Does this means that TMac will not play tomorrow at home? I am sure he will not mine not playing with all the negative pub his being getting by the Chronicle.
Man, the last couple of minutes it was TMac-Yao-Tmac-Yao-Tmac-Yao on offense with mixed results. Still you want your stars to try and win it for you, and ultimately they did. Well, in spite of Rafer's best efforts anyway. TMac played the entire 2nd half. Can't imagine he plays tomorrow, but it would be nice.
I think the pick and roll offense is fine when t-mac has the ability to get to the basket because he can usually score or find the open man. I don't like it so much now because tracy is too slow. our defense doesn't look great but I don't think artest has been that great defensively either. he is hurt though. who we really miss is shane battier. he guides people to the right spot and usually picks up their slack on rotations and assignments.
A win is of course better than a loss. However any real rational fan would not be happy with the game. Because it still seriously lacks passion, desire and team work. Didn't Steve francis say HE BUILT the toyota center? The similar arrogance is still happening in one of our star players---Tracy Macgrady. It's his Team?! When you are at your best it's your team. When you are not, you better play more like a team. And a player can decide he can play in just one of the back-to-back games? For god's sake, if you are really injured, sit your ass down and nobody will blame you. I just can't you give a lukewarm effort and even become a disruptor when you are on the court.
Yao finally found his rythm in the last few minutes. I hope he will do a better job in the next game.
You get the good with the bad with McGrady. He drives to the basket to start, he settles for jumpers in the second half including an absolutely horrible shot in the last two minutes of the game with the Rockets up two. He did a good job of setting up Scola in the second half. You'd like to see him either hang onto the ball less or start his movie earlier though.
Mcgrady is still the best player on our team believe it or not, im comfortable with him taking that shot the way yao was playing tonight.
absolutely, that second spot is wide open. i predict it'll be between us and utah, two teams who are much much better than their records indicate.
Even with the Thunder's abysmal record this season, I think they're better than it indicates. I recall someone posting about their point differential being a lot better since Thanksgiving or so. Anyways, it was good to see McGrady play well in the first half. He obviously cooled off in the second half, but he still gave the team a boost when he hit the three late, and then drilled the two free throws. Yao had another unfortunate night against the smaller bigs of the leagues, as he usually does. I hope he gets it together for tomorrow versus an even smaller big in David Lee.
A much improved performance from T-Mac tonight. He got 4 steals and got to the line 10 times. Alot of people talk about hwo the player movememnt stops when the ball is in T-Mac's hands. That is not a T-Mac problem, but a team problem. Now, when T-Mac is off the ball and not moving that is his problem. It is not hard when T-Mac has the ball in his hands to set a pick for him or a pick for someone else off the ball. It not a good sign when we get outrebounded by the Thunder 31 to 44 and allow twice as many offensive rebounds. 16 turnovers is too many for a Play-off team. 20 Thee point attempt is too many. Von Wafer had a poor shooting night, but you have to expect that some nights. I do expect that when they are not falling he attacks the basket and gets too the line. He was able to do that which, is a positive. As far as Yao goes, someone needs to find out why he doesn't get calls. It is time for the club to be more outspoken, or this will hurt us in April/May.
Great Win Over the lakers tonight. Kobe was unstoppable and we came through as a team. Mcgrady had a good game.
It's amazing how Von Wafer is saving this team right now. Props to his play and energy. McGrady's still shaky but he looks like he's getting more mobile. Hope it continues.
mcgrady still can't explode off of his right leg, but he had a pretty good overall game tonight. Not great, but good enough to get us the win. I don't care how ugly it was, we were without 2 of our best players, and mcgrady was on one leg...Ill take it.
The only attitude to have. I guess some of us here get upset at Blackjack table when dealer busts while you are holding a crappy hand. Ugly or not, a win is a win. If you want art, go to the museum.
glad to see tmac has some confidence to take last second shots again, been awhile since tmac took a shot at the end of any quarter
