Unfortunately for the Bulls veteran forward, he could only speak for himself.
Where his teammates were as far as their own mental space after back-to-back embarrassing losses this week? That’s for each of them to figure out.
What DeRozan won’t allow in the locker room, however, is the outside narrative of this team to seep into their own psyche and become their reality.
“I think if you think like that, and you give into that, you become that,’’ DeRozan said. “We cannot become what everybody says we keep doing. I’m always a big firm believer in as long as you’ve got time, have an opportunity going forward, you’ve got a chance to change whatever needs to be changed.