Your statement, however, seems to be assuming that McGrady is actually an elite player right now, something which is clearly ridiculous. Depends what talented is. If a guy has great physical gifts, but no brains and no willingness to work hard, is he talented? I say no. I argue hard work is a talent, and if you're an elite player, you're talented. Otherwise, no you're not. It's that simple.
our money allows them to sign players, but they coach them, not us. Let adelman do his job, youd think after being 13-10 we'd give him some credibility as a coach...
Seriously, he was the only guy who could create any offense all those years, every elite player needs a good supporting cast to win anything how long did it take kobe to get out the first round until they surrounded him with better talent while mcgrady on the other hand had to deal with davis wesly, luther head, weather spoon, alston and the list goes on
Adleman won't give him the chance to show it, but his skill alone makes him an elite player it all boggles down to his quickness an athleticism if he still somewhat has that (which appeared in the practice vid) Im pretty sure he'll regain his form.
One interesting fact. McGrady has a higher PPG number in the playoffs than Kobe, Tim Duncan, KG, Hakeem, Dirk, and more. He does work hard in the playoffs, but he wasn't blessed. His supporting crew throughout the seasons were trash, with the exception of the last season, but he was absent then.
He has played in two playoff series with Yao, a player you conveniently left out in your earlier post. Same results.
i dont mind that, but people keep saying we dont have a right to know what goes on. thats what press conferences are for, interviews and everything else. We have a right to know
Yao? If he had got 1 rebound in the last 2 minutes of Game 7 against the Jazz, we had a chance to advance. His numbers fall dramatically in the playoffs. Talk about inefficient.
Really? Care to show how those guys are less talented then him (and if you go as far as to claim that T-Mac was more talented than Dream, than I've got a ToF banner sitting here just for you)? And note I do argue that hard work and self-discipline is a talent, a field in which T-Mac is notably lacking and thus means he lacks talent relative to those guys despite his physical gifts. I'll be blunt here. I. DON'T. CARE. I don't care what lack of support T-Mac might have had or might not have had 3 or 4 years ago. His supporting cast was more than adequate last year, and his response was to utterly screw the team over, and he's messing things up this year even when he's not playing and when the supporting cast is massively superior to what he had back then. What McGrady is doing today matters, not what he did 3 or 4 years ago. That lack of supporting cast was part of the Van Gundy/Dawson era. It is completely irrelevant and you might as well discuss the supporting cast that we gave Dream, which was also pretty damn horrible for a long time. The most important thing ultimately is what he has done for the team recently, which has not been positive by any stretch by the imagination. Meanwhile, Adelman has done wonderful things with this team and has taken it far beyond what anyone expects of us in recent years, so he is respected and cheered by Rockets fans unlike McGrady. That's why I support Adelman over McGrady - the NBA is a highly cutthroat world, and ultimately the most important thing is "what have you done for us" lately - and Adelman has done far more for the org than McGrady. Yeah, he sure as heck played like an elite player last year, eh? You're a fool if you think McGrady will go back to the T-Mac of 4 years ago (and T-Mac of 4 years ago playing right now would be up there with Kobe and Lebron, which is a massively tall order) which is what we need if we're actually going to have a chance of contending.
