Morrison bitches out!!

[Brick Tamland]

so how far does Adam morisons stock fall after crying DURING the game. I can see if they had already lost (and he was in the WNBA) but wrre down 1 with time on the clock!!!

the dude should not be crying with a mustache. Thats rule #1 when sporting a mustach. #1 no crying... #2 dont sneeze and 3 no crying!

the bitch move could be enough to make him come back to play again other wise he will be crying threw his rookie season when the pros bust on his shaggy ass.

[imgv94]

Brick your hilarious!! I laughed 5 mins at this post!!! Thanks!!
That was the best game I have ever seem!!

[pags11]

I just don't think he should have started crying when they still had a chance to win the game...

[Mudcat]

the dude should not be crying with a mustache. Thats rule #1 when sporting a mustach.

Your point is well taken but, let's be honest - that's not really a moustache. That's a wannabe moustache - some kind of peachfuzz contraption. He's just a kid.

I'm sure players in the NBA will take that into consideration and be very delicate with him.

[isetcap]

Some day he's going to be very solid in the NBA D League.

[Emerson Taters]

One of these faces is not like the other. Can you spot which face doesn't belong?

[Emerson Taters]

Are these all the same guy?

[Willie Bee]

Put Afflalo in the same category as Morrison. Opposing players are never --- NEVER --- supposed to feel bad for making their opponents crying after a loss. Like my grandpappy told me years ago, "Never apologize for kickin' someone's ass."

AP @ ESPN.com

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Adam Morrison isn't about to make a quick decision on whether to turn pro and skip his final season at Gonzaga.

The nation's leading scorer played in what might have been his last game for the Bulldogs on Thursday, a heartbreaking 73-71 loss to UCLA in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

Morrison, a 6-foot-8 junior forward and probable NBA lottery pick, is widely expected to turn pro. He scored 24 points Thursday and finished the season averaging 28.1 points to edge Duke's J.J. Redick for the scoring title. Redick scored 26.8 points per game in his senior season, but he and the top-seeded Blue Devils also were eliminated Thursday in a loss to LSU.

An emotional Morrison, who fought tears in the final seconds and had to be helped off the floor by UCLA's jubilant players after the final buzzer, said he will return home to Spokane, Wash., and then start thinking about what's next.

"It's going to be a family decision," Morrison said in Gonzaga's somber locker room. "I've got to hear from the people who write the checks. ... I have no idea [when]. I've got to go back to Spokane and not do anything. I have no idea what I'm going to decide."

Morrison's teammates said he thanked them after the game for their sacrifices and teamwork that allowed him to have such a sensational season.

"If it's the last game, I can say he's the best player I've ever played with," forward Sean Mallon said.

Coach Mark Few has repeatedly called Morrison "a warrior" -- and UCLA's players agreed.

"I saw him lying there in tears and I just felt for him," said Bruins guard Arron Afflalo, who helped Morrison to his feet at midcourt after defending him all night. "He has no reason to cry. He's a great player and he's going to have a great career."

Morrison had five games with 40 or more points this season and is third on the school's career scoring list with 1,867 points, having passed John Stockton and numerous others this year.

[The Great One]

I hope he comes back next year and I think he might.

The guys emotional let him be. See, its not like he's some dork at the end table at lunch that everyone makes fun of. He's a competitor and probably had been dreaming every day for at least a year about the games this weekend and had to think he was going to the Final 4.

Having said that, I've played sports for many years and all of that. I've never once cried on something like that. But, more people than you know go right off of the playing field afterwards to the locker room and just let it out.

As far as his look goes, whats funny to me. is if just got a simple haircut with a 2 guard on the side and some scissors off the top, then shaved the porno mustache. I'm sure he would look 100 times better. But, the stache is his "thing" right now.

Also, regarding his NBA career, this really amuses me because people want to compare him to Larry Bird. I'm not sure in todays NBA,, that Larry Bird would even be successful. The game has changed so much since then. Everyone in the NBA is an athlete. The game has transitioned to a much more athletic one on both end of the floor. People need to stop comparing current players to old time players because there is no comparison. Like Ruth to Bonds, you can't compare these guys. A decent college player is more talented than Ruth even when he was in his prime.

[isetcap]

Also, regarding his NBA career, this really amuses me because people want to compare him to Larry Bird. I'm not sure in todays NBA,, that Larry Bird would even be successful. The game has changed so much since then. Everyone in the NBA is an athlete. The game has transitioned to a much more athletic one on both end of the floor. People need to stop comparing current players to old time players because there is no comparison. Like Ruth to Bonds, you can't compare these guys. A decent college player is more talented than Ruth even when he was in his prime.

Somebody else finally sees the light! I love how old-timers always talk about how a sport was "best" during the era they grew up in.

[Willie Bee]

You guys are both fooling yourselves and smoking far too much crack if you don't think Bird could play, and play at a high level, in the NBA today. Y'all might be right about too many of us 'oldtimers' pining for the "good old days." But the reverse is also true with way too many of you young'ns today talking out your britches about how all athletes today are way better than yesteryear's.

[The Great One]

You guys are both fooling yourselves and smoking far too much crack if you don't think Bird could play, and play at a high level, in the NBA today. Y'all might be right about too many of us 'oldtimers' pining for the "good old days." But the reverse is also true with way too many of you young'ns today talking out your britches about how all athletes today are way better than yesteryear's.

OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Name one white player in the NBA that has star success. There isn't one because it is simply an athletes league now. At least at that position. Hinrich and Dunleavy have moderate success. But Hinrich is entirely a different position.

How tall was Larry Bird? We know he couldn't jump high. Today, teams would put someone 6'9" and athletic as hell that can jump out of the building and his offensive skill set would be useless. Thats one of the reasons that Redick is faltering down the stretch. Teams are no longer putting off guards on him, they are putting longer small forwards who can jump.. Thats why his biggest weapon these days is a pump fake, the black guys always go for those. It's been programmed in their minds.

I could start another thread explaining why the 72 Dolphins should never even be counted. Yeah, Larry Szonka in his prime wouldn't have a chance against a average college defense of today.

[Bill Dozer]

I have to agree with Willie 100%. This was the same argument they made against Larry when he was coming out of French Lick. What everyone forgets is that it was Larry Bird!

The NBA is different because teams are forced to play to their player's strengths which often times does not go beyond being athletic. I think any NBA coach would say that today's teams would be destroyed by the half court execution of the 80's and 90's teams.

[Razz]

I'm not sure in todays NBA,, that Larry Bird would even be successful.

A decent college player is more talented than Ruth even when he was in his prime.

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[Willie Bee]

OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Name one white player in the NBA that has star success.

Steve Nash.

Now you name one college player, no, make that 100 college baseball players today. If any of those 100 ever hit 714 homers and pitches 31 innings over three World Series starts with an ERA under 1.00, I'll kiss your ass on the corner of Park Avenue and West 42nd Street and give you 30 minutes to draw a crowd.

[maritime]

I remember when Bird told his opponent where he was going to shoot the ball from next, and still nailed it right in his face.

I'm not a big JJ Redick fan, but he should be a decent pro. I had to laugh this morning when I heard an ESPN analyst say that based on the LSU game he could see why Redick will essentially suck in the NBA. What he doesn't realize is that LSU's (as well as most Duke opponents) gameplan was entirely designed around stopping Redick. I highly doubt that in the NBA, a team is going to say, "above all else, fellas, we need to shut down that Redick guy." In the NBA, he'll be a role player that is guarded man to man, and left alone occasionally off screens or during double teams. He'll get open looks and make some teams pay and have to play him honest on those nights. If a guy like Steve Blake can start for an NBA team, granted it's Portland, a guy like Redick will do okay as well.

[The Great One]

Steve Nash.

Now you name one college player, no, make that 100 college baseball players today. If any of those 100 ever hit 714 homers and pitches 31 innings over three World Series starts with an ERA under 1.00, I'll kiss your ass on the corner of Park Avenue and West 42nd Street and give you 30 minutes to draw a crowd.

Thats my point. You put 100 college baseball players of 2006 against the best of 1950 and there is no contest. Look at how slow, unathletic, out-of-shape these fools are from the old days. Were weights even invented then?

Guys today are bigger, stronger, and faster. Thats why i absolutly laugh at the HOF because it doesn't even matter as people who aren't even close enough today to go pro. are still better athletes than these guys from the 50's and 60's.

This is such a simple argument. Look at the NBA from the late 70's. Guys weren't built like Shaq. They didn't have Garnets and Duncans length and skill. The guards didn't even know how to execute a behind the back dribble. You never saw forheads above the rim. 6'11" guys are taking it coast to coast.

Or in NFL football. Compare the 2005 USC Trojans to the 72 Dolphins in their prime. Who would win? Come on. There big offensive weapon was a slow, fat, white fullback. Today, he would hardly see the field and would be drafted in the 6th round as a special teams player. The score would be 63-0 with Miami not even threatening to score.

Edit: Tried to correct my horrific spellling.

[Willie Bee]

You put 100 college baseball players of 2006 against the best of 1950 and there is no contest.

You figure out a way to do that, other than just stating your opinion, and we'll see how it comes out.

Stick wood bats in the hands of those college players, put heavy wool uniforms on them, let 'em wear their ballcaps for head protection and none of the other protective gear, have them travel from St. Louis to New York on a train after one doubleheader and before another one, then get in the box against a Bob Feller or Ryne Duren heater that comes up and in, and you can be in charge of changing their diapers.

As far as whether or not they had weights to lift back then, you tell me. You seem to know everything else

[Brick Tamland]

Your point is well taken but, let's be honest - that's not really a moustache. That's a wannabe moustache - some kind of peachfuzz contraption. He's just a kid.

I'm sure players in the NBA will take that into consideration and be very delicate with him.

I guess your right....dont look like a real stache... more like the answer to the question...What would happen if you grew armpit hair on your face?

[imgv94]

Also, regarding his NBA career, this really amuses me because people want to compare him to Larry Bird. I'm not sure in todays NBA,, that Larry Bird would even be successful. The game has changed so much since then. Everyone in the NBA is an athlete.

Larry Bird is one of the best players that ever played.
TGO your cool. But you are wrong on alot of things.

There are alot more players and teams now in Sports.
So in a way it balances out. And Barry Bonds had
to take steroids to even compete with Ruth's #'s

[The Great One]

i'm not wrong when it comes to certain things. i tell the truth

You're a better capper than me, that is the truth.

And what is wrong with vtaking sterooids? I bet the pitchers that were throwing at the Babe, had the same arms and training as Clemons, Pedro Martiniz, Randy Johnson, Johan Sanatana. Come on man. Just think

For instance in todays sports world, there are camps every week that can groom a 6 year-old kid into being an NFL quarterback.. The same goes with other sports.

I watch ESPN Clssic, I watch some of these "classic" games and it is an absolute joke. I don't take steroid and I'm waaaay more muscular than alot of the NBA players of the 70's. I'm 6'5" amd about 235. Average size of an NFL quarterback these days. What do you think it was back in those days?

Have you ever seen an NBA player from the 1968 be a long 6'11" and take the ball xoast to coast going behind the back and between their legs then pull up and hit an NBA 3-pointer.

Bottom line is unless you watched ESPN classis, you won't get it.

Just like I have a feeling in the year 2054, players will probably be better in their primes than the guys of today. I have no proof of that of course, but that seems to be how the game evolves. i remeber when I was in 8th grade watching that great UNLV team that basically went undefeated all year and beat everyone by 20 points a game, right then I thought that was the best BB tall of all time. Looking back at it now, there are a ton of teams that would take it to them.

Today, there are year-around clinics for quarterbacks, tennis players, pitchers, AAU basketball. Why do you think so many freshman play to day in football and basketball compared to the older days? They are more prepared. They have played more with camps and Mational tourmanets and such. They didn't have these things back in the horse and buggy day.

[The Great One]

You figure out a way to do that, other than just stating your opinion, and we'll see how it comes out.

Stick wood bats in the hands of those college players, put heavy wool uniforms on them, let 'em wear their ballcaps for head protection and none of the other protective gear, have them travel from St. Louis to New York on a train after one doubleheader and before another one, then get in the box against a Bob Feller or Ryne Duren heater that comes up and in, and you can be in charge of changing their diapers.

As far as whether or not they had weights to lift back then, you tell me. You seem to know everything else

You're reaching now. Mentioning the uniforms and trvel arrangements. of yeah, todays players definately have the more convencience.

Yes, the did have weights back then. But they were bvery simply put together. They just had dumbells. They had no idea that protein even built muscle and they have no idea what a smith machine really is.

So, an old player plays a double header in w wool outfit, take along train ride and faces a heater from some guy that never even happened, that makes him great?

Today, a player wheres clothes like an athlete not like he's hinking in Antartica, takes a private planto the stadium, and faces arms like Clemons and such night in night out. The game is overall more sophisticated with more strategy and flat out more competitive.

[The Great One]

What the hell does that mean, "had the same arms as..." ??????


FOr one thing, there used to be a rule that did not allow freshman to play varsity sports. Come on, man; just think!

I get typing too fast and don't put together sentences on the internet that well sometimes.

I meant the players of today have much bigger and heavier arms putting speed and different trajectory on the ball compared to the old timers who just threw the ball in there.

That rule has been gone for awhile now. Even in the 80's and early 90's you didn't see freshman compete on elite levels. Like I said, because they come in with more experience from AAU, traveling teams, different football camps. Now, in college, teamw will go on a European tour playing pros from overseas to make them better. In the old days they played till the season was over. Went out and did the hippy thing, then came back the next year without improving their skills.

Does anyone agree with me at all?