how quickly we forget how badly this guy burnt us. I would be ok with us sitting him all of next year.
or just trade him if the right deal comes along. Pretty useless just wasting his expiring contract if the team would only sit him. Granting he is allowed to play.
I really don't think there's much of a chance the rockets re-sign Mcgrady, regardless of how he plays. If he plays really well some other team will throw money at him that he can't refuse. I guess there's a possibility that he takes a paycut to have another go at it with Yao but it seems unlikely at this point. Morey will probably use Mcgrady's expring cap space to pursue other players and i'm sure that's when he'll feel slighted and look elsewhere for work.
This is actually how I expect the next year to play out. T-Mac far exceeds everyone's expectations, and we are unable to land a big free agent. We then extend Tracy's contract because he is the best player available.
hell yeah, bring him back. as long as we don't pay him 25 million per year its all good. all of you will be screaming to resign him when he puts on stellar numbers of 30 ppg when he comes back. its gonna be interesting to see how fast opinions change when he comes back making windmill dunks. remember how everyone was screaming for brooks' head when he messed up so many games?? now after the playoff series everyone's back on his bandwagon again. it'll be the same for tmac...only 100 times more fans
...only if he were willing to take a significantly lower salary like the MLE(for 2-3 years) but someone else will likely offer him more money. I think Tmac becomes the consolation prize for the team who can't land any of the much younger big free agents in 2010 but has been saving cap space to. The problem with us is we need a true/reliable #1 player and if we sign Tmac to anything more than the MLE, it takes us out of the running of offering max money to a true target...and if he took the MLE, how would we re-sign Scola(LLE?)....and do we really want to go that far into the luxury tax on retaining Tmac at something like the MLE? All indicators seem to point to the fact he will no longer be a Rocket.
lol you underestimate how deep some of the hatred runs. but you may be right, i just dont think he deserves another shot with us after his antics, but for some reason he still has a large following in houston. to each their own.
i dont think he burned us. I know we're pretty fed up with all of the injuries this guy goes through, but without a good knee, there's not much he can do. Hakeem's career ended because of his nagging knee injuries as well.
some people think that he intentionally tried to lower his value after he found out we were looking at trading him last year. that may be unfound, but it is plausible. i just feel some of his antics last season jaded my perception of the guy to the point I had to change my #1 jersey to an #11 with a sewing kit
[rquoter]"I haven't been the guy who's been fortunate enough to play with Shaq, to play with Tim Duncan. I always seem to have average teams,'' he said. "You take me back in my Orlando days with Shaq? Come on, there are no questions. You take a healthy me and switch me out with Paul Pierce [on the current Celtics]? There's no question. There's definitely no question.''[/rquoter] http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/ian_thomsen/02/27/weekly.countdown/index.html
I would say trade him while he still has some value and before he falls apart again. He will never be worth more to us as a player than what his expiring contract is worth because of his injury history.
How did he quit on the team?? I'm not a TMAC fan, but i dont understand how so many people can say "he quit on the team". If you cant play, you cant play. Try going through a knee surgery and let me know how long it takes you to get back to 100%. I had knee surgery a year ago and I still cant shake off the pain that i feel when running up and down the court. It took Carl Landry a good 2 years to get to where he is today in terms of explosiveness. It took Amare Stoudemire 2 years. TMAC tried to come back and play through the pain in which clearly the knee wasn't where it needed to be. There's NO WAY T-MAC would wanna quit on a team that had a chance to get far in the playoffs.
I doubt he goes from 23mil to 5.5mil at only 30 years old. He's gonna want to get paid again. Hopefully he won't from the Rockets.
He had a crap team.. why bother? If Kobe was on THAT team in Orlando, he would have quit too... Remember when he wanted to be traded before they got Pau Gasol??
