{"id":493209,"date":"2026-04-17T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493209"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:54:00","slug":"donta-hall-fires-up-olympiacos-throw-it-upstairs-im-going-up-there-to-dunk-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/donta-hall-fires-up-olympiacos-throw-it-upstairs-im-going-up-there-to-dunk-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Donta Hall fires up Olympiacos: \u201cThrow it upstairs, I\u2019m going up there to dunk it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1847\" data-end=\"2215\"><strong data-start=\"1847\" data-end=\"1861\">Donta Hall<\/strong> is embracing the moment with <strong data-start=\"1891\" data-end=\"1905\">Olympiacos<\/strong>, who finished the <strong data-start=\"1924\" data-end=\"1938\">EuroLeague<\/strong> regular season in first place at <strong data-start=\"1972\" data-end=\"1981\">26-12<\/strong> after beating Milan in Round 38. Speaking after the game, the American center stressed how difficult the season had been and how important it was for the Reds to close it on top of the standings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2217\" data-end=\"2566\">In his interview with <strong data-start=\"2239\" data-end=\"2252\">Eurohoops<\/strong>, Hall focused especially on the trust he has built with his teammates in vertical actions around the rim: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2360\" data-end=\"2446\">I\u2019m gonna trust him to throw it, and I\u2019m going to go up there upstairs and dunk it<\/strong>,\u201d he said, in the quote that quickly became the headline line from the interview.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2568\" data-end=\"2896\">Hall also admitted that adjusting to <strong data-start=\"2605\" data-end=\"2628\">Giorgos Bartzokas\u2019s<\/strong> system took time, but said he now feels more like himself as the chemistry has grown over the season. Looking ahead, his message was simple: one game at a time, keep playing \u201cOlympiacos basketball,\u201d and enjoy the postseason ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After securing the top seed with a strong regular-season finish, the American big man is already focused on the EuroLeague playoffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":493208,"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-493209","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\/2026\/04\/Donta-Hall-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493209","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=493209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493209"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493209"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493209"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}