Do you believe Tmac is hurt?

He's hurt... but still has the ability to play well. That's how good he is. However, I am NOT for him both playing hurt and badly... it was right to take him out of the game, just like it would have been okay to leave him in if he was having a good game (indicating that he could play through the pain).

Regardless... "Yao taking over" isn't the answer. This team would likely be hard-pressed to finish above the bottom 3 in the conference if it was just Yao and this band of misfits.

And, to add insult to "injury"... I don't feel that would be the case if it was just a healthy T-mac and the rest of this squad.

Yao needs to either become a leader ON THE FLOOR... or the team needs to get T-mac healthy again.

 

no i think you really want to believe he ISN'T hurt to justify your ideas. maybe he isn't doing those things all the time because he IS hurt. t-mac gets hurt easily. that's just how it is. he is like cliff floyd, rondell white, or ellis burks.

 

IF you really think that, it shouldn't be that hard to figure out the reason... he has zero faith/confidence in this coaching staff's ability to prepare them enough for games to compete in this conference (hell, he's already said as much about the difference between JVG and Adelman's game preparation).

Regardless... you're going to believe whatever you want to fit your theory... thus, you made this thread.

In the end, if T-mac is disgruntled, the Rockets need to figure out what they can do to make it right... because T-mac is THE MOST important thing to this team. Far more important than Yao, and far more important than the coaching staff trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

 

I used to love T-Mac, and feel sorry for his back pain... But lately it's all just too much. Even if you are hurt, can't you sit on the bench to support your team. I'm watching the Suns game that I recorded, and they just showed some replays of Nash playing with some nasty injuries. I know not everyone can tolerate pain the same, but a winner will put the injury behind him to win.

 

The point is even if he were able to play some more we still want him to go to the locker room because otherwise he might go for 2-20 and shoot us right out of the game.
btw rafer, effort is not enough! we need results!

 

An injured player chooses not to have an MRI on a knee that has supposedly bothered him for two weeks. Doesn't sound right.

 

If you think he is really hurt then one of two things can explain that opinion:

1. This is your first season to follow the Rockets or McGrady's career
2. You are a teenager who measures a player's "heart" or "grit' based on how many youtube highlight videos he has

 

Lets just admit it, T-Mac just isn't what he used to be...we have a MAX player who's probably HAS 65 - 70% of his former abilities....i don't think we are ever going to win or be deep enough with T-Mac on this teamm...

 

Hey... he may be more brilliant than you think... because this team ain't going nowhere the way its constructed now, and they indeed may have wasted a golden opportunity.

My biggest fear is that a hurt/leaving T-mac starts an awful chain reaction... that ends up with this team in the lottery, team Yao not happy with the lack of progress (and for his own good, forcing a trade), and they end up in a WORSE position than before Yao was drafted in the first place.

The simple solution is to get T-mac healthy/happy again... and if Adelman is not the guy who can get through to him, get somebody who can.

 

Proof. I want proof. Watching your tv and making assumptions is NOT proof.

In an absence of proof from any of you guys - I'm assuming none of you are in the locker room or inside TMac's head (or knee) - I'm going to believe he's hurt if he says he's hurt.

I'm not calling him out based on speculative assertions.

 

Based on what?

Wasn't he a massive failure in his 1 year at Golden State? And he was able to take over a Sacramento team with nearly zero established players.

I don't believe Adelman is in the class of Phil Jackson or Riley in that he can command respect just by walking in a room... his accomplishments certainly aren't overwhelming, and so far he's looking MORE inflexible than JVG ever was.

 

LMAO...or his proven 10 year record of quitting.

 

here is a easy one... do the MRI...

if he is really hurt... then he would do a MRI...

im thinking a strain... enough to bother him...'

but not enough to keep him out of a game...

 

I know I am very hard on TMac, but I honestly believe he is hurt. He just wasn't moving right at all and needed to take himself out of the game in the first quarter.

 

it is very sad T-Mac is fragile.

 

exactly what I was thinking

is he scared they will look at it and go "Ummm, Mr McGrady there's actually nothing wrong with your knee"

me thinks yes.