Rocket playoff failures, McGrady and Scottie Pippen join forces

You do realize that he's on record saying that he didn't think he could trust his teammates, right? Then immediately after, the outstanding PG Chauncey Billups put him in his place saying that not trusting your teammates was a recipe for disaster. The Rockets team with Pippen was too old, that's all.

His numbers are important, but the way he treated the game is why he lost year after year. He didn't raise his level of play, he just held onto the ball a lot more. His numbers stayed the same as his turnovers increased. Team > numbers.

The last thing I said describes his career failures.

 

Tmac on one leg without Yao had 40 in Utah and almost forced a game 7 before the jazz ran over the top of us in the last quarter in 08.

 

Tmac and wining don't jive but you're deep hate for him is somewhat misplaced regarding the playoffs. They guy busted his ass off but he just did not know who to win. Some people are born winners and some are not.

 

ESPN should hire Vernon Maxwell instead.

 

How can you blame him? He had Yao two times in the Playoffs and other than that there was no other scorer on those teams. You can play revisionist history but I remember those games and him having the ball the majority of the time because no one else could create other than Yao. And skip to a degree but his teams were bad.

 

T-mac is a future Hall of Famer and a Rockets legend. No matter what tinman does or how hard he tries, he will never take away T-Mac's aforementioned status among the NBA and Rockets organization. Tinman will spend every waking moment until his death trying to marginalize McGrady's legacy, but it'll be like a scientist spending his entire lifetime trying to disprove gravity. It simply won't work.

 

Tmac had some amazing moments and will go down as one of the most electric players and certainly among the best dunkers in NBA history. Unfortunately, he couldn't get the job done in the playoffs -- Couldn't stay healthy, either (Yao too). That whole era of Rockets basketball was a boulevard of broken dreams.

I still think the career defining moment for Tmac was the 2003 series against the Pistons and the 2004 series vs Dallas. Both years he took commanding series leads and blew them. Went up 3-1 against Detroit and couldn't find a way to pull it out, went up 2-0 against Dallas while winning both games on the road, and still blew the series.

Kirilenko clowned on him pretty badly when the Rockets faced Utah, also. Though, I blame JVG for some of that because the offense was simply horrible and painful to watch.

 

The guy to her right.



Anyway, it's weird that two former Rockets are going to host another show again. Perhaps in the future James and...let's go with Ron Artest will host a show together. That'd be fun.

I liked T-Mac when he was here but dude pissed me off in that Utah series. Very talented but never was a leader, I'm sad to say. Pippen however was a whiny little prick who shined Jordan's scrotum with his tonsils for breakfast every morning. I don't want to hear anything that guy has to say. Where was 2016 for him?

 

I picked Quitten in the poll, but honestly dude doesn't really consider him to be a Houston Rocket even though he technically wore the jersey. I have worn Rockets jerseys too before, but that doesn't mean I played for the Rockets or anything, man.

 

I don't understand why tinman hasn't been banned for trolling by this point. But I guess this forum doesn't have those kinds of rules.

 

tinman is just a sad old man