He's stone-faced, rarely makes a move out of turn and gives practically nothing away.
One can only imagine how composed he must be on the basketball court.
"He takes care of business," says Tigerton coach Rich Tucker about sharp-shooter Nick Desrochers, who is one of only three players in school history to top the 1,000-point plateau.
"I don't talk on the floor (except to move teammates into position)," says Desrochers, who has now amassed 1,204 career points in 60 career games, all starts. "I just go out and play."
"He's a good team player," says Desrochers' father, Mike, the school's girls' junior varsity coach. "He shows good emotions on the floor-he doesn't burn up or nothing."
Desrochers, who earlier this season surpassed the 1,000 point mark with a 32-point effort in a game against Iola-Scandinavia, inspires in the crowd the emotions that he keeps inside.
"It's when he dunks the ball," says June Desrochers, Nick's mother, "and the crowd goes wild. It doesn't matter how far they're down."
"There 'aint nobody (else) in the (Central Wisconsin Conference Small) that can do it," says Mike. "I've never seen it done yet nor heard of it (being done)."
Preferring to talk about the Tigers' appearance in the Wausaukee Regional finals his sophomore season-his first year on varsity- the 6-foot-3 swingman is uncomfortable talking about his high-flying feats.
His devotion to the game keeps his ego at bay.
"In seventh and eighth grade we put the hoop up outside and even in the wintertime he'd put gloves on and shoot," June Desrochers says.
The endless repetitions during those blustery months have paid off in a big way.
"He's about as pure a shooter as you're going to find," says Mike Desrochers about his son, who carries career averages of 20.1 points-per-game, 81 percent from the free-throw line, and 37 percent from behind the three-point arc.
Mike Desrochers is struck by Nick's all-around savvy.
"I'd say he's an overall player," says Mike, asked to evaluate his son. "If somebody's standing right next to the hole, he'll dish it off even if he's standing wide open (and Nick Desrochers admits that his range extends to well beyond the three-point line).
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At the heart of Desrochers' excellence is his family orientation and his desire.
"I'm very impressed with the support base he has at home," says Tucker about the seven-member family, which includes younger siblings Cory and Charity and older sisters Teresa and Veronica, each of whom played on the Tigerton girls varsity team during their high school years.
The newest addition to the Desrochers clan best illustrates how deeply his emotions run.
"That's the light of his eye right now," June says of her eight-week-old daughter Charity, who, because she was born during the holiday break, has yet to miss a game.
Nick, who is often seen cradling the infant in his arms after he fills the net all night, has already begun to steer her to the game he loves.
"I bought her a pair of Air-Jordans that are about two inches long," Nick says.
Desrochers has been adored by area basketball fans for the last three years, showing flashes of brilliance that make him a marquee attraction.
"You see a lot of people that don't even have kids in school that come just to watch Nick play," Mike Desrochers says. "That's the talk of the town, 'Oh, Nick's going to play.'"
And the adulation isn't limited to the wide-eyed pre-teens and admiring adults of Tigerton.
"A couple of weeks ago at Wild Rose, he had a number of parents come up to him after the game and say that they'd been watching him for two or three years and they just like to watch him play-and that's pretty good for opponents."
"He's worth the price of admission," says Tucker.
The only basketball accomplishment that has eluded Desrochers to this point is the school's scoring record.
"We keep trying to find out what the record is," says Mike, "but we can't find out. The guy that's got it (Garrett Rogowski) is going out with my daughter (Veronica, who graduated last year).
"Every time we ask him or his father (the former Tigerton boys coach), we keep getting a higher figure. I know Nick's close. If he had had four years (like Rogowski did), Nick would have broken it."
If no one fesses up, Nick may have to settle for the smiling faces that he'll leave behind.
"It's been fun watching him play," Tucker says.
Desrochers has had fun playing, too. You'd just never know it by his expression.