Ottoman: We have four games left to play, and hope to win the final championship, Shin Kyung won the European Cup MVP

On September 4, in the group stage of the 2025 Men's Basketball Team, the Turkish Men's Basketball Team beat Serbian Men's Basketball Team 95-90 to win five consecutive victories. In this game, the two sides were in a tug-of-war. In the last 41 seconds, Shen Jing made two free throws and won a decisive steal to help Turkey control the overall situation. Alperen Shin Jing's performance in the game was even better than that of the NBA No. 1 Nikola Jokic.

After this game, the Turkish men's basketball team won five consecutive victories to secure the first place in Group A, Serbia was second in Group A, Latvia was third in Group A, and Portugal was fourth in Group A.

The Turkish men's basketball team's opponent in the 1/8 finals is the Swedish men's basketball team, which is the preferential treatment for the top spot in the group, because the top spot in Group A is the fourth in the VSB group. In this game, the Turkish men's basketball team should not have to spend too much effort. The Swedish group stage has 1 win and 4 losses, but its strength is not good. After the game, Turkish men's basketball captain Chedi Ottoman was interviewed: We have never given up on the game, I am proud of everyone in the team; we still have four games to play, and hope we can enter the finals to win the championship.

Ottoman was very excited after defeating Serbia. He covered his face many times in front of the camera. He also said: I don’t want us to go back without a medal. Our goal is to stand on the podium and hope we can win the final championship.

In the end, Ottoman also said: I hope the Turkish men's basketball team will win the European Cup and Shin Kyung will become the MVP of this European Cup, but it is too early to say this now. We still have four games to play, and we need to work hard one game after another.

Ottoman left the NBA last summer and joined the Greek league team Panasinaikos for two years with 3.3 million euros. At the age of 30, he has also worked hard in the NBA for 7 years, but his talent is much worse than Shin Kyung, but he is also the second contributor to the Turkish men's basketball team winning five consecutive victories. In the past five games, Ottoman averaged 27.2 minutes per game, scoring 15.4 points, 2.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 0.4 steals, with a shooting percentage of 53.3% and a three-point shooting percentage of 51.7%. He is the team's No. 2 scorer.