May a basketball player again

[dav7z]

He came to camp monday looking like he did in the chanpionship days at UNC. Biggerstaff said hes a basketball player again . Lets all hope thats the MAY we get this year.
OK50 Biggerstaff said played well on defence and running the court but has a ways to go .
The star of camp monday was Morrison . Biggerstaff said he could do it all . Shoot , pass , rebound,May also said Morrison is going to be the man .
IF it all works out health wise the cats will be a playoff team this year.

I say with a healthy ok50 and May and the add. of Morrison the cat will play at least 500 ball this year. How many wins do you think the cats will have.

[heelfan]

I\'m glad to hear that Sean May is looking like a ball player again. He looked awful sitting on the bench near the end of last season.
With some health, I think 40 wins and a #8 seed in the playoffs isn\'t out of the question at all.

[Dead_Real]

We can get 40 remember those games we had that always slipped by we will win those this year. Imagine if we get that kid from Argentina and add Blizzard or Curtis Withers.


Here is a great read about Morrison at the TC practice.


J.B. Bickerstaff -- Charlotte Bobcats assistant and, yes, the head coach\'s son -- was clueing me in to what makes Adam Morrison special, and this might be the first time that soft-as-an-angel\'s-kiss shooting touch was dismissed.

\"People think he made Gonzaga great by putting the ball in the basket,\" Bickerstaff said and, hey, 28 points is hard to ignore, J.B. But I tend to interrupt, so let Bickerstaff finish his point ...

\"It\'s not just that -- it\'s getting the ball to his teammates. On nights when he\'s not making shots, he can still impact a basketball game. One-dimensional guys can be stopped. He\'s not one-dimensional.\"

Bickerstaff said these are subtitles best recognized by coach\'s kids. My dad spent most of his career waiting for West Coast baseball scores on a dinky newspaper\'s copy desk, but even I could see what J.B. meant in Morrison\'s first practice Monday night.

The guy sees things. He made a pass on the break that would have disappeared a split-second after he threw it. The recipient, a rookie, bobbled the resulting layup, but that wasn\'t the point. The kid understands this game at a level of sophistication his teammates already appreciate.

\"It\'s a different kind of skill -- old-school,\" is how forward-center Sean May described Morrison\'s game. \"Nowadays, in college ball, they\'re all tall athletes who can run and jump. He understands what to do -- how to come off screens, how to space the court.\"

It\'s true that Morrison\'s dad was a junior-college coach, and that it changed his vision of the game. Bickerstaff learned in the pre-draft vetting process that Morrison isn\'t just a worker, he\'s a video hound.

The way J.B. described it, a lot of guys will work all day in the gym, perfecting a shot or smoothing out his ball-handling. Morrison breaks down miles of videotape, and it\'s not to admire his greatest hits.

\"He doesn\'t just watch himself, he watches the total game,\" Bickerstaff explained when asked about that pass Morrison made.

\"His dad\'s a basketball coach, and when guys don\'t make those plays, it makes coaches crazy.\"

Of course, it wouldn\'t matter if Morrison was the love child of John Wooden and Pat Summitt, if he was 5-foot-2 barrel of goo with 20-200 vision. Instead, he\'s a 6-foot-8 forward who shot 50 percent during three seasons at Gonzaga.

You wouldn\'t know he was a 50-percent shooter, watching Monday\'s scrimmage. The ball wobbled off the rim often, probably the natural outgrowth of rookie jitters.

\"It was very different going up and down\" the court at this level, Morrison said. \"The speed ... the size... .\"

Notice he said nothing about the brains. It\'s obvious why. The guy already knows the game. More importantly, his veteran teammates know he knows this game.

That patch of ground is where most rookies never step.

[dav7z]

I think 40 will come easy if we stay healthy.
OK50 ADD 5 WINS , Healthy MAY in shape 5 more, The add. of Morrison 5 more . So im saying the cats will play 500 ball this year.

[ashy_larry]

More good stuff from The Observer talking about Rerun\'s return... If the picture is current, it looks like he does have his weight down

[dav7z]

I just looked the pic rerun, did look to be in shape.I hope he stays that way and make a difference on the court.

[ziggy]

In the picture that the Observer had up, Sean May looked relatively fit, almost :ohmy: athletic even.

That picture really proved one thing to me... The Charlotte Observer has some truly talented Photoshop experts on their staff :P . Having the ability to take a 400 pound man and Photoshop him to make him look like an athlete takes exceptional talent.

[cltblkhscoach]

lol, you guys are too rough on my boy Sean. Man, he\'s going to be fine. He gained weight last year due to the injury, that\'s all. My concern is him just staying healthy....if he can consistently hit that mid-range jumper and stay in shape, don\'t be surprised to see the Bobcats sit Primoz down and slide Okafor to center. For anyone that remembers the old Charlotte Hornets, this team looks a lot like them if they moved Okafor to the center.

Old Hornets Bobcats

PG Muggsy PG Felton
SG K. Gill SG G Dub
SF D. Curry SF Ammo
PF L. Johnson PF S. May
C Zo Mourning C Okafor

Of course there are some differences, but that team on the left won 44 games in a tougher Eastern Conference than we have now. If Ammo puts up 17 a game, this can be an 8th seed playoff team. I\'d love to see them run like the old Hornets too, and these guys can do it.

[psycho]

cltblkhscoach wrote:

...if he can consistently hit that mid-range jumper and stay in shape, don\'t be surprised to see the Bobcats sit Primoz down and slide Okafor to center.. The thing that concerns me about moving Emeka to center is, can he hold up all season banging at the center spot? With his UConn history of back problems and Bobcats history of ankle problems I\'m not convinced that he can.

[dav7z]

Ziggy give rerun a chance.I saw another pic of him at the 2nd day of camp . HE Even looked stronger and in better shape than the pic in the news paper.
Keep up the good post cttblkhscoach.

[Dead_Real]

I saw Sean May at Burger King the other day...but in all seriousness I hope he returns in full health since we picked him so high last year he has to earn his spot or someone will take it from him cough...Curtis Withers.... Cough.;)

[ziggy]

Dead_real wrote:

I saw Sean May at Burger King the other day...but in all seriousness I hope he returns in full health since we picked him so high last year he has to earn his spot or someone will take it from him cough...Curtis Withers.... Cough.;)
Burger King :P Now thats classic. The thing about him is, he has the talent to do some real damage in the NBA, he just HAS to get his body right. I\'m looking forward to seeing how he does and what kind of shape hes in for the Summer league.