Who told Tmac that? Certainly he has not heard it here in Houston. Duh, yes he did, he never directly criticized Tmac, ever.......he did however bench him in the Golden State game because he was mailing it in...but then told the media he had some injury. BMoney, I will send you $20 and contribute $20 to the tip jar if you can find one JVG quote directly criticizing Tmac....it has to be directly criticizing...not just saying the team needs to do something or implying it....one quote where he criticizes TMac directly. DD
The last time T-Mac and a coach didn't get a long, T-Mac wanted out. Let's just hope this is not a sign of things to come. If the Rockets are going to shop McGrady, it would be better if McGrady didn't make his wanting out publicly. It just doesn't look good so far. The rumblings earlier in the season that McGrady didn't like Adelman's offense. Coupled with McGrady's open criticisms on Adelman's coaching, it seems that the 22 game win streak cured a lot of things. Now that things are going south, frustrations are running wild. I know that both are speaking the truth, but that stuff needs to be handled within the team. Offseason plan #1 should include teaching McGrady how to speak to the media. He likes to speak to the media, so he needs to learn what you can say and what you can't say.
I think both Adelman and T-mac handeled this the wrong way, although both are essentially right in their gripes. T-Mac needs to play more off-ball and try to get himself easier baskets, and Adelman made a terrible decision by using 2 midgets (T-Mac and Landry) as our go-to rebounders off the D-Will FT's (and also for playing 1-10 BJax too much). Nontheless, their gripes need to stay behind closed doors.
So far, both Adelman and Tmac didn't do their best. As the coach of a 22 winning streak team, Adelman should have coached better in this playoff series! As a superstar, Tmac should have played better in this playoff too! Hopefully, this will help them do better in next games.
Watch the interviews and stop taking written text out of context. Neither seem to think the comments were important and other media sources seem to be, like usual, blowing it out of proportion.
To both of their credit, both have also done a very solid job with the talent they have to work with. I mean, despite his shooting, T-Mac is still averaging 23/9/8/2/1 for the series, and Adelman has coached a soft superstar and bunch of averagely talented midgets to a very tough series against a much better team.
Adelman is right. We lost because we shot terrible from the field. And we shot terrible because guys weren't moving, they were standing around waiting for McGrady to dribble around, draw the defenders to him, then throw it out to them. That don't work. It won't work. We already saw it for 4 years under Van Gundy. You gotta move the ball and players gotta make cuts. Part of this is on Rafer too. I know he "runs the offense great" and "gets everybody in the proper position", but then he hands off to McGrady and everybody goes into statue mode. This is not the offense. And it's not going to work. The ball has got to be moving, multiple, nice crisp passes to multiple cutters.
Rafer is Tmac's boy, he helps Tmac get the ball at the top, when the team was rolling Rafer was waving him off..... Rafer needs to go back to playing the Adelman way..because Tmac's way doesn't work. DD
If you were watching the suns/spurs game yesterday, van gundy gave an interesting quip. he was referring to one of the houston practices he held when he was coaching the rockets. apparently, he was lecturing one of his players who was doing a poor job of guarding the pick and roll. the player was complaining how difficult it was, and van gundy replied "thats why you're getting paid 15 million" does anyone remember hearing this? i think it was in the 2nd quarter.
Obviously, Adelman's way does not always work either. If the rockets want to win next 3 games, he has to coach better! Of course, Tmac needs to do better as well. Actually, I think this is a good thing. In normal situation, they won't tell each other this even they feel it. Hopefully, this can encourage each other to do a better job.
The maddening thing is rhe motion offense does work. No team has had an answer for it this season. We've regressed to where tmac holds the ball and everyone just stands, no cutting, no nothing. I like Adelman making a point to tmac thru the press. If you can dish it, you ought to be able to take it.
we dont know that. all we know is jvg never called tmac out in public. then again, tmac didnt have the balls to call out JVG publicly to start with.
If somebody's refusing to play the offense they need to go. Watching the Rockets try to switch to the motion offense all year has been like having teeth pulled.
