With Argin Atman, it doesn't matter if it's a training game or an official game, he's always very violent on the lines and it costs him a lot of technical fouls and not a few suspensions.
His suspension in the Euroleague against Barcelona in the past season is mainly remembered when it took a long time for him to get off the field and near the drop to the dressing room he is a sign to the crowd that he is the European champion.
The coach of Anadolu Efes, the Euroleague champion for the past two years, is also the coach of the Turkish national team.
Yesterday (Friday), during a preparatory match for the European Championship as part of the Acropolis tournament in Greece, he was sent off in the third quarter.
Atman refused to get off the field and then something unusual happened.
The opponent's coach, Dimitris Itoudis, sat down with him on the bench and talked with him, and only then was he convinced to come off the field to the locker room.
By the way, in the game itself Greece won (without Yanis Antetokounmpo) 80:89.
Despite the fact that it was only a warm-up game, the atmosphere started stormy and there were 19,000 spectators in the hall in Athens.
Dimitris Itoudis talking to Ergin Ataman after he picked up his second tech.
He asked him to leave the court and sit in the stands.
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Atman explained at the end: "I did not feel comfortable with these referees. I do not at all understand why in such tournaments the referees from the host country are the ones who judge the games. This is about the highest levels and this thing must change."
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