Basketball
- Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group B):
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- Lost to United States (86-106)
- Defeated Czechoslovakia (79-69)
- Lost to Yugoslavia (87-88)
- Defeated Puerto Rico (95-81)
- Classification Matches:
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- 5th/8th place: Defeated Australia (79-72)
- 5th/6th place: Defeated Czechoslovakia (98-75) → Fifth place
- Team Roster
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- Giuseppe Brumatti
- Giulio Jellini
- Carlo Recalcati
- Luciano Vendemini
- Fabrizio Delia Fiori
- Renzo Bariviera
- Marino Zanatta
- Dino Meneghin
- Pier Luigi Marzorati
- Luigi Serafini
- Ivan Bisson
- Gianni Bertolotti
- Head Coach: Primo Giancarlo
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)