When Clutchfans read about it, the lawyers already had been working on it for a couple of years. Like DD, I also recall one of the board insiders claiming that some of the games missed due to back issues were really to do with his paternity suit or the lead up to it.
Could as well be the case. The whole story could be a lengthy process which could drag on with more than a few appointments here and there. Many noticed something was wrong with his demeanor back then. If you compare him with a normal person who took vacation due to some illness and in that period settled private matters. There is nothing wrong in my eyes. He is a high-paid athlete but a private person as well. Of course the organization covered for him, shielded him from bad publicity. He was their main guy back then.
i stopped posting here during the off-season. I wanted a break form all the hat.e I was hoping either Tracy was traded or that if he wasn't the b****ing would stop and the support would start. I hop-e he comes back strong and at the end of the season unless we can get D-Wade we sign Tracy to a performance based contract. Play x amount of games and get the full amount, play less and you get a pay cut.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4804198.html "Everybody looks at his back, and they miss the fact that his head is pulled to the right, his right shoulder is dropped forward and when he goes to sit down, he puts his hands down to steady himself, which means he has very little leg strength," Patterson said. "When his legs would get fatigued, his back would start hurting, and the thing that mystified everyone is that it would hurt on the left side one week and the right side the next week. All the textbooks say that doesn't happen. No one had ever looked at his knees or ankles or the fact he had flat feet, which meant he rolled his foot inward when he ran, which put stress on the outside (of his legs)." Patterson and his associates, Tim McKelroy and Brian Burzynski, began by relaxing the muscles in McGrady's lower legs. That enabled them to line up his knees, ensuring that the patellar tendons were aligned with the bones so that the joints glide rather than crunch and the muscles on both sides of the legs work in concert. Getting the knees in place allowed Patterson's crew to align McGrady's pelvis. From there, they moved to his upper body, stretching his back with a modified version of the full nelson wrestling hold called the "Willie Nelson" that elongates the connective tissue, and aligning his collarbones so that his head rested squarely over his shoulders, not tilted forward. Patterson's goal is to allow the body to heal itself once aligned. "Your body is in a state of flux for three or four days, and it takes 21 days for all the systems to be perfectly balanced," he said. If you're keeping track, in his first game after the 21-day anniversary of his first trip to Patterson's clinic, McGrady scored 37 points against the Kings. Within the next two weeks, he had games of 45, 37 and 36 points. 2 years later, his body was imbalanced again and was developing a lot of back problems again.. http://espn.go.com/chicago/columns/blog?post=4479907&name=friedell "His whole body was imbalanced from basically his shoulder blades down to his feet," Reavy says. "He was developing a lot of back problems ... He was developing strength in an imbalanced fashion. And what I see in Tracy, in general, he had no core strength, he couldn't hold a plank."
What's the guy gonna say? "Well he was pretty good before I met him...he was hurt and was bad....now he's recovered and will probably be pretty good again....I'm just jumping on the wagon". No way...anybody you talk to will find something positive to say about what they are doing and the others didn't. Just the way it goes with people in that industry. "I did it...I'm the man...interview me...come watch our workout and take some pictures....make me famous please"
Grover is plenty famous already, i dont think he needs to jump on any wagon for that...and grover isn't claiming tmac will just be back to tmac, he's saying he'll be better physically, there is a difference. Wade was clearly in better shape this year than he has been since he came into the league. Even Wade mentioned how Grover was who got him ready to come into the league and then stopped going to him and now he's back with Grover..
wrong on that. grover said on video that he would have tmac back to what he was his rookie year. but my issue was more with what the phy ther said about his body being dramatically unbalanced
i guess you, and maybe Jeff who, are talking about what his PT said...but i was thinkign of Grover....i think his PT's point of view is just getting his knee healthy for the most part, so he's thinking of just getting tmac healthy and therefore back to his old days, and he threw in Grover's training in there...but i know i heard or read that Grover said he'd be "better", but i think he meant physically..
Grover is paid by Tmac, he is not going to say anything other than what Tracy wants to hear. Tmac will only be back if he has his explosion and first step back. Will that happen? I think that is still up in the air. TBD DD
that's totally true. We won't know how good Tracy is until he plays real competition. That applies to anybody who is returning from injury. But again, considering the types of athletes grover had worked with, I trust his opinion a little bit more. But again we'll see how he looks in training camp and preseason games before we can say more about his comeback. But the real test remains game 1 of the NBA season.
If it wasn't T Mac I would tend to accept this at face value. Getting hopeful, but what this means for the Rockets is unclear.
the fact that he's about 95% ready for training camp, i say he's WAAAAAAAAAAY ahead of schedule. almost everybody said after all-star break at the earliest.
