nbadraft.net's worst draft picks - Adam Morrison
Posted: Sat Jan 2, 2010 5:19 am
nbadraft.net posted a worst 10 draft picks of the past decade and Adam Morrison came in at #6. Here's the link for the entire article (which is not pay-for-content like ESPN's insider bs). Also, below is the Morrison excerpt.
http://www.nbadraft.net/node/16488
http://www.nbadraft.net/node/16488
6. Adam Morrison - Third pick in 2006 draft by Charlotte
The Man Responsible: Michael Jordan
Career stats: 147 games played, 7.9 ppg, 7.3 PER
Best Players Available: Brandon Roy (No. 6), Rudy Gay (No. 8), Rajon Rondo (No. 21)
This is why you don't take draft advice from college basketball analysts. Morrison tore up the NCAA his junior year, and everyone was just positive he could do the same thing in the NBA. He was like Larry Bird. He was the new "Great White Hope." It's difficult for me to allege Morrison's high drafting was not, in part, racially biased. Since being in the NBA, though, he's been routinely out-rebounded and out-defended and out-hustled. He's been one of the worst players in the league. That Michael Jordan, who also drafted Brown, picked Morrison has led to a lot of criticism. The truth is, though, that nearly everyone was convinced he was a top-10 talent. How wrong we were.