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

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No worries mate......

This will all work out and I hope you stick around.......

DD

 

Uh ... I think the odds are in our favor here.

 

Thanks for one of the best posts in this thread.

I think you may well be right.

 

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[Espn.com] McGrady, Adelman disagree on role

Updated: December 27, 2009, 1:28 AM ET

McGrady, Adelman disagree on role
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.

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.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4772672

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*explodes*

 

Such a strange situation. Adelman says he wants to keep McGrady's minutes at 7 to 8.

McGrady asks for his minutes to increase. Adelman says no.

Then....what? Did McGrady decide he'd rather not play? Or did Adelman decide to bench McGrady?

 

It's past time to move on from this prima donna ...

 

Right. We were lottery bound every year when he was in the rotation.

 

Right. We were playoff bound every year when he was in the rotation.

 

McGrady's missing from the lineup now along with Yao and look at the current won/loss record. They don't look like a lottery bound team today, do they? Their record is not indicative of being lottery bound. I wonder how we are managing to still win games and not be lottery bound while missing Tracy + Yao

 

He was suspended two games for comments he made end of story....they will not trade him or buy him out. Stop taking things out of what it really is DamN

 

Go back to skool!

 

I suspect that one of the Rocket's conditions for recieving the 8 minutes Tmac was getting was to be a team player and not complain about those minutes, especially to the media. It's also reasonable to expect that Tmac has created much bigger scenes behind closed doors than what the Rockets are making public. I think the Rockets were trying to fit Tmac in again, but as a role player and Tmac still sees himself as an All Star starter who the whole team's offense should revolve around. The Rocket's don't think that he is capable of filling that role at this time, and if he is not willing to be a role player then they don't need the distraction.

I don't think the Rockets were trying to show case him though. If they were, they didn't increase his value much, if at all. They showed he can get on the court, but nothing he did is going to really make another team want to trade more for him than they would have before he played. His trade value is still almost completely based around his expiring contract, and that was likely to be the case unless he did come back and play 30+ minutes for an extended period at an all star level. Even if he made a complete recovery to all star level, there would still be questions about how long til the next injury for any team interested in him, which severly undermines his trade value stictly based on his on the court abilities. So what was show casing Tmac for 8 minutes really going to do for the Rockets trade wise?

 

Did either Bonzi wells or Ron artest ever bump heads with Rick adelman to this extent while in Sac!!!

 

it seems more reasonable that the rockets organization is putting a positive spin on the situation by saying that it was a team decision to have Tmac sit the road games out. it seems more likely that Tmac asked to have more time, Adleman said we can't do it at the expense of the team, and then Tmac asked to leave the team for a bit to consider options, instead of playing 8 min a game.