From Today's Chronicle: In the past 2½ seasons, the Rockets are 96-25 when McGrady plays I find that statistic absolutely astonishing. With McGrady playing, we're not just good. We're Spurs-Mavs good. That is a 79% winning percentage, including a chunk of games without Yao. No team in the league has a 79% winning percentage right now. The last team to finish a season with a winning percentage that high was the 2000 Lakers. And this is something we have sustained over 2 1/2 seasons. Please get our two stars healthy for the playoffs. I, too, believe in McGrady's greatness. Give him the league's best center, and a coach who is built to win playoff games, and we have a shot against anyone.
Wow, that is an unbelievable stat. As dominant as Yao has become, it's still a lot easier to double team him and force us to shoot threes than it is to double team Mcgrady, since Tracy is such a good playmaker. Obviously we need both of them to win it all though. If we can get them both healthy going into the playoffs, if Juwan can keep hitting the open jumper and rebounding, and Rafer stops shooting so much (which will happen by default when Yao/Tracy are both healthy), we can really make some noise.
I call utter BS on this stat......here is the quote: Link to article in Chronicle "In the past 2½ seasons, the Rockets are 96-25 when McGrady plays; 10-26 when he does not" the last 2 and 1/2 years of games is... 82+82+41 = 205 96+25+10+26 = 157 Now, I am no math wizard, but something doesn't add up, what happened in the other 48 games? DD
It would be... if it were accurate. It's not. The Rockets are 96-57 when he plays, excluding playoffs. I have no idea how Feigen came up with the loss number, but it's wrong.
someone has to break that down. I find that figure hard to believe. We had a 50 something win season back in 04-05, so thats 30 losses. how long was tmac out that season? Then we have last season, and obviously most off the 40 somehting odd losses were because he wasn't playing, and we've lost some games with tmac playing this year also. hard to blieve it's only 25 losses when he's played
I didn't even look at this number, but it too is off... and it's a shame since the real number would have made a better point. We're actually 11-35 when he doesn't play.
I think the key is "last 2 1/2 seasons"... he's skipping the first part of the first season Tracy was in Houston?
Nice Hayesfan, we just weren't gelling at the start of hte 04-05 season, and we got a red hot finish after the All-Star break, which is the 1/2 of the season Feigen talks about.
Let's see... '04-05 - Tracy played in 78 of the 82 games (plus all 7 of the playoff games). We were 51-31 (and 3-4 in the playoffs) '05-06 - Tracy played in 47 of the 82 games. We were 34-48 with no playoffs '06-07 - Tracy has played so far in 28 of the 35 games. We're 22-13 right now. So, since the beginning of '04, we're 107-92 (or 110-96 counting the playoffs). "In the past 2½ seasons, the Rockets are 96-25 when McGrady plays; 10-26 when he does not"... The only thing I can think of to account for those extra losses is that maybe he forgot to put in a qualifier (like "when McGrady plays and scores at least xx points").
Well whatever the figures are I remember being like 0-16 last season without T-Mac and then we broke the streak vs Golden State (the clutchfans/red rowdies first game)
Here's the season-by-season breakdown... http://www.clutchfans.net/news/1381/reviewing_mcgradys_impact/
10-26 = 36 games missed. He missed 35 last season, and 7 this season, and 4 in 04-05. Where did dude get his arithmetic from!?
