McGrady, Rockets hands out a can of "SHUT JO MOUTH" in Game 5

No chance.


McGrady gets no aplogies from most of the haters in here until the Rockets are in the 2nd round. And he wont get it from many of the haters here until the team is in the Conference Finals.

He wont get it from some of the haters here until the team is in the Finals.

And wont get it from a select few of the haters here until he WINS the Championship.

These are the facts of the case, and they are indisputable.

 

Mcgrady have a 3 page message for the Jazz.....Page 1 complete

 

SO you are saying that haters want T-mac to do something that even the great God Kobe couldn't do, carry his ENTIRE team on his shoulders to the second round w/o any other legit offensive threat???

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

 

Even then, they'll wonder why we didn't sweep the other team in the Finals. If we do sweep, they'll wonder why he didn't average a quadruple double.

 

For some.


I think the majority will say something with a series win.

I am of the opinion that if T-Mac plays hard, and does his best for the team to win, I can live with the result. Which so far he has done. I dont really care what he says, since there are many ways to interpret something that a person says, especially if you dont have all the context. And yes, I want him to succeed, not only for the Rockets, but to shut up all the unnecessary hate he has received. Really, saying T-Mac will NEVER do something on the basketball court in a team oriented game is utter foolishness.


If you had said in 1986 that Charles Barkley would NEVER win an NBA title you would have been foolish. You would have been right, but you would have had no way to guarantee or know what would happen in the next 10-15 years.


Beano Cook KNEW that Ron Powlus would win multiple Heisman trophies, but he got none. You never KNOW what will or won't happen in the future. And judging it by a perceived trait or lack of a trait offers no benefit either way.

 

McGrady played great tonight, but any game where his jumpers go in make him look like a bad***. Anyone who says he is a quitter though is mistaken. He may be a bit gimpy, but he has too much pride to half-*** it in the playoffs. I've been impressed with him since game one. He has been giving it his all and I can respect that even though his shot weren't falling in earlier games.

Here's to a game 7 here in HOUSTON!

 

That is a lot different from McGrady's situation because NBA sophomore Barkley didn't have a decade's worth of data that you could evaluate to arrive at that conclusion.

It's not like we're all doing Nostradamus impressions and making up things about McGrady as we go along. His follies are well-documented, and unfortunately, we've had a front row seat to them for the past four years.

If he wants a cookie for showing up tonight, then call me a hater for not giving it to him. If he had sent his message in games one and two, we could have been off to La La Land already.

 

Correct. Haters will be haters..

 

Right, but the point is never say never. Continually spewing the same venom only makes you look sure of yourself(and nostradamus-like) and border on hoping the failures continue to vindicate yourself.

*Yourself doesnt refer to you Anti-Sonic but a general "you."


And I dont think he showed up any more tonight than he did the rest of the series. I think his jumper was better(not as flat) but he was just as aggresive (and maybe moreseo than game 4) as the other games and shot the fewest FTs. Take 3 of his made jumpshots and count them as miss, and you have 10-26 which is similar to his 9-25 of game 4. His assists and rebounds wernt as high, but other guys picked up the rebounds and several of his feeds to players at the bucket earned them trips to the foul line even though the shot didnt go in.

 

I think the people who use the term "haters" are the real haters.

I love McGrady as much as his biggest fans when he's playing hard and playing smart. When he's at the top of his game, his fandom, me included, experiences nirvana in orgasmic proportions.

However, nobody's perfect. And even when he plays like a champion, it does not mean we should completely ignore his flaws, or that he has nothing to improve upon. Constructive criticism is what being an educated fan is all about, not blind love or hate. You seem to be the one hating on other fans.

Nevertheless, major props to T-Mac for his game 5 performance. Lead us to the promised land!

 

Good thing he doesn't need any cookies from nobodies like you.

You can accuse him of missing his shot and making some mistakes, but there's no doubt that he's playing hard. We're not even talking about his well-documented follies, as you so eloquently put it. We're talking about here and now, and it looks to me like he's playing his heart out. It's cool, you don't like him, I think that's pretty much been established. Just come out and say it without trying to hide behind a facade of objectivity.

 

T-mac just needs to send the message 2 more times. He can't just send one tonight and be satisfied. (Otherwise we lose the series of course)

 

Critics and haters are 2 different things.


Critics are the ones who say he shouldnt be missing as many FTs as he has over the course of the series. That a shooting guard should be over 75% and all that.

Haters are the ones that interpret everything he says or does in the worst possible way, even if its also the least logical explanation for what was said or done.

 

Do you think T-Mac has better control over whether he shoots over 75% free throws, or over what he says to the media and fans?

 

If you want to spread love and peace, you gotta change the tone of your starting post.

Your choice of words are accusatory and inflammatory in nature.

You've already lost the majority of support when you say "Shut The Hell Up" and lash out at the "haters".

This post is not about celebrating or defending T-Mac's game 5 performance.

This thread is about "I told you so" and "Screw all of you who ever had a bad word to say against T-Mac". Petty and personal. What did you expect?

 

And nobody owes T-Mac an apology.

The guy has made tens if not hundreds of millions in his life time.

He's a public figure and competes in a public setting.

Whatever criticism or verbal butchering that comes from the media or fans are a part of his job.

From what I have seen, he's trying his best to handle it despite some turbulence. He can use a media relations coach.

 

Aux contraire. I don't mind losing the series if McGrady plays his part.

The Jazz are talented and healthy, while we are inferior in both those categories.

What I want to see is McGrady doing what's necessary such that, if the Jazz slip, he will capitalize.

His performance in Game 5 is the same performance we should have seen for all games. But I'm glad he's finally improving.

What gives me hope is that he tends to perform much better on the road, so if he steals one of the last two, the team can handle the other.