[Magic Basketball]Was Tracy McGrady's Prime Wasted?

If you say that about McGrady, couldn't you equally say that about "greats" like Allen Iverson, Dominique Wilkins, Wilt Chamberlain, and Bernard King? An average player can't produce superstar results just by shooting more. (Actually, most players are not even capable of creating quality shots)

If you had Pat Garrity, Andrew DeClercq, and Darrell Armstrong taking McGrady's shots for Orlando instead, do you really think they would have gotten the same result?

 

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One down.

It's still not an official T-mac thread until DD shows up.

 

It's not official until you get half the haters on this thread and it goes 10 pages. Then you have a legit thread.

 

Scoring a bunch doesn't mean working too hard. Champions don't just dribble and shoot. There's more to it to win the big games. KingCheetah said it best, it's easy to get 40 if you're got the green light from your coach.

 

Anybody?

Go step in the league and play then.

LOL! Tool.

 

Sam Cassell took the Clippers, Bucks, and Twolves to playoff success.

T-mac has been an all star.The dude's talent is not questioned. It's his leadership and attitude.
You don't throw people under the bus, you become the bus driver and you take people to school.

Like Carl Herrera said, when the going get's tough, Tmac gets going (to ask for a trade).

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and for the REAL ORLANDO fan.. I'm sorry that Shaq/Penny broke up, that talent was what was TRULY WASTED

 

Allen Iverson...definitely. Iverson actually has worse TS% and eFG% than T-Mac. But Nique, and especially King and Chamberlain, your comment doesn't seem to make much sense.

His comment was certainly an exaggeration, but I agree with the general premise that for superstar players and scoring champs in their prime, players like T-Mac, AI, etc. were overrated in that it was often as much about volume of shots as efficiency.

Frankly, the late 90's and early 2000's, to me, is kind of like a forgotten weak period of NBA history. You had 2 dominant teams that played solid, fundamentally sound basketball with HOF level talent in the Spurs and Lakers.

The East was a complete joke. While T-Mac's Magic teams never had a ton of talent around him, they were kind of a push against the Hornets and had the Pistons on the ropes the next year. Just like the Rockets teams seemingly had the Mavs and Jazz on the ropes (or close to it) a few years, and the team's could never close the deal.

 

have you seen tmacs numbers comparred to the players you mentioned above.. in a game where numbers matter, his are comparable to theirs in playoffs

 

Exactly. And this describes McGrady's game.

 

Yes, 0 playoffs wins, ZERO.

 

Scoreboard matters.

Wins matter in the playoffs.

if you don't win you don't advance.

So are you tmac fans only interested in fantasy basketball? because back in his orlando days, he racked up some stats.

 

Winning is the most important thing in all team sports, yet for some reason fans of this player don't care about that. it's the least important thing to them.

 

i don't see how anyone can say tmac wasn't focused in the playoffs...guy played his ass off, the stats are there its not even a question

the wins, however, are not there and history will judge him for that

 

This.

 

some of you really need to adjust your sarcasm meters

 

Dudes truly unlucky, first he loses grant, then he loses yao, then he gets the cast he needs but then he needs microfracture surgery.

His prime was definitly wasted, he was at the same level as kobe if not better just never got to showcase it at the highest level like kobe did playing with shaq.

 

Yes. Moral of the story is his prime was wasted... from 2000-2008 it was wasted by team efforts, and from 08-present it was wasted by him becoming a hypochondriac quitter.

 

and it has started already with OP's article. but i'ts not too late if he gets signed this year, who knows he might score again 13 points in 35 seconds or playoffs. :grin: