Chronic: McGrady finds much to like in Rockets' offense

After watchin' the interviev with T-Mac looks like he is in a scorin' mode. He knows what Adelman wants from him he knows what he can do and he knows we really have a great roster this year and it can/should be our year.

I'm excited too cause Tracy will do his job. There are a lot op players who can make game easy for Yao and Mcgrady, we have playmakers. The offense is different. We will have more easy for baskets, especially T-Mac I think.

Adelman has a great potential on this team, he has two dominatin' superstars, scorin' machines plus a couple of smart guys who can make plays for them and for the other teammates. And the best think Adelman knows what to do with that potential and any injuries won't change it.

 

Just because it cannot be stated enough:

I am so stoked for this season, and articles like this are just increasing my anticpation. It's a whole new ballgame in H-Town.

 

I'm sick of T-mac talking. I think he should just stop talking till he makes the second round.

I'm excited about this season and his role. But T-Mac has run out of excuses and yet he still acts like "Yeah, now THIS is something that should've been done long ago."

He's played in different systems, different teams, different coaches, balanced teams, superstar-oriented teams... Everything.

I really can't stand it anymore when T-Mac even HINTS that external factors have exclusively created his failures. He hasn't had the best of luck, but he hasn't had the worst of luck. It is what it is. Even if he's not to be blamed for the number of first round exits in his career, as a superstar, he should be willing to shoulder that blame at least once.

 

He blamed himself after the game 7 debacle. he didnt blame yao's lack of conditioning or rafers inabelity to hit a layup. he blamed himself for being exhausted and tierd. despite 29-13 game.

 

definately another article to build up the excitement..can't wait

glad he'll *hopefully* finally be able to play off the ball more and get shots easier..lookin forward to seein T-Mac rub off picks and get a lot mid ranger jumpers or a path to drive to the lane and create...

 

Last year was the best team he had been on and he took on some of the blame for that 1st round defeat. However this years team is much better because of the depth of the bench. Some of the players that don't make the cut will be in the rotation of another NBA team this season. So as 1 of the 2 stars on this team, you don't Tracey to voice his excitement about this years possibilities. I can't wait for your rant when Yao arrives & gets interviewed.

 

yea, but i hope yao can regain going out into the high post. hopefully he won't turn the ball over so much early that it'll force adelman to change how he uses yao.

hopefully adelman can really bring out the versatility in yao.

 

what u want him to do? don't talk and get fined?

dude, the reporters are asking him the questions. and those answers are pretty cliche answers that have been floating around for a while.

 

I didnt see tracy shrugging off any blame in that article. he just stated a fact that the whole NBA community knew. he was being driven into the ground by gundy's stale offense and our lack of depth. he had to be the playmaker, scorer and the leader all at the sametime. no wonder he's back is screwed up.

He's excited now because he can just go back to being part of the offense and not be " The whole offense".

 

i don't think ppl gave him credit for that. he took on ALL the pressure. then he blamed himself for not getting us past the jazz.

basically tmac and JVG were the only ones who got blamed for the playoff failure. the rest got a pass from the public.

 

just hope adelman does not do what all old tmac coaches used to do: fall in love w/ his greatness and just take him for granted and force him to do everything.

doc rivers to JVG.

 

There is yao should be blamed. the poor guy was coming off a broken knee injury. it's phoenominal that he still putup 25 points after that injury. i'm blaming a stale offense which was so obvious that even okur said after the series that they knew our every play and move well before hand we even started it.

Lack of depth didnt help either.

 

You can't blame him for last year first round exit,that was on everyone

 

Exactly. He's just glad, because of Adelman. Now he can do what he likes. He doesn't have to concern about whole offensive game. Every player will have his task.

 

FIXED.

 

i'm saying from the american media and public's perspective, JVG and tmac took the brunt of the blame. JVG got fired. tmac's status got knocked down even more.

 

If he likes it so much, maybe he can find a way to play 75 games or more this year.

 

Thats the real recipe for success. balance. teams with great balance and depth will more often then not win over a team with a great couple of players and no depth.

Even those great Lakers teams with kobe and shaq had handy depth.Brian Shaw, Rick Fox, Devin Gorge, Ron harper, fisher, Horace grant, Ac Green , elden Campbell, Mitch Richmond....

 

Consisdering he played 71 last year while carrying the whole load, i'm pretty confident he can...infact the only year that he missed a substantial amount of games was the 05-06 season. other then that, he has been a regular.