the grief-therapy call: walking on-court oriented, where the lines were

Even the grief-therapy set-piece gets metabolized through Schtitt's coaching vocabulary: Orin reads Hal's eventual triumph over the grief-counselor as a matter of orientation, "walking on-court oriented, with a sense of where the lines were, Schtitt would say." The pedagogy of knowing the court — where the lines are, which way you're facing — is portable enough that the brothers reach for it to describe any performance under pressure. Schtitt's doctrine of on-court orientation is the frame through which these players understand competence anywhere.