Scott Morrison (basketball player)

Scott Morrison
Player information
birthday	January 3, 1986 (34 years and 242 days)
place of birth	Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	212 cm
position	center
college	Portland State
Clubs as active
2004–2008 Portland State Vikings ( NCAA ) 2008–2009 Alba Fehérvár 2009–2010 Tartu Rock 2010 BK Politechnika-Halytschyna 2011 Anwil Włocławek 2011–2012 Energa Czarni Słupsk 2012–2013 Polar Bears Bremerhaven 2013–2014 Melbourne Tigers 2014–2015 Aisin Seahorses Mikawa Since 2015 Akita Northern Happinets 00000 00000 0

Scott Morrison (born January 3, 1986 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian basketball player . After studying in the United States , Morrison became a professional in Europe and, after stints in Hungary , Estonia , Ukraine and Poland, played in the 2012/13 basketball league for the German first division team Eisbären Bremerhaven. Since 2013, Morrison has been playing in Australia for the Melbourne Tigers in the NBL Australasia .

Career

After graduating from school in his hometown south along the Pacific coast, Morrison went to study in Portland (Oregon) in the neighboring country USA, where he played for the college team Vikings of Portland State University in the Big Sky Conference of the NCAA from 2004 . In his senior year in 2008, the Vikings first won the Big Sky championship and Morrison was named Big Sky's best defender . Within the team, too, Morrison tops the “all-time list” of the Vikings ' best shot blockers and is one of the Vikings' best five rebounders of all time. When first participating in the national NCAA finals , however, you lost in the first round against the favored Jayhawks of the University of Kansas .

After Morrison had not been selected in the NBA Draft 2008 by any club in the highest endowed professional league NBA , he began a professional career in the Hungarian top division for Albacomp from Székesfehérvár . After third place in the regular season, however, they were eliminated from the title award in the first play-off round for the championship. In the following season 2009/10 Morrison played in the Estonian Korvpalli Meistriliiga for the record champions Rock from Tartu , with whom he won the national championship in 2010. In the Baltic Basketball League he was named MVP of the month November 2009, but the team narrowly missed the Final Four tournament of this championship and was eliminated in the EuroChallenge 2009/10 after the first group stage. After Morrison had played at the beginning of the 2009/10 season in the Basketball Superliga Ukraine for the Politechnika-Halychyna from Lviv , he ended the season for Anwil from Włocławek under coach Emir Mutapčić in the Polska Liga Koszykówki . Anwil was eliminated as the sixth-placed team in the main round in the first play-off round of the Polish championship. In the following season 2011/12 Morrison played for the league competitor Energa Czarni from Słupsk , who could not confirm the third place of the preseason in the play-offs and were also eliminated in the first round.

For the 2012/13 season, Morrison followed his teammate Stanley Burrell to the Eisbären from Bremerhaven in the German basketball league . In the basketball Bundesliga 2012/13 , however, the team again missed the place in the play-offs for the championship and Morrison moved to the NBL Australasia to the Tigers from Melbourne for the following season . With this team he was eliminated in the play-off semi-finals for the 2014 championship.

Web links

• Player Profiles: Scott Morrison - Player profile at the Melbourne Tigers ( English )
• easyCredit BBL - Scott Morrison - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Scott Morrison Stats - Portland State Vikings - College season stats on statsheet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2013-14 Portland State Men's Basketball Media Guide - Record Book: Career Records. (PDF (4.2 MB)) Portland State University , October 24, 2013, pp. 60, 61 (internal census) , accessed on June 11, 2014 (English, statistical best results). 
2. ↑ Scott Morrison will be the new polar bear center. (No longer available online.) Eisbären Bremerhaven , July 11, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 11, 2014 (media info).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Scott Morrison goes “Down Under”. Eisbären Bremerhaven , July 23, 2013, accessed on June 11, 2014 (media information).