Yes, this is controversial. I don't care. I know what i saw. I was there. i was there, up close. 1. utah has us outmanned. 2. even if we win this game, we probably lose the series 3. even if tracy has a great 2nd half, we might lose this game. i get that. But . . . tracy opened up a big ass can of quit in the 2nd half. He was passive. He didnt attack the basket. he dumped the ball off the bobby Jackson late in the shot clock, forcing Bobby Jax to heave up desperation shots. Bobby at least had the freaking nuts to heave up something. Bobby kept looking at Tmac to come and demand the ball, or aggressivly establish position to get the ball. It never happened. It looked a lot to me that tracy was obsessed with picking up the 10th assist to get the triple double. A lot of ffolks in our crowd felt that way. I'm done with Tmac when it really counts. I'm totally done. He might win regular season games. But he is not your money man when it counts. You'd think your best player on the floor would go down shooting. You'd think your best player woud demand the ball when it's winning time. No, Tracy didn't run up and demand the ball. No, Tracy didnt make something happen. No, all he did was open up a massive can of quit. I'm so pissed off. I was close to the action. I saw his face and body language up close and personal. I'm the last one to want to admit that our guy isn't tough enough. But he isn't. From this point, all decisions must be made with the understanding that Yao is No. 1, and Tmac is not winner. Period. I hate every word I just typed, but it's true. Someone please talk me out of it.
Go away. Post in one of the other 40 threads made on this topic after tonights loss. Stupid argument overall. He was tired. End of story.
T-Mac just didn't take over when he may of in the past. It didn't look like he quit watching on TV though, just had some good D played on him. When they'd rotate to double he'd pass every single time - no shots were going in.
Trade T-mac and/or Yao in the offseason, trade away our scrubs, give Adelman a clean slate to work with, blah blah.... Yet people still have delusions the T-mac and Yao dynasty is yet to come. SAD.
23pts, 13reb, 9assists, 3stl, 2 blks plus everyone else all scored... just lost to a better team without yao and alston at this point. Simple as that! But dont worry Jazzholes are gonna get raped by lakers next round
Was he not? There is no such thing as fatigue? Mabye you should get off the couch and play a nice full 48 minute game with the best basketball players in the world, and tell me your not tired.
the man brought it tonight. they had no other option that to keep him for most of the game. he was tired. there is an excuse.
Why do we have to talk you out of this? Let's all blame Tmac cause it's all his fault. And yes Yao should be the NO.1 option. Better yet, let's just trade Tmac so that Yao could be the NO.1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... option as he wants.
He was tired, we should get someone who isn't tired at the pivotal points of every friggin game that means something.
we should play Landry Harris Hayes and Mutombo all together. We do nothing but foul them HARD and we start a brawl and Deron Boozer Crybby47 and Okur will all get suspended and we put Tracy back in to dominate. YEAH!
Remind me did MJ ever get tired and only score 1 point in the 4th quarter of 2 playoff games, did Hakeem? I am just wondering.....I mean if it was a 3 quarter game...great...but....................................... DD
Bull. this was the series. There was no tired. If you're the best player, you go down shooting. You go down driving to the paint. Out of control if you must. But you go down fighting. If this is what you want out of your best player, then good luck. try raising your standards.
I've never loved and hated one player so much in my life. Last time Tmac shot over or AT 50% for a game? March ****ing 8th. That's 22 games ago. Hopefully that's an omen of something.
I don't know why the Rockets don't have a go to play for Tracy for end of game situations. With Yao, the thing to do is post him up ... Yao looks for it, the team looks for it. Why is there no situation for Tracy? They're are just dribbling the ball passing it back and forth with no set plan. And what do you get? Heaves from Jackson. Two games in a row ... same result.
Can all of the stupid people around here place their fingers in a wood chipper so we don't have to read their brilliant ideas?
did i watch a different game? the game i watched was tracy dominating, PLAYING DEFENSE, rebounding, blocking shots, setting up teammates. he stepped up big. what i saw happen in the 2nd half was him getting bombarded by like 3 jazz everytime he got the ball. i don't care who you are (kobe, lebron, williams) this would fatigue you bad considering your fighting the whole time to get open, and your the one doing everything on the defensive end in the first half so your legs are alreayd done, and once you get the ball there bodies surrounding you so you HAVE to give it up. the reason the shot clock ran down so far was b/c they were pressing the **** out of him so by the time he had the ball there was like 7 secs left and they would double him so he had no choice but to give to bjax, which you were complaning about. there was no way he would drive and get the calls with that many people surrounding him. i don't know what he could've done differently. if tracy just started throwing up fade aways and shots like you wanted him to "because i'ts the 4th quarter", you all would be like "god tracy is such a quitter he just started throwing up bull**** shots and didnt' drive b/c he was lazy." face it, utah was just ****in us up and knew that once you take tracy away the role players are forced to do stuff there not used to doing. oh, and the TEAM missed a craplod of FT's, not just tmac.
