This thread is stupid. You can't say McGrady is a top 3 decision maker in the league, and then deem him a chucker. He does, whatever he has to do. And even when he fails, he is by far, the best option that we have to entrust with those decisions.
My thoughts exactly. There will be nights like this. Also - Tmac can be 0 for 20 and still get hot at anytime. You have to take the good with the bad.
t-mac seems to have the worst shot selection when he's off. when he has a normal game or even is on fire it doesn't matter. btw: comparing t-mac with wade or kobe is stupid because kobe takes the same kinds of shots and wade gets every call he wants. sometimes, when t-mac is aggressive and takes it to the rack and gets hammered without a call i wonder if he would be better off taking contested jump shots.
i'm sorry but tmac is the most criticized and hated on superstar by their own fans. kobe can chuck like crazy => sure he gets criticism from the media, but laker fans defend him by saying he has to do that. lebron can choke => sure he gets criticized by the media but his fans say it's a maturity process tmac gets called soft, weak, ... whatever you want. houston fans just don't know how good they have it. when the Playoff version tmac rolls around, y'all need to shut up.
uh u sure? i go to another forum where laker fans rule. and they always want kobe to shoot more b/c their reason is who else is gonna take the shots? they criticize him, but not call him weak, soft, ... y'all are like bandwagoners - "what have you done for me lately?"
No, it isn't a valid point. He had one off night, after several weeks of shooting the ball well. Every player is going to have a night like that sooner or later. It happens. When McGrady spends an entire season chucking away the Rockets title hopes, I'll agree that he deserves to be crticized, but until then, I'm going to leave him be. He does more than any other Rockets player- save Yao- to help this team win, and I'm willing to live with his mistakes because of everything else he brings to the table. Judging by the opinions of players, coaches, and league executives, it seems as though most people in the NBA agree with me.
these guys treat tmac like any other player--rafer, head. if he sucks one night, he gets punked one night. he does well, he gets love. they don't stick by their guy through thick and thin. and for a franchise player who has struggled through a lot mentally AND physically. they ignored the fact that tmac single-handedly brough this team back offensively in the 2nd half. he scored 21 pts in the 2nd half, the team scored 51. really, he only had 1 bad (yes, i admit REALLY REALLY BAD), but nobody is perfect. wasn't kobe 11-29 v. the suns the other night?
lol, people need to stop hating one someone just because they have one bad game. it's amusing to see all the hate that rafer alston got earlier this year when he was in a slump and everyone was all like "give the ball to tracy" or "tracy should be shooting more" and now tracy has one bad game and so many people turn on him and start hating on him. this is getting ridiculous. how about we just give tmac some encouragement and just hope his next game will be better?
Take a look at this thread. It's typical of a Kobe thread on the Lakers forum. More defenders than detractors. Some people here will defend Tracy no matter what just like some Laker fans will do with Kobe. I don't blame Tracy for having a bad shooting night and I don't think that's the point being made by most people. When his shot is off, the last thing Tracy should do is put up long range shots early in the shot clock and bail out the defense.
that's the thing that you don't know w/ tracy. he just needs ONE SHOT and he's on. that's it. when he made that 3 in the 3rd quarter at the beginning, u know he believes he was feeling it and he ended up scoring 21 pts. that's the thing u have to live w/ with guys like kobe, tmac... that's why they're career 44-45% shooters. they'll have their bad nights. but it just takes 1 shot and it's a wrap, they can lit a fire.
T-Mac is EASILY my favorite player but even I have to agree that he takes some really hard shots that most other players don't. The thing is, he often makes these outrageous shots and makes it look easy so he gets away with it. However, when he has an off night, you notice how hard the jumpshots he takes really are when they aren't going in. This is also why T-Mac's FG% is lower than some of the other superstars, he doesn't care about it, he just takes the shots as he feels like it, especially 3 pointers. Compare his jumpshot selection to Wade and LeBron for example who generally only take them when they have easy open looks, that's why their FG% is around 47 to 48. T-Mac can really improve his FG% if he selects his shots like Wade and LeBron, but his current selection is just part of the way he plays. He does a lot of things better than those two, and can really put on a show when he's making the tough ones that no one else in the league can.
Well said. Poor shot selection is a part of Tracy's package. If he didn't so often settle for tough shots early in the shot clock, he could shoot over 50%. Again, this is what puts him a notch below Wade, who is not nearly as talented a player but is more effective on the court.
what did wade do w/o shaq? sure wade is more efficient but he doesn't pose the defensive attention that tmac poses throughout the entire court. there's a reason nobody guards wade above the 3pt line but they do tracy and so on. tracy gets doubled in the post; wade doesn't and so on. wade's a great player but i'm serious, i want to see him a season w/o shaq completely and see what he is truly made of. and let's look at the playoffs, last yr, the last 4 games v. the mavs were AMAZING along w/ the first 2 games v. the pistons, but other than that, he was his typical regular season self which is great already. but tracy has played better than wade in the playoffs and lose. winning has a lot w/ a player's stature. wade's a proof of that.
Grah, T-mac's a jump shooter right now. Take the bad with the good; for all the "bad" shot selection he displays, he sure has a thing for clutch shots.
man i can't believe you guys,so now that yao is back t-mac has not only a bad selection of shots.but he is the worst at selecting shots.I don't give a f..k if i am banned or not after this but during all these month he has carried your sorry a.. and this is how you thank him after 1 bad game.I really think that T-mac is not that appreciated in houston as someone said it best he is not very liked by houston fans.sure not all rockets fans are like this but its crazy man after all this guy has done for you this year after yao went down.do you realise that without him you would not be in the playoff this year?And i am with those who think that t-mac will all shut your mouth come playoff time.and to those dude that think he has the WORST SHOT SELECTION man.stfu pleaseAnd if it was only one people i would understand but there are many people here who agree with this s...
