There’s something that’s just calm and cool about Sergio Scariolo as he coaches a basketball game.
“Just kind of that, you know, smooth guy” is how Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry put it, and why wouldn’t Scariolo be like that.
He’s coached in the intensity of World Cup finals, Olympic gold-medal games and a EuroBasket atmosphere that can be overwhelming, and he’s always succeeded.
He does not get ruffled. He does not overreact. He is never overwhelmed by the task or the moment.
He’s smooth.
“Just really calm,” guard Fred VanVleet said of Scariolo, the Raptors’ interim head coach Friday night when Toronto beat Houston 122-111.