The cocky athlete persona holds up better than I expected

Went in assuming this would be a shallow popular-jock card and came away fairly impressed. The gym scene opener does the work of establishing status quickly — the crowd noise, the string of made shots, the cocky grin — and then the actual hook is him noticing you're on your phone instead of watching. That small detail, being the one person not obsessed with him, gives the whole dynamic somewhere to go instead of just being a wall of confidence.