Recruiting Tidbits...

Geezaldinho wrote:Good job, Stoney. Good to see Woods got offered by two Ivys, so he must be a good student.

Good to se also that he has so many offers.

I hope we get Chatman. it's about time we started getting some of the local talent.

"Another CdM player garnering attention is Danny Cheek, a first-team All-Pacific Coast League selection. Schachter said the University of Portland is recruiting the 6-3 guard hard.

“He wants to go there,” Schachter said of Cheek, who led the Sea Kings in scoring, averaging 13.8 points per game last season as a junior. “He really likes Portland, but he wants to take an official visit. That could be the best fit, but he’s going to look and see what other schools are interested. There’s interest from UC [Santa Barbara], [Northern Arizona University], Boise State and Northern Colorado.”

Thu Aug 05,2010 5:16 PM ETBy Kurt Helin
Now is the time of the summer when teams are grabbing guys on minimum deals -- even make good deals, meaning they can be cut at training camp -- to round out their roster. Guys 11 to 15 on the depth chart.

And Adam Morrison's phone is not ringing.

In a fascinating look at Morrison -- from the overexposed college player to the No. 3 pick not ready for the burden, to his time getting two rings while never setting foot on the court during a finals game with the Lakers -- the shooter talks about his future in the league with Andy Kamenetzky of ESPNLosAngeles.com.

"I think I could be a really good sixth man," suggests the forward. "I know I could still score. I've done it my whole life and I did it even in practices with the Lakers. You can ask any of the guys." (For what it's worth, various Lakers constantly praised Morrison's ability to push starters during practice. As Odom insisted, "Leave him open and he'll embarrass you.")

Morrison will not be back with the Lakers. Any offensive potential coaches thought he had was masked by defensive issues. He was never going to get much run.

Last season most of his attempts came in a spot-up situation, but he shot just 29.7 percent on those, and 15 percent from three (according to Synergy Sports) It's hard to read much into any of his statistics because he got such little run -- he got in to only 33 Lakers games and played an average of 7 minutes in those games -- but he didn't grab the opportunities he had.

If you look across the country you see JJ Redick -- the guy Morrison was tied to so often in college -- who has rounded out his game, who has become more than a shooter. There was demand for Redick this summer by contending teams.

Morrison wants to be that guy. He worked out for teams in Vegas while Summer League was going on. Still no offers. At this point, you'd expect some team to at least give him an invite to camp, a chance to earn a spot. To see if he can be that light-it-up guy off the bench, at least some nights.

But he has yet to really shoot efficiently at the NBA level, and while he believes he can score he is going to have to prove it now. If he gets the chance.

If he doesn't?

"If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. I'll just go into something else. It's just one of those things."