Trade T-Mac for a contract you can get off the books in 2009. Is it really realistic to expect that the Rockets can win a ring this year? The best you can hope for is maybe getting past the first round.
Tracy rest. Tracy comes back and plays well for a few games. Tracy's value goes up. Tracy is traded at the deadline. I wonder if that's the scenario the Rockets are plotting out?
That is a very viable option, and it is why I suggested Marbury. If the team decides to do that, then I would bet the Knicks would be ecstatic. DD
I agree with DD in that you have to decide what's best for the franchise. There are a couple of players that the rox can get, but would take them out the 2010 sweeps. Another thing, before wing players come here and if tracy is gone, they're going to talk to tracy and ask him the ease or difficulties of playing with a guy like yao. People think its really easy, but yao is so limited, its not the easiest thing in the world to do. Like I've said, maybe they just do what dd has suggested and rehab the old ship. Maybe they ship him out for Marion. Who knows, but as a organization, the hardest thing to do is be real about your team.
1. Adelman and Morey running a loose ship. The ship is still sailing... 2. Tmac not playing with energy Maybe he's just hurting 3. Artest taking games off Maybe he's hurting too 4. Yao not rebounding with enough effort Maybe considering his size, he can't play offense and defense at the same time? 5. Which offense is it? Rick's or Tmac & Yao's? It's the team's offense, therefore Rick's. Last time I checked, we don't have LeBron on our team. 6. Chemistry in the clubhouse That will ahve to wait till the injury disappears
No, not at all, the only way you do this deal is if Tmac is a massive cancer in the clubhouse and you need to jettison him a year before his contract expires to be a player on the free agent market one year earlier. It would have to be that Tmac and the organization are just beyond repair. This is not a thread about Tmac....it is a thread about what you think is wrong with the Rockets....and what you think can be done about it. Let's not degrade into the same old tired arguments. What do you think the team can and should do to address it's issues. DD
massage, anti-biotics, or go under the knife and have a surgery? depending on how bad it is. but we really don't know that. i want to know morey's minds, right now. it doesn't matter what we fans think.
As far as I see the situation there are only 5 items to be addressed this season: 1) Injured players must heal and be in game condition! 2)Tracy Mc Grady MUST learn to play in the flow of the game and take shots when he is open and the ball is passed to him. Otherwise he takes up too much time setting himself up and takes too many low percentage shots, if the ball is already in his hands and he is the playmaker. His days as an NBA scoring leader are over. (Although he would make an excellent Playmaker Point Guard) 3)The team must have time to gel. 4) Yao Ming must have at least 15 shots a game and must be alowed to get going at the beginning of Games. 5) Coach Adelman must sit players who have an off night, even the stars! Next Off Season is the time to readjust this team- we have great talent Coach Adelman -Use it or loose it!
If you could get David Lee and their #1 (unprotected), along with Marbury, then you make the deal. I doubt NY would do it, but there's a chance. It's essentially Lee and their lottery pick for TMac. He still comes off their books in 2010.
that will be an imbalanced deal with too much in our favor. won't happen. considering we can be set at our current pf's in scolandry, maybe change lee to someone else or do a 3-team. but it will be good if we have a high 1st round pick coming this summer.
After rereading some of the daft suggestions made in this thread I now see how much T Mac is misunderstood!! It's only going to take T Mac being fit and our Point Guards Passing the ball to him in open positions to heal his problems. Anyway we will be a dark horse when it comes to the Playoffs and we will gel and make our mark!
Thats why I wanted to include Lee (for the purposes of making a trade). Many teams are interested in him, so we could use him as a bargaining chip. I agree the deal is unbalanced, but you never know. They are already willing to trade Lee, maybe they offer up the number 1 and take a chance on TMac. Although they are only rumors, it's been reported that one of the reasons Walsh is holding onto Marbury is because he wants to see what happens with McGrady.
health is the only big problem. those other issues are caused by the lack of health. they should do nothing because it's not something you can control. they should be patient and believe in what they've got: talent. we've already beaten every top team or only lost because of tough luck (portland, cavs) except the lakers. we have a pretty good record. and we're still not healthy and still far away from the team we can be. i'd say that is a solid basis and we've nothing to lose. the only thing that i don't like is the fact that nobody seems to be taking the time he needs to get really healthy. you have yao, who rushed back on the court to play in the olympics. luckily, nothing bad happened until now. you have mcgrady who should have not played at the beginning of the season when he wasn't at 100 %. you have battier who tried to come back at 100 % too soon. you have artest who is playing on a bad ankle that would have needed a lot of rest. but then again i know why they're doing this. one big reason is that they're tired of all those injuries. they want to play and they want their team to be in a good position going into the playoffs. that's why mcgrady played at the beginning of the season. that's the reason battier tried to come back too fast. it's also the reason artest continued to play on a bum ankle. they want to win. everyone of them. i have faith in the rockets. as long as the team gets healthy during the regular season and gets 10 - 20 games together at full strength to figure things out they can do some damage in the playoffs. health is the solution!
I believe I read it on either ESPN or Hoopshype very recently. I think it was the cover page in the NBA section on trades that had David Lee and Nate Robinson on it. Let me check and see if I can find it.
