Devin is still very young and consequently extremely impressionable. He is a fighter and wants to win. He still has a positive innocence to him because of that youth and attitude that makes it really tough for him to see the big picture.
He has spent a lot of time around [Redacted] the last two years. And a lot of the way he thinks about and sees basketball is going to be heavily influenced by [Redacted]. It's not surprising at all when Devin says things like "we are winners", "we don't respect them" and "we are a good team, but x, y and z excuses are preventing that". So many like things have come out of Bzdeliks mouth in similar words. He is just reflecting what he has been taught by one of the most prominent adults in his life.
A huge part of sports is the "culture" of winning. It's an attitude and a learned behavior. It's a process. Some people just know how to win, it's in their athletic DNA. Problem is that [Redacted] is a loser. He is an enormous loser. And that "culture" of losing is all over our program now. And it definitely affects the players.
This next hire is huge. Because he will have the task of reprogramming the culture to one of winning. And it will be a process with the current players because so much of it is mental dealing with attitude, responsibility and expectations...not just X's and O's and basketball fundamentals.
