If T-mac did not perform in the first and second quarter, do you think there will even be a chance at the third quarter?
Same here. I feel like I've never seen him so determined. There was no fear, no frustration, no nothing at all. Win or lose, all he had to do is to lay it all out on the court.
unless those offers include lebron james or kobe (which won't happen) or getting an all-star, plus a few picks or another good player, it won't happen. i think from the chronicle reports and what people around the league are saying (executives, barkley, kenny, ESPN peeps), everyone thinks we will be a real contender next yr if we stay healthy. we have a team that can fight back from adversity. only great teams can do that, championship teams. and we're doing this without our starting center and PG for most of the series. nobody tries harder than this team. if we stay healthy, with our effort, nobody can beat us in a 7 game series. in 04-05, that team was just not as talented. in 06-07, that team never responded well to pressure (choking big leads and can't come back) this year's team has more talent and we love adversity. we play superb with leads and we are showing signs of coming back into games. now you add our starters back with some pieces, we have a contender. i hope morey just add a mike miller type of player and we're gonna own this league.
I said Tmac did not deliver during the critical period of the game which is the 3rd qtr. So it comes down to two questions. (1) Is the 3rd Qtr the most critical period of the game? (2) Did Tmac deliver in the 3rd Qtr? Now you tell me your answers to these two questions. Think about this. If Tmac has also scored 0 points in the 4th Qtr like what he did in the 3rd, what would be the general sentiment on his performance now? I'd think 90% of us would be calling him a choker. Agree? But now everyone is talking like he has played a perfect game just because he had scored a few points during the garbage time when the game had been decided. Is it laughable?
he didn't play a perfect game, but who can? you need your teammates. he dominated the first half in a jordan-esque kind of way so you had to know the jazz were going to pay extra attention to him. the role players MUST hit their shots. notice how in the 4th when the game was basically over, they went back to 1-on-1 defense and he tore it up again? tmac made the right plays. it's not his fault aaron brooks missed 4 WIDE OPEN practice setting kind of shots. you can't blame your star AND coach for trusting his role players.
QFT. We have the pieces to get someone like Mike Miller as well. Head, Woods, Jackson and Francis will all be expiring contracts. It should be enough to land Mike Miller.
Why all this talk about TMAC not performing in the 3rd quarter. He got point blank open shots for teamates (where a Utah player was not in sight) and his teamates missed. He made the right play.
If Yao were the one who played tonight and someone used the same argument to defend him, he would be called a Y O F left and right by 50 different people.
if yao played like tmac did tonight, he would finally earn his superstar label. yao needs to have a performance like this in the playoffs next yr. the reason dwight is getting love b/c he got THREE 20-20 games. next yr, yao needs to do something similar. do you remember the denver game earlier this yr without tmac? yao had 27 pts (on 9-22 shooting) and 17-18 boards, and we lost, everyone PRAISED that performance. we didn't care that we lost, we cared that yao stepped up without tmac, and played like a superstar. this was truly a superstar performance my man. 40 pts, 10 boards, 5 ast is what you can a superstar performance, no matter how you slice it. PS - listen to every national media right now and even they can't do anything but admire this performance. are you saying all the tmac critics before this series and tmac jockers now? you appreciate a great performance and tmac delivered it. if we had more help, this would have been a win. you cannot win ANY game if you have TWO PLAYERS (read that carefully) scoring 2+ field goals. that's unheard of (well not as much as 4 guys scoring in the WHOLE GAME).
oh hell yea, that's 2 all-stars right there. but why would atlanta do that? atlanta wouldn't even do that for kobe bryant right now if you ask me. no team is stupid to trade 2 all-star starters for one superstar. they would trade joe johnson for tmac though b/c joe sucked it up outside of one game in this playoffs. josh smith has made a name for himself though. dude is a bona fide STUD.
i hope so. tmac and miller are best friends, so he should have some influence. seriously, did you see what a difference when novak got into the game? dude was raining Js with the attention on tmac. if he had any other skill besides shooting, he will be on the court for 25+ mins easy. but he doesn't. that's why we need mike miller. get it done morey. that's the missing piece.
Yeah, but there were times when he didn't even touch the ball. He was just strolling on the sideline. Aaron Brooks brought the ball up, McGrady should have kept that rookie in check. Also, since his team wasn't making shots, he should have drove the ball more. He was getting those touch fouls when he put the ball on the floor. When that lead started ballooning again, you have to try something different. And I know Atlanta would never do the trade, especially after their playoff run this year. beating Boston would just seal the deal. I just have a newfound respect for Josh Smith's game. I wish he'd play for the Rockets. Dah well money talks
i'm sure it was adelman's strategies. he wanted his role players to attack to open up the spacing for tmac. adelman is that type of coach. you can see he does the same with yao. when he knows yao is doubled if he touches it, he would ignore yao and put the onus on the others to step up. they didn't tonight. i'm sure adelman was pumped for that move after the role players performance in game 5. if they did the same thing in game 5, we'd be looking at game 7 right now.
I am not surprised you are trying this hard to defend your idol. That's what you have been doing for a long time and you at least deserve the credits for being consistent. This game was decided in the 3rd Qtr and Tmac scored 0 points in it. It's just as simple as that. If you can't accept the truth, there is not much we can go on to discuss.
yes, he's my idol that i'm willing to trade if i can find a great deal (read my above post) 27, 8, 7 for the series 28.5, 7, 6 for his playoff career i'll let that speak for itself (just like hubie brown said)
Face it. If a Yao's fan used the same arguments like yours (his teammates didn't step up, he was double teamed, we lost but his stat line is good, etc) to defend him, 50 people would be calling him a Y O F now. But I will try to be nice and refrain from calling you a T O F here. Did you call anyone a Y O F before?
I wasn't able to follow the play-by-play so i'm not too sure whether McGrady was jacking up and missing - or just not shooting altogether - but i do believe Rafer was gone? I think that has atleast something to do with the ballooned scoreline than McGrady not scoring. For all those *** out there.. There are so many mcgrady haters here. He played an awesome game from the stats (yes don't flame me i acknowledge i come to the conclusion from stats) But those same stats show McGrady had no help. I think the people who are here with the only purpose to further drag McGrady down should just give it up for atleast one day.
