Well pretty obvious he is referring to the two highest paid players on the team who is not playing for this team. Even if McGrady isn't the same player he is getting paid like he is which hurt the team since he's not playing.
Les/Adelman/Morey have royally messed up with the McGrady situation. I was always against them not giving him more minutes. McGrady should have been a little more patient, but I'm willing to bet that he's laughing his ass off right now in his Chicago condo.
I would blame this on Rick. Morey/Les were letting Rick handle the situation. Rick completely bungled it, Morey/Les just supported his coach. That being said, I've been saying since they banned him from being around the team that it was a stupid choice. T-Mac even on one leg could still have helped this team. To be honest, this is the first major mistake Rick has made as a coach for this team. I feel sorry for us as fans and the other team players but I don't feel sorry for the organization. I put the blame squarely on them.
To reinforce the irony, it was Adelman who decided not to play Tmac after his rehab from surgery thinking he was not up to par to the players on the roster. Now today, maybe without thinking straight after a disappointing loss, states clearly that Tmac was a top two player on the team. Hmm, Adelman you are getting old and have never been able to win an NBA Finals. I think this helps explains why because you didnt even know that one of your 'two best' was ready to give it his all this season in order to get a new contract. I guess Adelman deserves that contract expiration after all? Fire him please
Adelman should have just said "C'mon man, give them some ****ing credit, for real..." Adelman was perturbed because while it was a stupid captain obvious question, it cuts to the heart of the matter that we can't beat a team without their best player. Adelman knows this and just pulled out the 2 best players comment to deflect the crux of the question. And that is "are we really good enough of a team as is?"
Maybe 2nd. 1st could be keeping Ariza out there for 39 minutes a night letting him take any shot he wants when he wants or maybe promising him a "featured role" or prominent role.
You know I really love that Adelman said that. I feel like people this season have truly forgotten about Yao. McGrady, I guess you could possibly say he was talking about him. But it could have been Brooks as well due to not getting too much playing time tonight.
Personally I think this situation was mishandled horribly. Not only do we need scroing (which McGrady could still provide) but now we can't even show him off for the deadline because it's already too late. Everyone's like "Morey do this trade! Why hasn't he pulled the trigger!? Iggy! Bosh! Somebody!". We CANNOT trade McGrady if he has had little to NO minutes this season, no matter how attractive his expiring contract is. They screwed up. Royally. I think DoD has a siggy where it says something about Artest being a Trojan horse or something like that, have you ever thought Ariza might be the Trojan horse?
He's referring to their 2 best players via contract dollars that have NOT played at all this season--Yao and mac. It's not referring to AB's lmtd play due to foul trouble.
Isn't it funny how the elephant is back in the room? This is the bed that they, the team, chose to make and they deserve it. If Morey makes something out of T-Mac's contract I will be totally surprised now. I give you-know-who credit for not commenting to the press yet. I think people didn't give him enough credit but hey we have a tough, scrappy, chemistry filled team!
Did you even watch last season? He played on one leg and got schooled nightly. We could have used him last year during a title run, but where was he? Ah yes, getting surgery that took multiple doc's to finally get clearance for. DO NOT NEED this season (or any, for that matter) as a borderline playoff team.
It just sounded better. How is this to make our slumping defense look better... "we lost 2 former defensive players of the year (Artest and Mutombo) and one of the most underrated defensive forces in Yao Ming, of course our defense has taken a hit". That's right, 2 former DPOYs are GONE! We lost 2!
T-Mac on one leg was better than Ariza on offense. Not even close. Last year we had Artard and Battier (who had more action last season despite not starting) which would balance our defensive woes with McGrady in the game.
AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT SEES WHATS REALLY GOING ON.WE DON'T WHAT TO WIN THIS YEAR.DM AND RA ARE NOT THIS r****dED.THINK PEOPLE
