{"id":440428,"date":"2025-05-02T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440428"},"modified":"2025-05-02T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:39:00","slug":"vassilis-spanoulis-free-throws-thats-the-criteria-but-its-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/vassilis-spanoulis-free-throws-thats-the-criteria-but-its-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassilis Spanoulis: \u201cFree throws? That\u2019s the criteria, but it\u2019s strange\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1684\">Following Monaco\u2019s loss to <strong data-start=\"1395\" data-end=\"1408\">Barcelona<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"1412\" data-end=\"1422\">Game 4<\/strong>, coach <strong data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1452\">Vassilis Spanoulis<\/strong> voiced concerns about the officiating during the second half. \u201cWe played great defense, but they scored <strong data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1639\">44 points \u2013 22 of those from free throws. That\u2019s the game, that\u2019s the criteria<\/strong>,\u201d he said in the post-game press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1686\" data-end=\"1835\">In the flash interview, Spanoulis added: \u201cThere was a different criteria after halftime. I don\u2019t complain, it\u2019s not my job. I just prepare the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1837\" data-end=\"2033\">The Greek coach credited the pressure applied by the home crowd and staff: \u201cBarcelona\u2019s fans and coach did their job. It\u2019s not up to me to comment. It\u2019s strange, but I care only about basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2035\" data-end=\"2300\">Looking ahead to Game 5, Spanoulis admitted Monaco needs to improve: \u201cShooting <strong data-start=\"2114\" data-end=\"2132\">21% from three<\/strong> and having <strong data-start=\"2144\" data-end=\"2160\">19 turnovers<\/strong>, you can\u2019t win. I\u2019ve been in many 2-2 situations as a player. Now we have to stay calm and shoot better. I hope we\u2019ll be ready on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2302\" data-end=\"2353\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monaco coach reacts after Game 4 loss: \u201c22 points from the line in the second half. My job is to focus on basketball\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/Vassilis-Spanoulis.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440428"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440428"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440428"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}