As I was reading sports betting messages boards after those amazing games alot of people wanted to laugh at Adam Morrison and JJ Redick for crying on national television after their team lost. Brilliant topics such as “CRYING FEST!!!! MORRISON AND REDDICK…WHICH IS MORE PATHETIC?!?” What’s pathetic is the person who started that thread. What’s wrong with crying in sports? Alot of athletes cry when they win. Tears of joy they say and it’s always perfectly okay. Cry when you lose and you’ll be called a baby. I have to completely disagree.
I felt for Adam Morrison. I know all he wants to do is win. Everyone saw the camera zoom in on his face once UCLA finally led in the game. Yeah he probably shouldn’t have started to cry even though there was still time left in the game. That move has everyone baffled. Maybe he just knew at that time. When the buzzer sounded, he sat on the court, covered his face, and fell over. That says it all about how shocking that finish was.
That guy plays with heart and gives everything he has. He talks alot of trash, looks goofy but he backs it up with serious game. I bet he’s still crying. He’s only human. When you put your heart and soul into something for years to only have it end like that is terrible. He hates losing that bad. You want a player who’s that competitive. To lose a game like that would make me speechless for days. I wouldn’t leave the house. I wouldn’t want to eat. At least we know he gives a shit and is not just thinking about the $$$ he’ll be making next season. It’s not a disgrace for crying on national television. It’s a disgrace when you see a Marcus Vick type stunt on national television.
With JJ, the same can be said for him. He’s just as competitive. His college basketball career just ended. JJ had a horrible game and maybe he cried also because he knew he didn’t leave it all out on the court. Let the man cry if he wants. It sucks to get so close and lose. That’s why teams play in the NCAA tournament. It’s to win a championship and if you’re a true competitor anything less breaks your heart.
Of course some athletes don’t cry. Doesn’t mean they don’t care as much. We’re all different. Adam, JJ, and surely more of their teammates just had too much emotion and had to let it out.
So take it easy on athletes that cry on national television. If those jokers can’t understand this most natural human emotion, then I can only assume they have never given their all to something very important and then to be incredibly disappointed. I’m happy their life has been so free of such difficulties. The whole world isn’t as nice to the majority of us.
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It wasn’t that he cried that was appalling – it was the TIMING of the crying. When Darius Washington, on Mephis, missed free throws that would’ve put his team in last year’s tournament, then cried as the final buzzer sounded, it was a beautiful moment – a testament to Washington’s investment in the game. When Morrison started to break down, the game was far from over! His team had a GUARANTEED chance to tie or win the game! By breaking down at that point, Morrison essentially conceded the loss.
Think Larry Bird ever cried with a chance to win or tie a game?
Any truly great player, at that moment, would think, “This is over. I’m winning this game for my team.” Morrison thought…well, I don’t know what he thought, but it wasn’t that.
Quite terrible.
Good poing Daniel. The timing of the crying was bad. Maybe because they had been leading by almost double digits the whole game. Then to give up the lead and put UCLA on the free throw line with so little time just seemed so unlikely.
Those last few moments happened so fast.
I would say it was the timing. But like we said on another board, at least the dudes care. You’ll never see that in the NBA. At least not until Kobe rapes somebody.
I think the difference between Reddick and Morrison is that JJ waited until the game was over, and Coach K had tears in his eyes, too. Morrison didn’t – and his overly-dramatic collapse when it was over made it seem worse. As a UCLA fan, I was also crying – but for joy – and comparing the ending of this game with Tyus Edney’s length of the court run and shoot in the Bruin’s last return to the championship.
well written, benny…and some good comments from daniel. adam, well is anything you write really ever good? (nudge nudge).
as for the crying, i really do think that it shows compassion which really shows the purity of the college game. and after a loss like that to my team, the appartment i live in would probably look like a tornado ripped through it.
but as a star player, i think morrison and redick have to help their team by staying strong. there are ways to show how much you cared by no crying. just think how awful batista felt after he cost the game and then sees morison on the fucking floor. a star player needs to show leadership for his other teammates.
again though, good comments from all and a great, compassionate post. (boy, i sound like a douche)
The whole scene was definitely not manly and was definitely a poor call — he should have waited until he got into the locker room rather than making a scene where all the cameras were there to take it all in. Very poor sportsmanship.
There was nothing wrong with them crying. I know when my high school basketball team lost this year in the playoffs, I cried like crazy. You put so much hard work and effort into the game you love, and then it’s gone just like that. I know that JJ and Morrison will both be in the NBA and continue playing ball, but there’s nothing like highschool and college basketball. You’re playing it because you love the game, not for the money or the celebrity status. These guys did all they could, and have every right to shed a few tears. Plus people shouldn’t rip on them, those two would work them on a basketball court any day.
“BALL ABOVE ALL”
What really gets me is it is just a game…like Tiger said there are more important things in life!! I really enjoyed watching jj cry..he should have because most likely he hurt his chances in the draft..and from Duke’s history not many of their players make it in the nba. Crying doesn’t nessarily mean you love the game than the next..what it does mean is you aren’t use to loosing but can never when the big dance..and it kinda says you are a sore looser and that showed from a number of Duke players..let me not mention McRoberts resorting to flagrantly filing lsu players…get over it and too bad you didn’t win you won’t have the chance again for a while.
i gotta agree with daniel.
i mean yeah the kid has emoption and u will never see that in a game in the NBA but he gave up with a chance. and when one chain link breaks the rest soon follow
there is alot of up sets in this tournament and I agree with you statement but I like daniel’ s statement to + on to yours. Also do not swear!! please!
It is obvious that the previous writers have not competed in sports at a high level…..leaving it on the floor means just that…..but you either get it, or you don’t
…the fact that these young men cried has nothing to do with lack of strength!
Good comment Zach,
Yeah clearly Adam should have held it together till after the game. I didn’t think about after the game. I was in such shock that UCLA actually won.
If his players are looking at him and he’s crying while the game is going on, they feel even worse and have less confidence.
But Adam Morrison…not NFL Adam…just had too much emotion and to go from pretty much dominating the whole game to letting UCLA score that last 11 points, that was too much.
Great comment guys! Clearly there are two sides to this opinion.
But we can all agree Adam should have not cried during the game!
i think that they had the right to cry! J.J Redick is a true basketball hero in my heart. You play the game to win and hopefully get the goal of winning the Championship for your team.
J.J Redick had all the right to cry at the end of the game. Put yourself in that postion. 4 years of battling for a title and make new teammates along the way. It goes by very quickly for that 4 years. J.J Redick if you read this, you have all the power in the world. Your a true man to your team. God Bless you and the Duke Team
Duke #1
I think we can agree that Adam is a player who’s skill’s are energized by his heart and emotion. His tears before the final bell are no more unusual than the fact that he can score 35 in a 2nd half based on emotion- to win a game…..this kid is unique….he may never make it in the NBA, but isn’t it great to see pure emotion, drive, and skill at this level? Give him a break!
FYI….does everyone realize that Adam is a diabetic that injects himself 3 times per day?
I heard that today on Rome’s show
Girly boys: who raises these little wimps?
I played football in HS and college in the
70’s, we lost some big ass games but cry??
Thankfully America has tougher youngsters
in the military, including girls.
RE. “DANIEL” AND LARRY BIRD’S NOT CRYING: LARRY BIRD WAS-IS TOO DUMB TO KNOW WHAT CRYING IS. FURTHERMORE, HIS DADDY, OR HIS REAL DADDY, OR SOME DADDY OUT IN THEM ‘THAR INDIANA WOODS WOULDA WHUPPED EM BUT GOOD IF HE HAD: “DAMNED SISSY QUEER! ACT LIKE A MAN, LARRY!”
BHSU WAS RIGHT. I DOUBT IF ANY OF THE NAY-SAYERS EVER PLAYED A COMPETITIVE SPORT AT A HIGH LEVEL, UNDER NATIONAL SCRUTINY. TO GIVE THEM THEIR JUST DUE, HOWEVER, THEY MIGHT HAVE PLAYED DARTS AT THE LOCAL BOOZE HALL TO SEE WHO WOULD BUY THE NEXT ROUND!
It is obvious that you people who say Morrison was over dramatic have never played a sport in your life, or at least at any kind of competative level. Grow up!
hey J why don’t you shove your comments right up your a$$?! you were probably the kid that got picked last on the playground much less a real gym…I don’t think there is anything wrong with those guys crying. They know it is a once in a lifetime thing that is happening to them and especially for them two it was their last chance. and obviously you don’t know crap about basketball because it wasn’t “flagrantly filing” you dumb S.O.B. It is “flagrantly FOULING” sorry about the language but guys like J piss me off!
I just wanted to say that the guy who authored posting number eight is a complete moron with a really stupid take on the whole topic. As far as posting number 15 goes, the fact that Morrison is a diabetic who requires multiple insulin injections daily is very well known to those who follow the college game (or certainly should be), pretty silly to be presenting that here as some kind of newsflash.
Like others have said before me and I wrote in my blog, I see absolutely nothing wrong with anyone crying after a tough loss to end a season… heck, I’ll admit to crying after my high school basketball career was over… but the timing of it was just bad. Don’t start crying with 2.6 seconds left of a 1 point game. What kind of message is that sending to the rest of the team? Morrison falling on the court and crying after the game was over I didn’t think was bad at all, it was just the in-game crying.
ADAM MORRISON AND THE SYMBOLOGY OF THE TEARS
by John A. Bardelli (March 24, 2006)
An athlete, who takes pride in what he or she can accomplish on the battlefield of competition, brings the whole gaumet of being to the battlefield … physical and emotional. The physical prowess is apparent for the duration of the contest. One never knows how, when or if the emotional will spill over and reveal itself to an adulating and critical audience.
As the Gonzaga Bulldog and UCLA Bruin basketball game of March 23, 2006, entered the final 20 seconds of play, only those who have risen to any level of competitive athleticism can appreciate what the Zag’s Adam Morrison was experiencing or what it means to be oblivious to fandom in attendance or to a watching world.
First, Adam Morrison felt the game that Gonzaga had dominated and could not possibly lose suddenly and inexplicably had gotten away from the control of Gonzaga; , secondly, the nightmarish ending had been converted into a heart sickening reality, a reality that Morrison could not accept for defeat to him was not an option.
He was embarrassed that Gonzaga was being beaten by a non-entity, an enemy that had been crushed and bent. But mysteriously the enemy was resilient and would not break nor leave the arena. The Zags had landed punch after punch and floored the UCLA Bruins enough times during this contest that had it been a boxing match the contest would have been halted and Gonzaga awarded a technical knockout. It was unbelievable to this Zeus in Bulldog garb that, as a team, the Bruins were not only still standing but ball-hawking, pressuring and scoring.
And, too, Morrison was in disbelief as were millions of fans who watched this game. He had all to lose on the battlefield of competition and being there, physically and emotionally, he was wrapped up in what millions were experiencing on a vicariously plane. How many wept and felt the zing of shock overtake them as fans when UCLA took the lead and how many tears poured down cheeks in the sanctity of homes or bars when the realization sunk in that Gonzaga’s valiant and superb efforts were for naught this weary evening? We will never know the answer to that question but I daresay that none will level comparative criticism toward the fan who had the audacity to be emotionally wrapped up in a mere game to the extend that, God forbid, he or she should cry as has been leveled at Adam Morrison.
And I ask you, how many hearts were so heavily leaden with pain as the final seconds ebbed away and the realization and shock set in that brought about exclamations such as “Oh no … I don’t believe it! Its over! Oh my God, no!”
The processing of those thoughts in an athlete take less than a millisecond, indeed, are not measurable by standards. Adam Morrison’s entire career up to that moment took on a new meaning. Amongst the conglomeration of thoughts experience were that his beloved Gonzaga, not only the Gonzaga Bulldogs, but the institution and the comraderie for which he and his teammates had given all, their representation of the spirit enveloping the Jesuit University on the banks of the Spokane River, was being shown up and embarrassed by an enemy force from California who only minutes before had become completely blown away and revealed for the pretenders and imposters they were, as Morrison and his Gonzaga teammates were confident would happen once they met in open warfare. Perhaps, this was Gonzaga’s best showing of the year. But the moment of their collapse and the fatal arc of the clock were now equally enemy forces.
Adam Morrison thought about those moments he and his teammates spent sacrificing to be where they now stood, on the pinnacle of national recognition as the best of the best, representing Gonzaga and facing a showdown with the best offered whether from the east, south, north or west. Confidently, he and his mates knew that they had only time to expend and they would be taken to a new level to face Texas, Connecticut, Villanova, or another, as soon as UCLA were sent packing. The world belonged to this Gonzaga Bulldog basketball team, to Mark Few, and to its avowed team leader, Adam Morrison.
As a unit, Gonzaga believed that none could unseat a Gonzaga team that had staved off challenges and last minute rallies all season long only to emerge victorious time and time again. To a man, this Gonzaga team believed it was destined to become the NCAA Basketball Champions for the 2005-2006 seasons. Morrison not only knew it … he felt it throughout every fibre in his being.
Throughout his career at Gonzaga, Morrison always gave blood, sweat and tears in practice and always left it all on the court throughout the entirety of the season … and here he was, leaving it all out on the court … not wanting the game to be over, refusing to believe that it could be over, hopelessly believing that somehow, seconds would have to be put back on the clock and Gonzaga would redeem itself by retaking the lead and never relinquishing it. He and his mates were so conditioned to believing that they were winners and that is the way games were won … in the last seconds. For the duration of the season, Gonzaga rarely blew a team away.
Always, heretofore, a Zag had become the hero of the moment … and as Batista’s shot caroomed off the iron to the left a second before the horn blared signifying an end to the battle, Morrison could not believe that fate could be so cruel and painful.
At the end of any athletic contest, we look at athletes and see the jubliation expressed, including tears of joy, by the victorious, thinking nothing of it and, indeed, it has become commonplace and a right of passage to see emotional displays and tears emerge from the eyes of the victor for, after all, aren’t those tears emblematic of communicating that for all the sacrifice rendered, it has paid off in a victory or a championship of sorts?
Yet, there are those who condemn an athlete who expresses an emotional tear letting upon being vanquished. What a double standard! What a travesty of condemnation! For the vanquished has every right to express the grieving of a loss, perhaps erroneously believing that the sacrifice was in vain and all for naught!
For those who do not take their athleticism serious enough to shed a tear, there is no amount of explaining that will induce you to understand why Adam Morrison cried before the game was over. And only those who have put heart and soul, along with blood and sweat into the spirit of competition, will fathom Morrison’s collapse in tears on the maple court, laying there oblivious and unconcerned what others might think or how they might judge him.
For Morrison, defeat was not an option and deep within the recesses of his subconsciousness he heard the Spartan Mother’s advice to her son as he embarked for warfare, “Return with your shield or on it son.” Retreat and flight to the dressing room to shed the tears of death was the act of a coward, the act of those who were conscious that others were looking on and judging. Perhaps they are justified in so doing, none of us should really judge or critique their motivation and perception of the lose. In dropping as he did, on the field of battle, in a pool of tearful emotion, Morrison revealed his courage and grit. Well done, son.
I was very upset when duke lost being that I have been a duke fan since 1991. I felt for J.J. Reddick and also Morrison from Gonzaga. These two guys gave it everything they got. Their emotions were running high with the team and coaches and even the fans giving them all the responsibility to win. Professional atheletes are paid and college students aren’t. I rather watch a college basketball game anyday over the NBA. I applaud these two young men for their entire college careers.
It’s ok to cry in sports. But not a bad idea to wait until the end of the game to start. I’m just glad Christian Laitner didnt start crying with 2 seconds in the UK game. HLP
Adam Morrison’s crying and falling to the floor is not a problem for me. It shows me how much he cares. What does bother me is that I never saw any of his teammates come over to him. In fact, two UCLA players apparently came over to try to console him. As I saw Morrison leave the court, he was alone, still without support. Where were his teammates?
…Redick’s display was the most pathetic. The guy is a loser, as is his coach. Duke thinks it deserves all the praise, but where are they this morning? They blow…
#17..People react differently to losing. Not everyone cries. Just like not everyone cries at really sad movies. We’re all different.
#25..Great point. Lucikly we haven’t seen too many athletes cry before the game is over.
#26..I never thought about that. I do wonder why his teammates didn’t come over. Usually they’re the first. Maybe they knew how hard he took it and decided to keep their distance. But great class by the UCLA players to help him up.
#27..You can’t call Coach K a loser. He’s won national championships. He always gets the best college bb player to play for him. He is one of the best coaches out there.
I doubt that Reddick and Morrison give a shit what the beer-gutted masses think.
Well done boys, you gave us a great season.
JJ Redick is a fine college bb player he just ahd a very bad game. I fell if he outs is heart to playing in the NBA like he did in college he will be a great NBA player he makes thress betetr then anyone in the NCAA. and outside the line of three’s like NBA three’s he will be good if he puts it heart to it liike he did his whole college carear. eitehr way thank yuo jj for a great 4 + years and thank you duke for teh geart players and memories of this year alone. I will always be a duke fan #1 always.
These guys are not ready for prime time….Losing is part of life….to react that way is extremely homosexual….they should be embarrassed.
All sports are played with emotion and spirit. If not there is no way possible to succeed. Such is the game of life. We all shed tears at times: getting fired from a job, getting a divorce, etc. But you get back up and continue to work hard, and learn through your mistakes. Enough said.
I don’t care who you are or what you did or didn’t do. Crying after a loss is unacceptable unless you are 10 years old or younger. Every losing player feels the same way Morrison and Redick felt. The other players handled it like men. JJ Red Eye should be ashamed of himself, and not just for going 3-18.
I have just become Adam Morrison fan.
He is a great player, and I can’t wait to see him in the NBA. Leading all the way until the end with the cetainty that the game has won. To squander the game like that will make any one crie at any momment, especialy when UCLA took over the lead. Thanks Adam for being a player and person that you are.
These guys are cry babies. There are certainly tragic situations in peoples’ lives, and losing a basketball game is not one of them. If anyone does not like these remarks, have them report me to Cry Baby Politically Correct Police. If the worst thing that ever happens to someone is that their basketball teams loses a game, they will have a easy life. I have witnessed tragedy, and losing a basketball game does not quality.
“Alot” is not a word. A lot is the only correct usage.
Otherwise, good article.
I really don’t have the feeling for JJ that I have for Adam. Probably becaus I wanted to see Duke lose. However, these are both great young men who are more than just basketball players.
I’m 74 now and I used to coach. Young men like these renew my confidence in the great game.
Please do not respond to negative slobering. These people are simply trying to get attention.
J.J. Riddick was guarded by two people. The Lsu coach said it was his plan to stop him. He was also hit, punched and tripped without calls. He was free game. Thanks to Williams for his remarkable play, but two scorers do not make a team that can continue that far into a Championship. Lack of depth did Duke in. I am still a Duke & J.J. Fan. I like his attitude and respect his Faith for which many have critized him. Get real when picking a hero.
While listening to to all the people saying that JJ and Adam “shouldn’t cry”…and “real men don’t cry”, etc. , it suddenly became clear that it is THOSE people who sound like little children…..or “babies” as they have been known to call others. You people sound like a bunch of kids on a playground “ya gonna cry?, ya gonna CRY?….crybaby! crybaby!” In fact, ya just managed to pull me down to your level by the fact that I just called you all children. Now, on a serious note, crying is a very human. If you wanted something so, so very badly and you got really close to it, then lost it……your feelings wWOULD be hurt. And don’t say some macho bullsh** about how you would “suck it up like a man”. I’m not saying that everyone WOULD cry either, because we are all different. I’m just saying that it is in human nature to cry in a situation like that. The so-called “manly-men” who don’t show their emotions are simply “hiding” them from everyone…..because our society has created an image that people who cry are wimps, etc. The way I look at it (again this is just MY opinion) is that the people hiding their emotions are really wimps themselves. What? You’re affraid someone will see you cry? Oh no! What will people THINK of you?
You know they should make “alot” an offical word. Bling is a word now. Why not alot?
I’d like to respond to “Rick” who wrote “You people sound like a bunch of kids on a playground” referring to the people who do not feel JJ Red Eye should have cried after his loss. Let me reapeat myself, SLOWLY, just for you, Rick. Cry after a WIN – not a loss. Be a sport after a loss and congratulate the winners. Lose with dignity and grace. Michael Jordan cried after WINNING the championship, not after losing to the Pistons in the conference finals. You don’t get more professional than Michael Jordan.
I don’t have a problem with the kids crying. Hell I’ve cried over my team not winning big games before and I think it’s a natural emotion everyone has. They probably feel like me. And the way I feel is that sports aren’t just games.
Watching Adam and JJ get very emotional after their losses was one of the things that makes this tournament, and these games, the best sports time of the year. Especially the Gonzaga game – that was so very close until the last seconds – I think Morrison’s reaction was pure emotional exhaustion and about as human as you can get. Anyone that thinks these guys are crybabies is nuts. I can’t imagine any more manly men than the awesome athletes these guys are and the weight they carry every day. Actually, I have less comprehension for the athlete that appears to not show any emotion. The days when the attitude “boys don’t cry” ruled is long gone, and unhealthy and scary. As a fellow mom, I applaud the parents of these super athletes for allowing them to become the great athletes they are, and continue to show emotion. They will go far, not just for their superior talent, but for their compassionate side.
Guess what guys? Those of you who think it was wimpy for JJ and Adam to cry are just ignorant, unfeeling jerks. I would venture to say that none or very few of you have ever competed on this level of any sport, or else you don’t have an emotional bone in your bodies. So what if Adam cryed BEFORE the end of the game – big woop. He won me over way before that with his skill and emotional play, but after what I witnessed at the end of the UCLA game, I will be an Adam Morrison fan forever. Got news for ya – big boys do cry – especially after athletic events. Those of you who say this athlete or that athlete has never cried have not seen all the athletic events that they have ever played in. I guarantee if you had, you would have seen tears. I’ll bet if those of you are doing the most critizing would cry once in a while, you would be a happier person, a better husband and a better father. Try it; I’ll bet the ones around you will like you a lot better.
I think that anyone who really has a problem with 2 guys crying after losing something they had worked so hard for should have their heads examined.
As for the mental midget (Mark Obrien) that thinks that crying is “homosexual”, you should really grow up and perhaps come out of the closet yourself….you’re a disgrace to Irish people everywhere!
As for Lee’s “Cry after a win”…why shouldn’t someone cry after a loss? If you truly worked your hardest and came up on the short end, especially after thrashing the other team the whole game. Why should you not be entitled to show your emotion? It’s not like these young men started throwing chairs or punches!
As for Mr. Egolf, you really bring up a completely subjective point. There are no written guidelines for what constitutes a tragedy. It’s all in the “eye of the beholder” Perhaps losing a basketball game isn’t a tragedy for you. You’re probably MUCH older than these young players, and have thus, gone through a LOT more than they have in their lives. HOWEVER, for a college athelete (who probably hasn’t had the unfortunate lack of luck to encounter a true tragedy as you would call it), putting all your heart and soul into something that you want so much, only to watch it slip away could by some, be considered a tragedy. Maybe you should just be compassionate for these young men, instead of being jealous of the fact that they’re in a MUCH better position than I imagine you in.
I bet none of you complain when the “pros” cry when losing in the playoffs, yet you must remember one fact….pros get PAID to play. College kids play out of intense desire and love of the game.
I think if anyone should be jeered, it should me Morrison’s teammates who left him on the court and didn’t come pick him up emotionally like he “picked them up” all season with his play!
If for one am sick of all the crying we see. This was not the case just a few years ago. I believe it is a sign of poor sportsmanship and is no different than over celebrating a win. Sports should promote dignity in an athlete. Morrison showed no dignity last week. As for JJ, I would cry a river too if I just was exposed for being an average NBA prospect and it cost me $10 million. The only thing I feel bad for Morrison about is the abuse he is going to take from the veterans from the NBA team he plays on about this matter. Locker rooms can be cruel places and he is really going to find that out.
You know Mike I don’t think NBA teammates are going to give Morrison a hard time. They’re competitors too. They know what it’s like to lose like that.
Really all they’ll care about his rookie season is that he plays ball, buys donuts, and carries their bags on road trips.
I can’t believe how some people have the courage to say that crying on a playing field is ‘not allowed’. Have these people never played a competitive game in their life? It appears that most of these people are ‘wannabes’, whether it’s in athletics or in life. Adam and JJ’s successes were remarkable, and for you not to show sympathy towards them reflects on your character. Both of these young men gave their all this past season, with statistics and respect from several, to show it. I’m absolutely appalled at several of these ‘fans’ of the college basketball sport. Even more than that, if Adam and JJ were reading this, I would be embarrassed to categorize myself as a ‘fan’ if I was grouped with these idiots. Best of luck to both JJ and Adam–whatever they choose to do in life–play in the NBA, be an investment banker, or sit next to Coach K on the bench…
You all say that Morrison’s crying was pre-mature. I’ll tell you right now that if you had led that game by 17 points and then lost it in the final 10 seconds. His crying wasn’t because he knew they were going to lose but because the thought of losing that game was unfathomable. I believe he was totally right in losing it before the game ended (which he actually kept his composure).
I’m tired of all the crap about Morrison being so competitive and caring, thats why he cried early. Every great basketball player has a last second game winning shot in their career, history making. Adam Morrison will never have one because he’ll be crying. If only he would stayed competitive for 3 more seconds. If only he cared for 3 more seconds, he might have made history.
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