The Missing Ingredient: Getting T-Mac, healthy or not, off the books and using part of that money on a durable, quality SG with a closer's mentality
Healthy Tmac is the only guy that can get Yao the ball, and he made others comfortable taking their shots, he is a great playmaker no doubt, exactly what the team is missing. He is the guy that can create his own shot.
This will probably be an unpopular opinion with most of you, but how the hell will a healthy T-Mac be the missing ingredient? T-mac is not a clutch wing player. If he was, we would've been out of the first round already. All those years of an explosive and healthy T-mac and the result was zero playoff series wins. A clutch wing player whose name is NOT T-mac is the missing ingredient. T-mac is done as a Rocket as far as I'm concerned. Even if he becomes 100% healthy, psychologically his bad and losing experiences with the Rockets will propagate further losing.
He is a clutch playmaker! Do you remember the ball that he passed to Novak during the 22 winning streak?
If you are going to cite one play, I can list a bunch of average players that make big plays in the clutch every once in a while. Guys making as much as McGrady shouldn't be making clutch plays every once in a while, which was absolutely the case. Kobe makes plays like that every other game. Paul Pierce makes plays like that every other game. Chris Paul makes plays like that every other game. Deron Williams makes plays like that every other game. Brandon Roy makes plays like that every other game. The list goes on... McGrady is not the missing ingredient. Rather, his contract is the prohibitive ingredient.
A clutch wing player cannot just be a clutch playmaker; he has to be a clutch playmaker AND scorer. With T-mac's athleticism fading, he's been deferring more and more in crunch time rather than taking the responsibility; he is not the stud wing player we need.
It's more like a broken play. 70% of the time he would jus jacked up a 3, all of our guards could do it, most of them can do it better.
im not saying tmac is the true help here because he himself have not got out of the first round. But this current team's goal this season is really second round, we shouldn't expect much more without any reliable clutch player
That's right! Honestly, I don't think any superstar would want to be here. Maybe those marginal star (e.g. Artest) or those young potential players (e.g., Rudy Gay) want to be here. I guess Morey will go after a young potential player this summer.
The players that you mentioned are all superstars. You are right. It is unecessary to be Tmac. But, we need one at his level.
but we have a ton of scorers. i mean, if we had that playmaker, we could have just fed wafer all day every day. wafer was firin' away tonight. this team doesn't need a dominant go-to scorer. we have enough of scorers to do fine. what this team needs is a guy who can create to get shots for those scorers. like i said, we have too many scorers and no playmaker. you need a guy to get those scorers shots.
No one is going to want to play along side Yao Ming. He clogs the paint too much which causes you to be unable to drive in and once he gets the ball in the hand, he usually holds it too much.
There's no guarantee we'd win this game, even with a healthy T-Mac. We might have loss by more. But he is the play maker we need down the stretch. What's up with the knee-jerk reaction threads after every loss? I really think people should start being banned, also perhaps, people who joined in 2007-2009 should not be allowed to create new threads. Most of the time, it's simple, useless thoughts that have nothing to discuss really. Maybe that's not the best way to go about it, but there really should be another level of enforcing threads.
