Lamb exploded on the scene at Long Beach State, going for 15.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game to garner 2nd team All Big-West honors. He didn’t shine as much as was expected at UCLA and similarly to Moses Morgan, he transferred to Long Beach State. Lamb played at UCLA for three seasons alongside some NBA players like recent NBA Summer League MVP, Kyle Anderson 2015 Toronto Raptors draftee, Norman Powell and Minnesota Timberwolf Shabazz Muhammad. Tyler Lamb was the 5th ranked shooting guard and 28th ranked player in the United States (as per ESPNU) in the Class of 2010, the same class as Moses Morgan. That’s something that the Thailand Basketball Society might be missing out. Moses Morgan could have gone his whole lifetime without even donning the purple and gold of PEA. Imagine if Winston Morgan didn’t know Joe Bryant. “Never crossed my mind until I was able to get my passport.” I didn’t know anything about the different teams in the (Thailand Basketball League),” Morgan says of his knowledge of the basketball scene here. “I didn’t know really know much honestly (about Thailand Basketball). Basketball in Thailand had been simply non-existent to Moses. But you have to admit that a lot of luck took place to make this happen. It’s certainly refreshing, as a Thai Basketball fan, to see a player like Moses Morgan cross the pond to play here in Thailand. With her Thai citizenship, Thai birth certificate, and Thai ID, I was able to get my passport (to play here as a local).”Īnd that’s how Moses Morgan ended up playing in Thailand. “My mom was born here and was adopted to a Thai family.” Moses says of his dear mother. She is indeed one of the biggest pieces to this puzzle. When I ask him about his favorite Thai food he says that he loves sticky rice and beef jerky, which his mother cooked for him regularly in the States.Īh yes, mother Naroboltit Putpomaraj. “I can count from one to ten, say thank you, and say hello,” Morgan says after I ask if he can speak Thai. He’s 6-6, which is a height only a handful of Thai people reach. It’s really hard to believe that Moses is “Thai”. Moses barely looks Thai and he even looks a bit like John Wall (who is surely not Thai). That’s how I ended up partnering up with Pete Aphaisuwan and that’s how I ended up with PEA.” “(My Dad) asked if (Coach Joe) knew any team that wanted players. My dad reached out to Joe Bryant because he knew he had been doing some work out here as a coach,” Moses said as he explained his path to PEA. “My dad came across a few people who mentioned to him that if I was Thai, I could get my passport to play as a local here. “I’ve been knowing him for some years now.”Īnd it was a pretty good thing for Thailand basketball that papa Winston Morgan were good friends with Joe Bryant. “Him and my dad are really good friends,” Moses Morgan says of Joe Bryant in a conversation with me. It turns out that Coach Joe wasn’t completely done with Thailand Basketball. Players improved leaps and bounds under Coach Joe before he left to coach in Japan. He coached the Bangkok Cobras and the Chang Thai Slammers of the ABL. That’s a weird turn of events to say the very least.Īs Thai basketball fans, we all remember Coach Joe “Jellybean” Bryant. Yet here he is, playing in the TBL for Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA). He was the 29th ranked small forward in the entire country of the United Sates of America (as per ESPNU) out of high school. He played the role of a long-range gunner and did well shooting around 30% for his NCAA career. He played for three years at Depaul for the Blue Devils before transferring to play at Cal State Fullerton for the Titans in his senior year. Morgan might not have been a superstar at the collegiate level but he had a solid role and he played it out. The thing that makes Moses Morgan’s case so intriguing is that it is a rare case for a basketball player with significant experience in a high level of basketball (in Morgan’s case, NCAA Division 1 Basketball) to come play in Thailand. I actually have had one particular Thai-Am basketball player on my radar for a while (more on him later) and we have a Thai-Foreigner who has been the face of Thailand basketball for years. Love finds itself all over the world and it isn’t unimaginable for a Thai to find love with a someone else of a different nationality. The idea that there are Thai-Ams (or Thai-Americans) or Thai-Foreigns out there isn’t that hard to picture. “Did you know that Moses Morgan is actually Half-Thai?” I just saw your article,” a source had called my over the phone. I was sure that I was ready.Ī few hours after I released my article, I picked up my phone and I found out how little I knew. I was pretty sure I had all information to be prepared. Almost a month ago, I had just published my preview for this TBL season.
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