Do I think about myself differently? Absolutely. I can’t speak for everyone on this team, but that is absolutely the case for me. There’s a different sense of self-worth. When you’re losing 18 games in a row, you look at yourself and say, ‘What am I doing? What else can I do? What could I do differently?’ And those things get you into even more trouble on the court. But if you can look at the rest of your team and think, ‘All we have to do is do our individual roles and jobs, and we’ll get wins’ – that takes away so much of the stress. Last year, I would sometimes go out of character, because everybody thought they should be doing more. I’d try to drive the lane and get a foul, which isn’t something I should be doing.
Brian Scalabrine, on the differences playing for Boston in the Garnett/Allen era (New York Times via FanHouse)

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