If thats YOUR BOY, yeah you can rip on your boy any way you want. Cuz FRIENDS can do that with each other. The key part is like you said, doing it so he can prove himself better next game. Thats the part that you hope happens. If that DOESNT happen, the team's in trouble cuz thats a bad locker room.
At the same time, it is also said that those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Haven't we been down this road before? Two fragile superstars = no championship
<br> You are straight up ridiculous.. <br> That was mostly McGrady, and if you think otherwise, you are a nutcase. The guy was averaging like 30,7,7 for most of it. It doesn't get much better than that. Do you think they would have won 22 in a row without McGrady? And you say he was just "around" <br> Go watch another team. You are by far the worst Rocket's fan I have ever seen. You probably aren't even a Rocket's fan..
the boys body is breakin down like crazy only time will tell what type of player he will materialize into.
His game is grounded now. Its almost how Jordan played when he came back with the Wizards. He wasn't the high flying, dunking over people, MJ we all grew up idolizing. He was a good player, who would just outsmart his opponent every night. When Tmac said he's back, he meant he could play without much pain, but there is no way you can strengthen your surgically repaired knee in 10 days during the middle of the season. If anything, he will have to continue to strengthen it as the season goes on. If yall have noticed, some of his jumpers are being blocked now, which would never happen if he was able to get his full lift on his jumper the way he used to. That was a part of his game that was special, since nobody could contest it. He still doesn't drive to his right as much, so he won't have to finish off of his left knee, and if he does, he can't get that high off the ground anymore. He will have to work on that. After going through that yesterday, I'm sure Tmac is as embarrassed as anybody. I mean, it was just 6 years ago when he was a serious contender for the MVP, he's had great individual seasons after that, and became a great all around player as well. I really find it hard to believe that he can drop off that badly if healthy. He is still very skilled offensively. JVG said numerous times that the superstar in decline is the hardest player to coach. I do believe that Tmac has declined athletically, which sometimes, there isn't much anybody can do about that. Although he is only 30, he has been in the league 12 years, most of which he's had to do a lot by himself with little help. I still believe that he can be a good player on this team with Yao leading the way. We all miss the high flying and exciting Tmac, but the best of players can lose their athleticism. It just takes longer for some than others. Even Olajuwon showed what can happen in 4 years. In 1995, he was the best player on the planet. 4 years later, age and injuries caught up to him, and he was nowhere near the player he was even 2 years before. He was still a good player, but he wasn't "The Dream" we all witnessed carrying us to 2 titles. Here is a link of Olajuwon vs. Shaq in the 1999 playoffs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zehfeZyNB8s Even the NBC broadcast showed clips of the 95 finals, and they almost couldn't believe how much age and injuries took away from a great player and athlete like Hakeem. I'm sure every fan in Houston was thinking how time just flew by after they saw this series. With that being said, remember, it was only less than a year ago that we saw Tmac as good as ever in Game 6 last year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKluFlWxi40&feature=related There is hope that he can be close to what we saw in that clip, but if he can be a good player, without all the athleticism, then I'll take that as well. He just has to figure out his game according to his body now if his knee is going to affect him the entire season and maybe even his career.
What is more tragic than the failed dunk itself is the fact that some so-called Rockets fans here actually feel happy about it. Artest is no Warier to me if he laughed at a teammate who fail in a real game. What warrior would laugh when one of his men hit a land mind and lost a leg?
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wus3jnPXfDU&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wus3jnPXfDU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> What the man used to be able to do.
In all fairness, he did get the steal. Too lazy to go through the posts, but it looks like nobody mentioned that.
The haters can say that he is lazy, has no heart, blah blah blah. Maybe he is all that. But that play has nothing to do with heart. It has everything to do with physical abilities. And he has lost it. I am beginning to accept that T-Mac has lost his athleticism for good, and with it his scoring and defending abilities. If you are a Rockets fan and don't feel sad about it, I don't know what to say.
Dude. if T-Mac wasn't on this team you wouldn't even be watching it. Given his current level of play that's something that might happen sooner than later. One more time: the star of that 22 game win streak was the team, not any one individual player. The star was chemistry and teamwork. There were any number of games in that streak where T-Mac pulled his usual vanishing act and the Rockets won anyway because everybody was playing out of their minds. The LA game for instance? And that's what it boils down to. If it's a question of everybody else playing well or T-Mac playing well there should be no debate that the stronger Rockets team is the former. That's also a good chunk of why I think T-Mac is just a loser. He's never been able to adapt. He can't change his game up to accommodate the talent that he has on his team. He's still playing like he's back with the Magic and nobody else can score and the Rockets are suffering for it. For that matter the guy's only 29 and he can't pick up Adelman's offense. The cliche is that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The sad thing about T-Mac is that not only is his body breaking down but he's awfully young to be set in his ways.
That dunk was a metaphor for the entire season. It started out with such great promise, but the actual result and execution was poor. DD
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5p2u3jkJKTU&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5p2u3jkJKTU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> So his body breaks down on him 2 days later.... lol you people crack me up
Who's saying that? T-Mac's mentally weak. Go check out the thread where he makes excuse after excuse and whines a lot. Actually that's a bunch of them. Go check out the thread where he talks about his missed dunk to the Chronicle.
