Poor Adam Morrison

April 30th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

So you’re Adam Morrison. Once the darling of the NCAA with your Halo buddy J.J. Redick, you’ve now been reduced to people taking shots at your hair as you spent the season on the bench, out with a bum knee. Hey, that’s not fun. Maybe not even fair.

But now, even worse, new Bobcats coach Larry Brown might not even know who you are.

“I saw Sean (May) when I walked in and Matt (Carroll),” Brown said. “And the kid with the long hair, I didn’t know his name. He wasn’t dressed like a basketball player.”

Burn, baby, burn. Perhaps Brown was just calling him out — already picking his player to get after early and often. But geez Larry, how can you not remember this moment over here to the right?

{Via FanHouse.}

Halo 3 is my only friend

March 21st, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

This is what happens when John Hollinger picks on your PER for an entire season. It’s all your fault, John!

Jack White + facial hair? The opportunities here are endless.

(HT: AA)

Adam Morrison: X-Box 360 Lover

June 28th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Adam Morrison around here (namely because we became distraught after Gonzaga knocked our Indiana Hoosiers out of the NCAA tournament and he hasn’t cried on the court in awhile), but with the NBA Draft looming tonight, we felt it was appropriate to delve into Morrison’s obsession with video games.

Apparently, EA Sports is rolling out a series of commercials starting tonight during the draft for NBA Live ‘07, which will feature Mr. Morrison. (You can peep some video of that stuff here. I haven’t gotten any of them to work, so good luck. Guess you might just have to wait until tonight!)

We all know he and his good butt buddy J.J. Redick play each other in Halo online, but apparently Morrison plays a whole host of other games whenever he get the chance. From a recent interview with IGN:

“Pretty much all I do in my spare time is play games,” laughs Morrison. “Xbox Live is where it’s at, I’m always online.”

If Morrison plays video games with the same emotion and intensity with which he plays hoops (which this interview certainly indicates), we imagine him standing up, pacing around and talking trash into his X-Box 360 online headset. It’s a scary image, indeed.

(Small update: The Mighty MJD has a video up of one of these Morrison commmercials.)

NBA Draft 2006 - Feel the rush

June 27th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanE

The NBA Draft. It’s usually - usually - not the greatest test of how your team does the next year. But this year’s different, right? No high school players, right?

Well, that might actually weaken this draft, believe it or not. NBADraft.net has that European guy, Bargnani, going 1st overall and Tyrus Thomas going 2nd to the Bulls (C’mon Bulls). Um, remember Greg Oden? Yeah, he’d definitely get drafted over both of those guys.

Either way, I’m still really excited for this thing, moreso than in recent years, and I probably shouldn’t be, given the shallow talent pool.

Without sounding too much like some sort of circus clown, let me just say - this draft could get craaaazy! Will the Bulls get a guy to push them over the hump, or just another young player on a too-young roster? Will the Raptors completely eff up this draft, as with most things concerning their franchise? Is Bargnani the new Dirk or the new Darko? Will J.J. Redick get drafted in the top 10, free to urinate on NBA groupies for years to come? Does Adam Morrison have his seizure problems under control?

Here’s a couple more draft boards to check out. NBA Draft 2006. Can you feel it?

(Apparently, there’s already a 2007 NBA Mock Draft. Will Marco Killingsworth at least be in that one?)

(Quick little amusing update. Apparently, some crazy shit is going down in Andy Katz and Chad Ford’s world over on ESPN. Rudy Gay is pictured. It just read as such: As Wednesday’s draft hurtles toward the NBA planet, the latest rumors are out of this world. Raptors fans, pay attention. If you’re a Raptors fan, and you weren’t already paying attention, you’re not a Raptors fan. Also, if your team drafts Rudy Gay, you should stop being a Raptors fan. Also - I would bet my apartment this means absolutely nothing. But we’ll see.)

The ‘Stache is Going Pro

April 18th, 2006 | Posted by Matt

NBA fans, Adam Morrison’s mustache and mop top are coming to a city near you. Morrison hasn’t made it exactly official just yet, but the NCAA scoring leader and hippie-wannabe is expected to announce Wednesday that he will be entering the NBA Draft. And I can’t say I blame him for it.

This past year, Morrison and J.J. Redick were like two peas in a pod. Their names were always said in the same breath and the comparisons were neverending. Now, with both players going pro, the comparisons will not cease. This rivalry is definitely not that of Kobe vs. Shaq, or LeBron vs. Dwayne. It’s a very unique one, but unfortunately for both players, it’s temporary. There is just no way it will continue on the next level. If anything, Morrison will finally outshine Redick once and for all.

A year from now, Morrison will be making millions of dollars as an 8-10 point scorer coming off the bench. Plus, he better shave - because the Adam Morrison look was so 2006.

Enough Already: Morrison Mustache References

March 20th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

Okay, so we’re guilty of it ourselves. But still, we’ve flat out had enough of people talking about Adam Morrison’s mustache. So the dude has some unruly facial hair above his upper lip, we get it. You literally can’t read a story involving Gonzaga or Mr. Morrison without a reference to his mustache.

Personally, the guy kinda creeps me out. At press conferences he likes to keep his head down and makes no eye contact. On the court, he whines to the refs and gets crazy over-emotional.

On the plus side, he looks a lot like Prefontaine.