[Chron] Jerome "King" Solomon: Adelman to Blame for McGrady Being a b****

I actually agreed with the Rockets and felt that T-Mac should be playing games, for the good of the team. But at this point, I agree with Solomon - that was the wrong approach.

 

Another whiny, terrible, misleading thread title from Carl Herrera.

Isn't playing the blame game with McGrady getting a little old? At the end of the day it's nobodies fault but his own; if he wants to rest his knee for the playoffs there's nothing we can do about it. The fans might as well be patient and see if he can put it together come playoff time.

You have to give TMac the benefit of the doubt and focus on other things, it's not like he's ever responded in his career when pushed or prodded. He does things at his own pace.

 

Being fair, following his blog and the comments, his stance has been:

-Don't dog Tracy simply over injuries if you don't also dog the others for injuries
-Don't dog Tracy over rehab, because Shane over-did his rehab and caused his own nagging injuries
-McGrady is a wuss
-Adelman and Morey should have dealt with the situation better, since it is common knowledge that McGrady is a wuss
-Even before the latest 2-week benching, he's been all for benching McGrady, and open to trading him
-He has refused to question McGrady's effort on the court, saying that pain and a sense of self-preservation could be causing all of it


He somehow refuses to either criticize or excuse McGrady in each blog/podcast.

-Feigen has openly called against trading McGrady
-Blinebury has been the harshest critic

 

Your thread title is still misleading and poor.

Solomon does NOT say "Adelman is to blame McGrady for being a [wuss]"
He blames Adelman for throwing half-hearted/half-strength McGrady onto the court instead of shutting him down until he could go full speed. Solomon's stated several times that he agrees that McGrady is mentally weak - and that has nothing at all to do with Adelman.

 

And this stance has been the most legit. The bolded portion is the main position that Solomon has put forth in his blog and the podcast w/ Blinebury - that if you know T-Mac isn't tough, then why are you letting him try and play tough? Or to play on the title of the article, if you know McGrady's a b****, why would you let him continue to exhibit b****-made behavior? I believe that is what Solomon is getting at, not "It's Adelman's fault T-Mac's a b****".

 

That crazy Adelman, thinking that players who say they can play should be on the court actually playing.

 

The idea is that not his injuries but his actual stamina and pain threshold based on this knee injury.

Its obvious that the knee is hurting, but not because of an injury just basic knee rehabilitation hurt. His lack of stamina and conditioning is definetly an issue. Steve Francis was sat out for conditioning issues and T-mac should too. His obviously mopping around about the injury (not that he should) and fact is fact that he can't deal with the pain in his current condition. He should have sat ages ago and he should not be taking cortisone injections like he did earlier in the season.

 

In other words Adelman should have known that T-Mac was a wuss and planned accordingly?

Oh my God this is depressing.

 

mods, please change the idiotic thread title. I don't like McGrady either but this is just stupid.

 

Carl's 'attention w****' thread titles are getting tiresome.

 

solomon is a typical worthless flip-flopper.

 

Just goes to show how soft the Houston media really is or shall i say the front office. The guy claimed over and over his knee is bumbed and he can't do what he wants it to do, but yet they keep playing him as if it's going to magically get better. How many times does he have to say in the media that his knee is bumbed before waking up? Normally if a player spills his injuries in a media outlet the team wakes up and makes decisions. He and all of the country who pays attention knows his knee is bumbed, yet poor decision by the management. It's not up to Mac i get contradiction from Mac and the media about the issue. First it's good enough to play on. Then it's not good enough to do the things he wants it to do? So which is it?

 

Nothing at all wrong with the title.

The funniest part about this terrible article and the comparison to Emmitt Smith is that MCGRADY WAS NEVER INJURED.

 

Im happy to say my stance has not changed. I always thought Tmac should take his time and rehab. All this matter has managed to achieve is prevent the development of team chemistry among those who ARE healthy. Seems the team is finally gelling despite of all this however and Im glad they finally made the decision to sit him.

BUT and this is a big one, when he does come back he needs to come off the bench with limited minutes until he has proven he is ready to be a starter again.
Sadly i think Adelman is not a strong enough personality to keep Tmac off the starting lineup for a prolonged period of time.

 

Jerome is assigned to be a Mcgrady apologist to counter Fran. If you read his responses or listen to the Fran/Jerome prodcast you can tell that Jerome think Mcgrady is a wuss.

 

I strongly believe that's how Adelman feel about Yao, a scrub who can't lead his team, that's why Adelman needs T-mac so much!

 

yeah adelman needs mcgrady so so much that he and morey ordered a mini-vacation for him. lol.