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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2070407, member: 1969"]
Sports Psychology in real life... you don't want to have players that totally ignore pressure either.   Perfect example is Andrea Bargnani.

I am sure some of you here may be familiar with the caliper test.   It's a test to show how strong one is to block outside or uncontrollable forces, how strong one can handle pressure.   Andrea Bargnani scored the highest grade ever by any NBA player on the test, and is a reason why Bryan Colangelo fell in love with him as a prospect.   His caliper score blew him away.   And Colangelo saw this as an amazing trait -- he had the "IT" factor he proclaimed.

In retrospect the reason he scored well so well on the Caliper was he didn't give a s*** about anything.    Bargnani didn't give a crap what anybody else thought and felt no pressure.   He played the game the way he felt like and just refused to listen to other coaches or players.  He could not be motivated either positively or negatively by anybody.  He was fine with being lazy and a pansy, and if someone called him lazy or a pansy he would be fine with that too.

Bargnani and the 7 years of torture he caused me as a Raptors fan,
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