Damn I can't belive Calvin said that about T-Mac. I loved Calvin & wish he was back calling the games w/ Bill
As a newly out of towner I haven't heard Calvin's show. He is a yakaholic in real life, at any decibel. I wonder if Calvin holds McGrady to a standard worthy of TMac's skillset and gets frustrated, as I (and others) do, when Tracy is < Kobe rather than = or > than Bryant. He could be, but he's not. BTW - I love the psychobabble on Shane's winning trey.
psh, let murph have his opinions about whoever. its just entertainment. i really like listening to his stuff about players of the past and their little stories. when he talks about today's game, i just take it with a grain of salt. and to the OP, he actually rags on tmac because he wants him to elevate his game. he actually addressed this last night on his show around...6:30pm I believe. there's nothing wrong with that, heck, i think its a good thing. does tmac listen to the show? maybe. but hey, it's working. prior to the san antonio game, mcgrady's been averaging 33 points! thats nuts! he's still dishing it out, averaging 5.5 assists (now its up since he had 6 last night) too. so he's still doing what he did last year, but better. the points calvin makes about attacking the basket, being overall more aggressive and flowing with the system, tmac's been doing! murph praises mcgrady too, just his bashing seems to stand out more.
Well I am a TMac fan for sure but he did sound a little weird in the postgame interview, it went something like this: TNT guy: what do you think about the last shot? Battier: I'm glad it went in TMAC: Yeah that was a horrible shot selection It was like he was criticizing Battier when it was the best shot available.
If Calvin was our coach, he would go to Yao 99 times out of 100 possessions. And whoever didn't pass the ball to Yao soon enough would be benched in the next 3 games, maybe except Tmac because he would be needed as a decoy to draw the triple-team away from Yao.
I hardly ever listen to Murph's program and I'm a long time Murph fan, but if what you'll are saying is true then I think I'll keep not listening.....I've been critical of tmac in the past, but where does he pull something like "tmac was jealous of battier" from??? perhaps, but that's still a big ass assumption, lol.....like I said I've criticized tmac in the past and from what I hear I think some of Murph's criticisms of Mac are accurate, but when you start throwing out ideas that a guy is jealous of a teammate because he hit the game winning shot......that's border line insane and almost makes you sound like the "jealous" ex-athlete.... I honestly feel that Murph still has some bad blood over Les Alexander not giving him his job back so he uses Tmac as a scapegoat for his frustrations...
Is Calvin also a YOF to you guys? Man..some of you TOF can't tolerate critcism directed at T-Mac. Yesterday, Fran wrote in his blog that T-Mac was an "idiot" in the Dallas game for not passing to Yao. I agree. Are you going to crucify Fran Blinebury too? What about Rick Adelman. Obviously, after the Dallas game, Adelman's comment about needing to get others involved was directed at T-mac. That's why on the SA game, T-Mac did not shoot friggin 35 times. Maybe, just maybe, some of these criticisms directed at T-Mac is valid huh? And not just YOF rhetoric?
I dont know if Tmac was trying to set up Shane, but I agree that wasnt the right pass. The right pass was to Yao in the middle, with Farma closest to guard. It would have been a easy dunck and possibly and 1. We were lucky Shane's shot fell.
