How Markief Morris contributes to Lakers from the seat

Marquif Morris Dalton did not meet Kencht, as he knew him only as anyone in basketball-boldly dominated the university basketball in Tennessee before he was flashing this ability to obtain a bucket in the American Professional League.

The two were now teammates, veteran and rising, and Morris traded with Lakers with Luka Densic and Mixi Clear, while he was sent to the team after his trade with Charlotte to Mark Williams.

In those first meetings, Knecht was not the same person or confident player. The American Professional League had hit him directly to his head directly, a team that shows a little hesitation to send it out of the door only to be welcomed by the failed and physical failed Williams.

At best, it was embarrassing. In the worst case, it was a problem.

When Knecht treated how he was dealing with a return to a place where he could not feel the desire, Morris approached him for talking.

Be prepared. Kencht said: “When you get the ball, just go to you. And play like how to play, with confidence, how she played in Tennessee.

“… at the end of the day, just be you. Be ready to shoot. Stay

The conversation was important, as Knecht regained his foot, his joy on the field and his place in the rotation of Lakers during their six -game home. During this extension, the average knecht reached 9.3 points and achieved approximately 45.8 % of its three shots. His bell pushed at the end of the third quarter on Thursday a return against Nix.

In that same game, Morris sat on the lickers and high from a cup of tea. He was fighting a disease but he was still there, watching, speaking, advising. During this house of six games, Morris did not play a minute.

Getting to Doncic helped return Showtime to Lakers, to fill the Courtside with celebrities A list A, while one of the top men of the basketball shows the basketball on the golden stage. The addition of Morris, one of the harsh pioneers of the American Professional League, has strengthened their cabinet room, a feature behind the scenes that Lakers lacks severely.

“I miss him,” Leberron James told the Times. “… we were in the fox together. We were on the ground during the big games together. And there is someone who appreciated him a lot when he got out of the ground. He watches it. He sees it. I’m just happy to return it. It is great to see him.”

To be honest, Morris wishes to see Lakers fans more. The competitive fire that he kept in the American Professional League for 14 seasons is still intensively burning, and he believes that he does not get fruitful minutes in his legs.

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Morris also knows that the ways he hears may interest you more to his new team, and that his ability to provide the same type of tips to Knecht as much as he can James, an old warrior in the American Professional League that he won in 2020, puts him in a unique position like someone who can tell the truth without fear of repercussions.

There is an opportunity for its effect to be outside the court and the possibility of Kalbur from foot surgery before the qualifiers move around the margins that end up along with the apparent effect.

“The world in which we live today, many people cannot take the truth in their faces. Morris said:“ Many people do not know what respect is. We live in a world with lack of respect. This is what I stand. It does not matter who you are. This is the first thing with me first. And I feel as if I was personally, if I couldn’t say what I want, if I could not say what I want, if I cannot say the right things for people who need to hear them, I am not glorious. There are not many people in the world like me, and they will be at the forefront with anyone. This is the way to say.

“As I say every day, I don’t have – to lose. My fourteenth year. I am not playing anyway. What is that? Will I get angry because I said something specific? I have nothing to lose.”

By the time Maurice arrived at Lakers, James had already bought completely, and responded to the losses of the explosion in Minnesota and Miami at a level of consistent energy and defensive attention that his team rose in the arrangement of the Western Conference. But Stiil, missed from Lakers from the presence of a certain group of handrails.

James had profitable with the main coaches in their first year with Lakers twice before, and won a title with Frank Fujel and went to the conference finals with Darfin Ham. But these teams had veterinarians who were confident in James, who is closely close to Jared Dodley in 2020 and after that, a former teammate in the Tristan Timeson.

Nevertheless, Lakers, after both seasons, resigned to re -sign these players in favor of the players who felt that he could contribute better to court.

James said: “It is clear that our Dora is trying to stay away from the presence of young people like this.” “Like veterinarians, this means something for a team.”

Not all veteran are able to lead Morris in the same way as Maurice. Some still have visions of themselves younger, and they take over games and domination. Others are not naturally brave, like a physical intimidation – “It is big like s -!” He said – or ready to get uncomfortable.

“I think it is extremely important to have such a man, voice, oldest voice, someone who saw everything in the American Professional League, someone who won the heroism, it is clear that it also helps,” said coach JJ Redic. “It was great on the bench while talking to the players, and making sure that the energy of the bench is good. I told him that day, we see it and we appreciate it and we all appreciate what he is now doing from this aspect of driving.”

Austin Reeves, who was unprecedented to meet Morris before the team’s teammates became in February, said that Morris pulled him aside during one match last month to advise him about how to deal with the ball’s pressure better through backup to half of the stadium to start selection procedures with opposition adults, and create more space to gain a feature.

He is constantly speaking in the game. I think he has a very good intelligence rate and there were couple cases as he dissected the game from the bench and comes to me about what I can do to be more effective, ”Reeves said.

And because Morris, as James said, was in the fox with him, he can even get the top scorer of the American Professional League at all when this moment calls for that.

“[LeBron] It also needs help. Morris said: “Yes, he knows the game a lot, but for him, he can use a man, have you seen it there? You can do it. Yes, this is me. I can say,” Look. Bron, prepare your ass. Look, you have to run too. “

The list of people who can do this with a credibility with a short James, and with their progress in the league age that shrinks the list every season. Morris is one of the few left in the game.

While the teams build their lists every season, they are looking for archers like Knecht, for defensive plots such as Jarred Vanderbilt, for offensive, executors or bulletproof blockers.

In Morris, they have a different kind of specialists who do it without picking a basketball often on the game night by providing sincere assessments to everyone without bias.

Morris said: “I am not afraid,” Morris said. “… I do the same with Luka, the same thing with Kerry [Irving]. It doesn’t matter. Because at the end of the day, I feel that will make them better. In the same way that they will do with me to make me better .. Do you know what I am saying? If I am wrong in something, tell me I am wrong. Do not let me say the mistake – you know what I am saying?

“And the league is unable to.”

This may be true, but Lakers know how much Morris does and how important he is chasing a championship.

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.