If you pay someone 20 MM or a 1/3 or your salary cap, you do expect them to be the leader. I don't think assist numbers are a good barometer for measuring how well T-mac plays within the team. The once every so often hollywood pass, while at times, is nice for us fans, is actually pretty disruptive in terms of rhythm for the other players. There is a reason why donyell Marshall and Damon Jones are playing so horribly in Cleveland. Despite how great Lebron is, he dominates the ball too much. Everybody needs touches to be in rhythm, our team is no different. That's why you see we're playing more effective as a TEAM without T-mac, because nobody is holding the ball too long.
I remember last year when we went on a roll from 12/12 to 12/23 with T-Mac out and Yao leading the team? Althouth we lost more and win less but I think the team palyed quite well, sevral games were so close. Pls check the schedule to see when T-Mac missed the games and when he came back. T-mac always return when the team get good chemistry and vs weaker teams. This is why we get the damn statistics like "we win .... games when Yao out and we lost ... games when T-Mac out. I was a T-Mac fan but will never again. He is a bad man. Now a web site on 12/23 last year predicted that T-Mac will came back on 01/11 VS Minnesota. Les ss if the prediction is correct.
Don't care if he is paid more than Yao or if Yao is paid more than him. But when you are paid the most, you better play the hardest. Or if you can't be the leader, stop pretending to be the leader. How do you inteprete his comments I posted in the thread? I mean, he said we didn't shoot well while he was the ONE that went 1 out 10 in ONE quarter? Shouldn't he say "I DIDN'T PLAY WELL?" Wake up, man.
Exactly, I second that. Tmac is now sitting on the volcano. After his strange injury, it seems that the team has find out the solution. So please give him some time, Tmac has no choice now. He should learn from Clyder, I don't say Yao is Dream. Even injured Bonzi is better than you, Tmac.Be part of the team, please.
Yeah, 1 for 10 playing injured. It's kinda sad that you are attacking someone who cares so much he plays injured, and you bring that up as an example of not playing hard. Ya know what, you just hate t-mac, it's plain as Manu Genobli flopping!
trust me, the guys are waiting for his return. All the quotes suggest they look upon his return as a point when they will even play better. As heroic and as well as we've played, we still can't beat the elite teams without T-mac. Our opponents know that, Yao knows it, and all the guys know it. We can't beat the elite really without T-mac nor Yao. We need them both. T-mac was only one tiny part of the problem, but he's a much bigger part of the solution. Just have some patience and see how it all works out when he returns. Then judge. The man deserves a chance to play healthy and with a team that's feeling confident and now knows RA's system. Why are some so against him having that chance?
Do any of you guys notice Tracy used to have back issues. Then he went to that guy who helped rebuild his arches, among other things and since then TMac's back has been better and better, but other parts are now getting tweaked. I remember first noticing it in the playoffs last year, TMac left for an injury, but it wasn't his back, was it his hip. And now its a knee. Point being is that the body is almost more of a pattern than a object, its a pattern that perpetuates itself, distributing its strain in the same place again and again was TMacs back stuff. With arches and other work he has gotten, the strain is now shifting around, having trouble at his knees, causing trouble. TMac isn't as good as he is because he hustles like a workhorse, TMac is as good as he is because he makes it look so easy. He finds the ease of his game in his body, and he can only find it when its there for him. Flyin Ryan was a good example of someone who always gave 100 but couldn't find the rhythm to make him more than a hustle player. We all want TMac to show hustle, but I don't want him to stop looking for his rhythm and try to emulate Flyin Ryan. So all this talk about TMac not having heart really bothers me. TMac is working on finding his dominance more consistently, and the condition of his body is the parameter of his success. He has to find the rhythm in his body, he has to find a way down through his knees to the floor. Hopefully he is getting more connected to himself, finding more his rhythm, figuring out more of how to keep himself in the zone, or whatever it is he wants to call it, and spending less time in the weight room disorganizing himself and throwing all that off. Weight training has a limit. I for one want TMac to lead us to a championship, and I think it has more to do with him finding peace in his body and rhythm on the court, than these ridiculous cries about TMac not having heart, or not wanting it bad enough, or not giving the ball up enough, or not being a team player. TMac is dominant, and he is more dominant when he gets his team playing well. Other teams game plan is to shut our role players down and make TMac beat them for 4 quarters hoping he peters in the 4th. Its not TMac who tries to shut out his teammates. Its TMac as much as anyone who wants contributions from his teammates, who wants to win. You guys sometimes are such fair weather whiny little fans. More concerned with your own emotional investment than in the true condition of the team. Well, now with TMac we have AB, and that is the combo I am looking to when TMac comes back. Of course we have Yao, and all the others too, and Bonzi, Scola, Head, Rafer, all of them will score more when TMac is out because the scoring needs to come from somewhere, but its AB that can keep the reins of this team when it matters, looking toward the paint to get things going - which is something TMac, in all his superpowers, and I do have heavy respect for TMac, doesn't do. DD is right TMac is a finisher, and now we have our starter (AB). Just as Rafer is so much more dangerous with Bonzi, Scola, and Head roaming around the court, when the defense can't tell where Rafer will go with it- well, i am looking for AB to do the same with Yao and TMac, perhaps Head and Novak on the far side setting for 3s. Wow, sorry, so long - anxiously waiting for objections to my rant.
tmac for gordon and deng...and we're set brooks gordon deng CARL LANDRY yao dont tell me that you dont like the look of that team or even brooks gordon bonzi deng yao now were talkin and in addition to that. rafer, head, scola, hayes for lamarcus aldridge, sergio rodriguexz our team would be beastly brooks gordon deng aldridge yao bench: bonzi, landry, mike james.
How long are we gonna wait for "tmac to fit in the offense". For a team built around him its pretty lame. He is the biggest disappointment I have seen from a star. Believe me every rival team coach couldnt care less that tmac is throwing long bombs from way outside, that way he effects the game the least. Last year we couldnt even win the series vs utah with game 7 at home, and before that we had 2 ROAD GAMES Vs dallas at the playoffs and still lost the series. Breaking yet another negative record. T-Mac can go make his nice statistics numbers elsewhere on a grey team. This is a joke.
TMac is a great player. Until now, he can contribute a lot to the team. 4 wins during the last 6 games did not say much.
I m not so sure. Shoud I ask you That is why he is called 'injury-prone'. To be honest, I dont think some one is born to be 'injury-prone' Finding his rhythm is what he's been doing in every game, isnt it? Since when, you've been seeing he hustled back to the defense end? not often. How many times he paced to the offense end and shot at the early clock. When he was holding the ball, he was not playing other teammate's rhythm but always himself's , right? Things turned out that would not work. So cut the whole 'rhythm' crap. Every one else in the team is adjusting and, as a leader, he is definite of no exception. Until T-mac has fulfilled the promises you made above, it's not reasonable to shut my mouth up i m a bit lost here.
You know I notice that a lot of the people who criticize t-mac really don't know much about basketball. So they attack him for his demeanor and calmness - being too much like Buddha i guess. He's attacked for not diving for balls and throwing his body into it, trying to run around the court like a mad man. I guess they think if you make a lot of money in sports you have to play a certain style? Well, I've never heard of that. A pitcher gets paid a ton of money not for hustling out to the field from the dugout but for throwing strikes and a low ERA. A quaterback doesn't get criticized for not hustling, but how many points he helps his team score. Shaq was not a hustler by any means. Nor Barkley. Hakeem didn't exactly dive for balls on the ground, and Jordon never got as many rebounds as T-mac. T-mac gets nearly the exact same stats as kobe except at the foul line, and you t-mac isn't demanding a trade every offseason like kobe is, nor is t-mac in trouble with the law or fighting with Yao. Yet so many people are on his back. Geez, get real. It's so over the top how ridiculous the talk smack about t-mac has become.
Tell me who, 'making a lot of money' in NBA, didnot or doesnot has 'certain style' Ok, I accept that since you are not talking about Baskeball I m not sure what is your definition of 'hustler', but I think, at very least, Barkley is a hustler. Yeah, T-mac gets nearly the exact same stats as Kobe does, except Kobe is less injury-prone, cheering his teammates, more aggressive , passionate on the court. Oh, I fotgot how many rings Kobe had? Kobe is a true leader if you have watched those games close enough. Personally, I am saying what 'flaws' Tracy might have and, by correctting those, he will be truely great. More importantly, the Rox needs Tracy to change but not me or any one in this forum. If that is not allowed to speak, I dont know what else we are able to do in here. Just Clear one thing out: I would like to see a rational thread of logic rather than 'ridiculous the talk smack about t-mac '. I think we have a joint point here.
Sounds like you know a lot? For every job (playing professional basketball is a job), you have to have heart, in additioin to the skills. T-Mac is criticized for his heart. It doesn't take a basketball pro to see who has heart and who has not. I believe a lot of those who criticize T-Mac know enough about basketball. (some don't, I believe, too, just like among T-Mac supportors, some know a lot, and some don't).
