TBF’s reaction to FIBA’s decision! going to CAS

The Turkish Basketball Federation (TBF) has issued a statement regarding the rejection of the objection by FIBA ​​regarding the rule error of our National Men’s Basketball Team in the EuroBasket 2022 match against Georgia. Stating that they do not accept the decision of FIBA, TBF stated that they will bring the issue to the International Court of Arbitration for Sports CAS.

What happened?

In the third group match of EuroBasket 2022, our National Men’s Basketball Team lost to the host Georgia 88-83 after two overtimes. Even though the game was stopped during the discussion between Furkan Korkmaz and Duda Sanadze during the match, the match clock was not stopped for 22 seconds and the Turkish Basketball Federation objected to the issue.

FIBA rejected the appeal

Although it was accepted by FIBA ​​as a timekeeping error that the 22 seconds time period continued, the objection was rejected, stating that it was not of the nature to affect the outcome of the match. FIBA Europe has stated that it is not believed that a different outcome would have occurred in the match had it not been for the timekeeping error.

The statement from TBF is as follows:

“In the FIBA ​​2022 European Championship Group A, our Men’s National Team faced Georgia, one of the hosts of the organization, on Sunday, September 4, 2022.

In addition to this incident, the match clock continued at 4 minutes and 26 seconds, although the game was stopped after Duda Sanadze from Georgia fouled our national player Furkan Korkmaz with 4 minutes and 48 seconds left in the match. As the Turkish Basketball Federation; We condemn the decision to reject the objection of the rule error we made at the end of the match for the 22-second lost time.

As the Turkish Basketball Federation; We do not accept this decision of FIBA, which rejected the objection because ‘there was a time error in the 4th quarter of the Turkey-Georgia match, but it could not determine that this loss of time would definitely change the outcome’. We will seek all our rights regarding the decision taken at the International Court of Arbitration for Sport CAS.

We also trust the athletes in our National Team and our technical team, and we think that if FIBA, which has a say in the management of basketball in Europe, does not create a fair management climate, European basketball will deteriorate from its current point.”