From couch to court: Marcus Morris felt first game with Cavaliers was ‘easy’

From couch to court: Marcus Morris felt first game with Cavaliers was ‘easy’

JB just kind of joked around that you know you went from couch to court you know just like that how and you made it look easy how’ you make it look so easy with not even played since February 5th uh you know it was just a team thing man

He uh brought me in got me acclimated with everything um you know this was my first time uh first time seeing him doing shoo round so you know it was uh a league man like they did a great job communicating with me uh the players did

A great job communicating with me so it was easy man I just you know played the game the right way and took with defense game did the relationship that you have with JB also kind of help instill that confidence just to go out there and play your game definitely definitely uh you

Know it’s funny because we wasn’t even talking about me joining like we just having natural conversation and just talking basketball and uh him like like we both come to agreement of me coming over here and and trying to help the team and uh man we both like he joked

Earlier about me being on the couch like I I definitely wasn’t a couch I was working out though I was working out I was my my kids and getting some sun just enjoying my time off but uh you know I’m happy to be here I’m happy to help and

Um just want to you know keep keep pushing guys keep being the leader and uh just show my work what were your impressions of this team being able to come back from you know being down 15 in that first half um just resilience resil but uh you know they’ve been a good team

All season I’ve been watching them far just because of our relationship and um they had some big games where they came back and you know uh just another one you know uh it’s getting down to the nitty-gritty so uh just show show the resilience of the team being down a lot

Of guys and you know just trying to hold on and keep going until we get the guys back did also having trist and Thompson out there kind of Aid in that definitely definitely uh me and him you know we came into the lead together so being

Able to uh you know share the court with another veteran is talkative emotional like myself and play hard it was definitely easy played about 20 minutes tonight is that more than what you expected uh no man I prepared my body for it so you know me and JB was going

Back and forth he asked me early like what you know I mean how did how do you feel and I was like you know I’m good you know I’ve been I’ve been playing pickup I’ve been working out every day so you know I’m a veteran you I’m

Professional so I made sure to I be good by the time my guy here what was your mentality coming into tonight’s game artist um just help man just play the game of basketball the right way take what they give me I hold the ball move uh communicate be a leader be a veteran

Like myself and uh you know not try to do too much man I’ve been you know watching the last probably seven games so I kind of like figured out how the team play the ball movement get into the point guards you know hands and you know

He had got Carro had a great great game so e just play off him and watch him do his thing and uh keep motivating him you’ve mentioned a few times just your relationship with JB what is it about his coaching style is it his system is

It uh the way that that he communicates with guys what caters to your game so well it’s funny when I got into the league uh about 20 years ago he was my coach and he was the assistant coach but he act as if he was the head coach um

There no knock to Kevin M H but you know he I always viewed him as a head coach he’s always like talked to his players always gave confident in his players and made it easy so um we just had a short conversation you know what I mean he

Said you know he’s play the game the right way I communicate just come easy car talked about how insane difficult it is to come in cold like that shooting in a rhythm how tough was it or was it was there some freedom to it I mean if you know me it wasn’t

Really that tough you know what I’m saying but thing was they did a great job getting into the paintt bring it down the defense I just had to make open shots so when you at home and you’re not doing nothing the one thing you is doing

Is shooting spot shots so you know I I you know I did kudos to them getting in the lane uh making the defense collapse and I just did my job Mak over shots

Marcus Morris Sr. speaks to the media after the 108-103 win over the Pacers.