these and other quotes were brought to you by T-Mac this morning in Houston on the Radio Station 97.9. "They didn't want me to take over." -TMac referring to a bias he perceived against him by Orlando owners and management. "They had something against me" "I had to carry the load"
He also went into some ignorant rant about Orlando telling him they didn't have any money. His basic premise was how could Orlando trade for Steve Francis, Mobley, and others in the trade, yet not put any players around him. I was thinking, McGrady, don't you know the contracts had to match.
They should have a market where we could trade stock on NBA team futures. I mean, come on. You're posting three quotes out of context, and we're supposed to draw something from it? The guy hasn't even scored a point as a Rocket, and people around here think the sky is falling.
How could you take "They don't know how to run no organization" out of context. He's still ranting on the radio about them if you don't believe me. He just said they lied about his practice habits and work ethic. Its really interesting. Check it out for yourself if you are in Houston.
See, I thought you were trying to call T-Mac out for whining about his previous team. Didn't mean to mis-label you as a Hater.
It's obvious he's upset about his old team, hell, can you blame him? They surrounded him with next to nothing every year. It's kind of funny, we only had to endure the Magic franchise for a couple of weeks with the T-mac trade situation and we hated them already, imagine being stuck with them for years.
hoping he opens up a big can of shut the freak up real soon. just play the game. beat them on the court, and then look like you've been there before and you'll get there again.
In Tracy's defense, it's been pretty obvious over the last few years that the Magic Organization don't know basketball (terrible drafts, locking up marginal role players like Garrity to long term contracts). That said, he should have kept his mouth shut.
Pgabriel's comment on Steve Francis quotes: "The only problem I see is fans still looking to bash him OOOHHH OOHH what did he say? Who cares?"
agreed as I have said before - I was am a roto geek and I had a coupole of Magic players on my team last season - so I followed the local press and the op-eds in the Sports section. While some blasted T-mac toward the end, the overwhelming majority of complaints from the media and fans were against the ownership and management. Remember, T-mac is criticizing the GM that leaked the deal to "try" to get negotiating power this is the same GM that got death threats from fans this is the same ownership that has lost TWO of the greatest players IN THIER PRIMES b/c they wanted to play somewhere else. Just becuase he knocks the Magic and the Raptors (both teams with real problems) doesn't mean he will knock a first class organization like Houston
HAHA! That sounds like the Rockets. Tracy should just put that behind him and stop trying to make it look like it wasn't as bad as it looked, because it was probably worse.
Well, in the Magic's defense, they tried to put Grant Hill next to him. At the time, that was going to be all they needed. Imagine the Rocks having to pay a max contract to someone who never plays. It would sort of hamstring them in getting any additional players. And I didn't notice TMac offering to reduce his salary to help them either. I tend to wonder how some of these players are going to make it in life after the NBA. Just wait till they get a real job with a real salary and have to actually live with a budget.
Yeah, I'm sure these multi-millionaires are going to go work at McDonalds to support their mansion maintanence fees.
To be fair, they TRIED to surround him with talent, but after Hill went down with his albatross of a contract, they couldn't do anything.
Besides Grant Hill, who else did they get? Mike Miller? Troy Hudson? They had Daryl Armstrong. Pat Garrity? Drew Gooden? Those are the biggest names they could surround T-mac in 4 years. Thats a long time to only come up with Drew Gooden and Juwon Howard at the end of it. 'Granted' if Hill played they would've been a good team. As it was, they sat around all that time hoping he would get better...if anything, it seems like they went out of their way for Hill and left T-mac to shoulder the entire load while questioning his work ethic in the process. It doesn't take Ms. Cleo to tell you it wasn't going to end pretty.
Besides Grant Hill, they didn't have the ability to get any talent because of his contract. In addition, it is hard to lure top free agents when you have a player like Hill who is injured.
