{"id":142025,"date":"2025-05-12T14:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=142025"},"modified":"2025-05-12T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:30:13","slug":"im-grateful-jake-cohen-reflects-on-maccabi-tel-aviv-career-after-reaching-500-game-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/im-grateful-jake-cohen-reflects-on-maccabi-tel-aviv-career-after-reaching-500-game-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m grateful” Jake Cohen reflects on Maccabi Tel Aviv career after reaching 500 game mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maccabi Tel Aviv has been the home to many a great basketball player over the years. From Miki Berkovic to Tal Brody, from Derrick Sharp to Nadav Henefeld and Tal Burstein to Guy Pnini, the yellow-and-blue have always had terrific mix of players who have made their impact on the club. Two more players that are now also part of that prestigious list is Jake Cohen and John Dibartolomeo who were honored this week for having played 500 games in a Maccabi Tel Aviv uniform. <\/p>\n

Prior to the club\u2019s quarterfinal clash against Nes Ziona, the pair of naturalized Israelis from the United State of America were feted by the fans as they received a special framed jersey emblazoned with the number 500 on the back, acknowledging their accomplishment. <\/p>\n

Following the game, Cohen opened up about his career, his special evening and offered his reflections on his time as a member of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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Jake Cohen – Photo credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cThe first thing that I think about when it comes to these things is how grateful I am,\u201d the Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania native began. \u201cIt\u2019s a position of privilege that I\u2019ve been in to play for this club for such a long time and to share all these memories with such great people. It\u2019s not only the championships that I cherish, obviously they are really special but also the hard times too, going through difficult times with great people is really a special experience too and nothing encapsulates that more than the last two years what we\u2019ve gone through as a team, that\u2019s been really special to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo share the night with John who is deserving of so much, a night of his own to be honest was really cool, because he\u2019s my brother in so many ways and he is a really special person, he has gotten me through so many tough times, just being a great friend. To have my wife and children out there to share a moment like that, how many people get the opportunity to do that. That picture is going to be in the Cohen household for a very long time and hopefully for generations to come. It\u2019s hard to wrap my head around it.\u201d
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Jake Cohen – Photo credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nAt 34-years old, Cohen understands that his playing career may be coming to a close in the near future, perhaps even after this season and he is well aware as to how fortunate he has been for more than a decade to be able to play the game that he loves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I have one of the best jobs in the world. Get to come to work with amazing people and I get to play the sport that I love and that I have devoted my life to. I have wonderful people around me and supporting me. I have my family here around me. I\u2019m incredibly lucky, I\u2019m grateful and how can you not have fun. We played great in the second half and the crowd was great those are the moments that I will remember a lot. I don\u2019t know how much longer it will be but whatever it is I want to take every moment as it comes, be grateful, be present and just cherish it because who knows how much longer it will last. I am just going to try and enjoy it.\u201d
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Jake Cohen – Photo credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Davidson Wildcats product joined Maccabi Tel Aviv after he graduated college in 2013 and soon thereafter was loaned out to Maccabi Rishon Le\u2019Zion. After a season back in yellow-and-blue, Cohen headed to Greece and when he returned he featured for Maccabi Ashdod during the 2016-17 campaign. From there it was back to Maccabi Tel Aviv for three years where he captured a trio of league championships before playing a season in Spain. Once again, in 2021 it was back to the Holy Land where he took home another pair of titles.
\n\u201cFamily is the best answer for me,\u201d Cohen said about what Maccabi Tel Aviv means to him. \u201cThey have been with me since the start of my career. I remember a scout came to see me at the Portsmouth Invitational in April of 2013. He came to me after one of the games and said good game, we\u2019ll be talking to you and now look at me 12 years later. It\u2019s crazy. Reggie Fanan (fitness coach) came up to me and gave me a hug and said I remember when you first got here and you were my project because I wasn\u2019t great physically, I\u2019m still not but that\u2019s not Reggie\u2019s fault.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNow I had this pregame ceremony and I had my two kids with me, that\u2019s life and it\u2019s a special thing and like all families we had hard parts I was released by Maccabi three times and I\u2019m still here. It\u2019s a special place nonetheless. I am so fortunate, how many guys get to spend their career at a Euroleague club like this, it\u2019s not lost on me.\u201d
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Jake Cohen – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nOver the years, Cohen has been in the starting lineup both in the Euroleague and the Israeli competition, he has also come off the bench and there have also been plenty of games where he played very sparingly or not even at all. But regardless of how many minutes he was on the court, Cohen always made sure to keep himself levelheaded and focused on the task at hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s part of the job. It\u2019s not guaranteed that you start and it\u2019s not guaranteed that you play. The only thing you can do is help the team as much as you can when you are out there and it\u2019s up to the coach to determine how much I will play. If I worry about things that are outside of my control, I am not doing my job properly. I think that this is something that I have come to learn at this age after over 500 games, you got to worry about what you can control otherwise you are going to drive yourself crazy and focus on the wrong things and then your performance is going to suffer.\u201d
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Jake Cohen – Photo credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cIf you can stay focused and if you play two minutes of twenty minutes as long as you are doing your job and you are trying your best, that\u2019s really all you can ask for. Hopefully the two minutes leads to four to eight and to whatever, that\u2019s how it goes. Wat the coach decides to do, that\u2019s his job, that\u2019s why he gets paid. He\u2019s good at his job too. I need to make sure his job is difficult and he has to play me and has to play all of my other teammates because everyone\u2019s playing great. We need to give him those problems. It\u2019s really just about mindset and focusing on what I can control.\u201d <\/p>\n

After Maccabi Tel Aviv punched their ticket to the semifinals with a 3-0 sweep of Nes Ziona, they are now awaiting the winner of the Bnei Herzliya and Hapoel Holon clash. Should they advance to the finals they will face either Hapoel Tel Aviv or Hapoel Jerusalem both of whom will be a very tough opponent in the championship series for the reigning yellow-and-blue. With that, Cohen offered the his thoughts as to what will be the key as the postseason continues on.
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Jake Cohen – Photo credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a big challenge and it\u2019s really easy to look too far ahead because Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem are both really talented teams. But no matter who we play in the semifinals whether it\u2019s Bnei Herzliya or Hapoel Holon they are really talented too. So we need to take this break to continue to improve, not get complacent with how we did in the quarterfinal because we are going to have a dangerous team in the semifinal and it\u2019s only a best-of-3, so each game takes on even greater meaning. But I think it\u2019s up to me and John and the other veterans to make sure our guys are focused on the task ahead, not get too far ahead and not get too cocky. You have to understand in the playoffs you can\u2019t look ahead at all and you really have to stay in the moment and appreciate how good your opponents are because at this point every has been playing together for a long time and everyone is dangerous. It\u2019s definitely going to be a challenge for I think we are up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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