Tom Petrini: Mike Brown shouts out Popovich when asked about blocking out the noise:
"The term is a bunker mentality, it's actually something that I learned from Pop back in the early 2000s when you get to this level, or you're playing in a bigger market, especially, there's going to be a lot of noise, and you're going to hit some adversity throughout the course of the season, and this is what I talked about when I said, you know, you hope you hit adversity, because you want to see how everybody reacts, not just the players. I want to see how Mr. Dolan was going to react. I want to see how Leon Rose is going to react, their group, and on top of the players, because you know one of them, all of them can get pissed at me and say, 'Screw this, we're done,' or you could try to keep fighting, stay even keeled, and try to figure it out, and that will only help you the further along you get in the playoffs. And right now, the amount of media and noise that's outside is something that the guys, most guys, haven't seen, and so trying to continue to ignore it, they're human, so they're going to hear some of it."
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