Talk:2005 FIBA Americas Championship

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Standings[edit]

I can not figure out why FIBA Americas has Panama with a 2-7 record and is missing wins for almost all of the countries. I cannot understand why a 5-3 Panama team was bypassed for a 4-4 United States team for the knockout round. I cannot figure out why that 4-4 United States team would be seeded above either the 5-3 Brazil or 5-3 Venezuela team. If someone can explain this (I left above the standings the obvious problems), I'd be greatly appreciative. Pat Maher 02:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To answer my own question, FIBA Americas seems to have done their standings wrong. USA Basketball has the right standings at http://www.usabasketball.com/men/2005/05_mtoa_results.html that make sense by removing games against Canada and Mexico from the standings. Pat Maher 02:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot 05:13, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Third brazilian title[edit]

The 2005 title was the third one to the brazilians. Brazil won the 1988 championship. FIBA archive, for some unknown reason, just changed the winner and runner up places on the final match. I've already sent various e-mails to FIBA-Americas to correct that and got no response. On the talk pages of the championship in both english and portuguese wikipedia links to various reliable sources as brazilian basketball federation, puerto rican basketball federation, El Nuevo Herald (biggest american spanic newspaper), The San Juan Star (biggest puerto rican newspaper) and argentine newspapers confirms that FIBA archive is wrong. I'll not rewrite or copy and paste it here. I'll just post here the links to the english and portuguese wikipedia articles talk pages.

I corrected the article and erased the links to the FIBA archive site with wrong information. 189.19.115.171 (talk) 12:15, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]