im sorry, but the fact is TMAC shoots way TOO MUCH!

ooohhhh....

my spidey sense thinks that you are about to get a BBS smackdown for starting this thread !

 

He shoots a lot, but he also passes it a lot... I think the problem is that he is the only one on the team that can consistently create shots for himself, so other players defer to him (and pass him the ball back)....he's in a shooting slump.. I don't expect it to last for the whole season.. I wouldn't be suprised if he was in the gym right now working on it right at this moment.....

 

Honestly, he's not taking shots he doesn't normally take. Tmac looks injured to me. My wife, who watches only sporadically, thought Tmac looked like he was hobbling. I'd have to agree.

 

The reason I hate threads like this?

Where were you complaining when he was hitting all these shots?

That is for every poster who is complaining about the shooting of our team since the last lost. Seriously. When they hit them you don't complain, so when they miss you do.

He is in a slump, every player gets into a slump. TMAC is a super star, he kept trying to climb out of the horrendus start last night, but he wasn't able to. Someone had to take some shots, and with just about everyone shooting horribly, I would like TMAC to be one of the main shooters.

 

at what point does t-mac tell himself he doesn't it tonight? first miss, second miss, 10th miss? my point is with a player like t-mac he has to keep shooting. he can catch fire and hit 8-9 in a row.

the negative is he might miss those. but great players always think the next one is going in. i can live with that.

as for yao getting more attempts. honestly the problem lies soley on yao right now for 2 reasons.

1. doesn't stay on the floor enouhg either by foul or fatigue.
if yao jacked up 20 shots in 30 minutes thats like a shot 1 out of 3 possesions. this one is easy, more minutes more shots. tmac plays 40+ which is like 1 shot out of 5 possesions.

2. when yao does get the ball in the post too many times he will pass it out to reposition. my problem with that is the other guys work hard to get into position to get him the ball and gives it up to easy. almost 95% of the time when a double comes yao will pass out. at his size he should sometimes trust himself to shoot over the double instead of pass it out for lower % 3. especially if you 3's aren't falling.

 

Yeah, we should trade T-Mac. He sucks!



-- droxford

 

every great player will have ice-cold time and hope he can get it out quick. And yao needs step up but his fatigue prevent him to do so. I remember Wade had bad shooting for 2-3 games but Shaq save the team.(I know yao is far away)
JVG should free yao from defense side and let him focus on off-side.

 

Ballance

for tmac, he shots around 24 and Yao shots about 15(include FT) I think to be ballance.

For these two games, I don't blame our guards and tmac, I blame JVG cuz he want to be 6th so he use same game plan like the begining of the season.

I am happy to be 6th, Period.

Go Rox

 

Out of 60+ games so far, how many games like this has he had. Not too many. He's going to have these type of nights, it's understandable. T-mac is the kind of guy that could be 3-20 in the third and can catch fire in a streak. He scores in bunches, and like someone said, he was just missing shots he normally makes.

 

I agree with most you said except one minor detail: Yao should stay close to the paint on defense-side, that will save him a lot of energy. On the other hand, I don't know whether that will screw up the defense system. I am wonderding how Patrick was used on the defense-end under JVG.

 

I remember he had plenty of bad-shooting (<40%) games.

He's mostly a perimeter player and many of his shots are not
high percentage ones. He's a great volume shooter.

 

Will someone label as TOF? when he try to defence Tmac

 

If there's a point to be made here, it's this:

When a shooter is struggling from the floor, he needs to work on shorter shots, whether that means stepping in a little bit from where he likes to release, going straight to the basket, or working in the post. Passing up tough shots and dishing the ball to teammates for cleaner looks is an option, too.

Tracy McGrady is a volume shooter who's akin to Iverson in that regard but with a better FG %. Taking the ball from TMac's hands would be as smart as building a team around Clutch the Bear.

With that said, sure, Yao needs more looks, and is the primary candidate for those passes I just mentioned. But Yao is passive. He need's to say, "Hey you sleepy eyed mother sucker, pass me the ball or I'll kick you in the nuts."

-P1st, S2nd

 

I am sorry, but he has about 20 games in which he shot <35%.

 

Yes, how could you point out these! Do you think Barry is also an alternative after Yao. he shot pretty good in last two games as well as in this season.

 

If other perimeter people are struggling, TMac takes it on himself to carry the load. If they're hitting, then he's passing. He'd rather be driving down the lane.

 

Another thing.. I think a lot of JVG plays are dependent on Mcgrady catching the attention of the defense.. if teams don't expect Tmac to be shooting, I think some of our plays could potentially fall apart... I think he needs to shoot his way out of this...