Trib's Morrissey eats his words about Noah -- literally

I found him to be a funny, insightful guy who couldn't play basketball.

Have I mentioned I was wrong?

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It hasn't been three years yet, but I don't need another season to know the obvious. After scoring 12 points pulling down a career-high 21 rebounds against the Nuggets on Tuesday night -- a game in which the Bulls lost 90-89 -- Noah is averaging 11.4 points and 12.4 rebounds. In his previous game, he had a career-high 21 points and 16 rebounds against the Bobcats.

You safely can assume he's enjoying proving a lot of us wrong.

"It feels great," he said. "I'm not going to lie. It feels great. But I'm also enjoying the fact we're becoming a better team every night. We're competing every night. Shutting up all the doubters is motivating."

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"Because I'm so outgoing, and I think that sometimes it bothers people," he said. "I feel like people don't know me -- at all. What people know about you is only what they read about you.

"To me, it's interesting how I see older people writing things about me that aren't particularly true."

Older people? Who's he talking about?