2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group E

Group E of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the group stage of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup for the Czech Republic, Turkey, United States and Japan. Each team played each other once, for a total of three games per team, with all games played at Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai.^[1] After all of the games were played, the top two teams with the best records qualified for the Second round and the bottom two teams played in the Classification Round.^[2]

Team	Qualification		Appearance			Best performance	FIBA World Ranking
	As	Date	Last	Total	Streak
Turkey	European Second Round Group I Top 3	2 December 2018	2014	5	5	Runners-up (2010)	17
Czech Republic	European Second Round Group K Top 3	16 September 2018	N/A	1	1	Debut	24
United States	Americas Second Round Group E Top 3	2 December 2018	2014	18	18	Champions (1954, 1986, 1994, 2010, 2014)	1
Japan	Asian Second Round Group F Top 4	24 February 2019	2006	5	1	11th place (1967)	48

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	279	204	+75	6	Second round
2	Czech Republic	3	2	1	247	240	+7	5
3	Turkey	3	1	2	254	251	+3	4	17th–32nd classification
4	Japan	3	0	3	188	273	−85	3

All times are local (UTC+8).

This was the first competitive game between Turkey and Japan.

1 September 2019 16:30

Boxscore

Turkey	86–67	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 28–12, 19–23, 20–14, 19–18
Pts: Mahmutoğlu 17 Rebs: İlyasova 9 Asts: Balbay 8		Pts: Fazekas, Hachimura 15 Rebs: Hachimura 7 Asts: Baba 4

Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 16,000 Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Andris Aunkrogers (LAT)

This was the first competitive game between the Czech Republic and the United States.

1 September 2019 20:30 v t e

Boxscore

Czech Republic	67–88	United States
Scoring by quarter: 14–17, 15–26, 19–23, 19–22
Pts: Satoranský 17 Rebs: Bohačík 9 Asts: Satoranský 5		Pts: Mitchell 16 Rebs: Turner 7 Asts: Walker 4

Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 17,800 Referees: Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Wojciech Liszka (POL), Duan Zhu (CHN)

This was the first competitive game between Japan and the Czech Republic.

3 September 2019 16:30

Boxscore

Japan	76–89	Czech Republic
Scoring by quarter: 18–18, 22–27, 15–19, 21–25
Pts: Hachimura 21 Rebs: Fazekas 10 Asts: Hachimura, Shinoyama 4		Pts: Bohačík, Schilb 22 Rebs: Balvín 8 Asts: Satoransky 7

Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 12,200 Referees: Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Andris Aunkrogers (LAT), Kim Jong-kuk (KOR)

This was the third game between the United States and Turkey, with the Americans winning the prior two games, including in 2014, which was the last competitive game between the two teams.

3 September 2019 v t e 20:30

Boxscore

United States	93–92 (OT)	Turkey
Scoring by quarter: 26–21, 21–21, 18–19, 16–20, Overtime: 12–11
Pts: Middleton 15 Rebs: Tatum 11 Asts: Walker 7		Pts: İlyasova 23 Rebs: İlyasova 14 Asts: Osman 4

Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 18,000 Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Wojciech Liszka (POL)

This was the first game between Turkey and the Czech Republic in the World Cup. The Turks won in EuroBasket 2007, which was the last competitive game between the two teams.

5 September 2019 16:30

Boxscore

Turkey	76–91	Czech Republic
Scoring by quarter: 16–22, 19–21, 25–23, 16–25
Pts: Osman 24 Rebs: three players 4 Asts: four players 3		Pts: Hruban 18 Rebs: Balvín 11 Asts: Schilb 8

Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Wojciech Liszka (POL)

This was the first game between the United States and Japan in the World Cup. The Americans won in the 1972 Olympics, which was the last competitive game between the two teams.

5 September 2019 20:30 v t e

Boxscore

United States	98–45	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 23–9, 33–14, 28–8, 14–14
Pts: Brown 20 Rebs: Turner 9 Asts: Walker 8		Pts: Baba 18 Rebs: Takeuchi 6 Asts: Watanabe 2

Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Referees: Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Andris Aunkrogers (LAT), Duan Zhu (CHN)

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