I think it’s important that we don’t force anything : D
Nicknames are earned, developed and can’t necessarily be applied to everyone. Cole for instance isn’t a nickname type player to me. Just like his game is simple, straight forward and solid, so is his name. Cole.

That said there are certainly others where a nickname can and should be applied. Here are my preferences and I like a lot of your ideas.

Tyshawn Taylor – TyTay…easy to type in the OGT, rolls of the tongue and I know we’ve probably all referred to him this way already.

Marcus Morris – McMorris
Markieff Morris – Kieff
The twins together – The Golden Arches (this might be against my better judgment.)

If you throw Mario Little in the game with the Twins then as Kenny said they become…
The Law Firm of Little, Morris and Morris

Tyrel Reed – I like The Burlington Bomber because it is kind of a throwback and any guy who wears mid-level socks is throwback…Tyrel doesn’t wear em high…he doesn’t wear em low…he wears em mid way up to the knee like they did when they had the short shorts.

Those are the ones I think have nickname potential…

I kind of think Sherron is past that point as he has been here 3 years and nothing has really developed so perhaps the Bowling Ball from Chicago should just be called Sherron Collins, no nickname necessary.

Brady – I really struggle with this one right now but maybe others have ideas.

Mario Little – unfortunately his name is the same as a guy around here that had one of the more memorable shots in history, a nickname might be hard to come by for him….

Psycho T Slayer…not really, but I wanted to get a UNC jab in this morning

Mario 2.0

but I can’t emphasize enough that he would have to truly earn this one in some fashion that we will only know when it happens.

Cole “yes I’m tall and from Minnesota but don’t call me Paul Bunyan” Aldrich.

Don’t really like TyTay because it just sounds kinda girlish, but if enough like it, so be it. I’ve kind of referred to him as TT in game threads and stuff, a T squared kind of thing.

Morris’s seem simple to me: Kief & Cus….straightforward and to the point.

I like the Rio Grande suggestion for Mario.

The rest, I feel like they gotta earn em.

Sherron – the bowling ball
MC-hammer
MK-Kiefer
Mario-Rio de jenero
Tyshawn-double T
Tyrel-Mr Clutch
Brady-Bunches (in reference to not only the brady bunch, but the fact that he scores in bunches)
Cole-Sherriff, the Enforcer, King Cole, Sultan of Swat, Big Nasty, i could go on and on. Cole is like Babe Ruth, he deserves a ton of different nicknames

Yeah, I suppose the necessity for nicknames doesn’t really exist. I love nicknames, but I understand that you have to really earn them, I suppose.

As far as my personal preferences…

I still like Superstar for Sherron. For some reason, it seems to fit. I don’t really know. But yeah, Sherron is obviously fine, I’m just talking about other names too.

T-Squared, or just TT, is fine for Tyshawn. I’ve never really liked TyTay, but that’s seemed to be the general nickname consensus.

Burlington Bomber’s fine, I suppose, for Tyrel. I’ll still call him Relly Ice when he hits a clutch shot, but BB is a better pure nickname, I suppose.

Cole, like all of you said, doesn’t really need a nickname. He just isn’t that type of player. I kind of like TOTWG, I think it’s really funny personally, but that’s about it. I don’t like Coleplay, just have seen it around before.

I love the Doug reference for Brady. Do we just call him Doug, or Dougie, or what? But he does look nearly identical to Doug, and that needs to be related.

I love McMorris for Marcus Morris. It’s funny, it makes fun of Ron Franklin, it’s easy to type, it’s obvious who you are talking about. And Kieffer should be Markieff’s nickname. Again, easy to type, but distinguishable.

I love Rio Grande for Mario Little. Love it. That’s my vote.

So, yeah, in summary, this was just for fun. We certainly don’t have to force nicknames on anyone, and it is silly to try and create a nickname for every player on the team.

rockchalk = DDR?!?! :D

I like:

T Squared
MC Hammer
Relly Ice isn’t bad
For Brady- shorten the last name to “Star”. Kind of like calling a huge guy “Tiny”
and I love Mario 2.0 (just because it’s an update, doesn’t mean it’s better)