Yao just showed his willingness that is also held by other rockets and rocketsfans, but they all know it's unfeasible. No team want tmac who occupies 22m salary space yet doing less than what is being done by Wafer who just gets 440k from his team this year.
Yep, that would help, but the team told him to leave, they basically Marburyed his butt.....and Tmac said..."I will come back better than ever"...
The team rolled their eyes.
I hope Tmac comes back, but I would not be shocked if he or Artest were traded for Hinrich etc.
DD
T-Mac needs a disciplinarian coach like Van Gundy. Doesn't work on a squad like the Rockets with a soft nice guy like Adelman. Van Gundy would not have tolerated this behavior from T-Mac. For some reason, Van Gundy knows how to work on the mind of T-Mac to get the most out of him.
http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0001/v/...waHA=&showAd=0
The video of the Yao interview
Here's a new article about the situation. Guess T-Mac is back to the Orlando T-Mac again.
Houston, they've got a problem
McGrady having issues with Rockets
January 15, 2009
The e-mail popped into my in-box and I laughed. Really, I laughed.
A guy named Lance Zierlein wants me to come on his Houston radio show.
Why?
To talk about Tracy McGrady.
"I would love to get you on my sports talk show here in Houston, to discuss your article regarding T-Mac from 2005," the e-mail said. "We gave you grief back then, but you look like a soothsayer these days."
Soothsayer?
I don't think so. I'm just a guy who applied a little common sense back when Me-Mac was with the Orlando Magic. If you looked beyond McGrady's enormous and inarguable talent -- difficult to do, I know, as his talent is intoxicating -- you see things. I saw things. There's a reason why we called him Me-Mac.
I guess I've played and been around sports long enough to be able to pick up on things. I call it my "Wizard of Oz" test. It's how I try to determine what is missing in an athlete. Heart? A brain? Courage?
With Me-Mac, I noticed deficiencies in all three.
You see, at the elite athletic level, where the talent is so equal, it's often an athlete's heart, head or drive and determination that makes all the difference.
The great ones -- like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter -- have it. Tim Tebow has it.
And if you don't have it . . . well, the Wizard isn't going to be able to give it to you. Some athletes develop those traits. Most, like Tracy McGrady, never do.
So, judging by the e-mail, I guess they're finally fed up with Me-Mac in Houston, the team Orlando traded him to in 2004. Evidently, there are fresh questions as to whether he's malingering again. Shocking, I know, given his track record in Orlando.
Houston should've known better. The Rockets should've done a little more due diligence. Or just applied a little more common sense.
In his last season in Orlando, McGrady openly admitted he tanked on his team. He also openly complained about his teammates. Finally, he demanded a trade when the Magic told him they were going to draft a high school kid named Dwight Howard.
In other words, no heart, head or courage.
Back then, I went way out on a limb in writing that the Magic should -- no, needed to -- trade McGrady. Here's what I wrote:
"He doesn't work hard, doesn't play defense, rarely practices, routinely criticizes his teammates, quits, and is turning into a one-dimensional perimeter shooter who doesn't like to mix it up in the paint."
Once again, no heart, head or courage.
Have you noticed now that when the NBA's best players are discussed -- guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade -- Tracy McGrady's name is no longer in the mix? He is the Penny Hardaway of his generation.
Houston, you have a problem.
Me-Mac has never led a team beyond the first round of the playoffs. That's saying something for a guy who's been in the league since 1997. He turns 30 on May 24, so there's still time. But one thing's for sure, if the Rockets or any other team McGrady might play for in the future, does win a playoff series, it won't be because he led them. He just doesn't have it in him to lead.
But he does have it in him to whine.
When Houston was losing to the Utah Jazz in the first round of the playoffs last season, McGrady threw his head coach, Rick Adelman, and his teammate, Carl Landry, under the bus, the former for not having bigger players in the game and the latter for not grabbing a rebound.
It prompted Houston Chronicle columnist Richard Justice to call McGrady clueless and unprofessional. It also produced a spate of bloggers in Houston, raking Me-Mac over the coals. The honeymoon was obviously over.
Now a Houston radio station wants me to talk more about it. I will, if they want. But I don't think they need me to tell them what they now already know. After all, it's not like I'm a soothsayer, or a wizard.
Contact Kerasotis at [email protected]
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/columnists/lawrence/index.html?page=1
McGrady's Rockets
This is the fifth season Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming have played together in Houston, so you'd think by now that everyone would be comfortable with their roles. Apparently not. McGrady has been privately complaining to friends in recent days about Yao taking too many shots and not being tough enough. Like McGrady has never been accused of either.
Last edited by Indazone; 01-15-2009 at 02:26 PM.
mcgrady needs to be gone, but don't post that stupid here. The orlando Magic refused to get him any help, that is why he came to the rockets, he wanted to win more than anything.
I can't wait for mac to go, but houston fans sure give Yao a free pass and ride mcgrady
What Mac has accomplished every season when Yao goes down with his annual injury is really overlooked. That 04-05 season was pitiful on Yao's part, mcgrady played his ass off.
Yao is the biggest mistake this organization has ever made.
don't post this? NBA drama is NBA drama. The entire world knows about it so big deal if I post it here. More info for the masses.
T-Mac tells everyone Yao needs more shots, actually its pretty plain when you watch a rockets game, aren't you one of the people that rides him for deferring to Yao too much? Stop posting stupid rumors when you're over your teenage drama self.
oh and by the way...Artest gets in on the T-Mac bashing too.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/6199352.html
Quote: "We sometimes forget that hard work is more important than talent. Last year, Boston had hard work and they had talent. That’s why they ran through everybody. I think we’re just as talented, but we have to work hard. Sometimes we think Yao is just going to bail us out all the time, or me or Tracy are going to bail us out. Sometimes Tracy thinks his talent is going to take him. He can just cruise his way. But we got to work hard. Tonight, we worked hard."
uhh if you notice I am posting news articles from papers around the country.
I'd be pissed if I were a Rockets fan. The guy is capably of being just as good as Kobe, but his career is being pissed away.
There is too much smoke escaping the locker room. There is a real fire blazing away. Our only chance is that Mutumbo talks some sense into T-Mac and the other guys into a truce. If we can hold the truce together for the rest of the season, we'll be ok. T-Mac got to go maybe not this season but he'll be gone next season because he's an expiring contract.
Yao doesn't get enough touches when T-Mac plays. T-Mac just stands on the perimeter and jacks up shots and he's been horrible at making them. Yao is the hardest most diligent worker on the Rockets team. I'd be pissed off at my teammate who was slacking while I was working my @$$ off.
Yao wants Tmac traded? He got balls to say that. (If he indeed did)
that's a week old.
Yao Ming and T-Mac's secret is about as secret as Kobe/Shaq. Believe what you want.
BTW Robbie
How's that Joey Dorsey Pick lookin now? lol
Trade T-Mac allready or at least put him in the dog-house. He's the most overrated, crybaby, child mentality, big time loser in the history of the NBA.
He said it to a friend and to teamates in the locker room.....but is not going to admit it in the press.
Battier and the rest of the Rockets players can not stand Tmac they have had it......
Tmac knows it...he has a choice.
1. Apologize, come back and play hard
2. Leave - or be Marburyed.
There is a new sheriff in the Rockets locker room and his name is Yao Ming....he is the new leader, and whether or not the old silverback will follow is what we Rocket fans are waiting on.
DD
if thats the case we should get ready to see a lot more rox vs lakers last second plays
T-Mac for Yi Jianlian.
All star for all star.
Would Rocket fans do:
Mcgrady for Marion?
They'd be lucky to get that kind of trade.
P.S: Let's hope this means no T-Mac for the all-star game
I think the Rocketsfans and the Front Office would consider the prospect of putting Shawn Marion next to Yao and shipping T-Mac out. We still need better point guards and another shooting guard. I'd rather see D-Wade come to the Rockets.
I think once these two weeks are up....I call it the "Tmac Drama Intermission"....the team will decide what to do.
If he comes in, ready to work and play hard, and within the system, it can be repaired, if he comes in still acting like he is bigger than the team....they will probably trade him or tell him to go home, and make up some "Shutting him down for the season" deal and trade him in the offseason.
DD
you have no business coming back here unless you're here to tell me i'm unbanned from clutchfans
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