I think personally things have turned out in a bad way if he shut it down the season Yao was out. That 22 game win streak and the play off that season really took his body out. If he shut it down the same time Yao did then the Rockets would have been so much better off to be honest. T-mac would have beena ble to rehab properly and play last season. Sure we would have written off two seasons, but both seasons were a write off anyway when its all set and done. I think fans need to be objective, Yao Ming was equally to blame for us not getting out of the first round when T-mac was here. Worse thing is he can't even walk right now
He was. I remember reading an article on Yahoo.com that he was 20 pounds heavier than the year before. What's more he was completly out of basketball shape. I am not saying much cause you can't see much but he looks to be in much better shape. Losing weight helped. 20 pounds is a lot.
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So much for keeping his mouth shut and letting his play do the talking: AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Tracy McGrady doesn't see himself as an old, broken-down basketball player. He's hoping that his free-agent deal with the Detroit Pistons will help him prove that to the NBA. McGrady "It's not like I'm 41 or even 35," McGrady said after signing a one-year, $1.3 million contract Monday. "I just turned 31. No one has come down and stolen away my talent -- I still have a lot in the tank." Knee problems have limited McGrady to just 65 games over the past two years, and he struggled to make an impact last season with New York. In 24 games with the Knicks, all starts, he averaged just 9.4 points. "I was coming back from an injury, and I wasn't healthy enough to play the way that I will be able to play this season," he said. "The difference between my knee last year and this year is night and day." McGrady knows that years of back problems and microfracture surgery on his knee mean that he won't be the same high-flying superstar who led the NBA in scoring in 2002-03 and 2003-04. But he still thinks he can be an impact player. "I probably can't dunk on guys like I did against Memo Okur here in 2003 -- I hope that's not still a bad memory for Pistons fans -- but I can still put the ball in the hole," he said. "Even last year, when I wasn't recovered, there were two or three games where I was able to take things over for the Knicks. I'm going to be able to do that more this year." McGrady is also optimistic about working with Pistons conditioning guru Arnie Kander. Kander is widely credited with reviving the career of another veteran who came to Detroit after devastating knee injuries -- Antonio McDyess. "Because of what Arnie did for Dice, I know I'm going to be in great hands here," he said. "He's had me doing some crazy things, but he's the best in the league, so I'm going to do whatever he says."
I think the Piston fans don't care. They are probably more bummed that Robert Horry hit that game winner on them in the Finals. I'm sure Okur was laughing at Tracy's crying "Its on me speech" when Okur hit that 3 in Toyota Center <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9NEAvvARppc?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9NEAvvARppc?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Have fun Pistons fans!
Title of the article should read "McGrady cannot prevent his play from making the loudest statement of the status of his career"
You can tell Detroit was at the bottom of his preferred destinations. McGrady still has skills, if his knees can hold up he's easily worth more than 1.3 mil/year
