I don't know that I would feel as strongly as you about this, but I give you thumbs up for using the word twit. "Why a spoon cousin? Why not a sword or an axe?" "It's dull you twit, it'll hurt more"
let me try something that you could have wrote last year Dear Yao, I just wanted to drop you a line & let you know that I'm not real pleased with your decision to continue playing when your foot hurts, not allowig the doctors to indicate you're injured & just need to stop playing through it. I don't mean to be mean about this, but it's not like this is the first time you've missed significant playing time (the big toe, thing). Just like last time, it appears to be you making the decision on your own. I'd be fired on the spot if I told my employer that I overworked myself and need 3 months off because I was freelancing too much over the summer. Your's Truely, A Rocket's Fan
if the rockets disagreed with this, they'd suspend him. if you're job performance was being affected by an injury or illness, i'm guessing your employer might let you take three weeks off if you were worth as much to your employer as t-mac is to his.
What a great post by the OP.....if anything it shows that Tmac has no clue about working in the real world. Heck, there are guys at the local YMCA that play in more pain every day than him. D - lowering expectations - D
are you seriously comparing a person who makes multi-million dollars a year playing a kids game to someone working in the "real world"? when someone's performance is directly related to their health and that person is worth something to a company, they would give this person their time off. at my job, i had a co-worker who was in a serious accident and could not work. guess what? they kept his job for him until he was ready to come back to work. so even though you compare multi-millionaires playing a kids game to the real world, it's common for people to take time off of work when they're injured and are unable to do the job they are paid to do. you have no idea what kind of pain t-mac is in. none. the absurdity of some of the speculation here is obnoxious. to compare the guys at the y to an nba player is stupidity at its worst.
I totolly agree with what you said man. No one except for him knows how much pain he is experiencing. I don't believe in knocking on our own players now, him or yao or artest. I say, hold on to your judgments for now, wait 3 weeks and see. I don't believe that he needs time after 3 weeks of not playing to adjust (well maybe 1 or 2 games). If he comes back putting up 20,4,4 then I say 3 weeks is worth the wait. If he comes back like the way he is now, one game with 25+ points and the next couple of games with 6-10 points, then he deserves all the ***** he gets. On a side note, why is it that he play so well on National TV with the same knee but crap the next game. The portland game, he was dominating, was his knee any better than the other games?
http://www.chron.com/sports/rockets/ LOL check this out. T-MAC INJURY TICKER: Games missed: 3 • Rockets without T-Mac: 1-2 Pay for no play: $257,644 x 3 = $772,934 From chron.com. This will likely be updated for every game he misses. Talk about crude humor.
I know that the doctors told him to play to strengthen his knee, I know that the organization told him the same, I know that the team needs him to play, I know that a normal person recovers from minor arthoscopic surgery in about 12 weeks. I know that Tmac has a history of quitting, see Orlando.......and I know that Tmac lies about reasons he takes off....remember his back when he was really dealing with the lady that he got pregnant in Orlando. So, you go ahead, drink his milkshake, me, I will stick with what I know. DD
Jesus christ some people just don't understand this ****. You can't just go **** up your knee for the rest of your career. Some people just don't realize how incredibly grueling playing in the NBA is, let alone with an injury. You must lack a large amount of common sense to think that some people can just play through that **** and not have major damage done.
It's a pity there is no warranty clause for Tmac. If only he was an xbox 360, we could have had a rejuvenated Tmac everytime he breaks down.
so, that'd be nothing then? if the rockets did not agree with this decision and felt he was going against the wishes of all doctors, they would suspend him for insubordination. you're a hater pure and simple.
Kobe Bryant 2007 same surgery as Tmac in July - played 82 games. Brandon Roy 2008 same surgery as Tmac - so far still playing MINOR SURGERY people....the doctors have told him what to do. ON HIS OWN...he has decided to shut it down for 3 weeks.....ON HIS OWN....AGAINST THE DOCTORS AND TEAM'S WISHES. Well fine....you believe a guy who says his elbow is cracked....I mean come on.....the guy is a proven exagerator, he has ZERO credibility. If the Rockets suspended a guy as mentally fragile as Tmac they would ruin this team, they are going to hope he can pull the underwear out of his vagina by January. DD
Why is it on this board whenever someone criticises Tmac, he is a hater? I don't agree with everything DD says, but he is far from a hater. He gives Tmac all the praises that he deserves. Respects other's opinion....if you disagree, explain why, don't just start calling names like you are in kindergarten or something.
Ok, I know this is like my first post or two, and I understand I'm a rookie, but after checking out ClutchFans for about 5 years I decided I'd finally voice my opinion. T-Mac has been my favorite player since he was warming the bench his first two years in Toronto. I watched this kid and saw this amazing potential, this insane athleticism. He went to Orlando and made the game of basketball look so easy... then one of my personal top Rockets moments was hearing that T-Mac had just been traded to Houston. I ignored the "me-Mac", how he didn't make his teammates better, and how he was soft... So for the next four seasons I watched T-Mac prove the critics wrong about his selfishness and making his teammates better... but the "soft" criticism slowly started carrying weight... T-Mac out a few games here for a bum back... some there for a knee... or a shoulder... it wasn't until last year when I really started to realize... my favorite player, who I viewed as one of the top 5 players, wasn't that... I started to see the lack of urgency, motivation, killer-instinct that everyone was talking about. I realized that my favorite player was a fraud, he wasn't a future hall of famer, much less a superstar anymore... he had became a shell of his former self... he wanted to be paid like a superstar, treated like a superstar, but he's never wanted to act like a superstar. There have been glimpses of a motivated, take no prisoners T-mac every now and then, but a consistent leader... no. It pains me to have to cringe and hold my breath every time T-Mac (or Yao to a lesser extent) takes a slight bump and falls to the court. I'm tired of watching T-Mac have a bad night and then "land awkwardly", cringe, and limp off the court, all because of a phantom injury. I'm not a doctor, nor am I Tracy's knee, but when a player decides to "shut it down" in the pro's, even though the doctors say he's capable of playing, and in fact suggest that playing through it will be the best thing... then that pisses me off. T-mac's still my favorite player, but I'm a Rockets fan first and I want what's best for the team and I think it's time to move on... either by this trade deadline, or let his contract expire and let him go (unless he signs extremely cheap)... but we need a true superstar with a superstar mentality.... And while T-mac is still my favorite player, I started thinking, where would I rank T-Mac on my all time favorite Rockets? I know he'd be at best, a distant 6th behind: Maxwell Olajuwon Horry Smith Ellie and if you noticed with this list, NONE OF THEM, ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THEM, lacked HEART... (maybe a brain in Maxwell's case )... crap, after what Battier did when he came back, twisting his ankle and still running the court to take a charge, I might now rank Battier higher than T-Mac on my list of favorite Rockets. I can't believe my first post, would be to bash my favorite player.
Yao also actively went and made his chances of reinjuring or screwing up the entirety of this season go up by a massive %. Noone bothered to write him a letter about that. His also injured for significantly the same amount or longer amount of time. His also never stepped up in the playoffs for an extended period of time past 2 games. I can go on counting all day about him and Artest the fact of the matter is you are all over looking other peoples problems and picking on Mcgrady because his injured and you think he should be playing through a knee problem.
