[Chron] Update on Tracy's Knees: Bone Bruise, hope to play Saturday

Well, just relate all these stuffs he did in recent games in December:

• Quit the game at half time with a self-proclaimed sprained ankle in the loss against Philidelphia 76ers (December 10)
• Showed up after 1 day with no ill effect in the win over the Detroit Pistons (December 12)
• Laughing heartily and patting shoulder of Devin Harris and Juwan Howard of Dallas Mavericks when the team was thrashed by one of Rockets fiercest rivals (December 15)
• Abandon game in the game versus Orlando Magic by half time after jacking up 1/10 FG% (December 19)
• Refused to take MRI to inspect what's really wrong with his knee
• Hide in the players' locker room instead of appearing on the bench to cheer/rave/support his team mates in the game versus Denver Nuggets (December 20)

It just appeared to me that if he found the game to his like, i.e. if he's in the mood of playing, and he's making shots and scoring, then he would keep playing. If not, he just left his team mates on their own to struggle and got thrashed by the opponents.

Do you think these are proper behavior of a core player and team leader of the Houston Rockets that is with heart and fighting spirit??

 

i think you are over-analyzing, and being a dump on the Rockets community. When we are a .500 team in February, then it's time to worry. Right now, it's just alot of learning and experimenting. Things are slowly looking better for the team even with tracy out, but don't be the kind of crooked piece of filth to bite the hand that has been feeding this team for the past 4 years, just cause he's struggled a bit with injuries, and god forbid, maybe some mental problems.

He hasn't done everything he did for this team, just to throw it all away for no apparent reason. The fact that you say he has no heart and fearsome courage etc. is just crap. he's carried this mediocre team on his back throughout 3 seasons and into the playoffs, where he still fought the battle by himself. I think it's a very cheap shot as "fans", for you to point the finger at him when he is down.

New system, new coach, new players. it's going to take atleast most of a season for things to start to really mesh together. In the end though, we could be a team who ends up going into the playoffs as the 7th seed, and wins the championship, you never know. If i were you, i would probably feel pretty crappy for all these observations you're making when things aren't going your way. And i'm not even saying we're definitely going to do great this season blah blah blah. I just think most of the people here jump the gun way too soon, and then alot of people just hop on this bandwagon. Suddenly, there's nothing but garbage and negativity coming from you so called fans.

 

This is EXACTLY the problem, did you see that ??

No one is asking him to fight the battle by himself.

People had been criticizing Big Yao, why he seemed now hesitant to do his stuff down at the low post and had to wait until the double-team or triple-team to come to him before he would pass the ball to his team mates with open look to shoot (and hopefully score).

You think Big Yao likes what he is doing right now, removing himself from his comfort zone, and play alot of time from the high post, directing traffic, and passing/assisting his team mates to score, and at the same time sacrificing his own personal stats in points scored per game?

He did that cos he knew he needed to get his team mates involved, and he worked hard to get himself adjusted to Rick Adelman's motion offense (or whatever offense you called it), cos he is a very much team-oriented professional that is willing to sacrifice and gives his all to win.

On the other hand, I'm not that 100% sure about TMAC. He seldom penetrates and takes it to the hole anymore; sometimes he tried to get others involved with his assist numbers but he was also guilty of falling in love with his jumpers; he just took too many quick jumpers and 3 pointers. The Rockets lacks movement when he is on the ball since he still does not get others involved enough.

I don't think I'm throwing **** into his face......but he had disappointed me with his recent behavior/performance.

 

I guess you happened to selectively forget that during the embarrassing loss to Golden Warriors, T-Mac AND YAO were on the bench laughing it up like they were at a comedy show. All this while we were getting blown out of the game in the 4th. Diss T-Mac all you want but Big Yao is not perfect. Let's see Yao win some games without T-Mac before you write Tracy off.

 

Yao is not a better player then Tmac. Yao is not more important then Tmac. But at least Yao shows up to play HARD every night. Yao cares. Tmac doesn't.

 

TMac is a spoiled kid. The Rockets organization and coaches should bear some of the responsibilities.

 

but yao doesn't fake injuries and quit on the team either............

 

We should give TMac benefit of doubt. Let's assume he really feel uncomfortable. What the organization should do is to try any possible ways to find out the root cause of the sore knee. He is one of the most valuable, if not the one and only one, assets in the organization and his contract will last until year 2010 (??). If there's any hidden problem that might deteriorate the injury, it should be found out and be treated immediately.

 

LOL....giving him the benefit of the doubt would be like giving a convicted rapist the benefit of the doubt when a girl comes up missing......................

 

Dude, i've been reading the different threads and i am sorry to say but you're a joke. You're hatred for Mcgrady is disturbing and you sound so immature and ignorant with your constant reply (with analogies/petty nicknames that so far out there) to every good thing said about t-mac. It's one thing to be a passionate fan, it's another to be this angry and have so much hatred for another human being, especially when your hatred is all based on speculation. Grow up.

 

Well let's assume he is really feeling uncomfortable. If he is being responsible and professional, he should not shun doing the MRI and find out quick what's wrong with his knee.There is nothing to be afraid of if the result is negative and he needs surgery or medical treatment, and be sidelined for say 8 weeks or so.

I'd rather he takes this issue seriously, take whatever treatment it requires to fix his knee, rehabilitate and come back healthy to play, rather than to play with one leg and hurt the team.

 

Keith Jones, Rockets trainer, said that T-Mac does not need an MRI. It's a bone bruise and he said the best thing to do was rest it for a couple days. Which is exactly what they're doing with him.

 

T-Mac has always been my favourite player and will stay.

For me there's no doubt that he is hurt, the way he played shows it. He shouldn't have played against the Magic. He should have taken an MRI. He made a few mistakes. But you guys are overreacting, we need T-Mac to win, a healthy McGrady.

I just hope he will come back strong including passion and leadership.

Tracy isn't an idiot, he's not going to let down his team.

I fully understand why most of you are unhappy with him right now, I am too.

Wait & See

 

r u sure? James? not good.

 

yes I hate she-mac as a basketball player......and yes I will continue to throw nicknames around and dog her as long as she's in a rockets uni...if you don't want to read then put me on the ignore list........................thank you.

 

we'll see how good we can be when this team is FULLY healthy and after a real 2 weeks of playing together around all-star break. around that time the season will be decided. can we live up to expectations like the beginnin of the season, or will we crash and burn like isiah thomas's coachin....

 

Excellent post

 

The team shot 34 3pt shots made 12 and still lost. How is the offense running smooth when you hoist 34 3's?

 

they did take too many 3's, and denver isn't a great defensive team, BUT the ball did move around much better...and the team did look to run more......Tmac always slows down the fastbreak..........funny thing is he's always the one saying we should fast break more?????

 

You are nit-picking because It is clearly obvious they played better offensively overall. Don't focus on one weak stat look at the game overall,the suns play like that every game. The ball was moving around and everyone was touching it and getting invloved.Yao had 29 points,luther head had 22 points,Bonzi wells had 17 points and rafer had 18 points,We had 25 assists in the game.



We played 110% better offensively and the assists stats say so.Tracy needs to learn to move the ball,Adapt to the system, get rid of hsi negative TEAM KILLING attitude,stop whining when one thing goes wrong,stick with the TEAM.stop being a self ansorbed cancer.




Dude is trying to kill the team,His demeanor projects negativity,seems like he wants to put the blame on the adelman on why they are struggling and it may be some of adelman's doing but dude doesn't want to take any responsibility himself, he acts like he has no fault whatsover.The rockets will never win when you have a player that thinks like Tracy as the star/leader.


He thinks to negative and gloomy,His vibration's project doom and despair,Seems like he wants things to fail because if it does he can quit and blame the system and coach or role players and he will have his easy way out that he doesn't have to take any blame and it back fired when magic told the real. Tracy was going to leave it all on 1st year coach only 24 games on the job rick adelman,talking about we have no identity are we a running team or a whatever team and it failed when magic spoke out so bluntly about his view on the situation.