Are you all ****ing kidding me? You're gonna hate on the 22-game winning streak, now???!! Get your head out of your ****ing ass. You can't get the second-longest winning streak of ALL ****IN TIME, only because of lucky scheduling, you moron.
so you want a player coming off surgery his first games back to play defense like genetic oddity Chuck Hayes or the assumptive smartest defensive player in the league Shane Battier to merit more PT? especially when that player has never been known as a defensive specialist? yeahhhhhh that's logical. more smooth moves from haters on this BBS what does all this about lucky strikes and lightning bolts have to do with properly showcasing Tmac for trades? or for that matter for contributions that a fully healthy Tmac would make to the team. or for that matter how treating its all-stars like **** will impact other impact players from wanting to come to Houston, which doesn't have a lot of things going for it compared to NY or Miami
Management did not handle McGrady well. With the Budinger injury, the minutes were there to offer without sacrificing others minutes. Should have given him more to see what he still has. I do not get to see all the games, but at the end of the Portland and Dallas game it seems McGrady would have produced a better shot. It also looked like he could have helped with the offensive struggles in the NJ game. I am not saying I would not trade him. My preference was to let him show his current skills and then make the decision. Now we have devalued him in the trade. How much do you get for a person who you have advertised does not get along with management, can only play 8 minutes and our team is better off without him? Morey has worked magic before, so I am not without hope.
It's clear the Rockets weren't that interested in letting T-mac earn his way back onto the team. That's fine. I'm sorta whatever at this point. I just hope the trade happens soon and we get a good perimeter threat (i.e. shooter that can create their own shot). I think Rick made a mistake in shooing away T_mac and we'll miss his skills next season sorely, but whatever, it's the way things go.
How did management "mess this up"? Thye see him in practice all the time and are paying him freakin $23M a year. You can be sure that if management thought there was a chance that he'd make them better this year he'd be playing. I think its obvious from watching - even at 8 minutes a game - that they won't happen this year and may not happen ever. Let's get some value from him and move on. What a complete loser he is.
you absolutely do not evaluate a guy coming back from microfracture surgery in 6*8 minutes.. if you are really interested in what he can do... you play him extra and decide once and for all.. if not.. you slowly ramp up his minutes and see what he has left.. you do not fix up a time period for which he will play.. T-Mac or not T-Mac .. this is not the way IMO.. and one more thing.. it is pretty obvious that they were not interested in him all along.. then why play him in the first place? second.. if its a showcase.. you absolutely play him for more time and entice other GMs if he does well.. If i was Rick and if this was a showcase.. I would have played Mac for atleast 16 minutes- 20 mins in the clippers game to draw interest... that way we get something through a trade. so yes.. mess up. obvi t-mac gets the dump.. he deserves it for what he did last year.. but the management is not fault free either..
If I had to take a guess at how everything went down, I think it must have been a heck of a personnel and PR dilemma for Adelman and Morey. After the way Tracy approached his need for season-ending surgery earlier this year, it may have already been decided by management to not extend his contract beyond 2010 and to earnestly look for a trade. Obviously a suitable match wasn't found in the off-season, most likely due to teams not wanting to take a chance on a player who's just gone through a surgery from which not many athletes recover completely. Conspiracy theorists will argue that Tracy went under the knife to protect himself from being traded last season, but that's pure speculation at this point. Suddenly the season starts and much to everyone's surprise the team overachieves to all expectations and plays really well, earning the record they've received so far. I believe at this point Daryl and Rick are presented with the challenge of not ruining team dynamic during the early part of this season by adding in McGrady to the rotation while at the same time wanting to showcase him to potential suitors. The task would have been made exponentially easier had the Rockets' record been subpar. This way it makes no difference how many minutes you give McGrady if the ultimate goal is to trade him rather than win ball games. What happens next is what we as fans have heard coming out of the mouths of managment over the past several weeks, which is this delicate public relations ploy that has to serve two purposes 1.) it cannot throw McGrady into a negative light and turn away teams that might be interested in him and 2.) justify the playing time given to him as compared to not jeopardizing the winning record of the team. In the end, I think we avoided a more disastrous result by having both parties agree to seek a trade without any apparent bitterness on either side.
You don't even address the main point. Most of the Mac fans don't. The guy does not simply play 6-8 minutes and that's all RA/DM evaluate him on. The guy has been re-habbing, involved in warm-ups and practices in addition to the game time he got. What the Rockets are seeing out of Tracy, they just don't like at this point. Again, they see more than you or I get to, but I guess they just don't have a clue, do they?
so the eight minutes were there for him to show every team that he still could play. If he played well enough with the team , the Rox (though highly unlikely) would want to keep him. If he played well enough but couldn't play with the team, they could trade him. Right now, he has shown that he can run, but not at the tempo the Rockets are playing at, he shoot jumpers, and he has enough elevation and power to drive and dunk (he got over the rim) but not necessarily finish. I don't see why Yahoo sports would be incorrect by saying the DM wants to trade him. When Bud gets back, we'll have too many players, especially if Mike Harris and Taylor are available for minutes. T-mac is simply not necessary.
The moon... I hear The Sea of Tranquility is putting together a serious squad. McGrady would fit in perfect. In fact, playing on the moon might give him his springs back.
