It's only the first game... it could all change tonight. But I saw it for a split second last night in the second half. TMac is the player who can will a win by himself. Take a game into his own hands and deliver a victory. Shaq has had it, Kobe has had it, Dream had it, Duncan has done it, Bird did it, Jordan was the master. Just take control of the game. TMac has it. I saw it in his game. He can decide to score and take over a game. I believe he realizes it. I hope Van Gundy can see it. We are talking about someone who has as much BB talent as there is on the face of this earth. He is 25 yrs. old. Note- to Coach Van Gundy- Free TMac, give him the green light and light a fire under his *** He is The One
I agree... I think for this season at least... Tmac needs to be the first option.. Yao still can't get position a lot of the times, and it looks as though he will never be an aggressive player on offense... and from the looks of yesterday, he's a below average offensive rebounder.... On offense you need to go to your most talented scorer, the one that draws the most double teams... let that person have the green light and run the offense through him... Tmac will find the open spot up shooters (or yao), but let him touch the ball at least, to break down the defense.. This season, Tmac needs to still look to score 26+ ppg, Yao 20+ ppg...
We have gone from trade Francis because he doesnt play within the system to Free Tmac and let him do whatever he wants to do.
What Steve Francis can do and what Tracy McGrady can do are worlds apart. Steve doesn't have the height, the shot, the first step, the ball handling, or the ability to overmatch a defender the way Tracy McGrady has been doing it for the last four seasons. Don't try to compare them, there is no comparison. Steve= Marbury McGrady= Kobe
Honestly, imo, the only difference between TMac first half and TMac second half was that he was making his shots in the second half. Overally, he still shot 6-18 from the field. If you're talking about more freedom overall in the offense, though, I agree. The are playing way too rigidly right now.
There won't be much comparison this season. Steve is freed and will probably average about 26 ppg, 5 boards, and 6 assists. McGrady is working in Van Gundy's system and odds are he might average 21 ppg, and his shooting percantage will go down because of the way the offense is designed to burn up the shot clock. My comments were in regards to how all of a sudden people want Van Gundy to let the offense become an ISO offense with TMAC freestroking it, not about comparing TMac and Steve. At this point it's more like Steve=Iverson (exciting, skilled blood and guts player who unfortuantely is inefficient) McGrady=Gervin (tall gifted scoring champion, never won a championship) This team will have to play together awhile before we can get a real feel for how they do. Even at the end of last season, during the playoffs against the Lakers, Steve and Cat looked like they were starting to get it. We were just a couple plays away from beating the Lakers and going to the next round. I think we are going to have to bear with a TMac playing within the system. My biggest concern is actually not TMac. It is whether or not Yao is gonna step up and demand the rock, and tell people to get out the way. That's what needs to happen for the TMac Yao combo to work. Yao has to demand the ball in the post. 7 points? How many touches? He's got to demand the ball. Can't put it all on the guards.
Yeah definently he was a different player in the second half then he was in the first....i mean he just made his shots in the second half and that helped us alot when others weren't scoring....if wasn't so cold in the first half we could have been up by a decent margin going into the half. It's not like he was talking bad shots or anything, they were just not falling for him in the first half and the ineffectiveness off Yao yesterday hurt us as well.
This is true. You feel for Yao because he barely got the ball in the post, and when he did he got called for bogus offensive fouls, but... He had multiple wide open jump shots and he has to hit a few minimum. Yao had a horrible offensive game. On the other hand, just looking at him this year is encouraging. The dude's upper body is a totally different world compared to this time last year.
One thing i really liked that i saw is when he got the ball one time in the post he didn't even put the ball on the floor and went into a turn around fade away sort of like Hakeem used to do. The shot didn't go in but if he gets that shot down then no one can stop it becuase he won't put the ball on the floor and won't give the defense enough time to set and try to block the shot....
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