{"id":559752,"date":"2026-11-06T16:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=559752"},"modified":"2026-11-06T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:01:33","slug":"besiktas-alimpijevic-valanciunas-is-zalgiris-sharpest-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/besiktas-alimpijevic-valanciunas-is-zalgiris-sharpest-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Besiktas, Alimpijevic: \u201cValanciunas is Zalgiris\u2019 sharpest weapon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besiktas hosts Zalgiris Kaunas in EuroLeague Round 10, with Dusan Alimpijevic identifying Jonas Valanciunas as the main threat from the Lithuanian side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cZalgiris have big ambitions this year and are well-equipped at every position,\u201d Alimpijevic said. \u201cThe return of Jonas Valanciunas from the NBA shows the extent of their ambitions. He is a major part of their offensive system and we need to focus on their sharpest weapon.\u201d The Besiktas coach also mentioned former player Dustin Sleva: \u201cWe are very happy to host him again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Devon Dotson expects a physical battle: \u201cZalgiris is a tough team, but we have our game plan and we are ready to battle. Hopefully our fans will help us get this win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dusan Alimpijevic previews Besiktas-Zalgiris and identifies Jonas Valanciunas as the Lithuanian team\u2019s biggest threat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":512574,"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-559752","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\/08\/Alimpijevic.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559752","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=559752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559753,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559752\/revisions\/559753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559752"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=559752"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=559752"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=559752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}