Word is T-Mac will play tonight (UPDATE: confirmed and T-Mac responds to critics)

Obviously T-mac's heard the criticisms.
Hopefully that's not forcing him to come back before he's ready just to prove some message board wiseguys wrong.

I don't think there's any doubt that T-mac on the floor makes this a much better team. For all the posters who say the offense is stagnant with T-mac in there, why is our record so much better when he plays?

Even this early year:
10-5 with (harder part of the schedule too)
4-3 without

80% T-mac is still the most talented player on our roster.

 

LOL, I hope this kid is joking.

 

this was his actual quote,the chronicle messed it up:

"I can’t stop (the criticism.) I’m not going to go in a dark closet and hide by any means. It’s funny that DaDakota wants to come up with his own assumptions of me. He doesn't know what I go through. Yeah, I’ve missed some games. I missed a lot of games. It’s not like I’m trying to go out there and hurt myself. That’s how the body is sometimes. It breaks down. You have injuries. It happens."

 

A very disturbing fan. I really like how he said "so he asks for a trade to Golden State to get married" lmao!

 

WAAAAAH WAAAAAH WAAAAAAAH

2010 can't get here soon enough.

 

LMAO!! that was funny but i really seriously hope he was joking

 

And this is why Rookies can't make threads.

While I'm always critical of when T-Mac settles for bad jumpers, I've always been in his camp. To put it in perspective, I got a T-Mac jersey, a Battier jersey, and an Artest shirt before I got a Yao... ANYTHING.

Tracy McGrady is a badass, and I can't wait for the playoffs. He will NOT go ringless.

 

"That was told to me, that I won’t fully recover, but we’ll see," he said. "Right now, I feel good. I still have a little pain in my knee, but it’s nothing like it was a couple weeks ago."

omg it all looked good until he said that..imagine tmac playing in pain the rest of his career i feel bad for the guy ive watched him since he entered the league that really hurts to hear that

 

tmac said he was told he wont ever fully recover i am in shock

 

He's pretty much already played in pain his whole career.

 

9 minutes after thread start. Boy is he getting to you

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

TMAC REST PLZ DONT COME BACK IF YOUR POWER LEVEL ISNT OVER 9000

 

Such optimism from a Rockets fan...

 

That line really irritates me...

 

T-Mac you're the best don't listen to the haters! 2010 is too near! I wish there was an expiration date on some of these members!

 

What The... HAHHAHAHAHAHAH

 

He waited nine minutes to make it not look like irrational obsessive hate. No one was fooled.

 

It's an ESPN game, did anyone doubt he would play?

I kid I kid!

Glad that he's feeling up to it. I hope like heck we have a good game tonight and put them away early.. make less pressure on the "big two" we have for this one.

 

Then you can finally hate on a new group of Rockets. What happened? For a while, when everyone was hating on McGrady, you actually turned rational and actually constructively pointed out flaws and strong points he should take advantage of (low post) instead of blind hate.

 

1 point for you.