The Roundup has changed
Roundup is much improved: it tells you what happened in each game where the round turned, and which teams are quietly becoming something different. The tables are easier to read, the pages are faster to move around, and nothing asks you to hunt for the thing you came for.
There is one small addition: every club now carries a little two-color mark beside its name, built from its own colors. After a week of looking at it you stop reading the names at all. You recognize Olympiacos red, Zalgiris green, Barcelona crimson, and your eye finds the row before your brain does.
It is a tiny thing. It saves you about half a second, forty times a page.
Issue 15. Round 4 starts on Tuesday
Round 4: Panathinaikos settled the big one, and the clock says who everyone really is
Panathinaikos beat Fenerbahce by 18 in the game everyone had circled. Valencia are 4-0 and one quarter explains most of it. And the best team in the league is being outscored in the fourth, which is the sort of thing that stays hidden until somebody looks at the clock.
Xavi Pascual, the preparer
The youngest coach ever to win the EuroLeague, now at Dubai. He does not ask his players to follow instructions. He asks them to understand why the instruction exists, which is a slower way to build a team and a harder one to copy.
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