Morrison’s poor shooting night OK with coach

MORRISON WATCH UPDATED: 11:25 A.M.

When is shooting 3 of 16 from the floor not a bad game?

When you’re Adam Morrison and your coach, Bernie Bickerstaff, asks you to shoot more often. And, when you take those shots, you attract defensive attention, freeing up your teammates.

That’s the story out of Indianapolis, following the Bobcats’ 109-96 preseason loss to the Pacers on Thursday night.

Bickerstaff felt Morrison was timid offensively in Charlotte’s last loss and asked him to be more aggressive. He was and, though the shots didn’t fall, they did serve to free up other Bobcats.

There’s a picture of Morrison defending on one of the Pacers’ many fast breaks at the Indianapolis Star game story but no mention of any Bobcats.

Morrison received his first technical foul of his NBA career Thursday night, and the comment that drew the whistle wasn’t directed to the officials. It was directed to the Charlotte bench, but was about a non-call on what Morrison thought was a shooting foul.

UPDATE: Morrison actually made it into a Detroit Free Press story about the Tigers. Seems some of them cried after winning the American League title and were snickered at because of it. Freep columnist Drew Sharp wrote crying shows a competiveness, and cites Morrison as an example (low in column).