{"id":477696,"date":"2026-01-07T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477696"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:12:09","slug":"ergin-ataman-if-we-dont-win-a-title-at-the-end-of-the-season-i-will-leave-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ergin-ataman-if-we-dont-win-a-title-at-the-end-of-the-season-i-will-leave-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergin Ataman: If we don\u2019t win a title at the end of the season, I will leave Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1741\" data-end=\"1961\"><strong data-start=\"1741\" data-end=\"1770\">EA7 Emporio Armani Milano<\/strong> delivered a statement win and left <strong data-start=\"1806\" data-end=\"1823\">Panathinaikos<\/strong> with no excuses. Postgame, <strong data-start=\"1851\" data-end=\"1867\">Ergin Ataman<\/strong> was blunt: \u201cterrible,\u201d congratulations to Milano, apologies to fans, and full accountability.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1963\" data-end=\"2224\">The Turkish coach kept it short immediately after what was described as a shock defeat: \u201cIt was a tough game. <strong data-start=\"2073\" data-end=\"2095\">We played terribly<\/strong>. Congratulations to <strong data-start=\"2116\" data-end=\"2126\">Armani<\/strong>, who had to play with <strong data-start=\"2149\" data-end=\"2181\">players coming off the bench<\/strong>. I don\u2019t have much to say about the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2226\" data-end=\"2812\">In the press conference, the message was even harsher toward his own team: \u201cI think we threw away all the big road wins we had this season. <strong data-start=\"2366\" data-end=\"2407\">We played terribly in the second half<\/strong>. It was hard to recognize the team\u2014nothing worked. In basketball there are days when everything goes wrong, and tonight is a huge loss for us.\u201d Then came the apology and ownership: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2590\" data-end=\"2621\">I apologize to all our fans<\/strong> and everyone who supports us. <strong data-start=\"2652\" data-end=\"2677\">I take responsibility<\/strong>. We don\u2019t have time to cry about it. We\u2019re still on track with our goals. We have to forget the result and prepare for the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2814\" data-end=\"3125\">A day later, while urging calm (\u201cthis isn\u2019t the time to create drama\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s not time to panic\u201d), Ataman raised the stakes with a personal pledge: \u201cI have one more guaranteed year on my contract, <strong data-start=\"3013\" data-end=\"3123\">but if we don\u2019t win the EuroLeague or the Greek league title at the end of the season, I will leave Athens<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3127\" data-end=\"3178\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA7 Emporio Armani Milano delivered a statement win and left Panathinaikos with no excuses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":466106,"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-477696","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\/10\/R6X5399.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477696","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=477696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477696"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477696"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477696"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}