:grin: good find..... I think it would be the best to inform the team first however however he has the right to do whatever to his body. I think it is selfish but not the most selfish act in history of the NBA.
I still think we were a few late rebounds away from a championship in 06-07. Beat the Jazz -> Warriors -> Spurs -> Cavs. That being said, the 08-09 squad was lethal...on paper. If you put 04-05 McGrady, 06-07 pre-injury Yao on that team I don't think anyone could have stopped us. Hell, even if you just settled for "healthy" Yao and McGrady I don't think anyone could have stopped us. We had our superstars, but no supporting cast. We finally get a supporting cast, and our superstars break down. Poor, poor timing.
No. People need to quit acting like the Rockets lost a game 7 in the NBA finals by a few points. You favorite player described it perfectly "It is what it is"
What if we McGrady and Yao were still at their peak and we traded Landry for KMart Lowry/KMart/TMac/Scola/Yao is a championship
Thanks for this. I know T-mac quit on the Rockets, but I had no idea that it was THAT bad. He was practically insulting the team. Before seeing this, I don't hate T-mac because he gave the Rockets some of the most memorable wins, that is, the 22-game winning streak and 13 in 35. But now that I saw this article/vid... MAN! I hate him! (Wasn't a member of CF those days.)
Clutch's articles are the best, you know they are accurate and you know he speaks from the heart as a true Rockets fan. if you start questioning certain events in Rockets history, the Clutchfans news archive is a great place to get the facts. this pretty much sums it up.
No, I'm acting like we lost game 7 in the first round by a few points in what would have otherwise been our best chance at a championship in this last decade, in my opinion. The second round matchup would have been against an undersized Golden State team that had no answer for Yao, then a Spurs team we split the season series with. (This would have been the biggest challenge, for sure.) Finals against a Cleveland team that ended up getting destroyed in the finals by the Spurs. That was the last year before the Big 3 in Boston and Kobe/Gasol in LA took over. This thread is about supposition, I'm providing my supposition while you're here, yet again, derailing the thread with your McGrady obsession. Get over it already.
this what you wrote: Let me give me you the answer again. the answer is No, it's not a few late rebounds. We won 3 games, We needed 4 to win that round, then 4 in the second round, then 4 in the Conferences finals, then 4 in the Finals. That's a CRAPLOAD more rebounds than a few to win a championship. That was one of the worst losses in Rockets history, at home, with home court . You can't win that, you DON'T DESERVE ANY PITY. When you lose like that , something drastic happens like your coach gets fired. And guess what happened?
I still don't get it. You got Me-mac from Orlando and basically people cheered for him because he was a selfish superstar. Things haven't changed. You get the logic? He was the same person, his game just regressed. Doesn't mean the boos are just because he quit because that was coming. He just wasn't the blue collar worker, he was the closer in a body of glass. People just didn't realize because we were blinded. However that doesn't make him a bad person in the NBA, a league full of selfish stars.
Course I read it..... I am just saying ...... IMO he was the same person coming off the trade. People just didn't realize that.
He banked on talent alone, and not hard work. He worked hard to get to the NBA but from there on not as hard as others. So I don't see that drama as surprising as others would have done. You gotta take the good with the bad.
Yup. Same player too. High expectations. Shows how hard it is to win a NBA Championship and how illogical it is to for someone to say getting past the first round = a few rebounds away from a championship.
This has been one of my pet peeve topics about Tracy ever since the day that thread was made on Clutchfans. I remember getting pretty riled up in that thread. The haters used it as vindication. Anyway this isn't necessarily a Tracy thread. And I DO miss that old team - I miss Yao, Deke, Hayes, Landry, and Brooks. They were all at the top of their games (given their relative ages/experience) that year. That was the peak of 2000's Houston Rockets basketball. I'm not ashamed to say that.
