You don’t have to be an aficionado of video games to be familiar with the “take the L” dance, a side to side leg-kick jig that is done while the letter “L” is formed on the participants head with the thumb and index finger.
A big part of the mental game of sport is how you take “the L”. Every player fails, sometimes. How athletes bounce back from a loss is highly predictive of whether they can succeed in the long term; how a team recovers from a terrible run can determine whether they will be relevant at season’s end.