T-Mac out 3 weeks (UPDATE: Audio from Rick Adelman)

How dumb are these people. Why does it matter how much money he is making? He is not 100% and it hurts the team more than it helps to have him play. We tried playing through the injury and it has not been working. We need to do what ever it takes to get him as close to 100% as possible.

Before the start of the season, all I read about was how we needed to be healthy by play-off time, instead of focusing on winning early then breaking down in March.

Are you muppets able to comprehend that? Seriously, can you do that for me?

How many games did he have to hobble through, before you guys realised he was playing hurt? If I was looking for a team to support, and I spent 10 minutes on these forums, I would cross Houston on the list.

Players have negatives and positives, but every single time a player on our team gets hurt or plays a bad game, you question there character. T-mac played 13 or so games hurt and now that he is trying to recover a different way, his character is in question. Absolutly moronic.

 

Cramps, bloating, vaginal bleeding, etc........

 

Apparently money is suppose to heal injuries.

 

I said the samething when I read that.....we gave up rudy gay for battier....I think

 

do you honestly think this team can win 66% of its games without tracy? like tracy has proven time and time again whenever yao goes out and he has to carry the team.

had tracy sat out the first month, i doubt we win 6-7 games by now. if we cannot get a very good winning record without tracy for most of december, it tells you a lot about yao and artest.

say what you want to say about tracy, but he steps up and puts this team on his shoulders whenever the big guy goes down. and he does it every year.

we'll see if yao has that capability (he has a ton more help) so i expect him to do extremely well and carry this team. he is our other franchise player.

1-2 is not a very good start. but i'm still confident in this team without tracy. but yao and artest better start playing better and play like all-stars.

 

Wow, even Clutch is in on the action with the frustration. I would like to know how the Rockets really feel about the situation? If they really do support Mac's decision, then awesome. Oh and please don't reply to this post with hypothetical dialogues or fanfiction about how the Rockets feel about McGrady.

IMO, T-Mac really was frustrated with his level of play and he knew that he wasn't giving the team the production it needed from him. I also think that Adelman is too diplomatic to tell McGrady straight up that he was hurting the team. I'm glad he's sitting out to be perfectly honest; I don't want to see him hobbling around like that. He's one of my favorite players, but until he can play like an all-star, he should just sit down and heal.

 

It is pretty funny listening to people whine about T-mac saying he is a p***y,whiner, pms, and referring to him as Shemac. Irony Irony Irony.

These same people are the ones whining and crying in every thread like a lil b****. You would think T-mac did something to them personally.

 

What is the injury? The ESPN article says his knee is sore. That's it.

 

if yao is going to be out, i prefer him be out right now and not in the playoffs. get all these injuries out and away in the first 2-3 months.

 

I think he means that we couldn't get Gay or Roy for T-mac and the reason we didn't keep Gay was because Battier fit better on a team built around T-mac.

You could argue that the team was built around Yao or T-mac but that is a different discussion.

 

Actually money healed Magic Johnson from AIDS.

 

His knee is has not been responding to the rehab. His rehab has been to play Basketball games. He got a second opinion, and for all reports the DOctor said that playing NBA basketball isn't the right way to go.
So it is not an injury per say, but his knee is in still not 100% after the off-season surgery.

 

Yes, if the rockets could used the 20 mil. to sign another player. For example, with Billiups, we could win more games. And, Billups only needs half price.

BTW, I really admire your strong nerve!

 

Well I was talking in general, even last year people said stuff like he's making 20 mil he should be out there playing when he really did have an injury.

Even still 20 mil isn't going to cure the soreness in his knee.

People say what T-mac should do but they are not T-mac. You don't know what you would do if you were in his position even making the money that he is making. He played on it and it hasn't exactly worked out so he is going to try to rehab it. I'm not sure what all the b****ing is about when it comes to calling him soft. If that is the case then D-Wade was soft the last few years. Grant Hill really was soft. Yao was soft. Battier is soft. Francis is soft.

I guess it's a lot of soft players in the NBA that money didn't cure and can't cure.

 

If Yao is out right now, we wouldn't make playoffs.

 

I don't understand the collective desperation and exasperation here regarding this news. It was pretty much expected that atleast one of either Yao/Mac would go down to injury this year. That was the whole reasoning behind the Artest trade - to provide as insurance for this very type of situation. You were kidding yourself if you thought they would both stay healthy.

What's more frustrating to me is that Yao is in serious decline and Artest looks even worse. This team was supposedly built for this type of circumstance, but the insurance can't be claimed.

 

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I love what battier brings to this team but that in my opinon was a terrrrrible mistake.....and if you do the trade you should have asked for battier and miller at the time....sorry to get off subject like that..

 

No, you are wrong. the second opinion he got was the same as what the Rockets doctor recommended. Play to strengthen the knee.

The Rockets gave him another week to give him peace of mind. McGrady then came out and said he needed three weeks instead.

 

using that logic, when yao went out last yr and we got a $15 mil/yr player, we would have gotten past the first round?

all im saying is this is the time where yao and artest have to step up and elevate their play? i'm confident they can b/c they have tons of help. they're not off to a good start, but i have faith.

 

u heard it from the man himself....he was gutting it out until the schedule lightened up and battier came back.