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You can rub your eyes some more, but the uniform won’t change colors.

It will be hard to get used to for most Gary girls basketball fans. One of the most celebrated players and prolific scorers in city history is not wearing the crimson of Horace Mann anymore thanks to the school’s closing.

Instead, she will don the colors of the most successful program in city history — the orange and blue of West Side.

And Shanee Butler couldn’t be happier after a long summer of confusion as to where she was allowed to go to school.

First she was thinking about going to Lew Wallace, then it was West Side and then out of nowhere she ended up at Roosevelt. Three weeks into the school year, she was told she would have to go to West Side because she lives a couple blocks from the school.

Most basketball aficionados believe that being a Cougar is the worst thing basketball-wise for Butler, but one of her many goals this season is to prove the naysayers wrong.

“People didn’t think I could play at West Side, but to be a ballplayer you have to make sacrifices,” she said. “I don’t care about averaging 20 points per game. I knew I belonged here at West Side. I don’t care what people think about me anymore.”

More than any other program in the area, wearing the orange and blue of the Cougars means checking your ego at the door and worrying about the team first.

Butler came from a program that was starting to build some gradual success, most of it thanks to her scoring ability. But at West Side, having someone average 20 points, let alone 15 points per game is as rare as a Chicago pro sports franchise winning a championship.

That suits the 5-foot-5-inch guard just fine.

“This is my last year. I’m playing ball and I’m going to have fun,” said Butler, who never won a sectional title with Mann. “We’re going out to win a state championship. Getting that ring is all that matters.”

The transition for Butler hasn’t been all smooth sailing, with a different work ethic and a different mindset required to wear the orange and blue.

But her intangibles make up for the extra hard work. She has plenty of support on her new team with friends and AAU teammates around her.

“We’re really trying to get her comfortable playing with us,” said Michelle Hamblin, who is one of those summer AAU teammates. “Everybody treats her as if she’s been here four years. ShaneŽ, Erica (Simpson), Ashley (Gates), Isabell (Rhenwrick) — we’ve known each other since middle school, maybe even earlier.”

The optimism about Butler’s arrival isn’t as obvious with coach Rod Fisher. But that’s not in his personality. His job is to get 12 or more girls ready for a season of West Side basketball that usually extends to the regional.

That’s something Butler is just not used to yet.

“She’s behind three years on what we’re trying to do here,” Fisher said. “Right now she’s not one of our starting five. Can she be one of our starters? Sure, she can help the team.

“Actually we’re not going to have a starting five. We have more like a starting eight. From one to eight, there’s not much difference.”

Sitting on the other side of the court, Fisher realizes what Butler is capable of, and he’s impressed with her attitude so far.

“Knowledge-wise, ShaneŽ is a little behind,” he said. “But for two weeks of practice, she’s conducted herself pretty good, so I have no complaints.”

After averaging more than 20 points in her three years at Mann, one might think Butler would have a bruised ego because of not being an immediate starter.

But she continues to toe the Cougars’ company line and realizes it’s all about the team.

“We have seven players on this team capable of making any all-star team,” she said. “A lot of people didn’t think I would be able to run up and down the court with these girls. But I’ve been out of shape and I know I have some work to do.”