This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side of sports. Sign up for Peak’s newsletter here.Anthony Goods played with Mitch Johnson, the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, at Stanford. Goods is now an assistant coach at Arkansas State.To paint a picture: Mitch Johnson is a cool dude.I don’t mean he has a cool personality. I mean a laidback kind of cool, like how they used the term in the 1970s. Mitch walks slow. He talks slow. He even drives slow.When we were in college together at Stanford, we hung out all the time. If the speed limit was 65 miles per hour, I would be doing 80. Mitch would be going 62.That’s just Mitch. He knows who he is. And that’s why he’s a great leader.Last year, Mitch was the interim head coach of the San Antonio Spurs. He took over after Gregg Popovich’s health issues. Then he got the full-time job and had Victor Wembanyama and all the expectations that come along with a player that talented.But Mitch is the perfect coach for that scenario because he is not going to struggle with pressure. He’s going to be level-headed under any circumstance. He’s going to be cool.I always think back to our second-round game in the NCAA Tournament in 2008 when we beat Marquette at the buzzer. I didn’t have a good game, and our head coach, Trent Johnson, was thrown out of the game in the first half. It was a crazy swing in the game.