You make that video and I'll make one that shows the hundreds of times Tracy hovers three feet behind the three point line while he had every opportunity to cut, set a pick for a teammate to spring them open etc, etc, and actually be involved in an offensive set
Like I said for his SIZE and POSITION not overall league wise. for 5 years he has been asked to play PG for the Rockets when in fact he is not suited for that position at all. Lebron works for Cleveland because he has been naturally playing that style since high school. I have been ranting for a decade now the Rockets need a legit PG not point-forwards or combo guards or undersized 2 like Rafer, Brooks and Francis. That is why it has taken the brains of Morey to start looking for true PG even a young Rubio is solid in Morey's eyes and he is willing to draft a rookie to build up again because you just can't keeping reshuffling a broken system. So before you keep piling on T-Mac for wasting the oppurtunity he was given in Houston, look back at the junk we had collected on our bench and all the misfits at every position. 3 years ago Morey solved one a our biggest problems, he got a top rate defender (Battier) who could guard the other team's best player without having to play superman on offense. Anyone remember T-Mac in 2005 playoffs against the Mavs? Having to guard Dirk on defense then play 1 on 5 basketball at the other end. Yao wasn't even on this planet for that series, he was young, inexperienced and would easily get outplayed by Dampier and Josh Howard. He wasn't the dominant center we know today who lit up Oden and the Blazers. Look I have accepted that its better for us to part with T-Mac and that makes sense at this point. However, some people just keeping defacing McGrady and his time as a member of this team. When T-Mac was acquired, he proved he could play and still dominate. The Rockets just didn't have the players around him to match his level of play. Now that we've finally gotten guys like Battier, Brooks, Landry, Scola and Artest, McGrady has worn down and has been slowly declining with age. This is a natural progression for a team and we must find a replacement soon and move on without him. However, don't just slam a guy and say he had the world in his hand and he threw it away. That is far from the truth.
Tracy didn't do too bad last year... Here's what I think will happen: Tracy is in a contract year, and no one, NO ONE, likes everyone and his mama insulting him. I think we are going to see a pissed off and motivated T-Mac. He won't be vintage McGrady, but he won't be bad either. I'm also betting that DM will wait to trade him until mid-season, which will increase his value, as then he is not only expiring $ but is also talent. The only question is whether Tracy and Ron (if we have him) can learn to get along for 1/2 a season.
Who's to say that wasn't what he was told to do? Stand behind the Arc and when you get the ball outside shoot the three. I think that was one of the main reasons we decided JVG had to go.
Your point is valid T-Mac is lazy when he is without the ball and that is why he is not on the same plateau as Kobe or Lebron. But a lot of that has to do with him playing one-on-five isolation basketball since his early days in Orlando, without any support from his team and the injury to Hill, he was forced into the role of doing everything on both ends to win. That worked for a few years when his youth and athleticism was top notch but then he began to pay the price of playing that way and settled into becoming a one dimesional player on offense. This flaw in his game is too late to change and that is why playing alongside another top level playmaker will help easily cover this deficiency. Let me put this in the simplest way possible: Kobe and Lebron are FACILATORS for their teams on offense. T-Mac is not and so he needs one to make things happen for him otherwise all his talent, atheleticism, potential will continue to fade with time.
Exactly TMac does not like the up tempo game and the time spent here in Houston TMac like it when JVG coaching the slow down game. I wish him well with his new team next season.
The data everybody is citing that McGrady is "mentally weak" is either faulty and reductionist (playoff performance) or based on his most recent injury plagued year. There is so much hysteria about McGrady that a lot of you would dump a valuable asset out of spite. Trading McGrady should be looked into because of his declining health and age and the value of a large expiring contract on the marketplace, but a lot of you are getting overly emotional. The amateur psychology surrounding sports is nearly always complete garbage.
He does remind me of the Baron Davis trade. We will see him on the bench with another injury for most of the season.
