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I didn’t follow him throughout the season, so it’s hard for me to offer my Torah-informed opinion on this grave matter. But there’s no doubt that he is certainly a very worthy candidate.
This morning I was thinking that despite the shift to small ball, it seems we’ve gone back to the era of the giants (Embiid, Jokic, Durant, Antetokounmpo). I was reminded of the legendary and fearsome Tkachenko from CSKA, decades ago, whose very presence on the court decided games. Back then the giants were all-powerful, and all the dwarfs around them were like the peel around a date. But these days that has really changed from one extreme to the other, when coaches sometimes choose to play small ball and succeed more than by using opposing giants. Yet precisely against that background, the excellence of the giants in recent years is very surprising. More on this another time, and when I have leisure I will return to this chapter.