{"id":487617,"date":"2026-03-11T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487617"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:23:29","slug":"panathinaikos-vs-zalgiris-ataman-says-lessort-available-urges-cup-level-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/panathinaikos-vs-zalgiris-ataman-says-lessort-available-urges-cup-level-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Panathinaikos vs Zalgiris: Ataman says \u201cLessort available,\u201d urges Cup-level performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1865\">Ergin <strong data-start=\"1607\" data-end=\"1617\">Ataman<\/strong> called Panathinaikos\u2019 matchup with <strong data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1665\">Zalgiris<\/strong> \u201ca very important game,\u201d pointing to the one-win gap in the standings and Panathinaikos\u2019 win in Kaunas: \u201cTomorrow we must play aggressively and with the support of our fans, like every game at OAKA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1867\" data-end=\"2123\">On personnel, Ataman confirmed: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1900\" data-end=\"1934\">Yes, Lessort will be available<\/strong> and I think he will be on the roster tomorrow,\u201d while noting the team\u2019s inconsistency has been influenced by frontcourt changes and absences, including <strong data-start=\"2087\" data-end=\"2104\">Kendrick Nunn<\/strong> missing 5\u20136 games.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2125\" data-end=\"2450\">Ataman also set the tone for the run-in: \u201cIf the team shows up like in the Cup, then we will fight for all our goals,\u201d adding that regular-season losses matter less to him than losing at the Final Four. He closed by welcoming <strong data-start=\"2351\" data-end=\"2378\">Dimitris Giannakopoulos<\/strong>\u2019 presence at practice: \u201cHe\u2019s the owner and president\u2026 we are a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2452\" data-end=\"2533\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of EuroLeague Round 31 (March 12, 22:00), Panathinaikos\u2019 coach stresses the stakes and calls for an aggressive approach at OAKA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":487616,"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":[199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-487617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Mathias-Lessort-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487617","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=487617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487617"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487617"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487617"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}