Are the coaches scared of talking to Tmac bout his shot selection?

I don't think it was only T-Mac. I thought the whole team came out flat and lost momentum like they thought the game is over. The feeling of being too comfortable and cocky. But I they did got back into the rhythm again and it was fun to see. It always started with one player who step up and another follow. Not like last season or earlier this season. When Yao and T-Mac goes shoot badly, the whole team follow. This time around, someone else step it up.

 

That 30 footer was just stupid.

 

That was what I was saying.........but I got attacked by some crazy Tmac fans (ironically enough, considering my favorite player is Tmac)

 

You didnt create the thread.

Complain about the 30 footer if you will, I didnt see it but I might have had the same reaction.

Don't pretend that any significant portion of his shots are of the 30 foot "chucker" variety. That was the problem with the thread starter. T-Mac's shot selection is very good(I didnt say perfect, but almost no NBA player has perfect shot selection). Rafer's shot selection is actually a lot worse than T-Mac's. (Ironically most of Rafer's bad shots are quick 3 pointers)

 

Just like Kobe and any other Superstar they take a lot of difficult shots and make a lot too.

When you take 22 + shoots every night a few going to be bad shots simple.

 

take it easy ,dude

maybe he will make good decision when we are in trouble,i mean he will drive to basket. But now ,we can beat such a loser anyway

 

Now if those shots went in we wouldn't have this thread. Thats part of his game always have been and always will be so live with it.

 

TMac takes bad shots quite often, and that's a fact. YES, he makes a few of them, but those are still bad shots. If any other players on the Rockets take those stupid shots, JVG/Adelman would be all over them.

Basketball 101 says you always move the ball to the best option, obviously, almost all of TMac's contest shots don't belong to the best option category. When you choose to jack up a contested long jump, while your teammates have better opportunity, that's just not smart basketball.

But I agree with the other poster that players become careless when you lead by a large margin, they start feeling good and fooling around. I trust them not going to be fooling around when face a better opponent.

 

any shot after dribble is a good shot for Tmac when he is hot.

any shot w/o dribble is bad shot for Tmac even it is wild open.

 

u seriously think that cost us? he only took 3 shots after we got that 5 pt lead and he was 1-3. that didn't cost us the series. the fact that we could not get THREE (not 1, not 2, but 3 defensive rebounds) that took away nearly 2.5 minutes of game time that cost us that series.

29 pts and 13 dimes, scoring 8 of those in the 4th. no, i don't blame him for that game. i blamed him for the losses on the road. he played his normal playoff self at home.

 

people need to understand EVERY shot that tmac or any superstar takes is a "tough" shot (b/c all those shots are CONTESTED). did u see the 3s lebron took at the garden tonight? u think he makes them every night? those are TOUGH shots.

i don't mind tmac taking ANY shot. he's that good that when he gets on a roll, he's as unstoppable or moreso than a guy like kobe.

when i want him to do is to mix the drive with the J. in the first quarter, he got himself going with 2 dunks and a layup. then his 3s started to fall.

he needs to do the same thing when he gets out of a rhythm with his jumper and regain it with layups/dunks or free throws.

i rarely question his shot selection. u never do that with a player of tmac's caliber. all u can do as a coach is to tell him, ur shooting rhythm is off, regain it by going to your other moves.

 

Yet, within the offense, T-Mac gets hot by making the second type of shots. T-Mac on catch n shoots is usually pretty effective, especially coming off picks at about 18-20 feet.

Actually, T-Mac's contested shots are pretty high in that category, since if he is even able to take one its not THAT contested. If it was THAT contested, he would have wide open players elsewhere and would not be shooting.

The only shots T-Mac does not need to take are when he shoots the shot he faked a second earlier. If its there, take it, if not, go elsewhere. That could be 15 footer, 20 footer, or 25 footer. Hesitation makes those shots twice as difficult as they should be.

 

Touche. I would have to agree with you on those points.

But no one really cares about the numbers he puts up in the playoffs, especially the "outsiders." The only they see is at the end is the win/lost column. You win four games, you advance-simple as that. I don't Tmac did anything wrong in the last game, and in fact (once again) we usually fall short by one or two critical rebounds. That was what cost us the game.

However, Tmac could've played much better than he did on the road. That was truly the first time(s) I ever saw Tmac play "bad" in the playoffs

 

well tell him to stop getting injured

 

he was laughing at the bench after taking it, he knew it was stupid.

 

yeah discredit him for taking bad shots in the game but once he makes them, and he will, start praising him. you people are never satisfied. calm the heck down turn away from the tv and breath after he misses shots. he may not have the best shot selection in the game but at least he's healthy and playing well. yes i said he was playing well. anyone who doesn't think so should watch the games more closely. he's actually dunking..DUNKING people. remember the stretch of games where he didn't even dunk?!?! the guy actually drives in there with the mind set of DUNKING. that tells us that he determined to make a statement about the opposing defense.

with that said i love the way our fans wish tracy would score 40-50pts a game and win the playoffs for us single handlely. everyone just conveniently forgets that basketball is a TEAM game and if you get 50 points from your two stars thats great but if no one else steps up then we're probably going to lose.

lets take a look at the Jazz shall we??

deron williams (top 5 pg) >> rafer alston

derek fisher <<< tracy mcgrady

AK(does more damage defensively and offensively, Imo) >> battier

Boozer >> howard

Okur <<< yao

im not trying to say that we didn't pair up with the jazz well last year because we had a good chance of winning but when you don't have luther's production off the bench (and man was he shooting a bad %..), howard was non-existant and did i mention battier didn't step it up either? oh man don't forget about alston he didnt shoot well.

and everyone blames mcgrady because he doesn't play like dwade and drive to the hole every chance he gets... look at wade now he's getting injuries left and right because he takes so much contact. do you really want to risk mcgrady's health ? geez bunch of complainers.. i bet if we lost tonight we'll see so many trady tracy threads.. o geez..