Tracy McGrady has a big problem and that problem is that he is very, very arrogant. To the core of his being he is arrogant. Arrogance being the false perception of confidence. But what is worse than this is that he doesn't truly believe all the praise he gets. He has a weak, and self-destructive mental state. He truly has no confidence. He has the mind of a boy in a man's body. I truly believe that Tracy McGrady has the maturity level of about an 18 year old. Thinks he knows everything but really needs to just shut-up and listen. He THINKS he is the leader of that team but he does not have the maturity level to be in charge of a pack of men. He is just too weak minded. No leader would pull the stunts that he has pulled time and time again. No leader would point the finger at others or strictly point the finger at himself. When he learns to only take credit for his faults in his performance and accept that the actual TEAM lost the game, then he will be moving forward with maturity. He does not understand the attributes of a leader and I think that he must have had poor mentors. No one could be more confused about leadership than McGrady! His mind is full of cliches that contradict each other and none of them truly stick in him. He just uses them to justify a loss. When there is a win, he "leads the team" to it. When there is a loss, depending on how he feels, its either all him, or all the rest of the players. He truly is ME-MAC. If he is healthy, I think we ought to trade him immediately. He was overpaid not for his skill set but for his leadership ability. I hope that all managers in the NBA can learn from this kind of mistake that seems to run rampant and do what Morey has done and pay players a moderate sum of money without titling them the leader. The only players on this team that should be even in contention for leaders are Scola, Mutombo and Barry. They play to win and that is what it is all about. Never giving up.
youre wasting your time sweet. dd is the most pessimistic poster on this board. His sig is always something negative. He wanted to trade ron artest for mike miller a few months ago. He doesnt believe in anything other than what is going on now in the moment. He ignores history and he fails to acknowledge the possibility of progression. tmacs situation is not any different for him.
Get on the court and let's see it that you are back. Get in the locker room and let your teammates know that you are back in such a way that you will not ruin the chemistry again. You've talked. Now let's see.
Wow aren't you a tmac expert. Sounds like you have a little arrogance thinking you know someone when you have never even sat down to have a word with him.
I still want to trade Artest for Mike Miller or Hinrich.....but it has nothing to do with being negative, it has everything to do with improving our team's weakness by trading a player in a position in which we have TOO many players to play significant minutes. At the SG/SF position, we have Tmac, Battier, Artest, Barry & Wafer, all should be playing some......if we can get rid of one of them and improve our main area of weakness.....the PG position it makes us better. Is that so hard to understand? And, my sig is not always negative, I am just pissed at Tmac at the moment. DD
HP, good to see you back buddy...... There is tons of proof, if you choose to look into it.....but whatever, it doesn't change the situation. DD
Yeah, I'm no trainer, far from it, but this seemed strange to me, too. I'm not sure how much could have been accomplished in just 10 days. However, I still don't think McGrady was outright dogging it. As other posters have already pointed out, I think he's dealing with the mental part of overcoming an injury. My guess is that McGrady didn't feel he was in the shape that he wanted/needed to be in, and may have been afraid that he'd do himself some permanent damage if he went all out. Being worried about his body made him more cautious on the court. The doctors were telling him that wasn't the case but his body kept telling him otherwise. Hopefully, these rest days will truly give him confidence in his body again. If it hasn't, and this is just a PR move, then he should sit until he's really ready to go.
You're always pissed at something. Isn't Mike Miller a SG/SF....Isnt Hinrich severely overpaid with some years left on his deal?
Miller fits better with the team game I like, and it would be the first of a couple of trades to remake the roster. Hinrich's contract goes down every year....it is a decent contract...for a quality PG like him. I am not always pissed, but I do have great expectations of players being professionals..... DD
Yeah, I'm just not buying the '10 day miracle' workouts. I do buy into the mental aspect though. You'd be amazed what kind of confidence you can instill as a trainer into a client. I'm not exagerating when I say this, but I've given people their lives back. It is a pretty unique job. I'm sure having his old trainer did more for his psyche than it did his body. That is believable. Enormous strength and conditining gains in 10 days is not. I hope to see the old Tmac on the court soon. I'm hoping he buys into the offense more than anything though.
T-Mac is fine a long as he honsetly thinks he is fine. It's all in his head with this dude. I hope he has his confidence back because he is a completely different player then.
nah...dada comes around although he won't admit it and will claim he was right at the end of it afterall. But he's not such a bad guy most of the time...i've seen him over the course of the past 6 or 7 years. I think when it comes to basketball, he's watched Hooisers one too many times.
Heinrich has a decent contract? Compared to who? Compare Ron's situation(which is one year 8 million), to Hinrich who is due 36 million over the next four years. Now compare their production/versatility. You are INSANE if you would do that trade.
Exactly......the team should have been pushing him long before January.....part of it is Tmac being a wuss after minor surgery the other part is the organiztion letting him play every other game and basically rest when in reality he needed to work out and strengthen it. Oh well.....it is what it is........the season is just a little more than half over. DD
That is NOT possible, you can NEVER watch that movie too much. Run the picket fence boys, but don't get caught watching the paint dry. DD
damn Mac couldn't lift 115, I'm half his size and I can do that with 1 arm. I say let the guy play and see if he's joking again and that will leave the Rox enough time to trade him if he still sux.
