{"id":495459,"date":"2025-09-15T03:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495459"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:42:27","slug":"giannis-hits-back-at-senguns-critique-after-greece-bronze-medal-at-euro2025","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giannis-hits-back-at-senguns-critique-after-greece-bronze-medal-at-euro2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis hits back at Sengun\u2019s critique after Greece bronze medal at Euro2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo gave composed response to comments made by Alperen Sengun during this year\u2019s EuroBasket tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Sengun was the driving force behind Turkey\u2019s 94-68 semifinal demolition of Greece last week, and afterward the Houston Rockets star offered both praise and criticism of the two-time NBA MVP. He acknowledged Antetokounmpo as one of the best players in the world, but downplayed his playmaking ability, suggesting Greece\u2019s struggles stemmed from Giannis\u2019 struggles as a passer.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo finished that game with 12 points and 5 assists before leading Greece to a third-place finish by edging Finland 92-89 on Sunday. Asked about Sengun\u2019s remarks after the bronze-medal game, Giannis kept his calm, but didn&#8217;t shy away from a response.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Giannis Antetokounmpo responds to Alperen Sengun&#8217;s comment about him not being a great passer \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EuroBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EuroBasket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CyBTrSx08M\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CyBTrSx08M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BasketNews (@BasketNews_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasketNews_com\/status\/1967280649758503140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a guy that doesn\u2019t like to talk a lot, you know, I let my game talk,\u201d Antetokounmpo said. \u201cI\u2019m going into my 13th season in the NBA. I\u2019ve won everything. Everything. \u2026 I\u2019m not the guy that will talk back to coaches, or players, or people that say bad things about me. It doesn\u2019t really matter. Because at the end of the day, you won\u2019t remember what they say. You will remember how I respond. Go see my clips on YouTube, and then come back and ask me if I\u2019m a good passer or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sengun, meanwhile, cemented his own reputation as one of Europe\u2019s brightest stars. The NBA All-Star led Turkey to the championship game, where they fell just short against Germany in a dramatic final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo gave composed response to comments made by Alperen Sengun during this year\u2019s EuroBasket tournament. Sengun was the driving force behind Turkey\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495460,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16728,21162,26580],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[26792,17843,21163,26577],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"\"Go see my clips on YouTube, and then come back and ask me if I\u2019m a good passer or not.\u201d, Bucks' star said","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495463,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495459\/revisions\/495463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495459"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495459"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}