[ESPN Daily Dime] Rip To My Lou: Alston Slams Teammates After Loss To Knicks

I have often slammed Rafer but I don't know if I've ever respected him more than right now. He's right and I'm glad he said it. Obviously, nobody else has been able to get it through to those guys.

 

And i saw Tmac icing his knees again. There is no way he feels like his old self again. Instead of driving to the lane n creating contact n foul or get easy layups, he settled for hard jumpshots like usual. He is still scared to drive n cause injury. I dont buy a single word he said about him being back.

 

Wow!!!!

That's all I have to say is just wow!!!!

You have taken every post to show how much you really don't like T-Mac and you are correct the fact that the other players are standing around when T-Mac has the ball is T-Mac's fault....

Like I said the scenario goes 2 ways... Actually 3 ways..

1) T-Mac
2) Teammates
3) Adelman

 

Thanks Rafer.

How many nights have you royally sucked since youve been here in houston. too many. i understand what he is trying to say and I think he's right...we went on the 22 game winning streak because we played with energy and passion like the jvg days. but we also went on that winning streak playing through tmac.

that being said, maybe u can get away with saying this when youre actually consistant with your decisions and with your shooting. Rafer is just as responsible as any player on the team for our poor play. The only two guys who can really say something like this guiltlessly are yao ming and luis scola. Those guys have been rock solid all year long. Rafer has had alot of really bad games(took bad shots, dribbled too much, etc) that have cost us wins, yet no one ever called him out.

 

Didn't we start the 22 game winning streak with Yao in the lineup and Tmac out, then Yao went out just as Tmac came back? Although more of the winning streak happened with Tmac than Yao, just to give Tmac some props before I reiterate how I wish he was out of town.

 

The streak started one game before tmac came back. A game in which Yao had 36 points and 19 rebounds....Rafer was a tmac-like 7-19 from the floor against a bad defense.

Rafer needs to stop thinking that this team needs to follow his lead. He's not the leader of this team, Yao is. Just play your role and please stop calling out guys who save you from shooting 30 percent and choking every night.

 

Rafer's opinion can start to matter when he starts shooting for over 40%

 

Thank you Rafer. While I believe it is the coaches, and only the coaches, job to do what Alston did...it appears nobody else was going to do it. Someone had to say what needed to be said. That game was pathetic. I miss Yao more than ever. I was more upset with Artest than McGrady in this one. Both guys murdered the flow of the offense, but McGrady has always had a style of play that slows down the ball...Artest seems to be adapting to kill the offense on purpose (HA...but really). I am so confused.


Sense McGrady is untradable I feel Morey must be trying to work a way to move Artest and get something of value in return...I would've been upset and not wanted to see Artest go a few weeks ago. After this game, however, whatever needs to be done to win games is what I want to see happen. In Morey we trust.

And yeah...someone else already said it but...Adelman needs to grow a pair.

 

This was McGrady's comment after the game:

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(on how much the lack of continuity plays into Houston’s issues): When you don’t have 7-6 down in the post to throw the ball into and make our job a lot easier, then you’ve got myself and Ron out there trying to make plays for everybody else. We’ve got a lot of perimeter guys out there trying to score the ball and sometime you live and die by jumpers and tonight we died by them because we shot a lot of them. I mean, they were wide open, but we just didn’t make them.
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That's what bugs me. He's the supposed veteran leader of the team, but he basically chalks up the loss to just missing wide open jumpers. Adelman said it was no ball movement. Rafer said it was selfishness. They're on the same page. Tracy says it's just missing open shots.

How does that happen? Do they not communicate with eachother? Is Adelman not telling everybody what they're doing wrong during the game? Either there's a serious lack of communication, or McGrady is in his own world.

 

Yeah, this bugged me too. I don't think he wants to take responsibility for anything else (passing, motion, setting picks, defense, etc...) besides an off shooting night. Kind of a 'these things happen, oh well' attitude.

 

I missed the game last night.

The shots they missed... were they actually decent ones?

I don't know if TMac is really relied upon the "leader." He's just their most talented guy.

 

He sees himself as a leader, even if he will no longer explicitly say so. That's why he always talk about his teammates as "my guys". You can tell in the way he talks. He doesn't see himself as just part of the team -- he's somehow special and separate from the rest. So when he has an off game or isn't involved, for instance, that means he was being a "facilitator" for "my guys". But that's just when they win, of course. When they lose, now all of a sudden everyone is equal and takes the same blame.

 

Again, you look at that Indiana game - what do you call that?

 

So why didn't the bench have these issues with making plays? McGrady kills me sometimes with his logic.

 

Maybe Tmac and Ron are just stupid......

I mean if you jumper is not falling one would think you would drive it into the paint for a closer in shot.

DD

 

rafer is totally right, and he plays much better without them

 

I swear, I've about had it with Tmac's attitude.

 

That sounds like typical T-Mac to me. Why is anybody even surprised?

 

I don't see why your so upset he is right. You live by jumpers you die by jump shots. Yao is a main piece to the puzzle and he wasn't playing. Dump the ball down to Yao the double team comes then he kicks it out and makes plays. No disrespect to Scola but he isn't Yao. Scola gets the ball and looks to score. He doesn't pass the ball once he gets it. If its one on one that is. He looks 2 score and doesn't look to pass.

T-Mac said the truth. The did the same exact thing they did in Detroit except that in Detroit shots were going in. Rick Aldeman shouldn't have played his starters so long knowing that it was a back to back. Especially since McGrady and Artest missed a lot of time He should have not played them that long knowing it was a back 2 back.

 

Come on GUYS!!

FACE the fact


TMAC is a LOSER! I dunno why some of you guys still think so highly of him


Look at his history.....