the real question is. .. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? Should we give T-mac a few more games off? Rocket River
You people who don't understand how tired the guy is...you don't understand the psychology behind being expected to be excellent every day on the job. Where I work, I'm like the T-Mac of my co-workers ( don't laugh at that analogy. Shut up! =) ), if I'm given not only workload, but the demand that I do my groundbreaking best everyday, well, there will be days I'll look like I don't care and I'm tired. I can see T-Mac going through the same thing except on a far grander scale. Appreciate him, Rocket fans. We're lucky to have him.
We've gone back to reliance on TMac instead of everybody running crazy eights out there and moving the basketball at breakneck speed until the defenders get dizzy just following the basketball. It's back to JVG-everybody-stand-around-and-wait-for-McGrady-to-do-something. And McGrady contributes to that with his lack of assertiveness on his teammates and he continues to go get the basketball at the top and hold it out there until 12 seconds left on the shotclock. That's fine for the end of the quarter, game situation. But play after play after play after play, it breaks any kind of momentum. It is a lot easier to maintain something in motion than to start and stop all the time. The human body ain't no different. You can't get into an offensive rhythm with constantly stopping and setting up every play, you can't get any kind of momentum built. Nobody should be waiting on nobody, instead they should be all moving in sync, just moving, moving, moving. until it opens up. No team wants to have to defend 24 seconds of constant movement. That's why Adelman's offense inevitably works, because the defense breaks down and allows the backdoor or the wide open jumper.
He and Adelman are not on the same page as far as what's expected of him. Adelman is thinking, "Play my best player heavy minutes, give him the ball and let him go to work." T-Mac is thinking, "Damn I'm tired. You can't expect me to carry the team. I don't want the ball. Here, Rafer, take the ball." Either Adelman should rest him, or T-Mac should "impose his will" on himself and play like he wants to be out there.
I think T-Mac just can't handle doing it on his own. He's not Lebron nor is he Kobe. I'm a big T-Mac fan... but i'm not sure he's the right fit for the Rockets. I'm not saying this because we lost two games but Lebron sees the same defense and still is able to score 25-30 points a night.
why does everyone keep saying that. Teams don't do this to any one player because normally a team has other players who can score when open or close to it. I'm definately not saying he's the best player in the nba but teams can defend him like he is because no one else scoring when they are open. It reminds me of a group of kids play 21 and one guy is much better than everyone else so they crowd him and when someone else gets the ball they can't score with little defense.
No matter the reason is No. 1 physical or No. 3 mental, I think RA needs to sit TMac for the next two games. Two reasons: His lack of aggressiveness is hurting the team; There is not much room for Luther Head and Steve Novak to do worse.
He's being doubled constantly - having someone shadow you as soon as you get a step on your defender - and being blitzed on the pick and roll means that you're going to get shut down. From Rick Adelman's own mouth:
Exactly. A good team, like a good company, doesn't completely throw their chips down one person carrying the load. What if something happens to that person? What if that person doesn't have it that day? A system is much more reliable. Smart fans like you and handsome ones like myself understand that.
He has played too many minutes in last couple games. That is why we miss YaoMing, not because we can't win without Yao, but because with YaoMing on the court, our starters don't have to play 45+ min a game.
First of all Adelman let Tracy sti in the 2nd ane he uses him the whole 2nd half. That's not good. He shoud go to the bench with probably 2 mins to go in the 3rd and he should reenter the game ith 10-9 mins to go in the fourth. Adelman needs to rest him before the 4th, no doubt.
Any player gets tired. And for Tmac, who is somewhat past his prime, it'll be very hard for him to keep up at the same pace the younger players do. He's in his late 20s. Which means in NBA terms, he's middle-aged. He's not the young explosive superstar he once was, nor does he have the same physical athleticism as he once did before his string of injuries. The NBA takes a huge toll on any player, and for Tmac, it already has.
THIS IS SOOO TRUE. the team is flawed because only Yao and Tmac can get their shot off. everyone else needs tmac do something for them to produce every possession. thats why this team is only still "3pointers or die" which is the first ingredient to a 1st round loss.
the reason is carl landry. plain and simple in my mind. without landry to come out and set the screen on the pick and roll, mcgrady simply doesnt have the option to pass it. hayses can barely catch the ball rolling to the basket, let alone put it in the bucket if he does catch it. scola can catch it but cant get he cant get quite as high in the ar as landry. when landry catches it rolling to the basket he can catch it and jump towards the basket, and high, and finish. when a player can do that, it is going to take a lot of pressure off of tmac. i dont think the problem is tmac here, its the front line of the rox.
