Kammala wannan jumla: Bayan wasan ban mamaki na Portugal a gasar EuroBasket da ta gabata a
2007 akwai kyakkyawan fata a cikin tawagar 'yan wasa ta kasa da ke zuwa a wannan lokacin. Bayan da ya yi ta hanyar gasar cin kofin da za ta cancanta, Portugal ta fuskanci aiki mai wuya bayan da aka sanya shi a cikin rukunin A. Da yake fuskantar manyan Euro Spain da kuma kasar Lithuania za ta zama kalubale. Amma Turkiyya, Poland, da kuma Biritaniya sun kasance da yawa. Ƙungiyar 'yan wasan ta ƙarshe ta ƙare a ƙarshe a cikin rukunin, ta rasa dukkan wasanninta 5 a matakin farko kuma ta kasa ci gaba.