“You just use that as motivation for yourself,” Foster said. “People are always going to doubt you. That chip on my shoulder is as big as ever. It’s always been big, being from a small town (Seaside, Calif.), and I didn’t get recruited highly out of high school. I always felt like I had something to prove. But now it’s even more evident. Just for me personally, I know what I have to do to show people the player that I am.”