Kobe is a competitor, Nash is a competitor, Baron Davis is a competitor, Manu is a competitor, and I am sorry Tmac is not a competitor. Having watched him play in the past four years, I have to say the guy is as talented as anyone above if not more. But if you still think we are going to win a championship under his leadership, you'd better wake up. Yao is unclutch and big man is not supposed to. The way Artest took it to us is going to happen in the playoffs, game 7 by Williams ,or Boozer, or Nash, or Stoudmire, or Manu, Ducan on and on. The same thing will happen to us, as it already happened to us twice. Flame me as you like. Have to let it out.
Rockets have been playing great, so we should be happy. After that fourth Quarter it's hard not to have questions. Mac is not willing to lead the team. He did everything to get the ball out of his hands and almost turned it over before hitting Novak with a good pass. Yao gets fronted and taken out of the last second plays and if he gets hacked and misses you can't count on the foul call with him. The West is stacked with talent even the teams in the lower seeds have more talent on their rosters than the Rockets do. GS, Denver, LA are all deep and talented. I hope we can make the playoffs and get out of the 1st round, but I wouldn't be shocked if we get booted again in the 1st round.
Let it out into your pillow. This board doesn't need to be filled with this trash just because you are frustrated.
That is why we need a 3rd scorer. Our two stars just do not have that edge to bring us over the hump. The past two post seasons have already shown that. A 3rd scorer will mitigate both their short comings. We need an Artest much more than Denver needs him but we always fail to attract that proven impact player. We always settle for players like Battier.
T-Mac to Novak for the game winning three! Thank you, Tracy, for drawing those defenders in with your drive and being able to kick it out to Novak for the game winning three!
Just a few games ago we were all delighted at how Tracy was scoring less, but helping the team more. Why are internet message boards so schizophrenic?? T-Mac will be fine.
I'll admit it's frustrating. He finally got it through his head to drive to the hoop the last couple plays. One almost resulted in a turnover as he threw a bad pass to Yao. TRACY MCGRADY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT SHOT. DUNKED IT. LAYED IT UP. WHATEVER. The second resulted in the Novak 3 which won the game. He waited too long to start driving in. It is frustrating. Don't be mistaken, though. Kobe has his moments.
Point out the play where he should have been more "competitive" in the 4th quarter. I don't disagree that he did a poor job defending Artest. That's just a complete physical mismatch for him. But offensively, what should he have done differently? Be specific.
Can we just sticky a 'Tmac sucks' thread at the top and get it over with? We don't need 5 parallel Tmac sucks/not a competitor/quitter/lazy threads.
OMG, 20 mil has to do something, right? I remember the other day after T-Mac got a few clutch shot, someone claimed T-Mac got his killer stinct back. Does he ever have killer stinct? He is just a 40 percent jump shooter. Today, he did not get his luck and missed some shots. That's it. Maybe some other day, he will get his jumper back in the crunch time. You never know. But any way, if Rox only rely on his jumper shots to win games, Rox will never get out off the first round. T-Mac is not Kobe, he has no killer stinct!
Man do we really need another thread to show that he's not what he used to be..... get over it, everyone knows (maybe they don't show it cause they don't want to believe it, but they know it . ) Most in here are only happy when the team wins, but can't see beyond the win, they don't get that this team isn't going to do squat with half man - half a season, especially in the playoffs. He doesn’t provide what a max player should, he plays average defense, he’s inefficient on offensive, rarely ever tries to drive to get easy points from the line, and lastly and most importantly he takes nights off. Yes, there are many other max players who aren’t even as good as McGrady, but sadly this team doesn’t have a supporting cast to make up for it, partly cause we’ve made silly moves and partly because having two Max players makes it difficult to have a good supporting cast.
