Romeo cares far more about Basketball than what his emotions show on the court. Alex English for example showed almost no emotion on the court and was one of the greatest scorers of his era. Jay Edwards looked half asleep on the court, but definitely had ice in his veins for clutch end of game game winning shots. Just because someone is smooth and does not demonstrably show emotion on the court does not mean they do not have fire in the belly. It is the mental game, too emotional players are easy to beat, get under their skin, agitate them defensively, talk trash, they fall apart when the game is on the line. Mentally weak opponents almost always show all their emotions on their sleeve. The silent assassin who is difficult to read his emotions is much more controlled and dangerous when the game is on the line. There are always exceptions to this rule. Scott Skiles for example or John McEnroe fueled their inner drive with outwardly emotional outbursts and I loved to see that fire when they used it inside to motivate themselves internally, effectively harnessing that angry energy to drive them to greater success. But most of the time outwardly emotional players emotions work against them. I prefer the ice man, Bruce Lee type stoic body language, over the overly emotional chest bump after a dunk, or 3 goggles after after every made 3pt shot guy.