I appreciate your passion, DaDa, and ur willingness to wear your opinions on your sleeve, BUT you lose so mich credibility suggesting marbury to ANY team. why do ignore that he has made every team he's been to WORSE. and every team - immediately after he has left - has gotten better? this is a 10 year pattern you're choosing to ignore! he is the ultimate progressive cancer. we'd ve better cutting tmac than trading him for staph. seriously. he is the worst teammate in the nba and a net negative on the court. the knicks are better after him. the nets went to back to back finals after him. the suns were better after him (wcf, I believe) the twolves got better after him. 10 years of aggressive, cancerous behavior isn't enough for you to stay away from him??? you like the bokis, langhis, scolas, vspans, azubuikes, etc. guys who busted their asses to get where they were, yet want an egomaniacal, self-absorbed, sexual harrassing, cancer like staph on your favorite team?? if u think francis was bad, staph is steve on roids. at least steve cared about his team. staph refused to play w/players (kg), refused to play when healthy (nyc), bashed ex-mates (while in phx) and has never once accepted any share of the responsibility of his teams sucking. not even indirectly. just NEVER. he is everything the nba should not be. stay away from my team, please.
Ok verse, let me explain it better. The only reason you take on Marbury over TMac is if Tmac has become too big of a drag on the clubhouse, and you want to get out of his contract a year early. You do not take on Marbury with any expectations......just as a way to get $23 million off the books next year. I hope that clears it up a bit. DD
iow, trade tmac 4 staph, cut staph immediately and have 20mil goin into the coming offseason, which is much less lucrative than 2010? no thanks. worst case, u fire the coach in the offseason (which might appease players, including tmac, til his contract expires). you don't trade tmac. his contract expiration in 2010 is far more valuable than whatever scrubs you'd be able to bring in for him. let's be real. morey is not going to "sell low" if he doesn't have to do so. if there's a way to raise mac's value, he'll do that. if that means firing the coach, so be it. not saying that rick is the reason for mac's problems. just saying that it may give mac a "reason" to "believe" he can play better. such a primadonna... but a $23mm primadonna expiring in 2010 is worth more than a struggling, injured, primadonna in 2009. til then, he has the reins. you (and others) may not like it, but he does. unless a SWEATHEART deal, or a trade demand from mac, comes up this year, he's staying. he has that control, along with the trumpcard of his career playoff scoring average. staph would be not only giving up on this year, but on our chances in 2010. that's not happening.
Sorry but I wont even bother listening to this. If he is depressed with a 700k player )rookie at that) because of injuries and he feels isnt bringing it the he is sadden at the wrong player. Sounds more like an excuse.
Duravasa- There is a lot of blame to go around and I know that. I'm not blaming Hayes,head,and alston for the failures. I'm just saying that for the greatness that's portrayed by him on this board, look at a couple of things. Drafted Landry with the 1st pick in the 2nd rd. In fact he moved up to get him. During the negotiations, he haggled instead of giving the standard 2 yrs plus option yr. As a result, the rox were left in the cold this summer. Yao went down for another 20 games or so. Deke played well in his absence as well as the rest of the team. In the playoffs, just like the year before, the jazz are bigger and more atheletic. Yao rehabs for the olympics and I don't think he's completely healthy. What was his move? Sign a guy that was thrown away by the spurs because he wasn't tough,couldn't defend and became a huge liablity against La. They upgraded by getting a younger more atheletic guy. Then what was his answer for a backup to yao? Chuck Hayes. Instead of trading hayes or head for a taller backup to yao or just giving them away for a te, he haggled over signing deke because les didn't go over the lux tax threshold which he knew anyway. I'm not going to say he hasn't made any good moves, I guess I'm greedy because this team I really close to being a legit contender instead of a paper champ. Oh yeah, the nuggetts just got petro for chucky atkins.
I feel bad for Morey. I think the guy has been a fantastic GM. Even his mistakes (Mike James, Francis) were very low risk/high reward deals that just happened to not pan out. No fault of Morey there. He has added all sorts of talent and now it's crumbling because the cornerstone of franchise decided he doesn't want to play anymore. That's the biggest issue. Tracy McGrady is poisoning this franchise from the bottom all the way to the top. It's time for something drastic. Keep McGrady and send him home. He can't come to practice, play games or even step foot in the Toyota Center. If a fantastic deal for him comes along (won't happen) you pull the trigger. If nobody wants to offer a talent for talent deal then you keep him on ice until his contract comes off the books. Yeah, I know that is a long time but this team needs more than some patchwork to be a real contender. Trading McGrady for a few good players or maybe one really good player won't be enough to get this team over the hump but it will screw this team out of getting a real superstar in 2010. I'd rather be in the lottery or maybe get another first round exit this year and next so that in 2010 a REAL franchise player can be paired with Yao, Brooks, Landry and whoever else is still around. It's the only chance this team has to win a Championship during Yao's career.
Thanks for the link. Morey sounds like he just woke up. I guess he was out enjoying the Utah nightlife. Whatever he's thinking or doing about McGrady, Morey's not showing his cards. That was expected though. Really good to hear about Battier. It sounds like he's close to returning, but the Rockets want to make sure he's back for good this time. It doesn't sound good about Dorsey. I'm a little surprised by how direct Morey was about his recent disappointment with the rookie. Maybe he wants Dorsey to hear about it.
I agree with much of what you say but how is McGrady's playoff scoring average a trump card? Nobody except for a few 16 year old Rocket fans believe McGrady is worth much. NBA GMs are not going to look at what he did in the playoffs in Orlando or his first season in Houston and let that play into their decision one bit. The whole "he turns up his game in the playoffs" excuse is the last gasp effort of Tmac apologists who have been embarrassed by using all the other excuses they have for him.
