{"id":499872,"date":"2026-06-06T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=499872"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:49:59","slug":"ergin-ataman-doesnt-hold-back-im-still-the-best-coach-of-the-last-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ergin-ataman-doesnt-hold-back-im-still-the-best-coach-of-the-last-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergin Ataman Doesn&#8217;t Hold Back: &#8220;I&#8217;m Still the Best Coach of the Last 10 Years&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Following his Panathinaikos&#8217; victory in Game 2 against Olympiacos, coach Ergin Ataman didn&#8217;t mince words. These were his words at the end of the matchup, as reported by Eurohoops:<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">&#8220;Giorgos Bartzokas is a great coach. Big respect. He won the EuroLeague this year. But I need the same respect from refs. Maybe the refs read social media too much. For me, it&#8217;s not important. I&#8217;m still the best coach of the last 10 years. The most successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ergin Ataman:<\/p>\n<p>Giorgos Bartzokas is a great coach. Big respect. He won the EuroLeague this year.<\/p>\n<p>But I need the same respect from refs. Maybe the refs read social media too much<\/p>\n<p>For me, it&#8217;s not important. I&#8217;m still the best coach of the last 10 years. The most successful&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OFPiaOdS4f\">pic.twitter.com\/OFPiaOdS4f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurohoops (@Eurohoopsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Eurohoopsnet\/status\/2062997689818591395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his Panathinaikos&#8217; victory in Game 2 against Olympiacos, coach Ergin Ataman didn&#8217;t mince words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":496114,"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":[82,54],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-499872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-grecia","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-08-alle-23.04.25.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499872","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499872"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=499872"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=499872"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=499872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}