Wrote something in the same vain as this upon rewatching Citizen Kane. For I did not see Orson Welles, I saw my grandfather. He’s been gone for more than a decade, but in film, he returns to me like a passing stranger in the crowd.
I don’t wanna hear how much you love Knicks basketball if you’ve never heard of Langston Galloway. Lou Amundson. Alexey Shved. If you don’t want go back to learn the ancient scrolls, you don’t get to enjoy the splendors of today.
This is just called having a well-constructed roster that considers teammate chemistry, and creating a culture around those players.
The “Big Three-ification” of roster construction has fried our brains from realizing what true team building is.