The more I watch Moochie Norris play - the way he organizes the floor and shoots - I gotta wonder what he was doing in the CBA? How long was he in there before the rockets nabbed him? ------------------ "Jop tvai mat!" - Arvydas Sabonis after Steve Francis sat on his head after a dunk
My guess he was dribbling too much and playing street ball. ------------------ CUT Tino These Heaves are just getting Ridiculous!
Some guys just take so much more time to develop. Moochie looks very composed when he plays. And that comes with experience. One thing is that the Rockets lucked out plucking him at his peak. ------------------ The guns are cocked and the soldiers are in place, it's time to march and let the battles decide the war.
I think that the way he plays now also has to do with the fact that Houston is really the first team that has given him a legitimate shot in the NBA. I think he wants to play well FOR THIS TEAM. I really believe he loves this team, and wants to stay here for a long time. I hope so, anyway... ------------------ Jazzkiller
It also never hurts to have a lefty on the team. ------------------ "Jop tvai mat!" - Arvydas Sabonis after Steve Francis sat on his head after a dunk
I can't put into words how saddened I would be if Mooch left this team. Not as much as Dream or Steve, but Mooch just has a quality about him that, despite his obvious basketball intelligence and abilities, makes me think of him as an underdog. I would root for him no matter what team he played for, but I just hope its the Rockets! Plus, now that Wiz has shaved his head, he is the sole representative of the afro on our team. ------------------ "Of course, everything looks bad if you remember it!" Homer Simpson
I think he liked it better, because he could use his patented dribble move off the opponents forehead. Hey, if you really like him, you'd go into Sane's thread and say how much you'd pay him next year.
I thought that I had heard at the beginning of the season that he had some really bad sleep deprivation (sp) problems. I believe that he had to take some time of while seeing a specialist. Maybe the talent was there, but the mind was a little fuzzy. I to would hate to see him go. He has character, and some very good PG skills, sometimes it's nice to have a PG on the floor that looks for the pass 1st and shot 2nd...all the time. ------------------ In the end there will be no judges...only witnesses to my greatness.
Yeah..Bill and calvin talked to him about that after the game against the hornets. He said he just never really sleeps. Whatever it is that makes him like that - I think I have whatever causes the opposite reaction ------------------ "Jop tvai mat!" - Arvydas Sabonis after Steve Francis sat on his head after a dunk
The bottom line is that Moochie was a lucky prize to be had, and that the Rockets picking up on him probably had something to do with Steve Francis. Its been noted that growing up Stevie looked up to Mooch as being one of the best street ballers from that area, and thank god we got Steve Francis to not only assure us a solid franchise-type Kidd or Payton in our backcourt but a better back up at point guard then any other team in the league. The Fro and his personality are just pluses to his bad ass decision making skills, and his niche for making shots in traffic when he has too. lets all pray that moochie (which is like a 20's refrence to Marijuna), will stay on this team as long as Francis does too insure our dominance at that position. ------------------ -jbond77
Some people in this thread were right. I went to a Seattle and Minnesota game about 1-2 years ago and there were like 3 articles in the Seattle newspaper about Moochie's insomnia. Mooch was just starting to be a huge factor on Seattle and become a great player, but he had to go to the CBA because he could never sleep. I believe that in one of the articles in said he stayed awake for 3 days straight before! I hope this clears everything up. ------------------
What happened to Mooch is probably the same thing that happened to Avery Johnson, you get labeled with something and even when you improve you can't shake the label. Avery Johnson was labeled as a guy who couldn't shoot, so instead of playing to his strength teams cut him. I'm sure Mooch suffered some sort of familiar label. ------------------ No sleep and no trade info make RocksMillenium something, something!
F3 is right. He's was playing pretty well for Seattle, but insomnia started really affecting his game. He said in an article that he was so stressed by the thought of making a mistake and getting cut that he wouldn't sleep for days on end. Eventually, the sleep-deprivation made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. He got some therapy and got back on track. I think Seattle really liked him, as he was tearing it up as a backup for Payton, but they couldn't keep him with his insomnia. ------------------ RealGM Rockets Draft Obligations Summary Gafford Art Artisan
He got therapy from the Bible. Mooch gave credit to studying God's Word as the reason he was able to stop experiencing so much worry and anxiety which led him to be able to sleep.
