{"id":458162,"date":"2025-09-03T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=458162"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:51:55","slug":"ergin-ataman-i-dont-care-if-we-lose-now-as-long-as-we-beat-serbia-in-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ergin-ataman-i-dont-care-if-we-lose-now-as-long-as-we-beat-serbia-in-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergin Ataman: I don\u2019t care if we lose now, as long as we beat Serbia in the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"361\">In his trademark style, <strong data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"125\">Ergin Ataman<\/strong> turned the spotlight on Serbia ahead of the Group A showdown at <strong data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"209\">EuroBasket 2025<\/strong>. Speaking in Riga, the Turkish coach was clear: \u201cI hope we\u2019ll meet again in the final, and I\u2019d rather beat them there than in this group stage game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"655\">Ataman stressed that Wednesday\u2019s clash is more about spectacle than medals: \u201cBoth rosters are full of great players. This game won\u2019t decide who wins medals, but I expect great basketball. Serbia were everyone\u2019s pre-tournament favorite, so for me, beating them in the final would mean more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"657\" data-end=\"891\">On <strong data-start=\"660\" data-end=\"676\">Nikola Joki\u0107<\/strong>, Ataman was realistic: \u201cWe have no solution for Joki\u0107. He can score 50 points, as long as we win.\u201d On <strong data-start=\"779\" data-end=\"797\">Alperen Sengun<\/strong>, he added: \u201cHe\u2019s only 23\u201324, but in the future I believe he can be even better than Joki\u0107.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his trademark style, Ergin Ataman turned the spotlight on Serbia ahead of the Group A showdown at EuroBasket 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":457569,"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":[377,297,313],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-458162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-serbia","category-turkey"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Ergin-Ataman.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458162","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=458162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458162"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=458162"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=458162"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=458162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}