LOL Loser McGrady. Hey Scottie, Paul, & Chauncey, show T-Mac your rings, alright? Why does ESPN even have him on for the postseason? I guess he can talk about the losers going home in the first round? "It's tough. I know that feeling all too well." Spoiler “When I look at McGrady, it reminds me of why Michael Jordan is Michael Jordan and Larry Bird is Larry Bird,” current Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said on NBA TV’s Open Court in 2014. “It’s not just talent, there’s got to be a fire in the belly, there’s got to be a competitive edge where you want to kill the guy across from you.” Kerr added that while he wasn’t familiar with McGrady on a personal level, his perception of “T-Mac” is that of a talented athlete whose fire to win “never manifested itself.”
I sleep easier at night knowing that when given the chance Jordan punched that guy in the face. GOAT (not that mac didn't deserve but that's another topic)
Holy crap, I had no idea his dad was the president of AUB. Definitely didn't know he was assassinated. And Steve was 19 at the time. Side note, I wanted to attend that university -- it was like 40k a semester....lol
I don't understand how some people on this board need to ever defend Mcgrady. Besides the last few years where Tmac was basically used as an asset, the man has burnt the bridges at every place he's been acquired. We're not the only fan base Tmac has pissed off. Toronto- China ... Tmac screwed us all with his BS...
McGrady a Rockets legend my A$$!!!! Legends are for players who did magical things in playoffs and getting out of the 1st rd is a start.
Dear mouth-breathers of Clutchfans: do you honestly believe that Tmac sabotaged his own max-contract career on a championship-caliber team by "choosing" to get an "optional" surgery? Are you sure that he would've been medically cleared, had the trade actually happened? Are we going to choose to hate TMac forever because he had a falling out with Rick Adelman? Dude was gutted that he didn't win in Houston. I've never heard of a guy who cried at a press-conference getting called out for lack of heart. Sick of Clutchfans being ESPN-level clowns, using one-liners towards one of our own guys that gave 100% in the playoffs, especially over one of the most arrogant, self-promoting coaches in the league. I can't believe more people aren't upset at the Rockets organization for fielding a roster where only 4 players scored in a playoff game. Neither of those Jazz series were TMac / Yao's fault by any stretch of any hater's imagination, and Donaghy has raised some serious smoke about the Mavs series in '05. At Clutchfans we should be better than Skip Bayless in terms of basketball analysis. As a fan my heart got stomped on with TMac and Yao during those series, and I'm just a die-hard fan, I wasn't the one living that moment on that court. You're not gonna catch me throwing Yao or Mac under the bus for some god-awful squads. Do better.
"one of our own guys"? You mean the same guy who freakin quit on his teammates? The same guy who picked the Lakers to beat the Rockets in the playoffs (while he was still on the Rockets)? If you think people "hate TMac because he had a falling out with Rick Adelman" than you're about as clueless as Skip Bayless.
OOPS - you countered my questions with a question that I already addressed, and you countered my Skip Bayless jab with one-liners. There are long paragraphs of discussion about the Lakers quote from years ago in which I was heavily involved. Extremely stupid? YES - should I rage about it for ten years? Does it nullify all the times that he did play his heart out? Apparently to some people. Was he just insinuating that his team was major underdogs? Possibly, still stupidly said by him. Was he saying he didn't want the Rockets to win? Probably not. This is just another herd-mentality thing that sportsfans do, like the people who plug their ears and say the Rockets only won because Jordan retired. The "betas" are the guys who get some kind of kick out of repeating the same jokes in every thread, as if that changes the past. Can't even be bothered to acknowledge how awful those rosters are. (4 players scoring in a playoff game!!! I mean, dayum.) Hell, can't even be bothered to talk smack about Kerr or the Warriors, our current arch-rivals. Take any game TMac played in and we'll look at the stats and break down the story in a rational way. Tracy McGrady played over 11,000 minutes in 303 regular season games in a Rockets jersey, and yet we're mad 10 years later because he quit in a regular season game once. If I wanted to have this conversation I could go talk to any GSW or OKC fan.
Tmac got max salary and played in 20 playoff games Harden is so much better than him I’m glad the world knows that
Thank goodness we have Harden now. But I don't have to bash the players who survived the bad times to enjoy what we have now.
Because it’s the same thing as Lin fans They think it’s everybody else’s fault They aren’t team only fans like you brother
I saw the Hakeem era That was class What Tmac did in Houston was not class and of course absolute failure for the playoffs He even said it It’s on me
