I will assume his FG% differences are negligle. So the real stats to look at are: Assists up, points down - well, that's easy. Pass more, score less. I don't think I go out on a limb when most people would see this as a good thing.
all i know is he has helped us to 3 50 win seasons. he has not disappointed in the playoffs with avg of 31, 7, 7 v. dallas and 25, 5, 7 v. utah. the playoffs is all that matters. if yao was healthy this yr, we would be going far. this is the best team around tmac since he has been here. it's not his fault yao's injury comes at the wrong time where he would miss the playoffs. you do know yao is a huge part of this team right? although tmac is our best player, everything we do revolves around yao right?
Great quality thread! There's nothing better then like starting a thread with just one sentence asking others to do the work for you!
i agree tmac has not had "career" seasons as a rocket. but did clyde? no. when you come here with the expectations of playing with yao ming, you know his stats would not be as eye-popping as it was in orlando. he was option A, B, C, D in orlando. here, he's not. when he had bad games in orlando, he still get 22-25 shots and could get himself going. here, he's not. and that's a good thing. sure his fg% could be in the 45% range, but i think he has done other things well. all i care is how he performs in the PLAYOFFS and he has not disappointed me much outside of the 2 games in utah last yr on the road. that's 2-3 out of 14 playoff games? i would not say that's bad. if yao was healthy RIGHT NOW, don't tell me we would not go far? tmac has sacrificed a lot of his game this season since he returned from injury. if you do not see this, you're blind. sometimes it's not about stats. you think boston is hating the KG trade b/c he's avg CAREER LOWS in rebounds, points, and assists since he became a star. when you're on a better team, YOUR STATS GO DOWN.
Yeah lets trade the 3rd or 4th best (at worst) shooting guard for player A (who is completely unattainable) or player B and picks (who will never reach what tmac is at his worst) because they do thing C that tmac doesn't do (but is worse at everything else) and we will be much better. The stats show that he he shoots 2 or 3% worse than player A so since he takes less than 25 shots a game he misses less than 1/2 of a shot more. That 1/2 a shot has been killing us and the sole reason for us ever loosing. Tmac's been here this long and he didn't win us a championship, every other good player would have won a championship by now. As a matter of fact they all have. I know player A would win a championship with us even though they are doing about the same as us with much better role players.
Seriously this fg% thing is starting to get annoying he shoots about 43%, superstar shooting guards usually shoot 45% the difference is minimal. If he was in the 30's it would be a different story. Yao shoots about 50%-52% but he isn't wildly inefficient because alot of good centers shoot much better fg%. Most championship teams have 2-4 other players who could come to our team and easily be our 3rd option. No matter ho much these guys hustle, they aren't anywhere close to championship caliber role players.
Can administrators erase threads like this? I am really tired of these hating TMAC threads, hating Yao threads, hating Rafer threads..... Stop hating! Our soldiers are fighting for the city and fans all over the world, they deserve supports and congratulations, not hating!
1. I agree 2. Right now I don't see any 'hating Yao threads' 3. Can you love Rafer? You can't call it hating, it is just normal.
Obviously this thread is a ploy to divert attention from the "Yao hatn'n thread". What a better way of doing that then to focus on the Rockets favorite scapegoat? By the way Jerry, I would love to see the quote where McGrady promised Houston a championship.
Dirk "I Couldn't Close Out A Finals Series Even With My Great Supporting Cast" Nowitzki? Dirk "I Was The First Ever 1st Seed To Lose To An 8th Seed And I Didn't Show Up For That Series" Nowitzki? Pau "I Couldn't Win A Playoff Game In Memphis In Like Twelve Tries" Gasol? You can say Dirk is the reigning MVP and T-Mac is not, but where has it got him? He is jut as soft as T-Mac, if not more. He still doesn't have a ring.
dirk straight up sucked HARD v. us 3 yrs ago. and they still won. he has a team. that team never depended on dirk like we have depended on tmac. if tmac sucked that hard in the playoffs, we get swept by 50+ pts.
Couldn't agree more. Looks at Rockets' players' stats from last years' playoffs. In postseason it is all bout the team, BENCH. Do you remember only 4 guys scoring in 1 playoff game for us?
Game 4 in Utah I believe. I wonder who scored besides tmac and yao... must be battier and rafer right?
It was Rafer and....hmmmm probably Shane. But please don't remaind me about that game. Probably the worst, most ridiculous game I've ever watched
it was game 3, my bad. I had the link copied and ready to be pasted but yeah, I won't remind you. It made me pretty sad looking at it. Damn...i think I just ruined lunch reading that crappy box score. but to the OP, tmac's stats weren't bad. 24 pts? awesome!
Something like that, but I'm not sure. Now you see why we lost to Utah in the playoffs. It wasn't Tracy, wasn't Yao... Thatns God we don't have to watch Juwan anymore
