lets not put the expectation too high i hope we can still make the playoff, but the west is super competitive.. without a healthy tracy -- hmm i don't know. we could very well win 47 games and be 9th teams are gona turn up a notch.. and lets not forget yao with his injury-happy legs if we do make it, the season will be considered a success
. You know I have been a member and lurker for years. I rarely post but today with all this Tracy crap I just wanted to vent. I am all for someone disagreeing with my rants but at least having some class doing it.
This whole Tracy saga is a bunch of crap. He just needs to suit up and play. I don't believe a word of it.
let's not be too hard on T-Mac now....i know just how it is to have a bad knee, i've had 3 surgeries on my knee and i'm here to tell you, if your knee is not at least 90% healthy, you need to stay off of it, until it heals. So all praise to T-Mac for considering his health first cuz you can really tarnish your game and body if you are playing under your ability.
tmacs body just can't hold up. The team will make the playoffs so let's wait and see what adelman has got. I don't think he really cares for tmac as much as van gundy relied on tmac. I don't believe in carter but I do believe in artest. Although he may not be as talented no one can deny that he plays with all heart.
Let's trade tmac like we did when Scottie pippen was with us. I think we got kelvin Cato so I guess there is hope
HalataHoops, like you I have been watching the Rox for a long time. Games with Elvin Hayes are but a distant memory. But I feel your pain. I think some Tracy backers don't understand or haven't seen real ballers. Real Gamers. At 41 I have seen some good ones. Ones who play through pain and never cry about it. Remenber Isiah Thomas? Willis Reed? Jordan? Guys who had to be dragged off the court. Some who wear injuries like a badge of honor. I see Tracy as a drama, attention getter. He hobbles, winces, and limps. Always letting us know and reminding us that he is not 100% and hurt. But by-golly he's gonna give it a go anyway. It wouldn't be so bad if he actually looked like he was trying, but he doesn't. If he had any balls, and was truly hurt as bad as he believes, he would have shut it down a long time ago, but I really, really believe something else is going on behind the scenes. All is not well in Rocketland.
t-mac is smart...he heard that we're gonna trade him....so he announced the trade so no teams want to deal with rockets...just think about it...out of all the times to announce the news, he did it right before hte trade deadline.....coincidence..??
yes he decided to get microfracture surgery (of all surgeries) to avoid being traded. jebus some of you are stupid.
He doesn't even need microfracture surgery. T-mac just declared that so other teams avoid him like the plague. Notice how the team nor any doctors are confirming Tracy's statements right now. Most likely he'll just sit back and 'rehab' his knee (ie do nothing). Jebus YOU'RE stupid.
Man i hope thats the case, that means we still have hope to save this season. I'd rather him just rehab until right before playoffs...but its not looking likely, unless maybe he's "talked out of it"
NBA.com Blinebury article about Tmac Fran Session: Hard to know what to believe with T-Mac By Fran Blinebury, for NBA.com Posted Feb 18 2009 5:34PM HOUSTON -- Tracy McGrady says the season is over for him. Then again, McGrady says lots of things. McGrady said he never wanted to leave Orlando. But then he said that he didn't always try hard for the Magic, and he shut it down for the last 15 games in the spring of 2004 because, while he was leading the league in scoring, the team wasn't going anywhere. McGrady said that he came to Houston to lead the Rockets to great things. And then he promptly handed off the mantle of responsibility to Yao Ming. McGrady said prior to the 2007 first-round playoff series against the Utah Jazz, "It's all on me." Then after the Rockets lost, he said, "It was never on me." McGrady said he "was tired" in the second half of Game 6 of the 2008 playoff elimination loss to the Jazz, noting defender Andrei Kirilenko got to come off the bench fresh and he had to play the whole game. The entire 2008-09 season has been more a frustrating verbal volleyball match between McGrady and the club rather than the hoped-for championship run that was anticipated when the Rockets traded for Ron Artest last summer. McGrady had arthroscopic surgery to clean up his left knee on May 6 and arrived four months later saying his recovery would be a process, but he would get stronger. Then he didn't. There were last-minute scratches from the lineup that did not sit well in the locker room. There was even a short-lived plan for him to play only one game of every back-to-back on the schedule. McGrady slammed down a vintage dunk in the face of Tyrus Thomas earlier this month and said he proved to himself that he was back, finishing with 16 points and six assists in a win over Chicago. Six nights later, McGrady went up for a dunk and embarrassingly clanked the ball off the underside of the rim, finishing with three points on 1-for-9 shooting in an ugly loss at Milwaukee. He said there was no pain in his knee, just a mental block. And then things got weird. A week ago, McGrady said he was not even considering surgery. He and the Rockets said his MRI showed no changes. He had not improved, but neither had anything gotten worse. He had been playing. He was feeling better and saying he'd turned the corner. Doctor after doctor said that McGrady could play and would grow stronger if he did. McGrady said nothing had changed in his condition. Now he needs microfracture surgery? The Rockets weren't saying for sure, perhaps because the day after McGrady made his announcement to ESPN and posted the decision to have surgery on his own Web site, he still had not contacted the team. "I found out the way everybody else did ... in the paper," coach Rick Adelman said following Wednesday's practice. "There's a right way to do things and this was not the right way to do it. I think there should be protocol there." None of that means McGrady does not require surgery, only that there are so many inconsistencies in the information about his condition, as there have been all season. But that has been the thread running through the storyline of McGrady's 12-season NBA career -- a wildly divergent mix of extraordinary talent with less than satisfying overall results. For every video clip of T-Mac once scoring 13 points in the last 35 seconds to take down the San Antonio Spurs, there is a side of the ledger that says his teams are 0-7 in the first round of the playoffs, blowing a 3-1 lead to Detroit when he was still with the Magic and blowing a pair of 2-0 leads to Dallas and Utah with the Rockets. He has a contract that pays $21 million this season and $23 million next season. Yet the last remnants of the superstar label have slowly been scratched off as the Rockets have reluctantly been forced to accept that T-Mac is no longer the player they traded for and maybe never was who they believed he could be --- a torchbearer who leads. Now, as he approached his 30th birthday, in May, McGrady says he's opting for the serious microfracture surgery, the kind that has been like an unknown abyss for NBA players. Can he make it all the way back like Amar'e Stoudemire, Kenyon Martin and Jason Kidd? Does he return as a shadow of his former self like Chris Webber and Penny Hardaway? Or does it take him right to the end like Terrell Brandon and Jamal Mashburn? Was it a coincidence that the pendulum quickly swung to surgery just when McGrady's name was bubbling up in trade rumors, even though the team denied interest in moving him? McGrady says he's done for the season. Then again, he says lots of things. It's what he does now that will say the most about T-Mac. DD
