TMac's knee, mostly mental or physical?

Mental. Mc'Fraidy acts like he is glass. Earn your gazillions dude or be traded. A lesser more durable talent would make this team better.

 

uh what? how could anyone in this thread possibly know? who cares what we think. the way i see is this: if he's hurt, let him rest. if he can play, make him play. fans don't know anything because i'm sure mgmt and/or the doctors don't tell the full story.

 

DD, you're my man 100 grand, but u brought this up last year. Actually you thought he was faking it. Thing is DD and you've watched enough hoops from your broadcast days to know that a basketball player is nothing without his legs. i hope he sits out until he's healthy enough to come back and a high %. Grant hill ruined his hall of fame career trying to play through pain. Turns out he was playing on a broken ankle trying to help the team. What did it get him? Called overrated and overpaid because he couldnt even play 2 yrs on a max contract. I remember having a 3rd degree sprain that basically took 6 months to heal. That same high ankle sprain Hill had and it really bothered me alot because it was on my right side. Couldnt push off, had a hard time dunking afterwards. I said all along if Shane was healthy, he wouldve sat and healed longer. Now shane is back, Yao playing well and artest coming on along with the others, he can afford to heal as opposed to in other years he had to play. Its always part mental also, but isnt that with any player and a injury.

I still wonder why he gets questioned so much about injuries and others dont. Busted shoulder, bad knee and its always something questioned about him. he always misses 10-12 games anyway, so this is standard issue for him.

 

But a major reason they got Artest is because they expect McGrady or Yao to need shutting down at various points throughout the season. If someone breaks down because two superstars (with some very good support pieces like Scola, Landry, and Brooks) just isn't good enough, this team truly is hopeless.

 

Why would you think the poll would be closer when every sub par game there are 8 threads about him? C'Mon DD, with the options you gave, you knew the results. For the record, that wasnt just some minor surgery either.

 

I think it's mental. One day it's ok, then the next day, it's I need to shut it down. I think the rockets are getting tired it too. Remember after that game, where he said he thinks he needs to get a MRI on his knee after the game? Then the next day, he says after consulting with rockets doctors, the MRI isn't necessary and he's good to go. It's getting to the point of like someone who always wants to go see a doctor every time they get a cold or cough.

 

Two words: Shawn Marion.

 

really? do you know how much of the meniscus he still has left in that knee? i don't so perhaps dr. dd can inform us.

 

It probably has to do with his past. In Orlando he skipped the last couple of weeks with a knee injury. It was the same type of scenario where management wanted him to play. This was around the time when a trainer asked Tracy where exactly his knee hurt, and Tracy responded "Where do you want it to hurt?" A year later Tracy admitted that he could have played, but chose not to.

 

You forgot to add "I need more touches" as well.

 

I was planning which way to vote and normally I can go either way on your posts DD but the poll you put up today is utterly useless in every sense of the word. Besides not offering, at the very least, a third option of a mix between the other, you are creating a survey between two extremes that you assume to lie on one continuum (i.e., he either has mental issues or physical issues) when in fact they can probably lie on two and co-exist. Worse yet, your question is biased toward one answer which indicates a disastrous survey. The fact that he has played games indicates that the second option of pain is ridiculous because of its extremity - if he were in fact in too much pain, he would not play. As someone earlier said, you knew the results you would find with the type of survey you put together. Overall, your poor construction of the actual choices and a lack of other choices to various degrees of severity indicates the futility of your poll. I understand this type of poll doesn't require anything a real survey would but at the very least, you could give some other options and give people a choice instead of forcing them to choose between two poorly created options.

As for my own thoughts on Tmac, I don't understand what is so hard to understand. This is a guy everyone has consistently bashed for telling the truth. So, if he says he has good and bad days, that's probably the truth. In the end, it doesn't matter what the doctors think, it matters what he thinks, based both on mental and physical aspects. Going through this probably has taken its toll on his confidence as a player and he thinks he needs to shut it down. So, it is probably a mix of both.

Mental - he has to gain confidence in his knee
Physical - the pain is just too much for him

 

You sound like a campaign statement.

 

NBA TV

 

Great insight - you did a real good job of providing some thoughts on what was written... no wait, you didn't. Maybe if you learn something about surveying people, you too would be appalled. And when you finally do and have something constructive, then come back to the board.

 

I happen to agree with your original assessment. A little sensitive, are we?

 

That Lakers game wasn't on NBA TV.

I could be wrong though, but I remember watching it on one of the regular league pass stations.

 

Why do people act like the brain is not part of the body? It's an organ too. So, it's physical, regardless.

Morans.

 

I have had knee surgery and it is both mental and physical. There is pain, a lack of strength and a thought of it just coming loose at anytime.