Okay. The Terence Morris haters are still here. And I was one of them. But he has been doing very well. He is kind of small to be playing Power Forward, but he can shoot. WHAT IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT? He is the only person that I have seen that makes his shots right after coming off the bench. He is pretty good. He is a good role player. AND WHO CARES? HE ISN'T EVEN IN OUR ROTATION. He has just been playin well, and is very laudable for playing so well. I think he should be allowed to play. He is the only shooter we have besides Glen Rice. The only reason he is playing is because of injuries. Has anyone seen him play? He is the only Rocket who can shoot correctly.
Some of you guys need to put down the crackpipe. Terrence Morris definitely does not suck. I would much rather have him then someone like Lee Nailon, or Shandon Anderson, etc. He has one thing going for him, and that is *work ethic*. This is a guy who increased his shooting percentage from 38% last season to 48% this year. What's not to love about a guy like that? He also plays reasonably good defense, crashes the boards, and blocks a shot every other game. Not bad for a guy only playing 14 minutes per game. He can play either the 3 or the 4, and has done a nice job of knocking down open mid-range jumpers lately. He also had 3 blocked shots and 5 offensive rebounds against the Kings. For a late 1st round pick, this guy has been nearly fantastic.
YEAH. And if you think about it... Cuttino Mobley was the 41st person picked in the draft. For a second rounder, he has been nearly fantastic as well. Terence Morris can shoot. I don't know if you are blind or something. His defense is OK. He's just not big enough. He can guard 3's. He has a tendency to try to knock the ball out of the driver's hand. Fouls. But he does not suck. Not recently anyway.
yup. TMo has been fantastic. He's a great backup player for the rox. I can't believe some of ya'll still say he can't shoot. He seems to be gaining more confidence in himself as he gets pt. He hussles and works hard and plays good D. Perfect role player. He still hasn't had a whole lot of pt, but I think he could become a regular rotation player, and he'll keep getting better. He's a keeper.
Derrick McKey This is the guy i said all along resembles both in play and the way they carry themselves on the court. Morris and McKey have and had the potential to be Scottie Pippen like, but for some reason they never fully applied themselves and were just happy to be solid players. McKey and Morris have everything physical skill wise a coach would want in a 3. Long arms,rangy,good defenders and can do a little bit of everything. Its always how good do these guys want to be. Had Morris came out with Francis as a sophmore, he would have been lotto material, but he stuck around and didn't really show the improvment scouts thought he would be. He could still be a very good player, if he wants to be. Thats always have been the question, if he wants to be.
Wait. I know he can shoot. But he is terrible at dribbling. He can't do anything but shoot on offense. And he can rebound as well. But sorry...he cannot pass the ball to Yao. He has made too many errors. Posey does a better job giving it to Yao. He is a good player, but he cannot possibly become great. He is a little bit too slow for the quicker guys. He is very athletic though and fits well with our team. I hope we don't waive him or cut him.
His dribbling is not terrible, not for a guy his size. He is not expected to be able to dribble like a guard. Griffin's dribbling is terrible. Morris's dribbling is adequate. And as for the "passing into Yao" argument against Morris...exactly how many times a game does Morris even have the opportunity to pass into Yao? More often than not, Terrence comes in with the second squad, and doesn't even get much floor time with Ming. And even when he has, I have not noticed a tendency for him to not pass to Yao. If the pass is there, he makes it. Everything else I agree with. I think people are a bit blinded by the end of the Minnesota game when he had the ball stolen from him like 3 straight trips down the floor. That looked really bad. But overall, Morris does a pretty good job taking care of the ball. He doesn't make a great number of mistakes.
We shouldnt expect Tmo to be perfect..but as a player who is coming off the bench he has done well. He has stepped up big time backing up Posey while Rice is gone, and was a big contribution to the team last night. He's not star, but he is a very good role player.
I would like to address the ridiculous statments about Morris being a terrible passer. With all due respect, passing is one of his best assets to the team. I will refer to his time with the Terps because he really hasnt gotten enough consistent playing time with the Rockets to make a valid point. With Steve his soph year, he was lottery potential because teams locked on Steve and left Terence to make them pay. His jr. year, teams focused on him. If you watch those games, the entire offense went through him. If he got it in the post, he made excellent passes to Dixon on the wing or a nifty interior pass to Baxter on the opposite block. He was also the teams best passer into the post, hitting Baxter right where he needed it. His Sr. year, after the breakout seasons of Dixon and Baxter, teams couldn't focus on just one, but had to contend with all three. This is why I became a big Morris fan. He could have kept doing what he did his soph year and been a lottery pick, but he did what was best for the team, and took the school to its first ever Final Four, which is what it is all about.
I don't think he's all that bad. He comes in, hits a few shots, misses a few. He gives the guys a rest, and can play 3 or 4, heck, I bet he could even play a big 2 if Rudy needed him. He’s a halfway decent back up I'd say.
TMo has been playing better in the last couple (2-3) games, however, it would take longer than that to convince me he's good. I also find it interesting that TMo's hot streak coincides with the entire Rox' hot streak which interesting enough, coincides with the guards getting Yao the ball. So I believe there is more than that meets the eye. It's not that TMo's good, but that Yao creates the open shots for him and the whole team that he can't possibly miss.
11241Thomp, good post and right on about Terence's ability to hit the open teammate. There are few unselfish teamplayers around like Terence. It has been a trait of his that dates back to high school. Gary Williams rarely had special plays for Terence, TMo's scoring would result on his own, especially playing with Juan Dixon and Lonny Baxter who took most of the shots and rarely passed back. One poster mentioned that indeed TMo has been playing good the last 2-3 games, I take it that poster has been on vacation. If TMo is 3rd on the team in FG%, he has been playing well more than the last 2 or 3 games. Sounds like no matter how TMo develops and improves there will still be posters with their head in the sand. FREDTERP
