Do you want Mcgrady back on the team for the vet min?

This isn't Ralph Sampson, who led the Rockets to the NBA Finals and hit one of the greatest and most important game winners of all time then losing his career to a hip/knee injury.

I don't feel sorry for him. not one once of sorrow.

I feel for the Rockets fans who expected more from him and his hype when he first joined the Rockets.

 

The same Ralph Sampson who was the number 2 option on a team with 2 other hall of famers? Not trying to take anything away from Sampson, i loved the guy and he is one of the Houston greats, but their situations are nothing alike.

 

I felt sorry for Sampson, I don't feel sorry for Tmac.

Nobody knocked Tmac down at Boston Garden and caused him to have a career spoiling injury.

 

It is fairly obvious of why it is divided; there are a lot of T-Mac fanboys and people who prioritize 13 in 30 over post season success. There is also a fact that beyond worthless individual achievements, T-Mac has accomplished very little in his basketball career. There is not much to defend, just T-Mac supporters regurgitating his individual stats over and over again like they mean a damn thing in the long run. You know what real basketball fans see when all that garbage bling is stripped off?

- A chronic postseason loser on every team
- A chronic bridge burner with front offices
- A player whose bad work ethics follow him like BO on a bum
- A guy who acts like a diva, even though he hasn't proven a damn thing

We have already gone through the T-Mac Nightmare once already. Who in their right ****ing minds would want to sit through the sequel?

 

God i hate standing up for him because of what he did at the end of his time with the Rockets but... the guy carried this team to a 50 win season in a VERY tough western conference 3 times (one of those times without Yao and himself being injured the latter part of the season). During the postseason, starters included players like Ryan Bowen, David Wesley, and key role player Luther Head. The problem was that people simply expected too much from the guy, he couldn't do it by himself in a power house western conference. The damage took its toll on his body towards the end of his days with Houston and he managed it horribly.. horrid PR decisions, the injury announcement to ESPN, and giving up one game. But when it comes down to it, the man was one of the top 3 talented Rockets of all time, he was an auto scorer, playmaker, closer... the guy had it all. Bad timing and bad luck (referees fixing the Mavs series) limited WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN.

 

Name one.

 

What fanboys or people who think scoring 13 points in 30 something seconds makes him the greatest player in the world? The former? Check out that T-Mac Detroit thread in Dish. The latter? The same posters who keep posting that video in GARM in response to tinman posting the Toronto game and article. I won't list any names, but it should be pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain and decent degree of literacy from reading this thread.

Bottom Line:
T-Mac is gone. He is not a Rocket. He has never accomplished any real success as a Rocket. Get this crap out of GARM.

 

That has always been my point. I have never said he sucked. He was one of the most talented players I have ever seen. Hell, he said all the right things when he was first traded to the Rockets. However, when your entire career is built on "what if's" and "what could have been," one really needs to stop and wonder; what the hell is going on?!?

 

No. The question is which people prioritize 13 in 30 over playoff success.

 

My gosh, yes, I'd love to have him back. Greatest Rockets player ever.

 

I agree.

And I personally prioritize scoring 13 points in 35 seconds over playoff success.

 

He can't.

 

Not out of the people posting in this thread, but I can definitely think of some idiots who do and they are part of those 760 people who want T-Mac back. Only 4-5 T-Mac fans are actively posting here still. Many of them thankfully have stayed silent after T-Mac took his talents elsewhere.

 

I have never read any fan of TMAC claiming he was the best in the world b/c of the 13 in 33 seconds. That's an absolute lie so just admit it.

Many do claim that he was "arguably" the best player in 02-03, and that is very debatable, and that includes myself.

But your claim that people think TMAC is the greatest in the world b/c of his 13 in 33 act is just ludicrous, and dumb.

 

So then who the hell are you talking to?

 

Are you really that forgetful? Why don't you go back and read every T-Mac thread where when questioned what T-Mac has done to help out the Rockets or in answer towards the Toronto game the 13 points in 35 seconds video. Every time someone points out that T-Mac does not deserve any place among the great players, someone will always reference that accomplishment like it can erase his career of failures.

Once again, the guy isn't a Rockets anymore, so a mod needs to get this trash out of here.

 

And there it is. Sometimes some fans have their priorities mixed up. Really over playoff success? Why?

It lasted 35 seconds bit lives a life time for some.

 

Life is short.

 

This my last post in this thread.

T-Mac was supremely gifted and talented. There was never any doubt about that. However, as gifted and talented as he was, he never displayed the work ethic, killer instinct, and leadership that makes a player great. A lot of people like to put T-Mac with players like Kobe, LBJ, or Wade. Other people even go so far as to compare T-Mac to the likes of Hakeem, Malone, or Jordan, putting up his PER against all time legends. You know what the differences is between them and T-Mac? They won and won consistently. No one denies that he had a special talented and was gifted in so many areas of basketball, but at the end of the day, T-Mac is NOT a winner. He has no leg to stand on (no pun intended ) for acting like a diva or throwing anyone under the bus, being the career postseason loser that he is.

 

Very, Tracy knows this well.