It's quite easy to locate the 210-cm Takatoshi Ishibashi on the floor during a basketball game, and it won't take too long to see when he's in agony.
"Painful," he said, describing his gig as the head coach of the struggling Toyama Grouses, after a 96-72 loss to the host Tokyo Apache on Feb. 14.
"Now I've come to realize why head coaches knit their brows."