T-Mac: ‘I’m Going to Have the Last Laugh’
A torrent of criticism made its way towards Tracy McGrady following a road loss to the Toronto Raptors this past Friday. It had a lot to do with his effort in the game (or lack thereof) - check out the clip of the game highlights, and peep the sequence beginning at the 1:30 mark when Tracy lets Jamario Moon walk right by him for an uncontested dunk - and how tough it is for the Rockets to deal with his situation.
According to McGrady, the press and fans can criticize all they want; shoot, he’ll even join in:
“I criticize myself,” McGrady said Monday. “I can take it from anybody, from everybody. I know my ability. And when I do get right, all that … is put to rest. So kick me when I’m down, because I swear to you, I’ll be back up. And when I get back up, I’m going to sit back, and I’m going to laugh, man, because I’m going to have the last laugh. Right now, I’m down. I’m physically down.”
One person who Mac isn’t getting any sympathy from is his coach, who thinks Tracy could be going a little harder in games and practice:
“That’s what he has to do,” Adelman said. “He has to be aggressive no matter what. The other night, we were playing poorly as a team, and he became very unaggressive. He can’t play that way, (or) he’s not going to get through it or out of it, and we aren’t going to be any good…Like I told him today, ‘There’s going to be times you’re going to succeed and times you’re going to fail, but that shouldn’t have an effect on how hard you play. You have to play through the good times and the bad times.’”
McGrady says it’s not over for him, and that the criticism only serves as motivation. It all sounds true and sincere, but one can hardly be blamed for having a tough time buying into it.
Tad: All you need to know is that I dunked on Mac TWICE.
And Nbk, obviously, fails. The ‘02-03 Magic went 42-40 and almost upset the Pistons in the first round.
I (italicize, underline and bold that pronoun in your head, please) never said Tracy McGrady was the best player in the League. But, at his peak, given his statistical output, he was absolutely one of a very, very small handful of players in the running for that mythical title. You’re free to believe he wasn’t the best player, but if you can’t see that he MIGHT have been the best player, you are a fool.
“You” being directed at no one in particular, of course.
Tracy McGrady, Steve Nash, David West to name a few
“but my back hurts!”
rockets lose
Anyway, can we please go back to talking about my vagina? Because I’ve got work to do, and I need two more hours of distractions to keep from doing it.
referring to your vagina as the topic you would like to discuss- more of a betcat (16ish) thing to do then a ryan (35) to do
i played ball with a dude last night whose career was ruined by darvin hamm in college. Hamm undercut the guy and he tore all three tendents in both knees. He used to be 6′1 220 now dude is 6′1 265. just a coincidence
If you find this advice genuine and at all helpful, cool. If not, blame my vagina.
And goodnight.
three things i’m 21 if you must no
referring to your vagina as the topic you would like to discuss- more of a betcat (16ish)” I was refered to in a conversation in a negative way about how to conduct a debate! MISSION A-CUNT-LISSHED
If Michael Jordan had lined up with the four dwarves who are in the new Rodman movie, the ‘90-91 Bulls would’ve won zero games. By Nbk’s “best player means winning” logic, the same Jordan who averaged 30, 6 and 6 on that title team could’ve played just as well as he did alongside Pippen, but, because his team would’ve sucked, he would NOT have been in the best player conversation.
Dude, this goes back to the advice I tried to give you…
sorry russ your the ONLY one that said 32 6 and 5 my bad.” “BETCATS Posted: Jan.6 at 4:08 pm
Well Nbk lets put things in prespective. Tim Duncan DID have a great year. 23 points 12 rebounds 3 blocks 4 assists is no joke. Plus he got a ring HOWEVER TMAC lead his team in scoring (32 ppg) Assists (5.5 apg) REBOUNDS (6.5 rpg) STEALS (1.6 spg) AND BLOCKS (0.8 bpg). So basically he WAS the entire team. Tim had a great year, but nobody did it bigger than TMAC.”
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There, I said it. You scared @ss punks.
you keep saying that tmac wasn’t the best that year. except no one ever, ever, ever said he was. ever. d*ck head. your whole arguement is based on something you are making up. was he arguably the best. absolutely. was he considered as one of the beat? the MVP panel thought so. fail. fail. fail. ignorant child.
and i’m old as f*ck too (for this club, you know, not for the earth), have been reading slam since gold tooth larry, and have been a linkstigator since week one (check the comments archive if they have one, i went back and forth with lang via comments on september 12th after the attacks, when you were in grade school) your argument is amazing, because you are arguing against something that wasn’t said!!!! imagine going to mcdonalds, ordering a big mac, the person behind the counter saying “would you like fries with that?” then you start flipping out, ranting about how stupid they are for offering you a soda!.. stupid analogy, but you are making sh*t up, and it is making my brain want to fold in half!!!!!!
see, i can’t type straight… i sit and read the links and the wire and all the comments etc every day, barely ever commenting, but this is ridiculous. ryan, you are a gentleman and a scholar. so is your vagina.
Wow that escalated fast!
Great stuff guys
“H to the Izzo Posted: Jan.6 at 10:33 am
Ryan:If your Nittany Lion (whatever the hell a Nittany Lion is) manage to beat Purdue I’ll shave a portrait of Joe Paterno onto my head.”
Do they have good barbers in Dublin?
See i got the last laugh there.
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