# 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup – Men's tournament

The 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup was held in Bocaue in the Manila region, Philippines, and was contested by 20 teams.

## Participating teams

All five FIBA zones were represented. The top 20 teams, including the hosts, based on the FIBA National Federation ranking qualified for the tournament.
Ecuador was replaced by Indonesia.
FIBA Africa :
| FIBA Africa Team  Nigeria (20) | FIBA Americas Team  Brazil (6)  Canada (14) | FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania Team  Mongolia (11)  Jordan (13)  Japan (15)  New Zealand (16)  Kyrgyzstan (17)  Indonesia (18)  Philippines (19) {hosts} | FIBA Europe Team  Serbia (1)  Slovenia (2)  Russia (3)  Latvia (4)  Ukraine (5)  Poland (7)  Netherlands (8)  Romania (9)  Estonia (10)  Croatia (12) |

## Players

| Seed | Team | Players |
| 6 | Brazil | William Evangelista, Marcellus Sarmento, Carlos Silva Jr., Luis Soriani |
| 14 | Canada | Michael Linklater, Nolan Brudehl, Steve Sir, Michael Lieffers |
| 12 | Croatia | Duji Kaliterna, Hrvoje Marin, Toni Mindoljević, Ivan Rašetina |
| 10 | Estonia | Martin Dorbek, Joonas Järveläinen, Maik-Kalev Kotsar, Jaan Puidet |
| 18 | Indonesia | Ebrahim Enguio, Erick Jonathan Gosal, Rivaldo Pangesthio, Fandi Andika Ramadhani |
| 15 | Japan | Masahiro Komatsu, Tatsuhito Noro, Tomoya Ochiai, Keita Suzuki |
| 13 | Jordan | Yousef Awamleh, Ali El-Zubi, Ibrahim Hamati, Malek Khashan |
| 17 | Kyrgyzstan | Zhanysh Adiev, Shakirzhan Kuranbaev, Stanislav Lukonin, Evgenii Pekhov |
| 4 | Latvia | Agnis Čavars, Edgars Krūmiņš, Kārlis Lasmanis, Nauris Miezis |
| 11 | Mongolia | Davaasambuugiin Delgernyam, Enkhbatyn Dölgöön, Enkhtaivany Tserenbaatar, Gotovyn Tsengüünbayar |
| 8 | Netherlands | Jesper Jobse, Aron Roijé, Dimeo Van Der Horst, Sjoerd Van Vilsteren |
| 16 | New Zealand | Aaron Bailey-Nowell, Everard Bartlett, Karl Noyer, Sam Timmins |
| 20 | Nigeria | Azuoma Dike, David Godwin, Lucky Subel Okoh, Abdul Yahaya |
| 19 | Philippines | Roger Pogoy, Stanley Pringle, Troy Rosario, Christian Standhardinger |
| 7 | Poland | Michael Hicks, Paweł Pawłowski, Szymon Rduch, Marcin Sroka |
| 9 | Romania | Dragoș-Alin Andrieș, Marius Ciotlaus, George Anton Andrei Diaconescu, Vlad Florin Dumitrescu |
| 3 | Russia | Ilya Alexandrov, Maksim Dybovskii, Dmitry Korshakov, Victor Pavlenko |
| 1 | Serbia | Dušan Bulut, Dejan Majstorović, Marko Savić, Stefan Stojačić |
| 2 | Slovenia | Simon Finžgar, Adin Kavgić, Gašper Ovnik, Anže Srebovt |
| 5 | Ukraine | Oleksandr Kolchenko, Dmytro Lypovtsev, Stanislav Tymofeyenko, Maksym Zakurdaiev |

## Preliminary round
### Pool A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Serbia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 85 | 51 | +34 | Knockout stage | — | 21–17 | 22–13 | 21–12 | 21–9 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 4 | 3 | 1 | 81 | 54 | +27 | Knockout stage | 17–21 | — | 21–15 | 21–11 | 22–7 |
| 3 | New Zealand | 4 | 1 | 3 | 60 | 74 | −14 | | 13–22 | 15–21 | — | 12–16 | 20–15 |
| 4 | Romania | 4 | 1 | 3 | 57 | 74 | −17 | | 12–21 | 11–21 | 16–12 | — | 18–20 |
| 5 | Kyrgyzstan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 51 | 81 | −30 | | 9–21 | 7–22 | 15–20 | 20–18 | — |

### Pool B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Slovenia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 81 | 57 | +24 | Knockout stage | — | 17–21 | 21–15 | 22–14 | 21–7 |
| 2 | Poland | 4 | 3 | 1 | 76 | 56 | +20 | Knockout stage | 21–17 | — | 13–17 | 20–16 | 22–6 |
| 3 | Estonia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 71 | 55 | +16 | | 15–21 | 17–13 | — | 17–11 | 22–10 |
| 4 | Japan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 59 | 70 | −11 | | 14–22 | 16–20 | 11–17 | — | 18–11 |
| 5 | Indonesia | 4 | 0 | 4 | 34 | 83 | −49 | | 7–21 | 6–22 | 10–22 | 11–18 | — |

### Pool C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Canada | 4 | 4 | 0 | 83 | 55 | +28 | Knockout stage | — | 21–15 | 20–19 | 20–17 | 22–4 |
| 2 | Mongolia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 76 | 72 | +4 | Knockout stage | 15–21 | — | 21–17 | 21–18 | 19–16 |
| 3 | Philippines (H) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 70 | 60 | +10 | | 19–20 | 17–21 | — | 19–12 | 15–7 |
| 4 | Russia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 67 | 76 | −9 | | 17–20 | 18–21 | 12–19 | — | 20–16 |
| 5 | Brazil | 4 | 0 | 4 | 43 | 76 | −33 | | 4–22 | 16–19 | 7–15 | 16–20 | — |

### Pool D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Latvia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 86 | 61 | +25 | Knockout stage | — | 21–18 | 21–19 | 22–11 | 22–13 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 4 | 3 | 1 | 83 | 57 | +26 | Knockout stage | 18–21 | — | 22–11 | 22–11 | 21–14 |
| 3 | Croatia | 4 | 2 | 2 | 74 | 58 | +16 | | 19–21 | 11–22 | — | 22–8 | 22–7 |
| 4 | Nigeria | 4 | 1 | 3 | 51 | 73 | −22 | | 11–22 | 11–22 | 8–22 | — | 21–7 |
| 5 | Jordan | 4 | 0 | 4 | 41 | 86 | −45 | | 13–22 | 14–21 | 7–22 | 7–21 | — |

## Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| Serbia | 21 | | |
| Mongolia | 8 | | |
| Mongolia | 8 | Serbia | 21 |
| | | Poland | 19 |
| Latvia | 15 | Poland | 19 |
| Poland | 21 | | | | |
| Poland | 21 | | | Serbia | 16 |
| | | | | Netherlands | 13 |
| Slovenia | 21 | | | Netherlands | 13 |
| Ukraine | 15 | | | | |
| Ukraine | 15 | Slovenia | 16 | | |
| | | Netherlands | 21 | Third place | Third place |
| Canada | 16 | Netherlands | 21 | Third place | Third place |
| Netherlands | 18 | | | | |
| Netherlands | 18 | | | Poland | 16 |
| | | | | Slovenia | 21 |

## Final standings

| # | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
| | Serbia | 7 | 7 | 0 | 143 | 91 | +52 |
| | Netherlands | 7 | 5 | 2 | 133 | 102 | +31 |
| | Slovenia | 7 | 5 | 2 | 139 | 109 | +30 |
| 4th | Poland | 7 | 4 | 3 | 132 | 113 | +19 |
| Eliminated in the quarterfinals ||||||||
| 5th | Canada | 5 | 4 | 1 | 99 | 73 | +26 |
| 6th | Latvia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 101 | 82 | +19 |
| 7th | Ukraine | 5 | 3 | 2 | 98 | 78 | +20 |
| 8th | Mongolia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 84 | 93 | –9 |
| Eliminated in the preliminary round ||||||||
| 9th | Estonia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 71 | 55 | +16 |
| 10th | Croatia | 4 | 2 | 2 | 74 | 58 | +16 |
| 11th | Philippines | 4 | 2 | 2 | 70 | 60 | +10 |
| 12th | Russia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 67 | 76 | –9 |
| 13th | Japan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 59 | 70 | –11 |
| 14th | New Zealand | 4 | 1 | 3 | 60 | 74 | –14 |
| 15th | Romania | 4 | 1 | 3 | 57 | 74 | –17 |
| 16th | Nigeria | 4 | 1 | 3 | 51 | 73 | –22 |
| 17th | Kyrgyzstan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 51 | 81 | –30 |
| 18th | Brazil | 4 | 0 | 4 | 43 | 76 | –33 |
| 19th | Jordan | 4 | 0 | 4 | 41 | 86 | –45 |
| 20th | Indonesia | 4 | 0 | 4 | 34 | 83 | –49 |

## Awards

* 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup champion
* Serbia Fourth title

### Individual awards
#### Most Valuable Player

* Dušan Bulut (SRB)

#### Team of the Tournament

* Dušan Bulut (SRB)
* Michael Hicks (POL)
* Jesper Jobse (NED)