But, you know this isn't happening. Any smart GM would have questions if we offered Tracy to them. "Is he not healthy? Will he ever be? Is he a cancer? Is he not competing?" We wouldn't be trading Mcgrady because he doesn't fit well with the team or because we're so set at his position. We would be trading him because he isn't playing well and we don't think he'll ever play well again. No team will offer us anything decent once they figure that out, if they haven't already. Sit him till, hopefully, he gets better and play him when it matters most or wait till later to trade him when teams will be more interested in Tracy Mcgrady the expiring contract than Tracy Mcgrady the player.
You never know we gave up 3 starters for him, after he had quit on the Magic and was a cancer there. Just sayin.... DD
But we traded a cancer we knew for a cancer we didn't. Now we are w/o both, but it bought us some playoff games, eh?
No way. i say dont touch him. We already have good team chemistry right now. Von Wafer and Barry fill the SG hole nicely because they can spread the floor, and we have Artest playing hard and being the enforcer. The last guy we need is a slacker who underachives, and adding T-Mac would be detrimental to the team. He's a very inconsistent shooter, doesn't space the floor, doesn't attack the basket, and doesn't move without the ball, which is what is so essential to Adelman. Adding T-Mac would blow up all of this team's chemistry and success. He just doesn't fit what this team is about. Don't do it Morey!
Are you insinuating this is anywhere close to the same situation? Cause if you are, you need to get your head checked. That Tracy Mcgrady was 25, had just averaged 28 pts and 32 pts the year before and was an athletic freak. This Tracy Mcgrady was already showing signs of decline and has put up numerous single digit scoring nights, averages 15 pts, doesn't run and I think I'm more athletic. At worst, we made a lateral move by getting Tracy. At best the next team that gets him will get slightly worse and maybe improve ticket sales and merchandising. Again, not the same situation...AT ALL...so stop making the comparison.
-A clone of a young McGrady in Wafer? You are the fastest wagon jumper. Are you referring to Von Wafer who could not make any NBA roster for seasons? Von is a nice player, but he can never reach 1/3 of what McGrady has done. And he will go to the bench, soon when TMac and Battier are back.
No, I am saying that just because people think you won't be able to trade him does not make it so. Kwame Brown for Gasol comes to mine...Donte Green for Artest comes to mind. There will be someone willing to roll the dice on Tmac.... DD
I agree with DaDa here that there are always deals that can be made. The question will be with who and how bad our end will be. It's like the proposed Marbury trade. If you take the OP's idea of sitting Tmac until he can help and then assume that he won't ever be able to help, then you have to look at your options. One of those options is Marbury's contract saves us a year of cap hell. I wouldn't let Marbury anywhere near my team though, I'd buy him out like Denver did with Stevie.
What facts and data is this based upon? Isn't McGrady leading the team in assists? Hell, the guy even passes to Chuck Hayes! Hayes! I think T-mac has shown he's willing to adjust his game to try to help the team win. Doesn't appear he's chasing scoring titles to me. He almost had back to back triple doubles, and got only his 4th career triple double this season. Stop living in a fantasy world. There's no player available to the Rockets better than T-mac. So, why don't we fans start supporting him because it's in the best interests of the Rockets.
Kwame Brown was used as a trade deadline salary dump and Bobby Jackson/ Greene were the same thing (except in the offseason) for the Kings. So...you agree that the rockets should atleast wait till the offseason to trade Mcgrady when his trade value will be much higher? You have to consider the incentive for the other team. I am yet to hear any realistic reason why a team would 'roll the dice' on a broken down Mcgrady on his last leg other than for a salary dump.
We gave up 3 players who are now out of the league. The Rockets have won about 10 more games per year since the trade and made regular appearances in the playoffs after a long drought. It is universally accepted that we robbed the Magic blind in that trade. But, please, carry on with your point...
And it was a verrrrry long rebuild. I do not miss sitting around waiting for Steve Francis, Mo Taylor, Shandon Anderson, Kelvin Cato and Moochie Norris to take us to the promised land (or even the playoffs).
Oh come on. Your're telling me if you were the GM at the time you don't make that trade? McGrady has declined... not always been this player.
I may have asked this question before and I have some players I bang on from time to time, but what did tracy do to you to the point you respond to everything with his name involved? I've never, ever heard you admit that he's done anything right as a rocket. Why the hatred for another man?
