Etan Thomas: “What happened with Roy Hibbert? He was doing well and then it just went south.” David West: “It was a mental thing. It was all mental. Roy played basketball a lot of years because he was big. He was made to play, and then he developed a love for the game much later — and actually, it wasn’t until he was in the NBA that he really got a love for the game. In Indy, we had it situated perfectly. And for him, Frank [Vogel] is the most positive [person]; he’s gonna coach you up regardless of what you’re doing. He’s gonna coach you up, and that’s what Roy needed. He had Roy playing the best basketball of his career, and that was all Frank. Because there were games where big fella was out of it; his timing was off and he got into a couple bad funks, but Frank was able to keep him steady.
