[Houston Chronicle] McGrady to sit out next two Rockets games

rockets4life! · Dec 26, 2009

T-mac leaves rockets?

I got a text form ESPN saying t-mac leaves the team because of no increase of playing time???

v3.0 · Dec 26, 2009

I just heard yao will be out for the season because of foot surgery...??!?

pippendagimp · Dec 26, 2009

rockets4life! said:

I got a text form ESPN saying t-mac leaves the team because of no increase of playing time???
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2pac's been shot!! somebuddy done shot up pac!!!!

Lonestar · Dec 26, 2009

Do u come back from Mars?

NewBigThree09 · Dec 26, 2009

rockets4life! said:

I got a text form ESPN saying t-mac leaves the team because of no increase of playing time???
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buy-out happening?
don't know if this is good or bad...

wakkoman05 · Dec 26, 2009

Not sure, I think the Rockets have officially said they don't want to use McGrady anymore.
Saw this tweet on espn.com:

@RicBucher Worst-kept secret made clear: Hou has no use for TMac, healthy or not, except as cap relief/trade chip. For those who didn't know already. about an hour ago

pippendagimp · Dec 26, 2009

Lonestar said:

Do u come back from Mars?
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are u referring to the Mars which revolves around the flat Earth?

LCII · Dec 26, 2009

just when everything was looking all fine and dandy, the ugly truth comes out?

As someone who is not a hardcore TOH nor a TOF, all this flip-flopping on T-mac's status with the team is just annoying now. Just let him play full time on team or trade him...just put an end to the issue already.

yorkyufan · Dec 26, 2009

larsv8 said:

Im sorry, Im really not trying to pick on you, but you are making this too easy.
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The difference is: Ariza is in Rockets' plan while TMac is not.

ctry2582 · Dec 26, 2009

Since they said he wasn't going to play, he asked if he could go back for his kid's bday 2m or something. They said sure.

Williamson · Dec 26, 2009

ChrisSheridan said:

By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Tracy McGrady left the Houston Rockets and returned home Saturday after being told by coach Rick Adelman that despite McGrady's wishes, his playing time would not increase.

In a strange twist to a story that has had its share of weird plot turns, the Rockets said McGrady received the team's permission to fly back to Houston, in part so that be could be home for his the birthday of his young son, Laymen.

McGrady
But there clearly was an impasse between McGrady and Adelman about what the next step should be in McGrady's comeback from microfracture knee surgery, and the Rockets said the situation would be readdressed Monday after the team returns home from a back-to-back set against New Jersey and Cleveland.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out: Where do we go, and still keeping the rest of the guys moving forward?" Adelman said. "It's kind of a balancing act in trying to figure it all out, and I do not have the magic answer. I wish I did."

McGrady played short stints of 7 or 8 minutes in each of Houston's previous six games, then asked that his workload he increased. Adelman refused, and the situation reached a new juncture after the team's morning shootaround Tuesday.

"I'm a player, man," McGrady told the Houston Chronicle. "I don't make these decisions. I just abide by whatever they bring to me. That's the plan. I'm not going to argue and fight with them -- just run with it. I felt it was time [to increase the routine of playing seven to eight first-half minutes].

"I'm not going to cause any confusion or confrontations. As a player, that's what I felt. They obviously feel different. That's what I have to roll with."

McGrady has the highest salary ($23.2 million) of any player in the NBA and is in the final year of his contract, and several other teams assumed the Rockets were showcasing McGrady for a trade. But Houston general manager Daryl Morey has insisted that is not the case, saying the decision to bring back McGrady and limit his minutes was Adelman's, and there was no urgency whatsoever to trade McGrady.

Where the situation goes from here is a mystery.

"It's just an unknown," Adelman said. "And I don't have the answer for it. I just thought he was unhappy with that situation, and I was uncomfortable trying to go forward and jump-start it again.

"I don't blame any player for saying I want more, and that's basically what he wants, and right now I'm not sure how to do that."

This is the 30-year-old McGrady's sixth season with the Rockets, who have been one of the NBA's surprise success stories this year as they go through a season of transition without Yao Ming (foot surgery) and with McGrady two seasons removed from being a productive player. The 12-year veteran appeared in only 35 games last season before undergoing surgery on his left knee Feb. 24.

Of McGrady's six appearances this season, only one could reasonably be called a success -- a 10-point outing at home against the Clippers last Sunday.

"You know, he was a great player," Adelman said, "and you could go and run the offense through him and all the other guys benefited from it. But now if you're going to do that, because of the injury and the rehabilitation coming back, he suddenly can't do that and we can't go to that. And now that that's happened, it's tough. So we're trying to see if we can't keep a flow where he can still get his touches yet we don't have to put the whole onus on him right now, and that's the dilemma. We need to play a certain way, and he needs to get a feel for what we're doing. And we knew it was never going to be easy."

Chris Sheridan covers the NBA for ESPN Insider.
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Ouch. That bit at the end where Adelman says "he was a great player" is pretty revealing.

11Rox4Life3 · Dec 26, 2009

LCII said:

just when everything was looking all fine and dandy, the ugly truth comes out?

As someone who is not a hardcore TOH nor a TOF, all this flip-flopping on T-mac's status with the team is just annoying now. Either he comes all the way back on the team or he gets traded...just put an end to the issue already.
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Thank you, fully agreed. Just end the mess already.

Air Langhi · Dec 26, 2009

yorkyufan said:

The difference is: Ariza is in Rockets' plan while TMac is not.
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And the question you have to as is why? Ariza is pretty much garbage.

pbthunder · Dec 26, 2009

MrRoboto said:

Defense of T-mac at all costs will certainly wear you out.

Especially when he makes it so difficult to defend his actions time after time after time.

You are like the chastity belt protecting T-mac's vagina from the piercing barbs of reality.
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I think you have some misconceptions about sex...

ElPigto · Dec 26, 2009

number22 said:

CIya tracy!!!!

But seriously how many 20+ pages, t-mac threads are going to
pop up everyday. Every twist and turn has to be a 30 page thread really?
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As long as DD posts, there will always be long threads about T-mac.

Entropy · Dec 26, 2009

Air Langhi said:

And the question you have to as is why? Ariza is pretty much garbage.
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As badly as Ariza sucks, Me-Mac is much more detrimental to this team with his attitude.

mig0s · Dec 26, 2009

Wow did we just get tied up by the Nets?

Lonestar · Dec 26, 2009

pippendagimp said:

are u referring to the Mars which revolves around the flat Earth?
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I was replying to the OP rockets4life! :grin: :grin:

There is a book called: man are from Mars, woman are from Venus

So We all are from Mars :grin: :grin:

mig0s · Dec 26, 2009

mig0s said:

Wow did we just get tied up by the Nets?
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Sorry wrong thread :grin:

michaelshl · Dec 26, 2009

finally, i can post my first reply....
I was really wondering what's the benefits of keeping Tracy out of the court, will Morry get a better deal intrading him?

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