<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">No one has to tell a bird to fly, a fish to swim, a politician to make a speech. So you stick a basketball into the palms of your average NBA player and figure the first thing he'll look to do is shoot. Except for Shane Battier, who is anything but average. While walking out of the Rockets' locker room at Toyota Center after Wednesday night's exhibition victory over Milwaukee in which he never got off the bench, Battier turned to teammate Bonzi Wells and cracked, "You know, I scored just as many points tonight as I did in Dallas." On Tuesday night against the Mavericks, Battier played 25 minutes and took just one shot. Which is the problem. The good kind, at least, for coach Jeff Van Gundy. "I think Shane is better than I expected," Van Gundy said of the 6-8 forward, who was obtained in the draft-night trade from Memphis for first-round pick Rudy Gay and Stromile Swift. "You're always happy when you get more than what you expected. Most times in life, you get less. So I'm happy about that."</div> Source
