The loss marked the end of Morrison’s college career, as he declared for the NBA Draft and was scooped up by the Bobcats with the third pick. Morrison played for three years at Gonzaga University and was considered to be one of the top college basketball players in 2005-06. when it came to guys sporting questionable patches of hair on their face who were able to instill a sense of dread in their opponents.The three-seeded Zags finally redeemed themselves by winning their first two games to make it to the Sweet Sixteen for a matchup against second-seeded UCLA. He was the son of a basketball coach, and while he failed to garner any real attention on the national level in high school, he showed enough promise to get a scholarship offer from Gonzaga and got the chance to take his talents to the next level with the hometown team he’d been a ballboy for.When Morrison enrolled as a freshman in 2003, Mark Few had been coaching Gonzaga for four years and had seen immediate success, as the Bulldogs hadn’t missed a tournament with him at the helm and the burgeoning mid-major powerhouse made it all the way to the Sweet Sixteen during two of those runs (Few still hasn’t been absent from a single March Madness during his time at the school assuming you don’t count the recently aborted tournament).Gonzaga continued to dominate the West Coast Conference after adding Morrison to the roster and made it to the tourney yet again as a two seed before being upset by Nevada in a second-round rout.Morrison started attracting some buzz during a sophomore year where he averaged 19 points per game and helped the Bulldogs earn another berth (this time as a three seed) but they once again only managed to win a single game before getting knocked out by Texas Tech in a contest where Morrison tallied 25 points.When Anthony Davis burst onto the scene in 2011,  players quickly learned to Fear the Brow™, but thanks to the revenge tour that was his junior year, Morrison was truly the O.G. Immediately after this, he was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The following month, he had surgery, and was said that the injury would take months of physical therapy, resulting in missing the Adam signed with KK Crvena zvezda in September 2011. All rights reserved. Play-by-play data available for the 1996-97 through 2019-20 seasons. He will join the Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. When he was in the 8th grade, he lost 30 lbs (14 kgs). He averaged 11.4 points per game (ppg) in his freshman year, with a season-high 22 points against St. Mary's. Morrison was drafted 3rd overall in the 2006 NBA Draft, after attending Gonzaga University. While he was with the organization for eight games (he missed 1 game due of non threatening injuries), Morrison averaged 15.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 1.5 assists in 29 minutes per game. Shot location data available for the 1996-97 through 2019-20 seasons. Adam John Morrison (born July 19, 1984) is an American retired professional basketball player. In 2003, Adam joined the Gonzaga Bulldogs. While it looked like a tight contest on paper, the Bulldogs pulled out to an early lead and were ahead by double digits for a solid chunk of the second half until abruptly forgetting how to play basketball.Morrison hit a couple of free throws with 3:26 left on the clock to put Gonzaga ahead 71-62 but that would be the last time he or anyone else on his team put the ball through the hoop, as UCLA scored 11 unanswered points in a March Madness moment for the ages that ended with a member of the Bruins consoling a sobbing Morrison on the court.The loss marked the end of Morrison’s college career, as he declared for the NBA Draft and was scooped up by the Bobcats with the third pick. In his junior year, his last year of college, he had 13 games of 30-plus points, with five of them over 40. College: Gonzaga.

Frequently described as "freakishly tall," he once used his 6'10" frame to sneak in the NBA Draft before walking around the streets of NYC masquerading as the newest member of the Utah Jazz. Player stats broken down into various categories; i.e. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Copyright © 2008-2020 BroBible. The loss marked the end of Morrison’s college career, as he declared for the NBA Draft and was scooped up by the Bobcats with the third pick. Adam John Morrison (born July 19, 1984) is a retired American Professional basketball player and former coach. Morrison arrived at Gonzaga University to play for the Gonzaga Bulldogs in 2003. On October 21, 2007, the Bobcats announced that Adam has sustained an ACL injury in a preseason game against his future team, the Los Angeles Lakers, while defending Luke Walton, bending his leg awkwardly and tearing his ACL.