{"id":457256,"date":"2025-08-29T16:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=457256"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:59:47","slug":"ergin-ataman-give-me-alperen-sengun-and-ill-beat-the-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ergin-ataman-give-me-alperen-sengun-and-ill-beat-the-houston-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergin Ataman: Give me Alperen Sengun and I&#8217;ll beat the Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"401\">Following Turkey\u2019s win over Czech Republic, head coach <strong data-start=\"127\" data-end=\"143\">Ergin Ataman<\/strong> praised his team&#8217;s response after a slow start and highlighted their offensive chemistry: <em data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"401\">\u201cAfter playing very well in previous games, teams tend to relax. We experienced that early on. But in the second quarter, we tightened our defense and took control.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"621\">He pointed out Czechia\u2019s unorthodox style: <em data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"621\">\u201cThey\u2019re a tricky opponent, with big men who shoot from the outside. You have to be very alert defensively\u2014just a one-second delay on a switch can cost you a three-pointer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"979\">Ataman praised <strong data-start=\"638\" data-end=\"656\">Alperen Sengun<\/strong>, calling him <em data-start=\"670\" data-end=\"741\">\u201ca major force for us. We unlocked the game by getting him the ball.\u201d<\/em> He added: <em data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"864\">\u201cWe\u2019re sharing the ball very well. Despite many turnovers, we still scored 92 points and secured a clear win.\u201d<\/em> Looking ahead: <em data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"979\">\u201cTomorrow we play Portugal. We have some injuries, but if we win, we guarantee a top-two finish.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI saw today that many social media, both in the United States and Europe, wrote about my statement about the difference between the EuroLeague and the NBA. I continue, give me Alperen Sengun from the\u00a0Houston Rockets\u00a0to\u00a0Panathinaikos, and 100% we will beat the\u00a0Houston Rockets,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Turkey\u2019s win over Czech Republic, head coach Ergin Ataman praised his team&#8217;s response after a slow start and highlighted their offensive chemistry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440763,"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":[98,30],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-457256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-turchia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/Ergin-Ataman.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457256","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=457256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457256"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=457256"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=457256"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=457256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}