Ben

Shortly before the Washington Wizards took the floor to play the Boston Celtics last Saturday, Steve Blake, Juan Dixon and Lonny Baxter stood in the team's weight room, watching the University of Maryland men's basketball team stage a riveting comeback against North Carolina State in an ACC tournament semifinal.

The rush of seeing the Terrapins rally provided Baxter, Blake and Dixon, two years removed from leading Maryland to the NCAA championship, a respite from a Wizards season in which they have endured 20 more losses than they did in three seasons together with the Terrapins. As good as that felt, though, things got a lot better for the trio Sunday, when Maryland knocked off Duke to win its first conference tournament title in 20 years.


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MikeDC

Since the Bulls are so big into signing scrubs these days, I was checking out the NBDL and Terence Morris actually looked as good as anyone.

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Terence Morris, SF
Colombus
6-9, 221, Age 25
* Didn't look horrible for the Rockets
* 11p, 8r, 2b in 27 mpg
* Shooting 38% from the 3 point line, 46% total

Morris seemed like a guy who had plenty of gifts but just seemed to be in a funk his last year in college and then beyond. He wasn't great or anything with the Rockets, obviously, but one of the things I look for is whether he is relatively productive when he did get decent minutes. Clearly, he's playing pretty efficiently and productively in the DL, but consider a few things from his stint on the Rockets last year:

When he played 20 minutes or more, the Rockets were 9-6, he shot 50% from the floor and averaged basically 7p, 5b, 1a, and 1b in 24mpg.

Then also take a look at stuff like his Clutch stats on 82Games. Not a lot there to work with, but the indicators seem to be pointed in the right direction.

LOL, bring in all of these guys

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