You are just a T-Mac hater Djohn..calling it like I see it.
How am I a t-mac hater when he brings this on himself? He should just shut the up and be complacent with 8 minutes until Adelman increases his minutes. Complaining to the media without talkin to the coach first has been proven effective in increasing playing time
What does that have to do with what comes out of his mouth? All I am saying is that a healthy motivated T-Mac is an exceptional talent. You play the dude.
He has to EARN playing time back. You just can't go and start him just because of what he USED to be, and he has to earn even the playing time he was getting back. The games that he will sit out are basically a 2 game suspension for continuing to run his mouth, and he will be back after that, so chill out
McGrady is very much a usable at this point but he doesn't belong in Houston's system.
Apparently, Tracy left the team to attend his son's b-day party?
"So Tracy McGrady leaves the Rockets for son's birthday party. Hey makes sense to me. He has usually done what he wanted when he wanted." about 1 hour ago from UberTwitter
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Adelman and the rest of the Houston braintrust are complete dip s. Their treatment of T-Mac and his recovery couldn't possibly play out any worse than it has so far. Their obviously and blatantly trying to stick it to him with this whole 7 minute garbage. You don't sit a talent like McGrday if he's able to compete. They're acting like little school girls and not doing what's best for the team. If they dislike him that much, give him minutes, and shop him. But don't play games.
McGrady has answered the medias questions with apparent calm, not acting like a jackass despite his displeasure with the whole situation.
Oh, Lord, this pitiful soul is back. Go back to the room that the Spurs built ya, turdhound.
Apparently McGrady has nuthuggers everywhere...Coming back from microfracture surgery and immediately starting is the way to go then, huh?
My apologies to Tracy McGrady. He apparently didn't leave the Rockets. Instead, he was sent away. Stay tuned for more details. 8 minutes ago from web
“Tracy didn’t feel like this is working in terms of working him back in,'' Daryl Morey told @Jonathan_Feigen. This isn't going to end well.
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WTF?!? There better be a good trade
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4772672McGrady, Adelman disagree on role
Tracy McGrady left the Houston Rockets and returned home Saturday after being told by coach Rick Adelman that despite McGrady's wishes, his playing time would not increase.
In a strange twist to a story that has had its share of weird plot turns, the Rockets said McGrady received the team's permission to fly back to Houston, in part so that be could be home for his the birthday of his young son, Laymen.
But there clearly was an impasse between McGrady and Adelman about what the next step should be in McGrady's comeback from microfracture knee surgery, and the Rockets said the situation would be readdressed Monday after the team returns home from a back-to-back set against New Jersey and Cleveland.
"That's what I'm trying to figure out: Where do we go, and still keeping the rest of the guys moving forward?" Adelman said. "It's kind of a balancing act in trying to figure it all out, and I do not have the magic answer. I wish I did."
McGrady played short stints of 7 or 8 minutes in each of Houston's previous six games, then asked that his workload he increased. Adelman refused, and the situation reached a new juncture after the team's morning shootaround Tuesday.
"I'm a player, man," McGrady told the Houston Chronicle. "I don't make these decisions. I just abide by whatever they bring to me. That's the plan. I'm not going to argue and fight with them -- just run with it. I felt it was time [to increase the routine of playing seven to eight first-half minutes].
"I'm not going to cause any confusion or confrontations. As a player, that's what I felt. They obviously feel different. That's what I have to roll with."
McGrady has the highest salary ($23.2 million) of any player in the NBA and is in the final year of his contract, and several other teams assumed the Rockets were showcasing McGrady for a trade. But Houston general manager Daryl Morey has insisted that is not the case, saying the decision to bring back McGrady and limit his minutes was Adelman's, and there was no urgency whatsoever to trade McGrady.
Where the situation goes from here is a mystery.
"It's just an unknown," Adelman said. "And I don't have the answer for it. I just thought he was unhappy with that situation, and I was uncomfortable trying to go forward and jump-start it again.
"I don't blame any player for saying I want more, and that's basically what he wants, and right now I'm not sure how to do that."
This is the 30-year-old McGrady's sixth season with the Rockets, who have been one of the NBA's surprise success stories this year as they go through a season of transition without Yao Ming (foot surgery) and with McGrady two seasons removed from being a productive player. The 12-year veteran appeared in only 35 games last season before undergoing surgery on his left knee Feb. 24.
Of McGrady's six appearances this season, only one could reasonably be called a success -- a 10-point outing at home against the Clippers last Sunday.
"You know, he was a great player," Adelman said, "and you could go and run the offense through him and all the other guys benefited from it. But now if you're going to do that, because of the injury and the rehabilitation coming back, he suddenly can't do that and we can't go to that. And now that that's happened, it's tough. So we're trying to see if we can't keep a flow where he can still get his touches yet we don't have to put the whole onus on him right now, and that's the dilemma. We need to play a certain way, and he needs to get a feel for what we're doing. And we knew it was never going to be easy."
I think his lazy eye has had an overall effect on his game.
I am no big fan of tmac's but your right. If they don't want him on the team they should have said it a while ago, don't make the guy wait and build the suspense up like this.
Its wrong and they basically just let him go.
I'm really hatin' the way Analman is handling this.
im quite surprised...mcgrady has kept his calm/
This really is no different than what NY did to Marbury but at least he deserved it. T-Mac worked his ass off to get into playing shape.
Look the Rockets aren't going anywhere this year. Everyone knows that. Just play the man and try to get as much as you can out of him. Playing T-Mac will bring the fans in too. Adleman sucks at looking at the big picture.
Adleman is a HOF caliber coach who gets the most out of what he has. McGrady is not his type of player. Fans like you make me hope McGrady gets traded to the Nets or T-wolves
Adleman is a great coach but we need to get 23 mil worth of trade for him or keep his contract and let it expire for 2010. You trade T-Mac to a playoff contending team as a half year rental. He'll be a free agent in 2010 anyways. So you have to showcase the man. How is sitting him showcasing him? Plus he will sell seats
If I were to do a trade I'd try to get a big man to back up Yao. The only teams that would pay his salary would be a playoff contender trying to get up to LA quality. If we could get say Okafor or Nesterovic for him then I'd say go for it. Maybe you could trade T-Mac for Bosh but I doubt Toronto would do that right now. They can simply wait till 2010 for the T-Mac sweepstakes.
Showcasing one guy means taking shots and minutes away from other guys who have earned it...For the last time, he NEEDS the ball to dominate
The only way the Rockets have a snowball's chance of going up against Los Angeles, Boston or Cleveland this year, is to get a big man. T-Mac is the only way to do it. Otherwise, just let his contract expire which isn't fair to him either. We need a big man period.
True, but that doesn't mean you play games with the guy's head. Besides ariza jacked up 30 shots today and made 7.
And stop with the toronto game nonsense, fans like you sounds like you watch a fraction of the games when you capitalize on just one. It was bad, get over it, it was one in an 82 game season.
I think Yao missing almost every season, all those games, is much worse than a dumbass toronto game.
Nope never doubt Mau Zae Yao or he will eat your children.
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