Rummpd
04-17-2013, 07:25 AM
Houston Dec 9, 2004:
In what some pundits believe was among the best end of game regular season performances ever by a player, T. McGrady scored 13 of his 33 points in the final 35 seconds, including a game-winning 3-pointer with 1.7 seconds remaining as the Rockets snapped a seven-game slide against the San Antonio Spurs with an 81-80 triumph at the Toyota Center. "This really hasn't hit me," McGrady added. "I don't know how we won. I don't realize what I did. I can't tell you how many (3-pointers) I hit."
http://www.nba.com/games/20041209/SASHOU/recap.html
McGrady, is a great pickup IMO as he at least has a history of star level succes and if he could somehow bring even a mini replica of this epic regular performance in the playoffs he could help erase his history of not getting past the first rounds and potentially help reenergize a lethargic Spurs squad limping to the playoffs.
[see video] at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfurCV1FDpM
A good piece on his star moment was written about on SB nation:
And I say that only because I didn't actually see McGrady score 13 points in 35 seconds, at least not until the next morning on Sportscenter. But in retrospect, T-Mac's one-man comeback is the performance of all performances. Unlike Carmelo Anthony's thirty-three points in one quarter, McGrady's magic won the game. He singlehandedly won a game that was FINISHED ninety-nine percent of the time. And so, without any doubt, McGrady gets the Comeback Day treatment....but McGrady's aerial display rendered errors irrelevant. He was going to make every shot he took. He just was. And that's what makes his final shot to win it so memorable. Everyone knew who was going to take the game-winner, and no matter how many Spurs got in McGrady's face to try to deter the icing on the cake, it didn't matter. That shot was going in. That's why we watch sports.
http://www.thedreamshake.com/2012/9/26/3412558/nba-comeback-day-where-tracy-mcgrady-lives-forever
In what some pundits believe was among the best end of game regular season performances ever by a player, T. McGrady scored 13 of his 33 points in the final 35 seconds, including a game-winning 3-pointer with 1.7 seconds remaining as the Rockets snapped a seven-game slide against the San Antonio Spurs with an 81-80 triumph at the Toyota Center. "This really hasn't hit me," McGrady added. "I don't know how we won. I don't realize what I did. I can't tell you how many (3-pointers) I hit."
http://www.nba.com/games/20041209/SASHOU/recap.html
McGrady, is a great pickup IMO as he at least has a history of star level succes and if he could somehow bring even a mini replica of this epic regular performance in the playoffs he could help erase his history of not getting past the first rounds and potentially help reenergize a lethargic Spurs squad limping to the playoffs.
[see video] at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfurCV1FDpM
A good piece on his star moment was written about on SB nation:
And I say that only because I didn't actually see McGrady score 13 points in 35 seconds, at least not until the next morning on Sportscenter. But in retrospect, T-Mac's one-man comeback is the performance of all performances. Unlike Carmelo Anthony's thirty-three points in one quarter, McGrady's magic won the game. He singlehandedly won a game that was FINISHED ninety-nine percent of the time. And so, without any doubt, McGrady gets the Comeback Day treatment....but McGrady's aerial display rendered errors irrelevant. He was going to make every shot he took. He just was. And that's what makes his final shot to win it so memorable. Everyone knew who was going to take the game-winner, and no matter how many Spurs got in McGrady's face to try to deter the icing on the cake, it didn't matter. That shot was going in. That's why we watch sports.
http://www.thedreamshake.com/2012/9/26/3412558/nba-comeback-day-where-tracy-mcgrady-lives-forever