Because I am tired of seeing McGrady defend Allen. Allen was scoring at will with mcgrady on him until the pitbull Artizzy said I seen enough and requested mcgrady to GTFO.
i'd say at the latest 2 weeks from now. we need him, it's not even funny. hopefully with the return of battier, the doubters can see how big of a player he is to this team.
tmac's knee is just hindering him defensively. if he was at least 90%, i don't think he'll let allen or any other player destroy him like this. tmac was at least respectable on defense if he tries. right now, he just sucks. so i think if tmac was healthy, he would play much better defense than this and battier wouldn't be missed as much. but compound the fact that tmac's injured and battier's absence, then yes, he is missed.
mcgrady was getting abused out there tonight. battier being out makes us lean too much on tmac for defense which is never a good thing, healthy or not.
i'm glad you finally agreed with me when i pointed out tmac was a liability in the 1st quarter in which you so vehemently denied. "No, Tmac isn't the liability, Allen's 1-3" HAHA...no point in quibbling with a genius.
it's funny cause when mcgrady is healthy and actually tries to play defense, he's actually very good and could probably individually guard allen as well battier could. i say it's funny cause it looks like he's trying to play some d for a change, hence all the steals, but he can't stay in front of anyone to save his life. we still don't really have any idea what this team will look like when everyone is healthy.
I don't think there's anybody else in the league who can defend tonight's R.Allen. He is really hot at the attacking site.
