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Morrison's Trash Talk Is NBA-Ready
During tonight's WCC Championship on ESPN the play-by-play guy and Rick Majerus mentioned this Seattle Times story reporting on the war of words between Gonzaga's Adam Morrison and San Diego's Cory Belser:
"Said Belser, "If I was guarding anybody else in the nation, I feel there really wouldn't be a call. He's always saying to me, 'Welcome to Spokane. We get the calls.' It kind of shows, I feel like. He's constantly talking to the refs, saying I'm hooking him, I'm holding him."
"He says some personal things," Belser said. "The last game when we lost to them, he told me if I got hit by a train and died, he wouldn't care. Tonight, he was like, 'You're a role player. Did your family come to watch you play your last game?'
"His tactics are a little unclassy. He's not what college basketball should be."
Belser got a technical foul in the second half, a costly fourth, when the officials caught him tossing the ball at Morrison. Belser said Morrison had shoved the ball at him and he was caught retaliating.
For his part, Morrison denied the "train" comment, adding that Belser, the Bethel High product, called him names that couldn't be printed.
"It's over and done with," he shrugged. "Like I always say to him: 'Scoreboard.' I've never lost to him, and losers never get a chance to talk trash."
The "train" comment would certainly be lame and out of line, but the "role player" and "scoreboard" stuff is solid gold. Perhaps the funniest part of this whole thing was Majerus's commentary on trash-talking that followed their mention of this story. He attributed the increase in yapping among today's players to "societal issues" and "the Simpsons." As usual, I have no idea what Majerus is talking about. Someone please hire this man.
Update: Saved by the Blog (a.k.a. my brother) posted this same thing literally six seconds before I did. Check it.
Update: I'm still watching the WCC Championship and Morrison just punched himself in the side of the head after making a layup to cut Loyola Marymount's lead to one. I think he's the most entertaining player going right now.
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i just can't take gonzaga seriously. they go to overtime against usd and then struggle and get a miracle missed layup to escape a 12-18 lmu team at home! what's their deal?
3/7/06 11:15 AM