Like I said the other day, this might not be a bad thing. This gives a chance to work on plan B with Tmac out. The personnel we have should still beat 80% of the teams. Not saying Tmac is replaceble, but I think it will make us stronger without relying on him too much.
There is no way having TMac miss games can be construed as a good thing. This happened last season early in the year as well and undoubtedly was part of the chemisty problem early on. When you have a fair number of new players playing real games (not preseason) for the first time they need to learn each others' tendencies as soon as possible. Plus, TMac has a tendency to start slow anyway and this exacerbates that. Even if it is just New Orleans, they are a young, quick, athletic team - and those are the ones that historically give us some problems.
The neat part about this is that all the players who will be on the court tomorrow will actually think Yao is the goto man. There will be no confusion. And this ought to make it really interesting to see what happens when Yao gets like 80 touches.
No, he does not. He started slow last year, because there was an adjustment period. Other than last year, he has never started slowly. He should take care of the injuries before he comes back to play
if that happened he might foul out. all on offensive fouls! i wonder if that ever happened before... anyway, i agree 100%. i hope yao is able to play 36 minutes and get the ball every time down.
Why the hell is T-Mac practicing anyways? He's still got the tendinitis plus the bruised knee from the Mutombo collision. He should have been held out of practice for a few days and just play the games. Now this happens. Way to go JVG.
I just finished reading this thread... what a rollercoaster ride! Thanks for the scoops, guys. Man, I hope he's all right. I hate stories about back injuries, having had back surgery myself. Sura amazed me last year, coming back the way he did. If Tracy needs to miss a couple of games to insure he's healthy, then so be it. The Rockets can win without him against the Hornets, and maybe the team will draw closer together with the adversity. And whoever undercut McGrady should get his butt kicked, if that's what happened.
actually in a game report for game 1 he said the tendinitis pain is gone and all that was left was the bruise from mutombo.
