it's not like your opinion counts for much anyways. i call it like i see it, someone else is slobbin Tmac's knob in this thread (hint: you)
I do think that glare he gave Scola was just a really uncool thing to do. This isn't some idiot. Scola works his butt off, and he was clutch in tonight's game. I don't think the Rockets would have won if he'd been on the bench and Chuck had been out there. Also, it's not like T-Mac doesn't screw up too.
You ever play basketball and got frustrated at your teammate for not doing something? Its just in the heat of the moment and part of being competitive. Maybe its uncalled for but I dont think we should make a big deal out of something minor.
I don't care if he screws up on defensive. And the reason we're a better defensive team without him is not because he screws up, but because he play with consistent intensity. This guy takes more plays off then Randy Moss (on defensive only). When he tries, he can be a shut down defender. The problem is, the effort is almost never there. And it's been getting worse over the past couple of years.
as long as he's on scrubs, it wouldn't make a difference. when he's on good players, his shutdown D side appears. so relax. he's always on scrubs so it's nto going to affect our D that much. we're still a top 2 defensive team.
It happened twice, but yeah, I agree. I don't know if I should even mention this because I'm probably over-analyzing, but it seemed to me like T-Mac was really reluctant to dish the ball to Scola in the fourth even when he was open. Then, after Scola hit that clutch jumper, T-Mac got him the ball.
Yeah, but he needs a little more effort regardless of who he guards. This the NBA, almost anyone can burn you if you put no energy in it whatsoever. Which probably explains why we are a better defensive team without him despite his primary back-ups being the defensively challenged Luther Head and Bonzi.
except for losing in crunch time against NO, Denver, and Boston.... How ironic it is that we win in Crunch time against San Antionio and now Portland. Get off the hate t-mac tirade man. No one is blowing him like you claim, frankly, can't you just admit you were wrong about the guy?
We used to put Tmac on the other teams best Scorers. I remembered Tmac was put on Dirk and completely shut him down.
I don't think a lot of people in here will get off tmac's back until he delivers us a couple of playoff series victories.
Uh, what exactly did I post in this thread to generate this type of attack? I didn't hype him up at all .. just commenting on what the OP said about Tracy being used as a point. What have I made Tracy out to be, anyways? Let's hear it.
You know all Mac needs to do is play 82 games a year + Playoffs ONLY THE 4th QUARTER. Our team is so good for 3 quarters without him, we just have no one that can close out games, that is why TMac is so important to this team. Honestly if we could find 1 clutch shooter with handles down the stretch he would have the same effect on this team as Mac. I am not saying he is as good as Mac cuz healthy Mac is as good as anyone in NBA, but this team doesn't HAVE to have TMac, we just need someone down the stretch, if we could get a solid PG + someone clutch down the stretch I would still trade Mac and his injuries for that.
Here's the worst misconception: we have a fluid offense against scrub teams while T-Mac is out, and then T-Mac comes back against San Antonio, Portland, and Seattle twice and our scoring goes down, and all of a sudden people put two and two together and say that he is the reason our offense is not as effective anymore. HELLO PEOPLE, WHEN YOU PLAY BETTER DEFENSIVE TEAMS IT WILL BE HARDER TO SCORE. We did score 109 in that last Seattle game didn't we? Just take it easy and give them more of a sample size to play their game before you make any conclusions about who affects what where.
tigermission1 is the best poster on this board, hands down. you have a way of articulating things exactly the way they are. tmac cant be touched, and we're keeping him for as long as we can.
He hasn't gotten back to 100% yet, but I like what I've seen of McGrady so far. He seems to feed off the energy of the rookies when coming off the bench. And during the Portland game, he seemed especially communicative, talking to Scola, Landry and even Yao and trying to get them on the same page. Overall, he looks to me to be taking less of a laid-back approach than before his injury. If this continues, it bodes well for the rest of the season.
I think T-MAC was in a sharp mode these games,so he can drive the team with any way he like. But I want he play more D and more movement without ball-controll when his mode is not so sharp...
