Efficiency Evaluation of Men’s Basketball Teams in Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Brazil

The aim of this study is Evaluating Efficiency of the Teams Basketball that Presence in Olympic 2016 Brazil. The study is descriptive-analytical in terms of data collection is attributive and libraries. The statistical population consisted of all teams participating in the Men's Olympic Basketball in Brazil (2016).  Because of limitation in amount of population, the sample size was considered equal to the population size (N=12). The data refer to the site of the World Federation of Association basketball (FIBA) and classified in two offensive and defensive phases and for analyzed with using SPSS19 and DEA software. The results showed that two teams in offensive phase include Nigeria and USA has full efficiency were equal to 1. Croatia, France, Lithuania, Argentina and Nigeria also the most efficient teams as well as teams in the tournament were the defensive phase. Also, there was no relationship between ranked teams’ performance and position. As a result, the coaches of the basketball team of Iran and other countries can recognize the opponents' offensive and defensive status by choosing more effective plans and exercises and choosing a more appropriate strategy to confront their rivals and reduce their distance with the titular countries.