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A healthy McGrady would have been a nightmare.
A healthy McGrady would have been a nightmare.
A healthy McGrady is an urban legend ....
And the OP's argument is moronic, that is like saying a healthy Penny Hardaway = Magic Johnson
Last edited by Killakobe81; 08-23-2011 at 08:00 PM.
If he keeps getting worse on defense, he will for sure.
Fail. McGrady never won when he was healthy.
Healthy Tracy McGrady was more talented, tbh.
Plus he didn't rapePERIOD or snitchPERIOD.
as long as jordan is the best SG of all time & the goat this is true. sorry but people dont remember 2nd place and no i dont mean kobes the 2nd greatest player of all time.
TMAC has never won a playoff series. Kobe has 5 rings. Terrible comparison.
And he didn't winPERIOD
Lakaluva and family?
A healthy Penny >>>> Magic
TBH
a healthy Mcgrady would not only have on Kobe, he would have given MJ a run for his money.
Healthy McGrady would have been much better than Kobe.
said it for years, healthy T-Mac is the most talented, gifted player the NBA has ever seen. if he had the work ethic of a guy like MJ or Kobe, there isn't a doubt in my mind he finishes his career being looked at as the best basketball player anyone has ever seen. its crazy to think that he could be so half-assed in all that he did, and still average 32 ppg with ease.
to be fair, it went beyond his health. I think his desire and work ethic both is what held him back the most, as opposed to his health. if he took better care of his body, he probably wouldnt have had all the health problems.
im not one of the people that thinks he didnt care about winning or losing, because he obviously did, but he didnt have that hatred of losing, the way guys like Kobe or MJ has. if he had that type of outlook on losing, he would have been much better.
No doubt he could have achieved much more but there was probably someone out there who could have been even better than T-Mac but worked even less hard. Probably even some kid in college who could have been the best ever but pissed it away with a bad work ethic. I can think of several NBA players that had more potential than T-Mac. Starting with Todd Day.
Kobe never won a playoff series without Shaq or Gasol.
Grady didn't even have an Odom caliber player.
he wasn't healthy
i certainly dont disagree either
im sure there have been a number of players more naturally gifted and talented than any player we have seen that just didnt put forth the neccesary effort, or didn't really care enough to do so.
I think McGrady reached his ceiling offensively; he couldn't get to the rim the way Jordan did pre first retirement, which is about what it would take to improve on his already spectacular offensive game. He should have been a way better defensive player though. TMac has a great wingspan for a 2/3, and had he not gone to Orlando where Doc Rivers was scared of burning him out, I think he could have become one the game's all-time elite defenders. He was fast, agile, had great height and wingspan, an elite vertical, and could get up off his feet quickly... on paper he had all the tools to become the kind of lock-down attack dog Scottie Pippen was on the defensive end all those years. At times it looked like he was becoming that player in Toronto.
T-Mac didn't have great work ethic, but Kobe has excellent work ethic. It's an x-factor that separates Kobe from players like AI or T-Mac and always makes or breaks a player when their final prime years come up.
I agree
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