well, T-Mac without the jumper is just a "good" player who no longer warrants hard double teams or racks up points for his team. obviously when he starts hitting them, he becomes a totally different animal...
Think. Why Tmac is out, then Yao is far away from foul trouble? Because if Yao is out too, who watch the game? But if two superstars are in one team, then how can other teams deal with it? Easy, take one of them out. That's the business.