It's a tough call. Next season we can't have anymore crap where the ball moves around and when it gets to McGrady it just stops. This is supposed to be a motion offense.
If Manu became a Rocket my fanhood would be on hiatus until he retires. I absolutely can not and will not cheer on a player that bogus and dirty. Plays real hard, but also plays dirty and fake.
I think i will do it, but SA will never do it, NEVER EVER, they won´t even sign Scola because they didn´t want to disrupt the chemistry by bringing a good friend of Oberto and Manu and not letting him enough PT. They get rid of a good player that they would get for the cheap only to assure the chemistry remains. They have a strong argument whenever they are scouting, the so called goodguymanship, not on court maybe, but outside it, you won´t hear a single Spur nor his coach questioning a call, or answering to provocation, nor provoking the other team, and if you didn´t realize Ginobili is Spurs beast of burden, the guy sacrifices both from stats to money to stay competitive, such a big competitor he is that he handles the ball in the last 2 minutes of the game more than any other spur, and he is the most efficient scorer down the stretch for them and still the guy accepts to come from the bench, not to say that Duncan guy loves him. Apart from this, and the fact that i will do the trade, i think T-Mac is a better player, not because "manu cannot do what tmac..." and that moronic talk, because of endurance, Manu cannot play 40+ minutes for 82 games, i am not saying McGrady can, but he can do it for 60, i don´t think Manu will last that long. At the end of the games although i will always give Manu the ball no matter who is in there because his decision making is plain awesome. Just if some want to check the most clutch players here is a great link http://www.82games.com/CSORT11.HTM
Sortable NBA Player "Clutch" Stats For these stats "Clutch" is defined as: 4th quarter or overtime, less than 5 minutes left, neither team ahead by more than 5 points Production per 48 Minutes of Clutch Time Team Player Gm Min +/- +/- Fga Fg% 3pA 3p% Fta Ft% Pts Ast'd Reb Ast T/o Blk Stl SAS Ginobili 35 127 49 +18 20.3 .574 9.4 .440 16.9 93% 43.3 38% 7.2 10.5 2.6 0.4 3.0 HOU McGrady 24 67 17 +12 26.6 .405 7.2 .300 8.6 66% 29.5 20% 8.6 8.6 5.0 0.0 0.7
Ooops......In a tribute to John Kerry, I may have to flip back to my original stance, these are powerful arguments. DD
i would do it. 1. manu, can make shots anywhere near the rim, even if there is a big man there. he'll do some scoop or something not imagined and do it. tmac usually likes to pass it to a big player, hoping that big player (last games's case, scola) to make a layup over the opponents defense. which should be money, but scola makes it harder than it should, hayes is..., landry takes alot of time to get up. 2. health issue 3. the respect he gets from refs. but spurs won't do it. 1. tmac's contract 2. their chemistry 3. tmac's health
Haha, come on, McGrady is way better than Manu and you all know it, I just don't know if you're playing sarcastic. TMac is just making his team so much better, Manu? No, I think if it wasn't for Duncan, Manu would be another poor man of TMac but that is pointless as we know that Rockets are in a deep hole and don't think of trading TMac, especially not for Manu "I'm a sixth man" Ginobili.
The fact that Manu's willing to come off the bench as a sixth man speaks powerfully to his unselfishness. Anywhere else and he would be a starter.
HP & DD.... This reminds me of the old days.... Good to see you posting again HP... Or have I been lurking so long, I did not even realize you were back in the action? DD. hate the trade... Manu is about as unpredictable as Tmac. As much as I HATE RAFER... I hope to see him for game 3. Outside of some defense, bobby jackson is killing us. Should of kept Brooks in longer last night at the end..
and mcgrady can? mcgrady is half man half season. i mean no insult or nothin he has played a long time but to me, for him to tell the media that hes tired and always grimising every time he gets touched it sort of does make the guy soft.
Ginobili's a better shooter, finisher, defender, and makes more hustle plays. Other than that, I do prefer to T-Mac.
flip flopping on team opinion...okay. not wearing "homer glasses" or not "having the blinders on"...fair enough apparent flip flopping on the team in general
Where's Yao? CNT? This is no dig at Yao, I love the guy and think he's one of the best players in the league, and the best center (better than Dwight Howard). But at the end of the day, Yao Ming has been injury prone too. When it all comes down to it, hard or soft, T-Mac is out there playing. I don't think a lot of people here realize that Yao has also missed a lot of in recent seasons, the last 3 in a row, I believe. First it was the toe or whatever, then it was his leg last year, and now it's his foot. He wasn't even 100% in the playoffs. T-Mac didn't quit on the team last season and he didn't this season. He kept playing through it and now the team and him are out there trying to win games for the team. Is he doing everything right? No. But what else are you going to do about it? Manu is not going to be so much better than T-Mac...that he'll propel this team over the hump. Missing Yao is not like missing Rafer. Yao IS 1/3 of the team, almost literally. There's Yao, then T-Mac, then the rest. You are missing your most important piece and you are playing a vastly superior team with definitive strengths over you. What did you expect?
Can Manu shoot better, finish better, defend better and make more hustle plays, being double and triple team? And BTW play 37+ minutes a game? I say absolutely not. Replace T-Mac with Manu in this series and we will be getting blown out the game. Manu as a 3rd score, hell yes, as a #1 or #2, hell no.
