lol, they are gonna show him (the tmac puppet) sitting on the sideline drinking gatorade, and talking shyt, while the kobe puppet is running suicides and lifting weights..lol, the tmac puppet is never gonna work out, just talking thrash while the kobe one works out..
I missed the part when this became such a bad thing. He is making millions of dollars and is the go to guy when yao is to busy getting the ball striped out of his hands in the 4th quarter...Tmac needs to be pushed! Sometimes, emulating and imitating is a great route to take before you can one day create your own lane and make your own name. Kobe came into the leauge will all of Jordans signature moves even down facial movement suck as sticking his tounge out.Maybe T mac can steal some of Kobes swagger which would improve his mental health.The problem with T mac has been always mental.
You, know, rocket3forlife2... I agree with you on this point. That's not something I make a habit out of doing, so don't get happy. I'm one of those glass-is-half-full people. I see the joy in life. I see the positives, not the negatives. That's why I've got these cute little corrective lenses from EyeMasters. Seriously, though...I believe as much as anybody in the ability of people to change who they are. Happens all the time. People have been questioning Tracy McGrady's fire and desire so long, I'm surprised he hasn't started asking Rick James' estate for royalty checks. I don't think that a mentor is a bad thing for McGrady at all, rocket3forlife2. He's probably needed one from the moment he entered the league. It didn't have to be an all-star player, just someone McGrady respected and would want to emulate. That's why he and Dikembe Mutombo were so close while Deke was here. McGrady respected Mutumbo tremendously. All the Rockets did. That...and I think Deke would put up with anybody who'd give him money for his hospital, no matter what kind of louse he was... I can't honestly see it happening, though, rocket3forlife2. And here's why. A player like McGrady has a lot of respect from peers around the league. Even reporters and observers who really don't have anything to gain by being objective have elected to make McGrady and All-NBA player for the past three seasons at least. He's as tempermental and as distant and as shallow an athlete as they come. A monumental waste of talent. Most of them say that about McGrady without batting an eyelash. And all those people with true inside knowledge still don't deny the fact that he's not that bad a player. And that he helps a team win. Despite the fact that he sings me-me-me-me-me-me more than the Three Tenors. The biggest difference between a Corey Maggette and a Tracy McGrady is that, if you switched places with both of them and gave them both the exact same set of circumstances, McGrady's team would be better than Maggette's team more often than not. It's too easy, no matter how right it is, to say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. We still want what's in somebody else's yard, though. Something about their concrete gnomes just puts own own potted begonias to shame... But no matter what kind of outside influences you expose somebody to, rocket3forlife2, the changes that they may need to make must start from within. McGrady has to want to do things differently, if he's going to stay part of this team. I've heard and seen countless references to McGrady quitting and not trying and giving up and torpedoing the team. There have been probably just about as many instances where he sucked it up and gutted it out and gave his best effort, and the same grief followed. For me, as a fan, all of that is neither here nor there. Professional athletes are paid well to perform despite the circumstances. McGrady is too sensitive about some things, especially peoples' perceptions of him, and that does negatively affect him. That's unacceptable. And that's where the whole "mentally weak" argument gets its legs. That's nobody's fault but McGrady's. The only thing I would like McGrady to learn from Kobe Bryant (aside from a consistent 18-foot jumpshot), is how to forget about what may or may not be said about him and just play. Fans are going to love him today and hate him tomorrow (or hate him today and hate him tomorrow, same difference). Press is going to rip him all new holes one day, and make him a plaster saint the next. He really should be over trying to get everybody to like him. I actually just had a long talk with my 15-year-old son about the same thing. If McGrady really wants to win, rocket3forlife2, he's got to take down those overgrown antenna of his and be a better player. And all that means is focusing on improving the things he CAN improve. And forgetting about the things he can't. Winning isn't a popularity contest. If what's been floating around this forum the last few weeks is any indication, we'd just as soon trade all these hard-working, lovable, make-Houston-proud players in a heartbeat for the best chance to win. The same Laker fans who booed Kobe Bryant a couple seasons ago tore up half of Los Angeles in his name last night. Not saying the same will happen here... ...we're decent, respectable folk. We don't follow anybody's lead. We'll go our own way.
totally, we've been hearing all season from guys on the Olympic team how impressed they were with Kobe's work ethic and how they became inspired by it. How this is a bad thing I don't know.
