[Yang Yi] The Rockets are trying every means to trade T-mac

Doc Rocket also said this......

Where there is smoke there is fire....I doubt they move Tmac though....if he comes back strong and Yao tells him to STFU and stop being a wuss...they will get along.

Tmac is not the leader anymore in the clubhouse, it is Yao...that is probably good for the team overall...because as a leader...Tmac is crap.

DD

 

I'll be glad when the Trade Deadline comes and goes.

 

For all the cats who don't believe that some type of drama is going down in houston is in denial. If it smells like a rat, acts like a rat, then by golly it's a rat. If this was civil court, preponderance of evidence will be sufficient to prove the criminal as guilty. And by the hundreds of articles that have come up from major media outlets should be enough to tell someone that something is going on. Whether or not anything physical actually happens (ie trade) is up for speculation.

 

Wow. The thing seems true. Yang Yi is a close friend of Yao don't question that. I dont think Yang Yi fabricated those stuff, no point in doing that. One message I read from it - T-Mac has some attitudes and the team is getting frustrated. The locker room is getting tense. really bad. Dont want to see a trade like this.

 

I don't buy it. Just doesn't make any sense.

There's a few sources on this board that get it right - the dude who said Yao's injury was really bad before it was announced a few days later (last year) - he was spot on. I'm waiting for that dude to start a thread - learned his word is gosspel. What was his name??? Anyone remember?

But this I don't buy. It makes no sense to try every means to trade T-mac. Why? He's not a cancer - you don't become a cancer in two weeks of terrible play. And then trade an injured star at his lowest value????

No...Morey isn't foolish, at the very least, he'd wait until T-mac's knee is sound...wait until he comes back. Why rush to trade T-mac - we aren't going to beat the elite without him or with anyone we get back in a desperation trade. Might as well wait until summer when T-mac's value would be higher.

 

who is doc rocket?

 

now I guess we know who the 'extremely plugged-in person' is

 

You do if you want to leak it out, so that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Maybe the Rockets are resting Tracy 2 weeks so that he will be back just in time to showcase for a few games and get a better trade.

 

I do think it would break in the Chinese media first.......they are closer to Yao, and he could always use plausible denial.

DD

 

His username was moe something....not sure, but I sure remember that post.

 

Since when did Yao become the GM of Houston Rockets?

As much business as Yao may bring for Les, I just don't see Les defer to Yao in the personnel decision making process.

If Yao really has this much to say about the roster, SF3 would still be here.

And if Yao really is trying to impose his will on the Houston Rockets, I am all for moving Yao out of Houston. No player is bigger than the team.

 

Alston has been the most vocal critic of T-Mac from his comments in the Chron. Doc Rocket has named Yao, Adelman, Artest, and Battier as people who are unhappy with McGrady. The front office is meant to be unhappy with McGrady and I assume that means Morey as well.

If you haven't been following they're not unhappy with McGrady because of his injury. It's his attitude and antics that he's carried on all season.

 

I have been following this Tracy soap since day 1. Tracy has always been a prima donna like most NBA mega superstars. Why is that a surprise to anyone?

I am not crazy about Tmac's recent sluggish plays but he IS injured. Are you guys pouting because Tmac's slow recovery from his surgery may derail our best chance to win it all in quite a while?

 

That's the reason why I'm pissed...I think this the best year for us to win it. I think win can it with our current group plus what ever else we can get for Tracy if he can't recover.

I really don't know why people want to trade Artest??? This guy can carry us in the playoffs alonside Yao........and also, I really don't give a crap about 2010, I'm about winning it now!!!!

 

if we make it to the WCF b/c of his extraordinary play (say he averages 25+, 6, 6), then obviously not. that shows he still has game and an elite player.

if he comes back and we go far b/c moreso of the role players and yao (say tracy averages 15-17, 5, 5), then if the team will still look for other options b/c it shows tracy is no longer that player.

we'll see which tracy comes back. it was only a few months ago that tracy puts up 27, 8, 7 with a PER of 24 on 2 injuries. i still have a lot of hope left for him b/c you dont' suddenly lose all that skill. it's all about confidence with tracy. he just needs to get it back up.

tracy being afraid of going to the basket on a fast break? now c'mon, it's all mental for him right now.

 

you seriously think anyone takes yao as a leader on that team? c'mon DD. it may be yao's team on paper, but let's be real, with the way rafer played v. the lakers, it seemed more like it was rafer's team down the stretch.

 

if yao carried the team without tracy the past few years, then i'd say yao has all the right in what goes on with the team b/c he's your franchise player.

but yao hasn't shown he's that good or on the level of a kobe/lebron/wade where he has a say in the other star leaving or going.

if the rockets are going to trade tracy, it's b/c les and morey think tracy is no longer needed for this team and getting rid of him is for the betterment of the team. they're not going to trade him b/c yao wants him out.

 

if you saw the game v. the lakers, what it showed is we desperately need a top-flight playmaker down the stretch where that guy can create shots for either himself or other players.

artest is a good individual scorer and great defender, but he's a very poor playmaker. i don't think having artest v. the lakers on that last possession would have given us a better shot.

with tracy, if he can't get a shot, another player would have gotten a good look at the basket (hit or miss)

 

I can see Artest, Battier, Yao, Adelman, and MOrey all being not pleased with T-mac of late. I can definitely see that....this hasn;t been t-macs best year and i'm not talking statistically.

But I also think they know he's struggling with this...and I do not think they want to trade him. If they are looking, it's because that's what Morey's job is to do - always find a way to make the team better and give it the best shot at the title.

If they are worried, it's ebcause they know they need T-mac. If they are annoyed with his attitude, it's ebcause it's not that of a champion right now.

But I've never heard them complain about him before.

All-in-all, I don't think anyone, not the players, not Rockets management, not Adelman knows how this will unfold. Not even T-mac.

But What I suspect is that everyone is hoping that the time off and the excuse to rehabilitate will do two things - help him get healthy phsyically and mentally....and give him long enough of a break that he can save face when he comes back by having enough time to have put all of this in the past and behind the team.

That's what it looks like based on everything I'm reading in the papers, the blogs, on here, the quotes from Yao and others....