Ergin Ataman, who is the coach of Turkey’s men’s basketball team, dismissed FIBA’s latest EuroBasket 2025 power rankings, which have his team ranked as the second-favorites for the title.
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The team’s high position in the rankings isn’t hard to see, considering it has yet to lose a game at the tournament. Despite facing tournament favorites Nikola Jokic and Serbia, Ataman led his team out of Group A with a perfect 5-0 record.
But his team’s stellar form isn’t enough for the coach to agree or believe in power rankings, as he expressed on Tuesday:
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70% Win
(110-25-1)
70% Win
(110-25-1)
70% Win
(110-25-1)


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