IBM- You know, we've had our disagreement about things in perspective, and I know who you defend, but there isn't a player on this team that doesn't play better without tracy than with him. Now you can act brand new like this team wouldve made the playoffs without him, but that's your own misguided attempts to fool yourself. You do remember Bogans played in the injury plagued season or did u tune out when Yao went down? Luther Head, Shane, Rafer, Hayes couldn't get significant playing time on any winning team in the league. I guess I'm making that up too? We can go back and forth about this, but the record don't lie. You pull the record and tell me the outcome and the players production when he plays vs when he doesn't. That's not the point though. The point is the same, if the author has information that the organization is tired of him, just move him. Its not that hard. The heat traded a injured, uninspired shaq and got marion. Move him or be quiet.
The most vocal Rocket has been Rafer. I'm wondering if he's the source? It's much easier to move his contract than McGrady's if this continues. Then again for another PG not involving Scola or Landry all the Rockets might be able to get back is Marquis Daniels or Earl Watson. The Artest info could have been leaked by the front office as a wake up call a swift kick up the behind to motivate him.
He really crossed the line this time No need to be so harsh on the team, especially on T-Mac, it's not like Marbury situation.
A bit of adversity could make the team closer. I trust Daryl Morey to make the right decisions if need be.
Sue Blinesbury? He had his time with Hakeem. Now he just needs to shut up. At times I wonder if he actually likes the Rockets, or just a major Hakeem fan. I rarely see any true complement towards the Rockets. Everything he says has a downside that outweights the positives. Sometimes you don't want a complete kiss ass or a homer to be your writer, but you don't want a complete ass doing it either. We're on the positives as of now, I have no problem if he decides to bash on when we're on the negative, but we're not. So even if the rockets aren't playing up to their level (yet), there is no need to bash our players on and on. The next game if McGrady doesn't show up. Lardo can talk as much as he wants. Not to mention, whats with concealing the rocket player identity? Why not just mention the name. As far as I know, Rafer called out our players, and his name was shown. Going to an all-time low if for Fran if he was actually just lying. All time low to the point where you can't call him a rocket fan no more.
So now Fran is now blaming T-Mac for Artest not playing? Unbelievable. I hate sports writers who take it upon themselves to hammer a player with passion and prejudice.
The schedule looks fine right now, the players will finally get some rest which is also good for Yao, not only T-Mac. But as I know, he needs to make his knee stronger, maybe back to backs are not great for that but upcomming schedule may help. But if the decide to shut him and Artest down until they are 100%, I am all for it.
I heard it also. The guy called the 610 radio show on Friday and said that he got himself some pretty good tickets near the Rockets bench and had the sign out prior to the game and that Alston(?) got a kick out of it, Mutombo just stared at it, and then McGrady came out, saw it and smirked. He said the arena didn't take the sign from him but security kept harassing him all game to put the sign down every-time he brought it out on orders that McGrady didn't like the sign.
In my opinion, I think Tmac is faking his injury. From now and as the trade deadline approaches, you will see tmac start to play better.
Yea, that's really funny about the shoulder. I haven't seen one game this year to where he was favoring the injured shoulder.
Are you new to the Chronicle? Like someone pointed out, Feigan is kind of the company man. He's always positive. When he went off at TMac a couple of weeks ago, I knew there was something. If this piece was written by Feigan, I'd listen more carefully. Blinebury is the opposite. He always, I repeat, HE ALWAYS bashes certain players. His tone is always negative, making things look worse than they are. When he says something good about TMac's influence on the team (I am not holding my breath) I'll listen. The article cites no substantial evidence except an anonymous quote to back up whatever he is "reporting." It's just typical Blinebury.
I don't need to do that, it is obvious. But to the article, once everyone in the locker room is laughing or doesn't care anymore or trust a player, it is time to go. Also, anyone blaming Fran for making this up is off their rocker, a newspaper can not print something that is not true or they are libel. This article or blog is 100% factual.....but some of the T-Ostriches don't want to believe it. Grow up ! DD
Look, this article is just alarming. Sounds like our locker room is about to blow up. The Artest part just makes me shudder. Is it me or is Fran suggesting a T-Mac for Marbury + David Lee trade? Are you serious? We wouldn't be going anywhere with that trade, although I think we can pull it off - NY doesn't know whether they should resign Lee and plainly, they suck too much now. Plus anything that gets Marbury off their hands sounds good. I never thought the problem would amount to T-Mac. And he's still, well, basically untradable. The question is still this: can they work it out? Can McGrady work it out? Because working it out, with McGrady, is still their only chance of doing something big. C'mon T-Mac, this is the time to show that you are truly special. It's not a bout threes or drives but show us you care. Hell, show us your name ain't Stephon.
He may have heard the quote but I can almost guarantee you that he is using it out of context. The thing that really gets me is that he is trying to bash McGrady more by blaming him for Artest's situation. If he had left that part alone, focusing on mainly the quote he used, I think he wouldn't be getting the criticism that he is. But that's typical BlinDbury: Taking something that he could use for a story with some validity, then blowing it up so that he loses credibility.
It's not a news piece, it is a column. Think op-ed. Libel laws? Not here. The questions are: is this factual, truthful, B'burry (sic) raking muck; is this story 'planted' by the Rox to grease the way to the fans for a divorce (er, trade)? I anticipate Tracy MacGrady will be an ex-Rock by 2/19. Don't you? I just don't know what to anticipate in return. I believe DM the GM is too smart and wily to allow another Pippenesque dump. Destinations? GSW, Det, LAC, Heat are my guesses.
Pull it off? Walsh would be sending Morey Christmas cards for the rest of his life if that happened... http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-090110-11 I hope it stays that way.
This exact thing happened in Orlando, where Horace Grant called him out in the press, just like Rafer and Artest have done. The players are probably tired of his antics, they can see what is going on, unlike some of his fans on this board. If they have given up on him, and by the looks of how much harder they play when he is not around, then it is time to cut bait and jettison this guy. Once a player loses the respect of his teamates, he should move on... And....lest anyone miss the point....the Rockets are not in disaray as a team, this is ONE PLAYER.....Tmac is ONE PLAYER...he is the ONE CAUSING THE PROBLEMS..... All you have to do is move the one cancerous player (read Tmac) and get something decent in return and the team can move on..... Time to cut bait....... DD
I don't understand why nobody is bashing Ron. Look, McGrady has said, he will not play in the 2nd games of back to backs and he has been doing that. What's the point. Now we will have a good schedule, without back to backs and I belive it will help him. As for Ron you really don't know what is going on. He makes the decision before ever game. He may not play in one game and 24 hours later he plays...
