Shane Battier
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And I was just like, oh man, I did not read the room.
It humbled me.
And I realized like, man, I can't come in here guns a-blazing because there's kind of like an ethos and a creed and kind of an unspoken locker room path you got to take to earn credibility.
And I hadn't done that to that point.
And so I shut my ass.
I went to work, right?
But I didn't become cynical.
I didn't become jaded.
I wouldn't allow that locker room to change me.
So...
I kept working.
And a funny thing happened.
Like, the guys who maybe were on the fence and didn't know how to act and how to win started to have, like, winning attitudes and, like, winning behaviors.
And all of a sudden, like, you kind of feel the locker room kind of shift a little bit.
And we started to believe a little bit.
And Hubie Brown comes in the next year.
We start winning some games.
It was pretty awesome to be part of.
I'd never been part of, like, a culture change, per se.