Guy Pnini is so experienced in hoisting, that he is the only one who managed to avoid the embarrassing picture of the activists while hoisting the championship plate.
Just took the plate, went to friends and waved.
From the first moment he stepped on the floor in the Premier League (and scored a winning basket from the half in the Maccabi Raanana uniform) it was clear that he was not an athletic or physical player, but from the other side we learned that he knows how to make any lemon - lemonade.
He lacks things, but he has the most important ones: wisdom, leadership, the ability to do the right thing at the right time, and most of all winemaking.
Wherever he went, Pnini was behind in statistics when it came to "net basketball", but was important, significant and influential.
In Holon, he was a key part of the great change and upgrade that the group underwent.
There are players who give the team far beyond basketball, even though Holon also owes a lot on the parquet only on its victory baskets.
Some symbolism was in the hoist on Thursday.
Also a sign of the great change that the Purples underwent during the years with him, but also: Pnini waved a plate at the age of 39, five years after he was briefly informed in a short meeting that he - the captain of Maccabi Tel Aviv at the time - was released from the team. Advanced to the finals.
Two other features that Penny has are the ability to fall on both feet and the ability to adapt.
After retiring from Maccabi at the age of 33 plus, it seemed that this was the beginning of the end of his career.
But not only did it not happen, but the opposite.
5 years later he is still playing and plans to do so for at least another season.
Pearls with the actors.
Gives something beyond basketball,
He reinvented himself and helped reinvent Holon.
He landed on both feet, Maccabi really did not.
The Yellows have been looking for themselves ever since and this season has been one big fall.
Pnini's release was supposed to be part of a big change that a club will go through, but it did not happen and it is clear that what the club lacks is "Maccabists", and there have been none in recent years at Maccabi.
Yuval Sussman was one with the potential to become one, but he is already in Berlin.
A few days ago, Paulis Yankonas, more or less the same age as Pnini, retired from basketball.
He retired from his home club Zalgiris Kaunas.
The same thing happened with Filippa Rice who retired at the age of 40 at Real Madrid and is likely to happen with Sergio Yui and Rudy Fernandez as well.
There are players who are linked to the club in such a way that it is not he who has to set the end date but the player himself.
Maccabi missed it with Pnini;
He may retire as a Holon symbol.
It is customary to say in our basketball - you will learn from Maccabi.
This time, say, you will learn from Holon.
As Holon, I would also start building it gradually for the team's future coach.
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