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

DD have you seen his history of interviews and quotes? it actually makes him look WORSE than good. rarely does anything that comes out of his mouth makes him look "tougher" or things like that.

so why would he lie? wouldn't you think by now he learns how to shut up his mouth and just go about things (ala barry bonds) considering his every quote is usually blown out of proportion?

what's the point of lying when all those things come back and bite you in the butt?

tracy has rarely looked good whenever he opens his mouth. it's time for him just to ignore the media and go about things.

 

McGrady should do the noble thing and just ask to be traded. This is getting rediculous and out of hand enough is enough!

 

that would be the worst decision in his life...

 

It makes him look worse to anyone that pays attention, but IMO, Tmac thinks it makes him look better but exagerating his issues.

Sometimes he lets true honesty slip, like him telling Feigen that he is shutting it down because he is just not playing well and it is his decision.

But then goes off and basically lies about what the doctors have told him, when directly asked....basically calling the release from the organization a lie.

Uh....they are not the ones lying here, Tracy....

Tmac is not smart enough to figure out that he is making himself look bad, or he just doesn't care...either way, he is full of bunk.

DD

 

Truly. This team hasn't proven they can dominate an easy schedule with McGrady, much less without him.

 

TMac is a SMART guy.

 

Well he makes piss poor choices for an alleged smart guy.

DD

 

The guy's a drama queen, and he's a distraction.

 

He may be a lot of things. One of them is a key piece of what is our team right now. If resting now, and coming back better than he was starting this season, then we gotta roll with it.

And at least for now, it's what the fans have to accept.

It's funny that you say drama-queen, because a LOT of posters here could qualify for that label, haha.

 

Sure, we as fans have to accept it. But we can make our opinions known.

Just like that T-Mac injury ticker on the Chron sports page is letting the world know what the Chron writers think.

Just like that reporter who asked T-Mac the loaded question about what fans should think about him taking himself out of games despite being medically cleared to play.

 

I know man, I'm just trying to keep the balance of negativity and positivity. A few of us are fighting a losing battle around here, hahah.

 

You know, I really believe fans overreact. They're not professionals.

But when the sports writers, the guys who get paid to cover sports for a living, start to get pissed off, that says something. That T-Mac injury ticker on the Chronicle's web page is making a statement.

Sometimes negativity is justified.

 

I hear ya. I guess I'm the type that likes my news reported and that's it. That's why I prefer Feigen as opposed to Bline. I just want to hear what facts are out there, and form my own opinion.

Rather than trying to look at both sides of the coin, many just see the bad side. Gotta take the good with the bad. Da Ying and da Yang, Yao Ming?

 

Sometimes there's only a bad side. The best case right now with McGrady is that he's a distraction right now. The worst case is that he's on some kind of strike. In other words the two sides to your coin are "really annoying" and "really, really bad".

Again, negativity is sometimes justified. McGrady's looking more and more like a cancer as time goes on.

And stop trying to pawn this off on Blinebury. Do you think that if it was just him that he would have been able to get that ticker up on the sports page? At the very least the sports editor must have agreed to it.

 

Well I'm glad we are on the same page.

Two or three years ago when he said he was "going through personal problems" and didn't elaborate on them, I thought he was being a drama queen.

Hell, the guy will tell you the inside and outside of every little injury he has and how he is diagnosing himself, why not show the "honesty" that everyone on this board loves and tell us all the excuses that are coming from his personal life?

 

Oh, I wasn't really talking about the ticker. It not only has the pay to not play figure, but it has the number of games he's missed, and our record in those games. So it can show how good or bad we are without him.

I was just talking in general, the overall tone of each of their writing.

As far as McGrady goes I think there is still promise or hope there. Frustrating, of course, but if it means us being more prepared for a post-season run, I'm all in. If he comes back and says he's out for the season, it's sad to say as I'm a pretty big McGrady fan, but I'd be ready to move him as an expiring contract.

For me, I'm just going to keep watching, keep believing, and hope things work out. I guess I just don't see much coming from constant complaining. I hate it when the wife does it.

 

I'm not complaining. I'm just pointing out that I don't see how there's a good side to this.

Look, he's actively disagreeing with medical staff who have cleared him to play. At the very least that doesn't say very good things to me about this heart or his will/desire to contribute. At the very least he's a distraction.

There's a possibility here that something worse is going on though. According to the Chronicle the Rockets organization was surprised to hear that McGrady was going to be out for three weeks. That could mean that this latest move by T-Mac is some kind of strike, some kind of demonstration of his displeasure with the coaching, or management, or whatever. That's a problem orders of magnitude beyond merely distracting. What I don't understand is how the T-Mac apologists can miss this. Isn't it a little suspicious that the Rockets apparently found out T-Mac was taking three weeks off from a reporter?

 

a lot of people on here said tracy killed the team chemistry last yr too. he didn't sit on the sidelines, he didn't travel with the team... there must be something oh-so wrong.

whoopee doo. he came back and the team chemistry just goes to another level. wow, a cancer can do that?

tracy's never been a problem with this team outside of his injuries. it's fine to speculate and all of this like you are doing. but where are the facts?

that he's a cancer? that he hurts the team? that the team is worse WITH him?

this team has always been MUCH better with tracy than without. tracy has been the most indispensable player for this team than any other player.

if that is a cancerous player, well marbury must be a saint.

 

i love people who speculate like you, b/c you probably read too much gossip newspapers and are people who like to gossip in high school.

yes it's a distraction. injuries are a distraction. and yes, they were probably surprised "MILDLY" (that was the word used, "mild"). to you a "mild" surprise probably is a shock.

but did you see what adelman said? that should put all this "speculation" to rest.

according to adelman yesterday, if tracy feels he can't play, adelman agrees with him that he might as well sit out. and that's what tracy feels.

 

Again, Woody Paige said on "Around the Horn" last year that the other Rockets were unhappy with T-Mac because he was a ball stopper.

And again, don't you think it's a little bit suspicious that the Rockets found out that T-Mac was taking three weeks off from a reporter?