T-mac out 5 weeks

There goes Houston's hope for joining the playoffs.. BYE!..

wahahahaha

HOUSTON sucks without TMAC

ur right about not makn the playoffs. They totally hopeless

Not like it matters. He'll just get injured again once he comes back.

o_0 my god....

If Yao keeps playing like this I reckon they should look at trading T-Mac for some good players to surround Yao with.

If Yao keeps playing like this I reckon they should look at trading T-Mac for some good players to surround Yao with.

After last season's playoffs and the short stint without tmac in the lineup this season.. I reckon i'll never hear that trading Mcgrady is a solution.. Remember him shutting down Dirk in the playoffs, and he was scoring like 30ppg quite efficiently last season after a bad first month, rockets had 1 of da best record in the 2nd half of last season.. and then the 0-13 start without tmac start of this season..

But as much as i hate this, i say houston shud stick with Tmac, theres nobody out there at his calibre when healthy.. He is right there after (arguablely, not even after) Kobe...

[J@3]

If Yao keeps playing like this I reckon they should look at trading T-Mac for some good players to surround Yao with.

After last season's playoffs and the short stint without tmac in the lineup this season.. I reckon i'll never hear that trading Mcgrady is a solution.. Remember him shutting down Dirk in the playoffs, and he was scoring like 30ppg quite efficiently last season after a bad first month, rockets had 1 of da best record in the 2nd half of last season.. and then the 0-13 start without tmac start of this season..

But as much as i hate this, i say houston shud stick with Tmac, theres nobody out there at his calibre when healthy.. He is right there after (arguablely, not even after) Kobe...

Who's to say he'll ever be healthy again though... I don't know if I'd want to take a risk on a guy who's potentially injury prone while you've got some 7'5 guy putting up insane numbers when he gets the chance to run the team.

If T-Mac comes back next season fully healthy and everything, then fine keep him but I think Yao's coming to a point where if he can keep this up, he needs to be the man on this team.

That being said, I'm not a fan of T-Mac and never have been. I think he's highly overrated and he's a career loser, so I am a little bit biased about the whole thing but still, I'd build around Yao, not McGrady.

rockets had 1 of da best record in the 2nd half of last season

That's because of Yao. When he came back from injury that's when the started winning, and more recently McGrady's been fairly poor while Yao is dominating, and they've still been winning.

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since going to houston..T-mac fell off bad...he used to be on kobe's level.

I dont know if they can get as much today as they could have back in the day for T-Mac. All these injuries year after year are a major cause for concern and it wouldnt be too smart to give up young quality players for a guy who might not play much. Yao is young, healthy and the only major problem he has had so far is bumping his toe or something (I just know its toe related), thats the guy to build around as the Jaymeister stated.

tmac said his back will never be 100%, hence these injuries will keep reoccuring.

Well i guess it's time to trade Tmac to the Knicks...lol

Now that Yao is playing well, Houston could give Tmac few minutes less of playing time, hence giving him more rest. I agree this is gonna be one of those reoccuring injury, but i would like to see Tmac stay in Houston. Give more passes to Yao, and it'll take away a lot of stress for Tmac.

Crushing blow to Houston.
Bye bye playoffs

Ya'll are all going to be shocked that I say this but: no matter how well Yao is playing, T-Mac should be the leader of the team and the Houston Rockets should never EVER trade him. T-Mac's had this kind of injury before and the doctors confirmed that this 5 weeks he's missing is not due to a chronic condition and he will come back. Now that being said, what T-Mac needs is a new coach who will allow him to run and shoot early in the shot clock. The reason T-Mac strived in the Magic is that he was able to score early in the shot clock when the defense was set. Houston needs a healthy mix of this high-paced offense and a half-court offense where Yao dominates.

T-Mac was better than Kobe every season of his career before 2005. He is the first player to break 30 PER since Michael Jordan in 2002-2003 and in the last 3 or 4 months of last season he was putting up 30 PER. I have no doubt that he'll get back to this eventually and with the way Yao keeps developing, this could be something special.

T-Mac's teams are also generally unsuccessful. The only thing he strived for in Orlando was to boost his own stats, as he openly admits.

depends what you consider 'unsuccessful'

Since McGrady has become a full time starter in the league, minus his last year in Orlando, he has made the playoffs

now none of those teams have made it past the 2nd round but then you have you to consider most of those teams were going through a transition/rebuilding phase

haha jae giving some love to Yao Ming

T-Mac was better than Kobe every season of his career before 2005

No. Here's something the stats don't tell you, Kobe was a superior defender.