it wouldn't surprise me if t-mac was a dick and it doesn't matter all that much as long as he gets along with his teammates. not everyone is like yao ming. actually is anyone like yao ming? the volume is perfect now hilltopper, thanks alot!
unless you are actually friends with tracy and i doubt any of us here are i would hold your judgment, you wouldn't want someone saying fictitious things about you, that is for the kind of people who write for the magazines that teenage girls read that are a failure to themselves and their families
Chronic: McGrady upbeat about next season Didn't see it posted anywhere. If it is, lock it up. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4911113.html Rockets star likes tempo of new coach Adelman but believes GM still has work to do For a while, Tracy McGrady couldn't have sounded more positive and confident if he were one of the Spurs floating his way through the River Walk parade. He was "excited" about playing a more up-tempo style with Rick Adelman and thrilled with the prospect of having more of the Rockets' offense brought to him, rather than having to trigger so much of it. He believed he would get his wish to have Bonzi Wells back and stopped mid-thought to stomp any flickering life left to the rumor that there had ever been a rift between him and Mike James, his former and once-again teammate. His back, McGrady said, was still fine. He described himself as still in game shape. But as always with the recent Rockets, the bottom-line reality tempered everything else. McGrady said he was still too disheartened from the Rockets' first-round loss to watch the NBA Finals. "Not because the Finals weren't that good, but I couldn't watch it," McGrady said, speaking at the opening of a learning center at Ross Elementary School. "It was just disappointing because we put ourselves in a great position against a really good basketball team (the Utah Jazz), and we failed." Wanted: help for Hayes With that in mind, McGrady suggested that as encouraged as he has been with what he has heard about Adelman and as pleased as he is about James' return, general manager Daryl Morey still has work to do. "Obviously, we don't have a power forward now but Chuck Hayes," McGrady said. "I'm sure the organization is in the works of getting us another power forward. I still think we need a guy on the perimeter that can create, play defense. We need a guy that can rebound. All these things I speak of, the organization is aware of, and I'm sure they're working on." Offense shifting gears Though he made his admiration for former Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy clear, McGrady said he was happy with how the changes will affect him. "He (Adelman) is more of an up-style-type tempo coach," McGrady said. "That's beneficial to me. He seems like he is a pretty nice guy, a laid-back guy. "It's going to be interesting to see when you have a 7-6 guy (Yao Ming) out there, 300 pounds. It's going to be tough to get up and down the basketball court. We'll see how he structures that and see if he can make it fit. "(Running the offense) really doesn't have anything to do with Jeff's system. That's what I had to do. We had nobody to do that. I had to be on the ball. I had to make plays. Mike James is a good addition to our team because he can create his own shot; he can create for his teammates. I'm looking more to playing off the ball and getting a lot more easy baskets. I used to hate playing Sacramento when Rick was the coach because there was just so much offense, it was hard to guard those guys." That does not mean, however, that McGrady, twice the NBA's scoring champion, has his eyes on Kobe Bryant's scoring title. "I'll leave that to Kobe," McGrady said. "I'm trying to win now. I'm trying to get what he already has, and that's three rings." As upbeat as he sounded, McGrady did not claim the Rockets were there. Yet. For now, it is enough to be heading in that direction.
This was a strange comment - don't we already have about 10 guards? This must be a backhandled slap at Luther.
That probably accurately describes 90% of NBA players, when compared to the working stiff general population.
Well, it's not a slap, but Shane cannot create his own shot, nor can he rebound, and our PG's were all awful.
actually, i think it was a backhanded slap at rafer. that's why the rockets got a guy who can create and play defense (james). tmac went on to say that james can create for himself and teammates. that doesn't change my belief that luther is the odd man out. from an earlier report, adelman and the staff are impressed with novak (as a 3) and consider bonzi a 2. with rafer at the 1, billy, luther, and snyder seem to be frsh out of luck.
Sorry but I don't see the Mike James that T Mac describes. Mike James is a scoring two Guard and seldom creates for other players. At least that was what I had observed from Mike James previous Rockets stint.
So you stopped watching after that? Mike James in 27 games and 5 starts as a Rocket = 5.4 a/48m 2006-07 assists per 48 min... Tracy McGrady on a 52 win playoff team setting a franchise records for 3's = 8.7 Mike James as a sometimes starter on a Lottery team = 6.9 Rafer Alston on the same playoff team as McGrady = 7.0 Mike James as one of few scoring options on a horrible TOR team = 7.55
I love T-mac doing charity without the media. That's the real charity. He's really a nice man. Tmac said he has a good relationship with MJ. I'm really comforted hearing this. Hope Tmac can get his jumpers, especially his shots for three, back and next season will be unbelievable.
I think he should improve in his free throws...70% isn't a good result for that type of player. ANd if he improves in his PF he should draw more fouls per game.
i am good friends with one of the top sales guys with the rockets and he interacts with tmac often and he never told me anything bad about him or anything like he is mean to the staff or anyone with the organization. that being said i am not addressing his personality off the court but saying that he is charitable and does most of his charity in private unless it is something like this softball charity game which has to be publicised to the public for tickets sales and the such. it is a quality i like in him because i believe to whom much is given much is expected.
