the Year of Glad interview: Schtitt's all-defensive game
The sort of all-defensive game Schtitt used to have me play: the best defense: let everything bounce off you; do nothing.
Context
Under interrogation Hal falls back on a piece of actual E.T.A. pedagogy: Schtitt's all-defensive drill, "let everything bounce off you; do nothing." The coaching that was meant to build a body's discipline on court has become Hal's survival posture off it — the regimen colonizing him past the baseline, the trained body's stillness deployed as armor in a room that reads the stillness as damage.