Actually, I think it started because Doc Rocket reported that Tmac yelled at JVG at half time because Mike James took the last shot of the half instead of letting Tracy have it. "Tell that mother f##ker to give me the ball!" or something similar to that.
Does McGrady have the right to take every last shot. Will he be pissed when it happens again this year. I can already see the two of them fighting over touches. Ryan Bowen MVP, McGrady has a beef with Horace Grant. It started on a flight back from a game, forgot which one. Grant called TMac out for not playing defense or hard enough. Something like that. The two had to be seperated. Grant was traded shortly after that.
Here's a tidbit from espn: This greater intensity was just what Page 2's basketball maven Charley Rosen had called for earlier in the season, when he quoted Horace Grant calling into question Tracy's heart, will, intensity, commitment to defend each enemy possession, defense. Perhaps in his mind, Grant was comparing McGrady to the ultimate competitive standard, Jordan ... but perhaps his appraisal had a bit more cat hiss in it. Perhaps it was observation mixed with nostalgia and insanity. Sometimes once-feared players become insane when they near retirement. I give you Charles Oakley, or Michael Jordan, for that matter. Ho Grant might have been right if he was comparing T-Mac to Jordan, who had the intensity of a blowtorch. But I've seen T-Mac give it all he had and more in playoff series losses to the Bucks and the Hornets, to the point of total exhaustion, and then say in his weariness, "I have to get better. I must get better." Seen him outplay Kobe and beat the Lakers. So ... this charge by Grant to Charley led to an airplane confrontation among the Magic, where T-Muad'Dib simply asked jealous doctor Grant -- who had hit maybe 10 field goals all year at that point -- what was wrong with him. Didn't he see that he, T-Mac, was leading the league in scoring? What was Grant doing? Grant looked at T-Mac -- and decided to call out Rivers, swelling up like he wanted to fight or something. Predictably, not very long after that, Horace Grant, who was once a serviceable compliment to Michael Jordan on championship teams in Chi-town, who once lost in Orlando in the Finals with Shaq, was unemployed, and out of ball.
Yea, I thought that was a really cool line too,and stuck out in my head since we just drafted the best standup shooter since Steve Kerr. We still need to get Yao some help in the paint, and a 2. I have a feeling Battier will show us his limitations early so we need to prepare.
