One of the best things about sports fandom is the aspirational aspect of the experience — the sheer delight at getting to envision yourself pulling off the feats of derring-do unfolding on the court, of imagining what it'd be like to soar through the air or effortlessly splash jumpers from 35 feet out. Sometimes, though, sports can serve up scenarios where what you're feeling isn't curiosity at what it must be like to be that player doing that amazing thing, but rather total recognition of what must be going through that player's mind at that exact moment.
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Like, for example, I can very easily identify the thoughts and emotions of Wu Ke of the Chinese Basketball Association's Shandong Flaming Bulls after delivering an unreasonably hard and cheap foul on Jason Maxiell, the 6-foot-7, 260-pound former NBA shot-blocker/rebounder/bruising bad-ass, and realizing that he has not been waylaid by this blow, and further realizing that he is very angry and coming very quickly in your direction.