When Marshall Plumlee was a freshman, he took the microphone for a behind-the-scenes video for Duke Basketball and was just such a presence we couldn’t shake it: it was impossible to dislike him.
Later, when he had become an effective big man, Jahlil Okafor came along and moved ahead of him in the rotation.
He didn’t complain or whine; he just worked. And after a year of working hard to guard Okafor in practice every day, not to mention winning a national championship - the third Plumlee to do so - he stepped in and started as a senior and was very good and proved to be an emotional leader for his team.