In which year did he demonstrate his absolute best physique and athletic capability? Let the Rockets fans and myself know!
2004. He was elite until early 2008, declining always, and then his final decline was immediate. Just listened to Hollinger and Duncan discuss him today and how he is underrated because of how his career ended. They said they'd put him ahead of guys who benefit from recency bias like Lillard, although Lillard has two knockout blows he didn't carry mediocre teams the way McGrady did in his prime. They say the same about Dwight.
It’s a tie between his 1st and 3rd and year.I personally like his later years because his court vision kept improving…
his 1st year, 04-05, was clearly his best, there’s nothing to even discuss here T-Mac got worse every single year
paging mergady scientist @tinman he would do well in this nba where players like to settle for long bombs. he could preserve his back by not driving and launching curry shots
His best year was when he quit on the team so Yao and Ron Artest can finally lead the Rockets to a playoff series victory @Zboy
His first year as a Rocket was the one season I would say he was playing at a near MVP level. He was still a top 5 player in the league for that one season. After that... Not so much. Anyways this is more of a comment on how much more scoring efficiency has shot up in the league: Mcgrady's best year with the Rockets, he still has a lower ts% than 20 years old "bust" Green.
Yeah that 2004-05 season was his best and it was the best chance for that Rockets team to make a run. We had a solid bench, young core, and a healthy Yao and T-Mac. After that we could never get both guys at full strength at the same time on a regular basis. I knew when we blew the 2-0 lead to the Mavs that this was our best chance to make some noise. The 2006-2007 team was close, but not quite as good as 2004-2005. 2007-2008 was most enjoyable to me, because JVG was finally gone, and that team was gritty. Also had a young Carl Landry and Luther Head could still shoot. Or course, winning 23 games in a row did not hurt!
