He’s actually a well-rounded scorer… with the body of an old man. While I imagine he’ll bounce around the NBA for a bit longer, he really should go to Europe. I think he could be a success for a coach prepared to design a team specifically to cover his defensive inabilities.

(Who deserves their rings more: Morrison or DJ Mbenga?)

and he always a sunny disposition had a kind word for everyone

PatterNash was all that was wrong with the Blazers; they couldn’t find their way out of a wet paper bag on draft day

It’s too bad KP didin’t listen to the DeJuan Blair fanboys in June 2009. (Or perhaps he should have consulted with Steve instead of Tom Penn?)

CP3 and Morrison

or

Roy and Webster?

You only get to choose one option. Go!

for drafting Roy and Aldridge i/o Morrison, not to celebrate Morrison being out of the league.

J.J. Redick — from March of that year.

“[…] neither Adam Morrison nor J.J. Redick — who, no matter how poorly he played against LSU last night, deserves to at least have his surname spelled correctly by you guys — will likely be productive in the NBA.”

http://blog.supersonicsoul.com/2006/03/hughes-dishes.html

The above quoted comment of mine is about midway down through that linked thread.

Well, all things considered, it was excruciatingly clear from the get-go that Morrison was severely lacking in athleticism, which ended up being his downfall.

Did someone go to Gonzaga and host cry parties for Adam back in the day?

I’ll ten million over 5 years to then slip quietly into obscurity too. Where do I sign up for THAT?

Now, with that said, Telfair and Morrison are in different categories. Telfair, of course, was a late lottery pick, so there was no clear idea as to how his game would translate from high school to the NBA; thus, taking a shot on him was a high-risk/high-reward gamble of some sort. On the other hand, though, it baffles me that countless people didn’t recognize Morrison’s deficiency of being woefully unathletic — which was apparent when he played against mediocre college competition and, more importantly, with his terrible performance at the pre-draft combine — was going to screw him at the next level. Unfortunately for Morrison, this wasn’t the ’80s — which was inferior from an athletic standpoint to the ’90s and today — wherein players such as Kiki Vandeweghe could make a career for themselves on being one-dimensional scoring machines.