why that? oh and it looks that the tmac hate is almost gone feels great to see that next year i hope we get the jazz and go balistic against them...sweep them
Who cares about what they think? Tmac can say whatever he wants. I don't care even if he said he hated Copter and some other Rockets fans.
McGrady scored 28 points in the first half alone, helping Houston trim what had been a 19-point Jazz advantage to just one late in the second quarter. That is a new Jazz opponent-player playoff high for points in a half, topping the 27 posted by fellow Rockets Hakeem Olajuwon (first half) and Clyde Drexler (second half) in the same May 5, 1995 game. Drexler finished that first-round game with 41 points, and Olajuwon 40. man imagine yao was healthy and tmac and yao were able to do that
Suckers... T-Mac had ZERO points in the critical 3rd quarter when he should of continued to dominate. His 10+ points during garbage time means SQUAT. Way to go "A-Rod of the NBA". Nothing like getting those 2 run homers during at 9-3 loss or after the games are decided. Pfft...
You are kidding right? Don't you know he got us back into the game in the 2nd quater? We were down by 20 and his amazing 2nd quater helped us to get within 4. Don't you know that during 3rd quater he was creating WIDE OPEN 3s simply every time for Shane, Bobby, Aaron and they probably missed all of them? Did you watch the game? WIth post like it you make yourself look like idiot...sory but that's true. He had 40/10/5. Scola had 15/9. Can you please show me other player who helped them?
I think Adelman's game plan was to let other players more involved in the 3rd quarter and then Tmac take over the 4th quarter.
Tmac scored 12 in the 4th quarter....he tried his hardest down the strech (Even though I didn't watch the game- don't ask)
Almu is not entirely wrong. Tracy didn't score his first pts in the second half until 10 something minutes in the fourth quarter. When the game was way out of reach. He basically padded his stats. We ran into the same problem of games 1, 2, and 4. Adelman didn't adjust well all series to this problem. Or maybe he just did all he could under the circumstances since his adjustment was sitting on the bench in street clothes.
look at the nuggets-lakers game 4 as a perfect example. kobe went scoreless for 17 minutes (and doing nothing else) spanning the 3rd and half of the 4th quarter. and yet lakers were still LEADING in a close game. why? his teammates stepped up and scored. then kobe took over at the 6-min mark. that's what great teams do. when teams dare your role players to step up, those on great teams do step up. ours didn't last night. adelman had to prepare for teh 4th quarter b/c he probably thought it would be a close game late. rafer wasn't playing so everything would be on tmac late. he tried to go to his role players (who stepped up in game 5) but that plan backfired. if the role players stepped up like they did in game 5, we wouldn't be talking about this right now.
I agree, NO ONE can win an ENTIRE game by himself, not even Micheal Jordan. The TEAM has to step up to a certain point, and then the SUPERSTAR can take over in the final minutes/seconds in close game (hence a CLOSE game-there would be no CLOSE game without a TEAM effort). I was watching some old Bulls highlights during one of those ESPN classic shows, and I realized that not even MJ was not that unstoppable. He could try his hardest, but if his team was failing him or the other team were just on a roll, even he couldn't win the game by himself
In essense, Almu is not wrong. But it goes deeper than that, and you know that. He was still playing well but they were taking him out of the game, which isn't hard if you have to focus on one player... Pad his stats or not, T-Mac did what people wanted him to do in the "T-Mac opened up a can of quit" thread: He went down firing. If that was the case, that is considered padding your stats. If we had maybe even a sliver of a hope of coming back, T-Mac went out there and tried to make it happen. People wanted him to go down firing. He did. People wanted him to shut up and play. He did. People wanted him to play through injuries. He did. Battier wanted him to score 40. He did. People wanted to see heart. He showed it. We wanted him to win a series. He Can't. Not without Yao. The fact that if we had Rafer all series, we could have possibly won this series without Yao, is a testament to how sad Utah really is.
LOL. T-Mac does not score when we are in a big hole: he quits. T-Mac scores when we are in a big hole: he pads his stats. Did he pad his stat in the first half too? Look at my earlier post. If he just scored his average in the first half, you wouldn't have the 3rd quarter for you to b**** about.
I agree. The situation was simple. Jass realized that T-Mac is hot like fire so in the 2nd half their game plan in 80% was to stop T-Mac because they knew he could hurt them alone. As they started guarding him with 2 guys they saw nobody was able to knock down WIDE OPEN SHOTS. And we were in ass that moment because they kinda took McGrady from the game and they let other players kill them.
I swear so of you can't be objective at all. I'm b****ing? Look in the mirror. I said a truth. Why is it that anytime someone says anything about McGrady they are attacked? Quit assuming nonsense. I have nothing against McGrady. Just because I think he did the best he could doesn't mean the coaching staff couldn't have done a little better with tackling the 2nd half problem McGrady was having in this series.
