Tmac is awesome! This is like saying water is wet. However, when you were stranded in the middle of desert for 2 months and just got rescued, and now living in Belogio and watching their water music show, there is nothing wrong in marveling over the wetness of water. Tmac is building up his HOF resume here in Houston. When he's on the court, he is a beauty to watch. Everytime he touches the ball, you just feel something awesome will happen. Everytime he is playing, you know the Rockets can, and probably will, win the game. I love when the Rockets is playing on the road, the score's close and the game is winding down, Tmac gets the ball in the opponent halfcourt. You smile and say to yourself, "they are dead!" What ensues is a sequence of amazing yet predictable events that put the greatest magicians in shame. Tmac dribbles, staring at whoever's guarding him, who is peeing his bladder and thinking about choking his coach for assigning himself to guard his devil. Tmac goes left, with or without a pick, pulls up, throws the ball in the air, with forms that defy all the basketball textbooks, and the ball flys toward the rim with a super flat/ugly trajectory. It goes, it goes, and the next thing you hear is a desperate and silent "ohhh", and the next thing you see is the devstated looks on the faces of whoever that's sitting in the stands, on the home bench, and on the defensive side of the court. All their fans can do is putting hands on the of their heads. All their players can do is inbounding the ball and pretending they are not demoralized. All their general manager and coach can do is cursing John Weisbrod for trading McGrady to the Rockets for Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley. Watching is happen over and over again is simply addicting. There are many addictions in the world. But for me, the Tmac addiction is the most powerful, sensational and healthy one. It's like smoking Heroin without worrying about my immunity breaking down. The beauty of watching basketball is that you don't know what will happen. But the beauty of watching Tmac is that although you don't know what will happen, you also kind of know what will happen, and it usually happens that way. Having Tmac on your team in a close game is like controlling what dealer will deal to you in a Texas Hold'em tournament. It's not fair for the opponents, but you don't care, you enjoy it everytime you cheat, and you do it over and over again, and eventually you become addictive to cheating. People go to Vegas for gambling; people go to LA for the Disney Land; people go to China for cheap imports; people go to Paris for the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre; people go to Canada for the waterfall; people go to Mississippi for the suffering and self-discipline; and now, if Tmac keeps doing what he's doing, people will go to Houston for the Tmac show. Bless Leslie Alexander, he charges less for the "Tmac show" than the the people in Vegas charge for "KÀ Cirque Du Soleil".
The Rockets are never outmatched when T-Mac is playing. He's that good. It doesn't matter who we're playing. You know the Rockets have helped me cut down on my drinking, I don't want to drink heavy anymore when the Rockets are playing because with T-Mac playing you know it's going to be something fantastic to watch so I don't want to distort the experience of watching the Rockets too much. It's a nice healthy addiction, like you say. Tracy Mcgrady should be a top MVP candidate this season.
I have a crush on T-Mac, I love that man....yah that..um..ma...ummm...what do you call it? Man-love? No, that ain't sound right...umm...Yah, man-crush or something like that, in a very manly way of course...yah that one I guess
T-Mac absolutely rocks. If I ever get close to him, I'll be all over his nuts. Figuratively speaking of course.
He certainly DOES make a difference, doesn't he? Watching the Rockets without T-Mac is an exercise in futility. There aren't people here who still think that giving up on Francis & Mobley was wrong, is there? Sometimes, you have to shake things up to pay dividends. Sorta like how we traded Otis Thorpe in the middle of the year to pick up Drexler. Sorta like now, how we should do whatever it takes to land Artest!
If he had more talent around him he would be even better, and if he were fully healed. Given the talent level and his condition, he is still amazing. I think is primed for one of those 40-50 point outbursts, where he just can't miss.
