Keith Langford, Dedric Lawson, Mitch Lightfoot, Mario Little, Thomas Robinson, Tyshawn Taylor… The names of members of the Mass Street team, made up of former Kansas players, are almost unknown to the general public. The coaches of this training, in the running for ” The Basketball Tournament », knockout tournament played every summer in the United States, are however more so.
Marcus Morris is indeed the coach of this team, assisted by his twin brother markieff, both from the same university. ” Coming back to Kansas, you never know (which can happen). (coaching) could be a retraining for us after our playing career », release the second33 years old.
A career which, more than ten years after their arrival in the big league, is not yet over. Marcus is still under contract with the Clippers, where Markieff, who comes from an experience in Dallas, is a “free agent” but says he is thinking of a new team.
“ We just wanted to try something new. We’ve been in the sport for so long, and since we have two similar minds, we wanted to put them together and see how we do. And there’s nothing better than coaching for your old college “, completes Marcus, convinced that his brother and him” would dominate if they could participate in the tournament.
The two brothers had already experienced this tournament as coaches in 2017. Their team had failed in a Final Four match despite a 25-point lead in the second half, which Markieff Morris still calls a ” heartbreaking defeat “. Their team plays the first round of this edition next Wednesday against “We Are D3”.
