the rockets trade their whole starting line up for an nba superstar with a bad back. sounds familiar? its barkley all over again.
For all the criticism of the media, this is in the Chronicle under Rockets Summary. McGrady says this isn’t a problem and it happens every training camp.
You don't have to be a NBA player to understand what he's saying. Just like you don't have to be an intelligent poster that brings quality to a board to post on here.
So you think that me having a sore knee and only playing basketball when I want is like an NBA player having to go to practice, catch flights, and play games every other night on a sore knee. I’m sorry, but none of us know what its like to be a professional athlete and have to play through injuries. That’s stupid if you think you do.
If Tracy has a problem, then Steve does as well...He jammed his finger in the first practice. So take that Orlando.
Do NBA Games last 5-6 hours? I'm not saying I know exactly what the problem is but basketball is basketball, the movements you need to do in a game do not put that stress on the lower back like training does. I was saying how I could play full court basketball for 5-6 hours straight and my back wouldnt be sore.. but 30-45 minutes of gardening or low physical activity that requires a lot of movement with the back would have me in pain with the soreness. Who cares if i play in the NBA or not? If he has what I have then games shouldn't effect him as much as training does..
But I'm almost sure he doesn't have personal trainers and physicians at their hands and knees even if he says one of his eye lashes hurts like a NBA player does. Sure - it's not in the same hemisphere as having your entire life dedicated to putting your body through the stress that a pro athlete does, but I understand what he's trying to say. If it was anything more, McGrady would be under a knife trying to fix it - which isn't needed because there's nothing really to fix. It's just how McGrady's frame was structured. With the length of his arms - and being a perimeter player, he puts a lot of pressure on his back. Carry a steel toe boot in each hand and your back will start stiffening after a while. He probably grew up trying to relax his himself by throwing all of the stress from his larger than usual arms on the disc in his back. Probably slouched when he sat or had poor posture when he walked. Trust me. I have long arms and had similar problems since I was in highschool. I slouched in my chair and prefered to lean on walls just because it was comfortable. Add that to me guzzling down soda like a fish does water and it made it worse. It has helped my ab game though.
His "Injury" is not really a injury (If it is then it's not what he's saying it is). His back gets sore due to overworking that partical muscle.. if he doesn't overwork that muslce he will be sore free for the season. Training would cause the soreness more than games because in games you dont do the same motion over and over and over like training. That's not saying that the NBA game isnt phsically challenging because it is more than I can handle for sure, but logic just tells us that training and games dont exert the same amout of load of your lower back.
Are we really comparing a jammed finger with a slipped disk? Are we really still talking about Steve Francis?
