Thankfully for Battier acolytes like myself, it doesn’t ever adversely affect his team, but it’s worth mentioning because it’s a peccadillo distinctive to Battier and few others, and because it flies in the face of everything Battier believes in. But there is one component of Battier’s game which is self-serving. He’s been doing whatever he can to get his team a win-regardless of how that’s compromised his stats-for his entire career. Shane Battier is the last player anyone would ever call selfish.
