You're logic gets dumber by the minute. you're embrassing you'reself in the highest manner. are you comparing mcgrady to delk?. the fact is tracy is the best scorer on this team.when he gets hot, he is the best scorer on this team. even you yao only fans cant be that delusional.
Has Tmac's game declined since he joined the Rockets? Has Yao's game improved in the past few years? Is a skilled 6'8 swingman easier to replace than a skilled 7'6 center? Have we had changes in our roster since Tmac joined the Rockets? If any of the answers to these are "yes", then you cannot gauge a player's performance based solely on records.
No, please learn to read. I deliberately compared Delk to Yao, using your bad logic. You ignore averages and say T-mac is a more potent scorer than Yao b/c he had more 40pt games. Well based on that, you obviously much think Delk is a more potent scorer than Yao as well since he has more 50pt games than Yao. "When he gets hot..." anyone on the team can be the best scorer on any individual night when their hot. Like the game against LA where T-mac struggled and Rafer carried the offense with 31 points (8 3-pointers), or the one against Sacramento where Rafer scored 28 to T-mac's 17. It doesn't matter. What matters is what you do over a consistent basis. That man has been Yao for the past 2 seasons. Catch up.
That doesn't spell much success for Houston, then. Here's T-mac in the 4th quarter during the postseason: Game 1: 0-3 Game 2: 0-4 Game 3: 2-8 Game 4: 1-1 (Came with 5:35 to go) Game 5: 3-5 (Blow-out game) Game 6: 3-6 (Blow-out game) He only shot well in the games that were already blow-outs by the start of the 4th.
Yeah Yao has been the man past two seasons, season ago he didn't play for 30 games or something and last year he went down to end our hopes for championship...
Let's face it - the combination of Tmac slowing down and losing a step and the still relentless doubleteams makes it necessary to rethink his role. I think he should be switched to the point position and put Ron Ron on the wing. Tmac has the best court vision of anyone on the team, passes very well and can dish it up to some very talented scorers. Something like this: Tmac Artest Battier Scola Yao
And how many points does score Yao? I don't know why we have to discuss who is better, we have both of them! And i don't care if T-Mac is ranked 29th or 400th, the important that the rockets ranks 1st in June 2009!!!
let's not get into of this anymore wekko. records have shown that tmac IS our most indispensable player. however, i agree with you that with the addition of artest, if we lose tmac again this year, we won't struggle as much. but the thing can also be said that if we lose yao, we might be even better than the past few years with tmac + artest. what the past few yrs have shown us is that we can play with or without yao. we might even win a playoff round without yao if artest plays to his full potential. but again, i don't want to get into this arguing thing. yes, tmac has declined. but like i said, only a handful of players can do what he does. yes yao has improved, but he still hasn't improved to a full-blown franchise player where you can go to him on every player and depend on him every game.
i like it how you forgot to point out from games 3 to 6, he actually had some help. tmac didn't have to play PG in those games. notice how a guy has some help his performance improves. had rafer play in the first 2 games, i have no doubt we'd won that series. the thing people don't know about rafer is that he allows tmac to handle the ball less and focus more on just being a scorer. tmac was already playing injured, and adelman had to load everything on him with rafer out. but as you can see from games 3-6, tmac played well down the stretch. let's just all rally together and know that with the addition of artest and the improvement of scola, tmac just has to focus on scoring now. with less responsibilities, tmac will be very efficient and potent.
Focus on scoring ? That's too bad. T-Mac couldn't make layup frequently because of his hurt prone back. He has to make more jumper to score. T-Mac isn't a good shooter. His open shot is poor. He won't be very efficient and potent even with less responsibilities.
As someone said there's no way there are 29 players better than T-Mac. Yes his shooting percentage was bad and he's commonly injured but when he's ready he's surely one of the best in the league.
Do you know what his responsibilities have been for the team in Orlando ? He still had 45% shooting percentage when he had no one help him. The reason why his shooting percentage descend was his hurt prone back. He had to make jumper more and layup less after his back was hurt and relapsed several times.
The scoring pressure he took was a trip to injuryland. The amount of points he had to put up in contrast with the amount of talent he had..... He has definately slowed a bit due to his, but his back pain has always been present. He only aggravated it with all the minutes he played and all the pressure. Now what we have is a less atheletic but more teammate relying player.
True.T-Mac is a great team player. He can make teammate even better. We would get the rings if he could play like magician Johnson or Steve Nash.
I wouldn't throw in Steve Nash just yet. He has proven to be great PG and Passer, but he cannot get the job done himself. Magic Johnson is a HOF, but he had Kareem, one of the best centers to ever play the game, with him. This is not to say McGrady is better than them, but others could say we the rockets would've gotten a ring by now if Yao played like Hakeem, or if Rafer played like Chris Paul.
Obviously, Yao<Kareem,T-Mac<Magic Johnson, but we have Artest and Scola. Our paper strength is strong enough. What is the most important thing is the chemistry of the team. I expect T-Mac to be the engine of the rockets other than only a scorer.
