I told y'all before before the season started that McGrady was done.

You threw Barkley, Stockton and Malone on the same bus as Tmac.
But you fail to mention that the bus drops tmac off at the first stop everytime.

 

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Nope.
As far as that discussion went, I did not.
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Two words: Reading comprehension

 

Tmac, Barkley, Stockton, Malone

which one of these don't belong in that group?

 

Well, you said that he was done, but then again you also said that he was out of shape and not flat out done. Which one is it?

Does it really matter what you said before and what is now? Instead of arguing about you being right from the start why not contribute to a solution instead of the problem.

 

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Great players who never won a championship
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Albeit, Malone, Stockton, and Barkley all had much better careers.
I couldn't say who is the best out of those three though..
Technically, they all played different positions, so the argument would be pointless anyways...

 

Gotta love the "Ooooh TMAC had a bad game, I'm gonna say I told you so" threads.

I notice that you were nowhere to be found with your "told ya so" thread the other night when he drove from the left for that awesome slam.

Look, maybe he's not all he could be, maybe he's taking things slowly hoping to be full steam in the post season, maybe he's just not focused... maybe he really is a shadow of what he used to be. Who knows? What I do know is that saying he was done before the season started was not only premature, it was irrelevant and not productive. Being right or wrong about it now is equally pointless. We couldn't have gotten fair value for him in his condition this off season to compensate for the potential upside of seeing him with Yao for one more season.

Posting after a bad game doesn't make you right. He's got one more year on the contract, and while our team hasn't played well/much together yet, there's still much basketball to be played and we've still got a respectable record. The next month or two will be tough, so we'll see how the team gels and where we end up, but regardless, it's premature to say that this team, OR Tmac, is done.

Further, I notice you have no comment no the fact that it's not just TMAC that looks terrible out there right now.

Time will tell. I still expect them to rally closer to their potential before season's end, and I expect TMAC will be a part of it. As someone else said, talk to me at the end of this season... and even then "I told you so" won't help or change anything."

 

People who have never been in my kitchen?

 

Great players who never won a championship versus a guy who never got past the first round. You're comparing guys who won playoff series and guys who won conference championships to a guy who never made it past the first round.

You're comparing winners to a loser.

 

back to the subject of this thread.



I gave it low marks because you didn't start this train

AntiSonic, a 99er did.

You somehow give credit to yourself for someone else's idea.

you ain't ponce deleon or christopher columbus pal.

stop taking credit when it wasn't yours to begin with.

 

Good call, but it's too late now.

 

AntiSonic

we know you started singing this song

the dude who started this post is Mili Vanilli-ing you!

 

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Nope, I'm not comparing them at all.

Just using your definition of a winner to prove to you that your logic is flawed.
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btw, by your standard, Ricky Adelman is a loser too

 

Adelman won playoff series, he won conference championships.

Barkley, Stockton, Malone--they got to the finals. That means they won playoff series and they won conference championships.

What has McGrady ever won?

 

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Yup
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You've gotta give Rocket River some applause too..
The dude has always hated McGrady!

It came with Steve Francis getting traded..

 

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Doesn't matter.
As a true fan of the Houston Rockets who's team won two championships in the mid 90's, those people have all accomplished nothing.

None of them have won a championship (the desire of every Rockets' fan) so they have won nothing.
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Ouch! Especially for a guy like Rick Adelman.
He went to the Finals twice and lost.
He repeatedly lost in the WCF..

Talk about a choker/loser..
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Hakeem and co. took full advantage of their opportunities..

 

Winning the Western Conference Finals equals "nothing"? Getting to the Finals equals "nothing"? Just getting into the playoffs can be daunting enough, much less going deep. Just ask T-Mac.

 

I credit myself for saying that Juwan Howard was overrated.

When we first got Juwan, the stat googlers thought he would average 17 points/game with the Rockets.

I told them, i saw Juwan play on that crap Orlando team, getting garbage points, I saw him stink it up with Webber in DC.

No way with Tmac/Yao, Juwan scores that many points, he wasn't even a starter.

people hated me for that.

then I was right like the people who invented the airplane.

Juwan never complimented Yao cause he jacked up too many shots for himself, so JVG put him on the bench. As a bench player, he was ok.

 

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Yup, as far as I'm (as a Rockets fan) am concerned, Rick Adelman has won nothing.
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Anything short of a championship is not enough for him to have won anything

 

In that case T-Mac's won less than nothing. If guys like Adelman, Stockton and Malone are losers that makes T-Mac less than zero.

The point stands--T-Mac is not in the same category as those guys, not even close. What is he if he's not even good enough to be a loser?

 

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Man, you twists things around soo much.
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You have seriously flawed and twisted logic. You keep going on and on about losers, but you don't even get the basic principle behind my posts...
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I NEVER SAID ANY OF THEM WERE LOSERS.

Nor did I ever try to say that McGrady is as good as Malone, Stockton, or Barkley..

You seem to be confused, and have some sort of odd double standard going on.

Do you know what the similarity b/w all those guys is?
None of them have ever won a championship.

There is no levels in between winning a championship and not winning one. You either do it or you don't. None of those guys have.

Does that make them losers?
No, they are all great in their own right..