The attitude of fans has always been "what have you done for me lately" People want to completely revamp the roster after every play.
i think this is similar to how he dealt with his back problems a few years back. he's going through a mentally frustrated state in terms of dealing with his knee and how badly he has played so far this season. jon feign confirmed it. eventually tracy will get out of this mental funk and play well and motivated again. and that time will come very soon. the last 2 games are good indications.
T-Mac blew those games? Really? I didn't know that. The whole damn Rockets team blew a 2-0 lead, and gave up a 40-point Game 7 loss. Yeah, T-Mac hasn't been out of the 1st Round, but I watched each and every of those painstakingly tough series, and T-Mac didn't lose them. The Rockets did.
You've got that right. Some of these guys act like a change has to be made in sync with the 24 sec shot clock. I also disagree with the point that if Tracy scores 44, but doesn't try his hardest in the last 5 minutes is the worst thing for the team. Seems like some folks would rather have Luther Head try really, really hard and have the Rockets in the Lotto every year. I want the Rockets to win. And Tracy McGrady at 80% still is better than anything we can get for him or anyone else on the team that can take those minutes.
Our best chance to win a championship this year remains substantially better with a healthy McGrady than without him. I don't care what they do to get it right but I want to make the playoffs and then win in the playoffs. Yes, T-Mac is greatly flawed, but the man has carried us many years when our rosters absolutely sucked. I still think he can but only time will prove that.
depends.. considering the only way Tracy, as he is now, would get a chance for such a high tally of points.. is via a double overtime.. would it be achieved with a poor shooting percentage.. and the team just barely straining out the win.. or just straining.. ?
no matter what... every game you have to try your best... i can see this spirit in Yao..Artest..but not tmac i don't care about what happens in the past.. but at this moment ..he is the cancer of the team.
We haven't been playing other contenders? So this Jazz team that made the Western Conference Finals are just a team full of chumps right? Or the fact that they have three no four all stars on their team compared to our measley 2. Or the fact that they have been listed as contenders the last two years we've played them. Why don't you just say we haven't played the Spurs or the Suns in the last two years and that that. Since you clearly don't seem to rate the other 5 teams that have made the WC playoffs these past years. I really don't understand how a Game 7 is all Mcgrady's fault (sans his own stupid comments). Yao Ming has just as much responsibility as Mcgrady in all three game 7 losses. How about Yao Ming not being able to adapt and letting the teams slowly make him ineffective for long periods of a playoff. I really think following your logic means we need to ship Yao Ming out of here because there is as far as I can see it the teams he had in Orlando had no chance of making out of the first round of the playoffs unless Mcgrady was playing super human for 7 games straight. Everyone on this team currently has issues. Yao Ming is playing horrible, Shane Battier is on one leg, Ron Artest is moving game to game from superman to i have no idea how to play this offence. Rafer Alston can shoot some crazy % one day following 6 games of 30%. Tracy Mcgrady is getting the hit because his on and off the court all the time. His deemed "Quitting" which could be true who knows. But writing off what his done for the Rockets in the past is quite ridiculous
You know, the revisionism isn't just "TMac dogged it every year and cost the Rockets playoffs success." It's also "TMac has had multiple opportunities in his career to win it big but he threw them all away." I am dumbfounded.
assuming 3-4 months from now, his knee is still this bad, yea, he'll never score 20 pts consistently. but tracy has been playing 40+ mins in the last few games and looked decent (not great) physically so he's improving.
I always like reasonable posts like this that try to check the onslaught of negativity with a little groundedness. Two points to add: 1. When TMac does incredible things, he makes it look easy. So, when he does poorly, it looks like he isn't trying. 2. TMac is so good, we hold him to a higher standard. I don't mean these two things as a carte blanche excuse for TMac criticisms. Only that this board would be more interesting to read if the average poster would remember these kind of things when criticizing. I, for one, see this team doing something special in the playoffs this year. And I do say that Deke is the key addition. Let em rest. Let them all heal. We will get into the playoffs, and we will have our chances to advance. Looking forward to it.
The one TMac moment permanently engraved in my mind is this: Game 7, fourth quarter against the Jazz. TMac has been aggressive in driving and either making, getting fouled or dishing. We've fought back from down eight and now we're up five. TMac has the ball about 18 feet away. Instead of driving which has been extremely successful, he pulls up for one of his patented and dreaded fadeaways. I scream, "No!!!" to no avail. The Jazz get the rebound and Boozer scores on their possession. We seem to lose all momentum and the game drifts away. I still question why he settled for a 30% jump shot early in the shot clock when he had many better options ....
