2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group D

Group D of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the group stage of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup for the Angola, Philippines, Italy and Serbia. Each team played each other once, for a total of three games per team, with all games played at Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan.^[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
Angola	African Second Round Group F Top 2	1 December 2018	2014	8	5	9th place (2006)	39
Philippines	Asian best fourth placed team	24 February 2019	2014	6	2	3rd place (1954)	31
Italy	European Second Round Group J Top 3	22 February 2019	2006	9	1	4th place (1970, 1978)	13
Serbia	European Second Round Group L Top 3	24 February 2019	2014	3	3	2nd place (2014)	4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia	3	3	0	323	203	+120	6	Second round
2	Italy	3	2	1	277	215	+62	5
3	Angola	3	1	2	204	278	−74	4	17th–32nd classification
4	Philippines	3	0	3	210	318	−108	3

All times are local (UTC+8).

This was the second game between Angola and Serbia in the World Cup. The Serbians won the first meeting in 2010. The Serbians won in the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the last competitive game between the two teams.

31 August 2019 15:30 v t e

Boxscore

Angola	59–105	Serbia
Scoring by quarter: 20–29, 12–21, 15–28, 12–27
Pts: Morais 15 Rebs: Joaquim 5 Asts: seven players 1		Pts: Bogdanović 24 Rebs: Marjanović 10 Asts: Jović 9

Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 11,000 Referees: Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Scott Beker (AUS)

This was the second game between the Philippines and Italy in the World Cup. The Italians won the first meeting in 1978, which was also the last competitive game between the two teams.

31 August 2019 19:30 v t e

Boxscore

Philippines	62–108	Italy
Scoring by quarter: 8–37, 16–25, 15–23, 23–23
Pts: Blatche, Perez 15 Rebs: Blatche 10 Asts: Perez 3		Pts: Datome, Della Valle 17 Rebs: Tessitori 8 Asts: Vitali 5

Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 10,500 Referees: Steve Anderson (USA), Yohan Rosso (FRA), Yu Jung (TPE)

This was the second game between Angola and Italy in the World Cup. The Italians won the first meeting in 1990, which was also the last competitive game between the two teams.

2 September 2019 15:30 v t e

Boxscore

Italy	92–61	Angola
Scoring by quarter: 25–11, 19–10, 26–21, 22–19
Pts: Belinelli 17 Rebs: Brooks 11 Asts: Hackett 3		Pts: Moreira 15 Rebs: Moreira 8 Asts: Morais 2

Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Steven Anderson (USA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

This was the first competitive game between Serbia and the Philippines.

2 September 2019 19:30 v t e

Boxscore

Serbia	126–67	Philippines
Scoring by quarter: 28–13, 34–22, 37–13, 27–19
Pts: Bjelica 20 Rebs: Jokić 7 Asts: Jokić, Micić 7		Pts: Perez 16 Rebs: Fajardo 6 Asts: Blatche 6

Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 10,000 Referees: Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Yu Jung (TPE), Yohan Rosso (FRA)

This was the first competitive game between Angola and the Philippines.

4 September 2019 15:30

Boxscore

Angola	84–81 (OT)	Philippines
Scoring by quarter: 21–20, 17–14, 18–12, 17–27, Overtime: 11–8
Pts: Joaquim 20 Rebs: Moreira 15 Asts: Paulo 6		Pts: Blatche 23 Rebs: Blatche 12 Asts: Ravena 4

Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 5,500 Referees: Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Scott Beker (AUS)

This was the first game between Italy and Serbia in the World Cup. Serbia won in its last competitive game against Italy, in EuroBasket 2017.

4 September 2019 19:30 v t e

Boxscore

Italy	77–92	Serbia
Scoring by quarter: 23–28, 19–22, 15–20, 20–22
Pts: Gallinari 26 Rebs: Gallinari 8 Asts: Belinelli 4		Pts: Bogdanović 31 Rebs: Bjelica 7 Asts: Bjelica 9

Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, Foshan Attendance: 15,000 Referees: Steve Anderson (USA), Yohan Rosso (FRA), Yu Jung (TPE)

• 2019 Italy FIBA Basketball World Cup team
• 2019 Philippines FIBA Basketball World Cup team
• 2019 Serbia FIBA Basketball World Cup team

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