A tale of basketball regret

The recently completed EuroBasket tournament at summer's end inevitably had your Substacking correspondent reflecting on an incredible opportunity lost at the previous EuroBasket

TEL AVIV — I have employed the same summertime strategy for years. The crux of it: Go somewhere far away from the Power Rankings Dungeon for the last two weeks before training camp — no matter what. Soak up every last possible second of the offseason before the chaos resumes anew.

The flaw in that game plan, as we've all just seen, is that the dying days…