What’s it like inside a timeout—and inside the most important timeout of the season—with new Salesianum basketball head coach Brendan Haley ’82? Not as action-‐packed as you might think.
Printed in Distinguished Gentleman, 2013You are 17 again and sweaty, wearing longer shorts than you ever have in your life, treading on an acrylic blue chicken on your way to talk with your math teacher. He hates numbers. High school is one hell of a place.
You are losing. He has thirty seconds. He looks to the assistants around him, then turns to you. Fifteen seconds.
“Be more physical,” he says. His eyes are fixed. His arms are steady. “More physical.”
Ten seconds.
