Yep yep, exactly. He is just trying to build up his rep points by picking a sensless fight and lowering the GARM even further. Actually, I don't know why he follows me around and attempts to pick a fight.....not really all that helpful. He is a Clutch Crew member, he should be held to higher standards, IMO. DD
That's absurd. T-Mac averaged 24.6 points, 6.5 assists, and 5.3 rebounds a game (on a 52 win team) three years ago. You don' think that is worth the MLE?! I suppose you would prefer to use the whole MLE on "Super Von." People forget that McGrady was consistently the best player on this team since 2004, and had a really bad year last year. Nobody knows if he will ever recover from his injury this time, but to say he was a crap player during his whole Rockets stint is ridiculous.
Where have you been? Do you live in a packing crate? I should be happy about what? All of his injuries, all the times he quit on his teams in the past? He scores a bunch of points and we get an 8th seed and knocked out of the first round again. I don't want that to happen. I'd rather trade him and get a lottery pick to build around.
If there were some way we could trade him to contend THIS year I'd be down for that too. I doubt that'll happen though.
But if he comes out, does fairly well, it does make him more valuable at the trade deadline as an expiring, we might be able to flip him into some good young players and draft picks. That is what I hope happens. DD
Just started skimming through this thread so missed a few of the usual Dakota gems, big surprise there... I seriously don't know where you come up with this stuff but the best part is the level of self-assuredness with which you proceed. lol.
I don't think a guy that holds the ball, doesn't move off of it, and shoots a low percentage is a good way to win, especially in the playoffs and late in the 4th quarter when teams adjust their defense, take away the comfort zone and the rest of the team has spent the entire game watching Tmac with the ball. Just my opinion and yes, I am sure of it. However was your post a refution of what I said, or just a lame poke at me the poster, thus contributing to the demise of the GARM? DD
you know what i remember, i remember him givin up on us, so ron ron took charge with yao and took us to the second round, somewhere tmac has never taken us.
Right so it is really that you just don't like me, fair enough, put me on ignore then for the good of the board, why post inflammatory stuff because of a personal vendetta? I know we have bumped heads in the past, but I also know you are a dedicated Rockets fan, and respect your opinion about the team, can you not see how you following posters you don't like around and picking fights is bad for the board overall? I get that you don't like me, and you think I post too much...fine.....can we shake E-hands and move on? The goal of all of us old-timers should be to raise the bar in the GARM, not lower it by bickering about personalities. EMail sent.... Come on, being a fan of a Rockets player is bad? Seriously..... DD
How many NOWs must the board endure with you? I mean seriously. Check this thread out : http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=147202 Page 1 : Should the Rockets trade TMac for Manu? Yes, you'd do it. Page 5 : No, the board has convinced you we shouldn't do it. Page 6 : Due to popular opinion in the other direction now, you'd make the trade Page 8 : Hey, here's a side order : Remember when you said Aaron Brooks was THE ANSWER and we sat through a God-knows-how-many page thread while you responded to every post as to why you were right? Here you are wanting to trade for "a quality pg". Guess ol' Aarron wasn't "the answer". Or maybe he was "the answer" but just not "a quality pg"... Also on that page, you pat yourself on the back for suggesting potential trades you believe turned out well. Funny you don't mention that you mention about 150 players every year and how many don't turn out to do anything. Talk about "agendas". lol. Page 10 : You knock the basketball intelligence of posters not willing to do the trade now. Of course you throw in the patented DaDakota winky, so it's all ok. I guess we're pretty sure we want to trade him... on this page. Nevermind it only took 3 pages to "convince" you otherwise a few pages ago. Page 13 : Wait. Now you're saying you were swayed to not making the trade earlier. Can anyone keep up? Page 14 : But hold on! Now you're saying you would rather have Manu than TMac. Not exactly a traaaaaade... buuuuuuut... gotta leave that door open just incase. I gave up after about page 14-16 when you went on other sites and claim Houston fans are just being homers. I had a headache. So yes, you wanted to trade TMac before Yao was injured. But you also didn't want to trade him before Yao was injured. Hell, you wanted to trade and not trade him multiple times in the same thread before Yao was injured. Neat way to always be able to point back and say "I was right". Believe me, this won't be the only example I can find, but it's the most hilarious one because of how many times your opinion was swayed in a relatively short period of time. What's hilarious is that these flip-flops aren't difficult to find. That was a good one because you were slangin' waffles within pages of the same thread. lol. THIS is what the GARM was about : if you don't have an opinion you can reasonably defend or have so many that you can't keep track of the switches, you'll be called out on it. Get used to it. My agenda is to help clean up the forum... just like yours. You start with asterisks, I start with Dakotas. Don't BS. Your only post was "Not impressed" because you were ticked off we didn't do something better, but the "not impressed" was nothing more than a knee-jerk reaction to his acquisition without knowing anything about the guy. The knee-jerk reaction caused you to flip flop when you duh... actually watched the guy play. Follow you around starting a fight? Give me a break. Pull up your sissy panties and post like a man. If you make a post, be able to defend it down the road instead of starting Feedback threads about you not getting "5 stars" and "no asterisks" in threads. I go after you because you act like a pompous all-knowing poster. Descend from Asgard and join the rest of us because you're no better. If you post a lot, expect a lot of posts in response. I mean Christ, you've got half the posts on the Spoiler damn Internet - just don't expect everyone to agree with you or blindly judge your comments on the post-of-the-moment. I know - it hurts. Once you make this your blog, expect to be judged for your opinions. GARM has always been that way but perhaps you post too much to actually stop and read it. Contrary to your beliefs, not everything that is contrary to what you post is a problem in GARM. And contrary to your belief, you are neither judge nor jury on this forum. BTW, I think I have some coupons for IHOP if you run out waffles. Now go post in the Feedback forum how you want beatdowns asterisked or banned from the board.
Well im sure guys who won those awards but not a title would take the Ring over those awards any time. Everyone's main goal is the chip not no individual award.
the point is that Deke or Iverson or Dream or Michael Jordan don't play for individual awards. they receive them because people felt they were deserving. I'm sure if you felt this way you wouldn't glorify individual performances by CERTAIN player(s) in NON CHAMPIONSHIP related games. Yeah if a CERTAIN player got an individual award, I'm sure you wouldn't mention it here.
Yeah i know funny how i never brought up scoring titles, all nba teams, all star selections and all of that . Im sure all of that doesn't mean anything to him. He wants the Banner and Ring!!!!!
Because if Yao didn't get hurt we would still be high contenders. But without Yao and what would have been a supposed trade for a decent player to play along side him (from trading Yao) its not really important. We just want to develop players and be more ready next year. Develop players like Anderson and Brooks and Ariza (not really Ariza but need to get him team ready). Maybe or maybe not, Yao will be ready at the very end of the season but regardless he will be ready with better improved role players next year and with Tmac staying with us doing good or not, we use his expiring for our benefit.
