Chron: T-Mac sits until he can be worked in (Coach unsure how to distribute minutes)

you are being too kind.

 

He can fit in for short periods of time eg in the Clippers game,in some games he might not get any minutes. I wouldn't try him in any back to back games.

Ideally,they should have waited a bit more before playing him. RA didn't want to play him, but he changed his mind because of C-Bud's injury.

 

I thought the Rockets might be showcasing McGrady but these articles are proving me wrong. No way Adelman would be saying that McGrady is "not the player he was two years ago" if they were trying to trade him.

McGrady will probably still end up being traded, but no one can accuse Adelman of a soft sell.

 

This would of been a good game to give him extended minutes. I'm not sure what Morey & Adelman's intentions are, but if they want to trade him, they should of let him continued in this game.

I agree, not really fair to judge or compare his stats with his limited play.

 

Its hard figuring out how sitting him makes this decision any easier. Atleast let him keep playing the 7 mins a game. Its not like you have to take him out completely. He hasnt been killing this team. In fact he hasnt really made a difference yet. So in Rick's case he could have told mcgrady just to keep playing the same amount of mins until i can see something on a consistant basis. Now mcgrady doesnt even have the opportunity to show himself before rick's decision. Doesnt make since..

Also why hasnt rick been this straightforward from the beginning. He is finally explaining what he wants to see from mcgrady. Again mcgrady didnt know what he had to show to increase his minutes. It wasnt just playing hard, but actually being productive, and being an impact player(through the offense).I am sure mcgrady thought that being productive would help his case, but he probably felt that if he showed that the knee wasnt holding him back, that eventually as he played hard, his minutes would increase to where he would have more chances at being productive night in and night out....I am just very fustrated and i am sure t-mac is too

 

I'm afraid the the Rockets might of promised Ariza the moon. McGrady has came in for Battier during each of his games. Ariza continues to struggle shooting, but he gets the most minutes of any Rocket. Adelman suddenly can't figure out where he can find playing time for McGrady. Is it possible that Ariza demanded so many minutes or he would of signed with another team? Is it ironic that McGrady comes back when Ariza was suspended?

 

aka T-Mac sits until he can be traded. Get all your suits out and find yourself a nice cushion for the pine McGrady

In all seriousness, I think its doubtful Rick tries to implement him. Too much of a hassle - or so it seems.

But we'll see, things can change on a moments notice and/or someone can have a change of heart. (See: McGrady wasnt a candidate to take Ariza's spot in the 1 game suspension and wasnt suppose to play. Well 6 or 7 games later...and back to square one we go!)

 

its just amazing that they feel mcgrady cant crack the lineup, but ariza can

 

Agree to the fullest i think tmac can perform 100 times better than ariza on a bad day . Tmac has still got it, court vision, he still drives (maybe not as well as before),but come on , watching ariza out there when he gets the ball is a turnover or a stolen ball on the drive, he has no ball handling, all he is a slasher. RA needs to know Arizas role and skill level on the court. It clearly shows in the games that he is NOT an All star calibur player.

Reduce Arizas minutes and give them to tracy.

 

It's Coach Adelman's team. He has been a public figure for a good 30 years or so. Tracy around 15 yrs. Comparing the 2 I will say I am going to go with Adelman on this one. If he is being benched becuase he talked to the media about getting more play time before talking to Adelman I still wouldn't care. Adelman gets the benefit of doubt with me. Tracy does not.

 

Coach can't find minutes but he feel that Ariza need to play 43 minutes 47 minutes? How about Taylor minutes.

Is so easy to find 8 more minutes for T-mac, unless he wants Ariza to play 41 mpg like he is getting the last 5 games, I'm pretty sure that some of Ariza shooting struggles is because of tire legs , The guy is playing 39 minutes of hard nose basketball. I remember when he got Yao playing 37+ minutes a game and end Yao season earlier.

I don't believe coach excuse.

 

adelman is acting like a girlfriend that doesn't want to have sex with you

 

but then wouldn't that make adelman a lesbian in this case

 

I hope they just tell him to stay at home for the rest of the season.


This guy just went one better than Scottie Pippen did.

 

At worst he would be what he is now. Whinney, deteriorating player on the wrong side of 30 coming off of a micro-fracture surgery.

Make no doubt about it, if TMac were not crying he would still be with the team. If TMac were playing for what is best for the Rockets he would still be with the team but instead he has been asked to go back to Houston.

TMac will not be offered a contract to come back to Houston next season at any price.

 

Yao is the ultimate team player.

He is not perfect but he will do what ever is necessary to make the team better. Yao would come off of the bench willingly and be the biggest fan of who ever was starting in his place of anyone on the team. He would approach RA only with suggestions of how the team could be made better. Yao was a starter on a team that advanced to the second round of the play-offs.

Yao is a class act and RA will have no problem dealing with him on the team. Yao's position on the Rockets is safe as long as he can play basketball and wants to be here.

 

Good post. Very good.

I agree.

 

Well, at least he didn't b**** about not playing the next two games.

 

Cuz Phil Jackson never cast anybody out of his rotation. Cuz Phil Jackson resurrected the careers of former stars like Mitch Richmond and JR Rider. Cuz Phil Jackson won a championship with Gary Payton.

 

It isn't just about finding Tmac minutes, but how Tmac fits in and runs the team offense and the role he fills during the minutes he gets. It's pretty reasonable to expect that the team asked Tracy to work on certain things on the court. Things like help rebounding, defense, taking charges, moving without the ball, and running the offense correctly. If Tracy did all these things and kept his mouth shut he was very likely to get more play time eventually. But as much as Tracy sticks his foot in his mouth publicly, you can only imagine what he must say behind closed doors to management.

I don't think the Rockets were show casing Tracy though. If you were the GM of another team, would the 8 minutes you have seen of Tmac convince you of trading anything more than you would have before he started playing? His trade value is still completely based on his expiring contract, and that was likely to be the case even if he came back for 6 games and played like an all star. There would still be questions about how long til the next injury that would limit his trade value. If anything it's possible the Rockets are down playing the distraction Tracy may be causing behind the scenes so his trade value doesn't go down even more.