Quit speculating, guys. Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the right one. What a crazy concept: maybe guys are actually telling the truth! Here's Keith Jones on the injury: According to Keith, it's a bone bruise. Sometimes, players are able to play through it, sometimes not. T-Mac gave it a go for a couple games, but it's bothering him. No one except T-Mac knows the extent of the pain.
"McGrady does not want to have an MRI exam because he is fearful of discovering a more serious injury." The doctor's told him he isn't injured yet he still conjures up this BS to try to make himself look like the hero fighting through the injury. Not to mention, if the injury was more serious he would be hurting everyone by not finding the problem and correcting it. BTW, if it is just a bruise then that reconfirms that the docs didn't pull him at halftime of the last game. He shut himself down. That's fine but at least he should admit that. Trainer: You're good, Mac. It's just a bruise and you are cleared to play. Tmac: I know the knee injury is serious but I gotta give it a shot. Trainer: What? No, the knee is fine. You can play. Tmac: I know what you're thinking and I'm not getting an MRI. I can't do that to the team. Once they see my ACL and MCL are blown my season will be over. Trainer: Whatever you say. You're a true warrior. Tmac: I know. I know. Don't forget that my elbow is torn too. Trainer: Whatever.
Wow, you mean, T-Mac, who has a history of injury problems could actually be injuired?!? Keith himself says T-Mac doesn't need a MRI. No but seriously, I can already picture what the fans are saying: "This is BULL$%IT! T-Mac drugged Keith Jones and made him say that." "Wait, so T-Mac was optomistic to play and still didn't play? TRADE HIS LAZY ASS!" "Ok so he didn't need an MRI. He's obviously faking the injury then."
i'm not saying he's faking it but it sure do sounds fishy.. i can understand not wanting to find out that it could be a far worser injury but he's gotta put the team first.. it's best to know asap if it's a serious injury so he doesn't go out and make it worse...
How did you draw that conclusion? T-Mac played terribly in the first half, and he could barely run. That's enough for the trainers/coaches to tell T-Mac to take the rest of the game off. Funny dialog though. Creative.
Sorry. Reconfirm is definitely not the right word. I should have said it strengthens the argument that he shut himself down. The doctors or trainers pull you if you are injured and/or risk making an injury worse. Tmac has no structural damage or swelling according to Keith Jones. He can't injure himself further by playing is what I'm gathering from Keith Jones. Why would the doctors pull him?
Exactly, it won't get any worse by him playing on it.....so......Tmac - she sits. He ran fine until he started missing shots....watch the first half again....he starts limping around the 1-5 mark.... TPussy needs to suck it up. DD
Actually, it was the coaching staff that sat out McGrady. It was not up to him. Same thing in the Orlando game, they kept him out the 2nd half. It's funny though, first he's a r****d for not getting an MRI, but now since Keith said he doesn't really need an MRI, but just rest, he is a p***y for not playing. Lose/Lose situation for T-Mac with the fans. He can't do anything without it being looked on as negative.
to anybody that will ALWAYS defend him no matter what...you've got to admit, when you combine his words, his actions and his body language, it doesn't always add up. it's inconsistent. and as long as these situations keep coming up and he approaches them the same way as he has been, it's going to be an issue that people take sides on.
Angkor, They are covering for him plain and simple, by saying only Tmac knows the pain he is in......well......let's just say that Tpussy is no Willis Reed. DD
The way he played the coaching staff had no choice but to sit him. Now TMac has all the cards, if things go well, he will finish the game and be a hero to rescue the team, if not, we will see that painful face again around half time. To play half game is much worse than not playing at all.
You hear all the time about players favoring one side due to an injury, and that increasing the chance worsening the injury. Or maybe exerting pressure on an already sore knee aggravates the pain. There are simple explanations for all this stuff. You choose to attack him instead, because we're losing and he's not helping. LeBron just missed like 4 or 5 games with a sprained finger (above the knuckle) on his non-shooting hand. It's been reported that he could have played, but he was being cautious. Cleveland is doing even worse than us in the standings, and they didn't have a "superstar" like Yao Ming to pick up the slack. I suppose he's being a wuss as well? Or do you think an injury on your non-shooting hand is much more serious than your knee?
The problem is this happened with TMac so many times. And he himself admitted that he faked injury when he's in Orlando.
Keith never said he couldn't injure himself further by playing. That doesn't follow from him saying there's no structural damage/swelling. If you're playing hobbled, you're much more likely to make unnatural motions. You're more likely to stress other parts of your body in ways you shouldn't. We know that T-Mac has a fragile body. It sucks, and sure you can say that his body hinders him from being truly great, but you can't blame him for it. It's just who he is. Given that, and given that McGrady was playing terribly and not helping the team anyway, why risk making things worse?
You know Willis Reed only scored one basket in that game, right? I don't think we'll win very many games if T-Mac only scores one bucket. It's better to have Luther out there than McGrady on one leg. Last night being a very good example.
