Tracy McGrady and his play at the end of close games...

RocksMillenium · Nov 21, 2004

Originally posted by pgabriel
The irony of this thread is that all summer we all thought Weisbrod was being a jerk in his comments on McGrady, but this thread represents why Weisbrod was willing to trade a talent like McGrady. Weisbrod never questioned McGrady’s ability, he only questioned his level of energy during games and his willings to give that extra burst it takes to close out tough games.

Think about it like this, the Rockets Organization has been very gracious towards the players they shipped to Orlando and have only had good things to say about them. But lets say the Rockets said that Francis just couldn’t get on the same page with Ming and he couldn’t run JVG’s offense and that Mobley took to many ill-advised shots and that Cato just never lived up to expectations. Would the Rockets management be jerks, or would it just be honesty. Weisbrod may have been a jerk, but was he being honest of his personal assessment of McGrady as a player.

Weisbrod is a general manager, which entails scouting. He gets paid a lot of money to evaluate players. Evaluating players involves more than assessing their talent, it involves assessing their attitude, their maturity, their level of energy, their off the court behavior. Weisbrod, while maybe being a jerk, has experience in this. He may not have basketball experience but he has been in the business of evaluating sports talent, and maybe we should have listened to what he had to say.

All that being said, I don’t think this will be a big problem for the Rockets. We have another star on this team, who has already proven that he can close out games. He closed out the Sacramento game when McGrady wasn’t playing, and he has performed well down the stretch in some other past games, particularly last season’s home game against Atlanta. So maybe that is just how the team has to adjust, McGrady getting us through the first three quarters and Yao closing games out.
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No, the irony of this thread is that you have been riding the Orlando franchise and ripping McGrady and the Rockets from day one. Give it a rest. Weisbrod doesn't have any experience in anything.

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