Croatia men's national basketball team

Croatia Croatia
FIBA ranking 8 Steady (18 September 2018)
Joined FIBA 1992
FIBA zone FIBA Europe
National federation Croatian Basketball Federation
Coach Dražen Anzulović
Olympic Games
Appearances 4
Medals Silver: (1992)
FIBA World Cup
Appearances 3
Medals Bronze Bronze: (1994)
EuroBasket
Appearances 13
Medals Bronze: (1993, 1995)
Uniforms
Light
Dark
First international
 Germany 86–74 Croatia Croatia
(Murcia, Spain; 22 June 1992)[1]
Biggest win
Croatia Croatia 127–51 Iceland 
(Murcia, Spain; 24 June 1992)
Biggest defeat
Croatia Croatia 85–117 United States 
(Barcelona, Spain; 8 August 1992)

The Croatia men's national basketball team (Croatian: Hrvatska muška košarkaška reprezentacija)[2] is organized by the Croatian Basketball Federation (Croatian: Hrvatski košarkaški savez).[3]

The biggest success Croatia has achieved was at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics when the team reached the finals against the United States team and won the silver medal. Croatia has also won one bronze medal at the FIBA World Cup and two bronze medals at the FIBA EuroBasket.

Croatia's Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Petrović, Dino Rađa and Mirko Novosel are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Ćosić being inducted in 1996 as a player, Petrović in 2002 and Rađa in 2018 also as players, and Novosel in 2007 as a coach. Petrović, Ćosić, Kukoč and Novosel are members of the FIBA Hall of Fame. Ćosić, however, never played for the Croatian national team, he was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team.

History

Prior to Croatian independence

Croatia played its first unofficial friendly game on 2 June 1964 in Karlovac.[4] Croatian team played against US All Star Team and lost 65:110 (31:50). USA players coached by Red Auerbach were Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, K. C. Jones, Jerry Lucas, Bob Pettit, Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell and Croatian team was Giuseppe Gjergja, Nemanja Đurić, Živko Kasun, Zlatko Kiseljak, Slobodan Kolaković, Dragan Kovačić, Boris Križan, Stjepan Ledić, Mirko Novosel, Marko Ostarčević, Petar Skansi and Željko Troskot.[5][6]

Independent Croatia

After independence of Croatia in 1991, the first official tournament played by Croatians were 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Croatia defeated CIS team 75:74 and reached the finals against USA Dream Team led by Michael Jordan. USA won 85:117 but Croatia won its first medal at major tournaments in history.

Next tournament was 1993 EuroBasket in Germany. Tragically, before the championship Dražen Petrović died in a car accident on 7 June 1993 at the age of 28. Croatia still managed to reach bronze medal beating Greece 99:59.

Croatia reached its third medal at 1994 FIBA World Championship in Canada. Croatia lost semifinals 64:66 against Russia but again beat Greece 78:60 for the bronze medal. Similar happened at 1995 EuroBasket in Greece. Croatia lost semifinals 80:90 against Lithuania but beat Greece 73:68 for the third time in a row in a bronze medal match. That medal was to date the last Croatian medal from major tournaments. At 1996 Summer Olympics Croatia won the 7th place.

Decline

At 1997 Eurobasket in Spain new Croatian generation emerged and ended in 11th place. Croatia failed to qualify at 2000, 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics but ended 6th in 2008. Croatia also failed to qualify to 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Championships, best result being 14th place at 2010. At EuroBaskets Croatia's best results were 6th places at 2007 and 2009.

Competitive record

Medals table

Games Gold Silver Bronze Total
Summer Olympics 0101
FIBA World Cup 0011
FIBA EuroBasket 0022
Mediterranean Games 1001
Grand Totals 1124

Olympic Games

FIBA World Cup

EuroBasket

Team

The following is the Croatia roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 2017 EuroBasket.[7]

Croatia men's national basketball team – 2017 EuroBasket roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.NameAge – Date of birthHeightClubCtr.
SG 5 Krušlin, Filip 28 – (1989-03-18)18 March 1989 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Cedevita Croatia
G 6 Popović, Marko 35 – (1982-06-12)12 June 1982 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Fuenlabrada Spain
G/F 7 Simon, Krunoslav 32 – (1985-06-24)24 June 1985 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) Olimpia Milano Italy
F 9 Šarić, Dario 23 – (1994-04-08)8 April 1994 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Philadelphia 76ers United States
G 10 Ukić, Roko (C) 32 – (1984-12-05)5 December 1984 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) AEK Athens Greece
C 11 Žorić, Luka 32 – (1984-11-05)5 November 1984 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Cibona Croatia
C 12 Planinić, Darko 26 – (1990-11-22)22 November 1990 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Gran Canaria Spain
F/C 17 Bender, Dragan 19 – (1997-11-17)17 November 1997 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) Phoenix Suns United States
F/C 25 Buva, Ivan 26 – (1991-05-06)6 May 1991 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Bilbao Basket Spain
SF 27 Ramljak, Ivan 27 – (1990-08-09)9 August 1990 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Zadar Croatia
G/F 33 Tomas, Marko 32 – (1985-01-03)3 January 1985 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Cedevita Croatia
G/F 44 Bogdanović, Bojan 28 – (1989-04-18)18 April 1989 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Washington Wizards United States
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Conditioning trainer
  • Croatia Jurica Šango
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Club – describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age
    on 31 August 2017

Personnel

Head coach
Croatia Dražen Anzulović
Assistant coaches
Croatia Dražen Orešković
Croatia Vladimir Krstić
Croatia Josip Sesar
Conditioning coach
Croatia Šime Tomašević
Medical
Croatia Milan Martinac
Physiotherapists
Croatia Nikica Šižgorić
Croatia Miroslav Krnić
Team manager
Croatia Igor Kolarić

Depth chart

Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2
C Ante Tomic Ante Zizic Ivica Zubac
PF Dario Šarić Dragan Bender Ivan Buva
SF Bojan Bogdanović Marko Tomas Ivan Ramljak
SG Mario Hezonja Krunoslav Simon Filip Kruslin
PG Roko Ukić Marko Popović Rok Stipcevic

Past rosters

Olympic Games

FIBA World Cup

EuroBasket

Head coaches

Notable players

Statistics

Record against other teams

As of 18 Aug 2016, after 2016 Olympics

Key
Positive total balance (more wins)
Neutral total balance (equal W/L ratio)
Negative total balance (more losses)
National team Total Olympic Games World
Championship		 European
Championship		 Mediterranean
Games		 Qualifications
Pld W L Pld W L Pld W L Pld W L Pld W L Pld W L
Albania Albania 110 000 000 000 110 000
Angola Angola 220 220 000 ——— ——— 000
Argentina Argentina 422 312 110 ——— ——— 000
Australia Australia 431 321 110 ——— ——— 000
Austria Austria 220 000 000 000 ——— 220
Belarus Belarus 110 000 000 000 ——— 110
Belgium Belgium 330 000 000 110 ——— 220
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and
Herzegovina 		743 000 000 321 000 422
Brazil Brazil 422 321 101 ——— ——— 000
Bulgaria Bulgaria 431 000 000 220 ——— 211
Cameroon Cameroon 110 000 000 ——— ——— 110
Canada Canada 220 000 110 ——— ——— 110
China China 330 220 110 ——— ——— 000
Cuba Cuba 110 000 110 ——— ——— 000
Cyprus Cyprus 440 000 000 000 000 440
Czech Republic Czech Republic * 431 000 000 321 ——— 110
Denmark Denmark 220 000 000 000 ——— 220
England England 220 ——— 000 000 ——— 220
Estonia Estonia 761 000 000 220 ——— 541
Finland Finland 330 000 000 330 ——— 000
France France 835 000 101 734 000 000
Georgia (country) Georgia 211 000 000 211 ——— 000
Germany Germany 1257 110 000 734 ——— 413
United Kingdom Great Britain 000 000 000 000 ——— 000
Greece Greece 1596 000 321 835 220 220
Hungary Hungary 440 000 000 000 ——— 440
Iceland Iceland 330 000 000 000 ——— 330
Iran Iran 220 110 110 ——— ——— 000
Republic of Ireland Ireland 220 000 000 000 ——— 220
Israel Israel 321 000 000 211 ——— 110
Italy Italy 1082 000 000 651 110 321
Latvia Latvia 761 000 000 211 ——— 550
Lithuania Lithuania 1129 312 000 505 ——— 312
Republic of Macedonia Macedonia 651 000 000 321 000 330
Montenegro Montenegro 110 000 000 110 000 000
Morocco Morocco 110 000 000 ——— 110 000
Netherlands Netherlands 550 000 000 110 ——— 440
Nigeria Nigeria 101 101 000 ——— ——— 000
Philippines Philippines 110 000 110 ——— ——— 000
Poland Poland 211 000 000 211 ——— 000
Portugal Portugal 220 000 000 110 ——— 110
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 220 000 110 ——— ——— 110
Romania Romania 440 000 000 000 ——— 440
Russia Russia ** 1376 220 101 734 ——— 321
Senegal Senegal 101 000 101 ——— ——— 000
Serbia Serbia *** 514 101 101 202 110 000
Slovakia Slovakia 440 000 000 000 ——— 440
Slovenia Slovenia 844 000 101 532 000 211
South Korea South Korea 110 000 110 ——— ——— 000
Spain Spain 945 321 000 624 000 000
Sweden Sweden 431 000 000 000 ——— 431
Switzerland Switzerland 220 000 000 000 ——— 220
Tunisia Tunisia 220 000 110 ——— 000 110
Turkey Turkey 844 000 000 633 000 211
Ukraine Ukraine 862 000 000 321 ——— 541
United States United States 404 303 101 ——— ——— 000
Total (56) 23415777

* includes games against Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
** includes games against Commonwealth of Independent States CIS and Soviet Union Soviet Union
*** includes games against Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro

Biggest Wins

20+ point difference

Olympic Games World Championship EuroBasket Mediterranean Games Qualifications
  • +34 vs. Iran (91–57) 2008
  • +33 vs. Australia (98–65) 1992
  • +31 vs. China (109–78) 1996
  • +23 vs. Angola (71–48) 1996
  • +21 vs. Germany (99–78) 1992
  • +51 vs. South Korea (104–53) 1994
  • +32 vs. China (105–73) 1994
  • +31 vs. Canada (92–61) 1994
  • +26 vs. Greece (81–55) 1994
  • +21 vs. Iran (75–54) 2010
  • +20 vs. Cuba (85–65)1994
  • +20 vs. Tunisia (84–64) 2010
  • +50 vs. Turkey (113–63) 1993
  • +40 vs. Greece (99–59) 1993
  • +38 vs. Czech Republic (107–69) 2017
  • +32 vs. Belgium (106–74) 1993
  • +25 vs. Finland (88–63) 2013
  • +22 vs. Turkey (90–68) 1995
  • +22 vs. Czech Republic (86–64) 1999
  • +22 vs. Ukraine (93–71) 2003
  • +22 vs. Portugal (90–68) 2007
  • +21 vs. Bulgaria (104–83) 1993
  • +20 vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina (98–78) 1993
  • +20 vs. Germany (75–55) 1997
  • +24 vs. Albania (94–70) 2009
  • +73 vs. Iceland (124-51) 1992
  • +60 vs. Romania (115-55) 1997
  • +56 vs. Macedonia (128-72) 1993[9]
  • +52 vs. Portugal (109-57) 1992
  • +46 vs. Italy (108-62) 1992
  • +40 vs. Belarus (112-72) 1993
  • +39 vs. Greece (102-63) 1992
  • +34 vs. Latvia (113-79) 1993
  • +33 vs. Romania (119-86) 1993
  • +29 vs. Ukraine (107-78) 1993
  • +23 vs. Slovenia (93-70) 1992

Biggest Losses

-20< point difference

Olympic Games World Championship EuroBasket Mediterranean Games Qualifications
  • -33 vs. USA (70–103) 1992
  • -32 vs. USA (85–117) 1992
  • -31 vs. USA (71–102) 1996
  • -24 vs. Argentina (53–77) 2008
  • -28 vs. USA (78–106) 2010
  • -28 vs. Spain (40-68) 2013
  • -26 vs. Spain (66-92) 2013
  • -21 vs. Czech Republic (59-80) 2015

See also

References

  1. ↑ "XIII Olympic Basketball Tournament (Barcelona 1992) Qualifying stage". Linguasport. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.eurobasket.com/Croatia/basketball.asp
  3. ↑ http://www.hks-cbf.hr
  4. ↑ "All Star NBA u Šancu 1964". kafotka.net. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "U Šancu haklale NBA zvijezde, a u Draganiću gradili naftnu bušotinu". www.kaportal.hr. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  6. ↑ "KARLOVAC: 40 GODINA NBA LIGE U KARLOVCU". Index.hr. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  7. ↑ "Petrović confirms roster for upcoming EuroBasket". Croatian Basketball Federation. 26 July 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Aco Petrovic otišao, a Hrvatska ekspresno dobila novog izbornika". Jutarnji.hr. 15 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "XXVIII European Championship (München 1993) Qualifying stage". Linguasport. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
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