yes,tamc is older than last year. tamc can not back 2003. when i watch the final game,i feel tmac is really worse than kobe,passion always follows kobe,but tmac,it's hurt... whatever , i still be a Houston and tamc's fan
i know tracy seems to always respond in the worse ways when asked questions but i think when it comes down to it he's been injured as of late. lets wait till the new season comes up shall we? i mean whats the worst that could happen? more criticism? i think next year our team will be much better once we're alot healthier than last year. ahhhhhhhhhh we can only hope eh? =(
We need backup sf/sg, especialy type of guy who can create his own shot and get to the line. We need to add bench scoring. We have already upgraded our bench since last year but we still need to continue doing that
I think part of the reason is that he's too big for his own good. Since he's come to Houston he's put on quite a bit more muscle mass and it has taken away from his first step, overall quickness and endurance. He should go back down to his size of his Orlando days and I think we will see a rejuvenated tmac
I have a good example for you here, look at Paul Pierce before KG and Ray Allen joined him. To me PP used to suck and now all of a sudden he is being spoken in the same context as Kobe. You can call this excuse but looking at what happened with Paul Pierce, the simple fact is TMac never had a championship calibre team. We have always been very injury prone with crappy bench every year. Even with that, he has carried us in regular season with and without Yao and to 22 CONSECUTIVE wins. That says a lot. Heck look at Kobe the best player ever after Jordan! Without Shaq what has he done all these years? Even with a ridiculous roster that the Lakers had this year, he got his behind handed to him in the finals. I will say this again, give TMac this lakers team and they have a better shot at beating the Celtics.
I'm not sure if the general consensus was that he "sucked". I think that since the celtics were terrible, Pierce didnt have much publicity. Now that theres a spotlight on him, people can really appreciate his game. I think the 06-07 team was championship caliber. It says you're not familiar w/ the streak. Yao was there for the first part of the streak. Also, Tmac himself is one of the injury prone players you're referring to. When you lose a player of Shaq's caliber (in his prime), you're in a quasi-rebuilding mode. If he were able to bring the Lakers to a championship with the roster he had in those years, he'd have to be in consideration for the GOAT. Are you saying that the Lakers roster is better than the Celtic's roster? I don't know about that. Since both Tmac and Odom have a pass-first mentality, I dont think they would mesh very well. That would place greater pressure on everyone else, and for the most part, the role players already showed that they didn't perform well under pressure. With Tmac at the helm, they would be under greater pressure.
paul pierce NEVER sucked. when you don't win, people don't think that highly of you and very rightfully so. tmac's status lost some luster in the past few years. yao is not a superstar b/c he hasn't won much. kobe's comparisons to MJ is over after this finals and rightfully so (but when he led the team to the finals, he was on a high). people need to stop saying certain stars suck b/c they never win. it's a shame.
wow look at all the statements defending paul pierce (you used those same things AGAINST tmac when arguing when he was in orlando, funny guy). tmac took 24 shots per average in the playoffs. i doubt a pass-first guy would do that. just b/c he's a great passer does not mean he does'nt want to take the big shots. does he make them every time? no. but trust me, tmac wants to take the big shots. odom goes for quarters without even wanting to attempt a shot. now that's a pass-first mentality. please please watch the games.
Actually, your lack of reading comprehension isnt funny at all. Tmac always had publicity. He was the scoring champ, remember? Trust your opinion? No. I'd rather trust what I see. And I saw him shy away from big shots in game 7 of the 2007 series against the jazz. And in reality, when he does take big shots, they're usually not high quality shots. Wow. I said Odom has a pass-first mentality. You respond by saying that Odom definitely has a pass-first mentality and that I should watch the games.
Its actually quite comical, he knows it too, double standards ftw. He uses whatever little PP did before to defend him and takes all the little things and blows them out of proportion to attack tmac, never will you see wecko talking without criticizing tmac...ever.
If thats how you feel, I'd love for you to show me where I use double standards. Or blow things out of proportion.
Ok, here. Pierce never smelt the playoffs carrying the team by himself. That team he had with antwan walker and some other good players got to the conference finals. After that, and untill garnett and allen got there he didn't do squat. And you excuse is that the celtics were just terrible? Wait but that would make out rockets team this year even more terrible? Who were our 2 best players when Yao went out? Scola and TMAC, and scola was a rookie. Most of our offense was dependent on these 2 guys, most of scola's points came of t-mac passes as well. Were we going to get scoring from a 50 yr old center? a shane Battier? Don't you think that makes matter difficult with an offensive minded coach? Your saying that the Celtics were terrible and with a "great" player like PP they couldn't even make the playoffs in the leastern conference when we see teams like the sixers and hawks make it. Wasn't the orlando team with T-MAC one of the worst you've ever seen? He got them to the playoffs, but wait PP didn't get enough publicity and his team was terrible so its ok.
sook and wekko are going at it every chance this kinda reminds me of when andymoon and I got into about the sacredness of Vernon Maxwell.
he's tired easily b/c he's always injured "DURING" the season (injuries that force him to sit and rest and do nothing). secondly, we do NOT have a backup for him. thirdly, we ask him to do too much (both scoring and playmaking). if we can either get him a legit backup or a 3rd scorer, he'll be able to exert more intensity on defense as he's not asked to do too much scoring or playmaking.
We've never had a legit 6th man swingman (maybe Bonzi) to releve t-mac since 2004, but that's not why he's getting tired. He's tired because he's injured so much and probably can't dedicate himself like he wants to because of it.
He gets tired so easily b/c he lazily coasts through the regular season.....playing matador defense, walking downcourt instead of running the break, settling for jumpers instead of driving to the hoop... This changes a bit whenever Yao goes down with an injury....but let's face it Tmac rarely puts anywhere near the effort during regular season games as guys like AI, Kobe, KG, CP3, Richard Hamilton, etc, and it shows when he gets to the playoffs......you cannot just turn it on all of a sudden in April....
Sorry, but thats not a double standard. The celtics were terrible. Thats why I believe Pierce didnt get any publicity. However, the rockets were potential contenders with the most popular international player in the world. That gives them publicity. Their 22 game win streak. That gives them publicity. Before you accuse me of having double standards, you should first learn what the phrase means. We had no chance of going anywhere. Whats your point? There was still publicity b/c of the streak. First of all, the sixers and hawks arent terrible teams. They both have athletic, up-and-coming players. Next, Pierce can't carry a team to the playoffs by himself. But he fits in much better with KG and Allen than Tmac ever could. I really dont understand your last sentence. Could you possibly retype it so its coherent?
