32.0 10 Luis Flores 31.5

Individual Game Highs[edit]

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points	Marcelinho Machado	42	Canada
Rebounds	Antonio García	22	Canada
Assists	Marcelinho Machado	10	Puerto Rico
Steals	Paolo Quinteros	5	Puerto Rico
Blocks	Peter John Ramos	8	Uruguay
Turnovers	Mauricio Aguiar	8	Dominican Republic

Team Tournament Highs[edit]

Offensive PPG[8] Pos. Name PPG 1  Panama 91.6 2  Venezuela 85.7 3  Canada 84.6 4  Uruguay 84.6 5  Brazil 82.2

Defensive PPG Pos. Name PPG 1  Panama 84.3 2  Argentina 86.2 3  Venezuela 88.8 4  Canada 90.0 5  Mexico 92.8

Rebounds[9] Pos. Name RPG 1  Panama 40.4 2  Dominican Republic 39.9 2  Brazil 37.9 4  United States 37.6 5  Puerto Rico 37.1

Assists[10] Pos. Name APG 1  Argentina 16.8 2  Brazil 16.6 3  United States 15.3 4  Mexico 14.8 5  Venezuela 14.6

Steals[11] Pos. Name SPG 1  Argentina 8.8 2  Brazil 8.5 3  Panama 8.5 4  Uruguay 7.8 5  Venezuela 6.9

Blocks[12] Pos. Name BPG 1  Dominican Republic 5.6 2  Venezuela 3.8 3  Panama 3.8 4  Mexico 3.5 5  Argentina 3.3

Team Game highs[edit]

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points	Brazil  United States	111	Venezuela  Dominican Republic
Rebounds	Dominican Republic	52	Puerto Rico
Assists	Brazil	26	Canada
Steals	Brazil	17	Venezuela
Blocks	Venezuela	10	United States
Field goal percentage	Venezuela	66.7%	Uruguay
3-point field goal percentage	United States	58.8%	Uruguay
Free throw percentage	Canada	94.1%	Venezuela
Turnovers	Brazil  United States	25	Argentina  Brazil

Final standings[edit]

Rank	Team	Record
	Brazil	7–3
	Argentina	7–3
	Venezuela	6–4
4	United States	4–5
5	Panama	5–3
6	Dominican Republic	4–4
7	Puerto Rico	4–4
8	Uruguay	1–7
9	Canada	1–3
10	Mexico	1–3

			4th
Brazil Marcelinho Machado Nezinho dos Santos Murilo Becker Marcelinho Huertas Leandro Barbosa Jefferson Da Silva Alex Garcia Anderson Varejão Guilherme Giovannoni Rafael Hettsheimeir Caio Torres Tiago Splitter	Argentina Antonio Porta Julio Mázzaro Román González Diego Lo Grippo Daniel Farabello Gabriel Fernández Leonardo Gutiérrez Martín Leiva Juan Pedro Gutiérrez Paolo Quinteros Hernán Jasen Federico Kammerichs	Venezuela Víctor Díaz Luis Julio Ernesto Mijares Richard Lugo Tomás Aguilera Óscar Torres Askia Jones Miguel Ángel Marriaga Héctor Romero Diego Guevara Heberth Bayona Carlos Morris	United States Tyus Edney Marque Perry Lynn Greer Charlie Bell Alex Scales Tang Hamilton Ron Slay Adam Chubb Noel Felix Aaron McGhee Jerome Beasley Kris Lang