T-Mac Complains About Lack Of Touches in Offense

Post #1 » by **TMACFORMVP** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 6:50 am

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spo ... 91744.html

"(Effort) is something we’re obviously not giving right now," said McGrady, who finished with four points, his third game in single-digit scoring in his past five. "For whatever reason, at both ends of the court, offensively, especially defensively, we’re not executing. We’re missing assignments. It’s all of us."

"I got a little frustrated at times," McGrady said. "It’s kind of hard to get in a groove when you touch the ball once every five minutes. I took four shots in the first half. It’s kind of hard to get in a rhythm. It was frustrated, especially when I know there are some times I feel I could go one-on-one, but our spacing isn’t good. We’re all out of sync."

And notice Yao's comments towards the same question:

"Right now, I think I need to look at myself, see what the problem is," Yao said. "I’m one of the main guys on the team. The team looks to me. You can’t say, ‘We need to make shots.’ I need to point to myself. I need to do better, putting layups in the basket, run back on defense, rebound, help. That’s what I need to do right now."

More from Alston, others in the link as well.

Baller 24 · Post #2 » by **Baller 24** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 6:55 am

Ha, 2003/2004 all over again, I don't want this to end off bad, but it might be headed down that path. McGrady basically just blamed his teammates and coach, he needs to learn how to take some responsibility; I guess it runs in the family :dontknow:

Iggyemu · Post #3 » by **Iggyemu** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 7:10 am

Well I agree with him on the fact that he isn't getting enough touches especially with Alston coming back into the lineup. He was playing as well as possible this season when Alston was hurt and Brooks was in there. Our offense was hitting a 100 in all of those games.

The problem here though is that McGrady can go get the ball whenever he wants. So while there may not be plays called for him..he can go get the ball and do something. All he does is stand at the 3 point line and pass it to the next guy.

Yea Adelman is at fault...and Alston can't shoot which hurts our spacing. Yao is struggling being the focal point of the offense where all that seems to happen is we dump it down to him. Yea Artest isn't getting the space to operate in the post with Yao on the floor...the thing is though...you never question those guys' effort. They give you a solid effort every night regardless of their situations. McGrady does not. And that where he needs to look at himself and decide what he is gonna do.

Baller 24 · Post #4 » by **Baller 24** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 7:21 am

Welcome to 2009, I guess.

bballmaniac27 · Post #5 » by **bballmaniac27** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 7:30 am

How can you expect your teammates to give you the ball when you're not even making an effort to get the ball? He was basically standing at the 3 point line doing nothing. When he did get the ball he did absolutely nothing with it.

McGrady2Head · Post #6 » by **McGrady2Head** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 8:00 am

All this shows me is T-Mac will make any excuse possible to get the blame off him.

HTown_TMac · Post #7 » by **HTown_TMac** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 8:21 am

With a deep team he doesnt need to touch the ball everytime down the floor. If he wanted to be the man he should have stayed in Orlando or not want to get an allstar type player.

YoungMoney23 · Post #8 » by **YoungMoney23** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 9:13 am

Hes the F****** star player..... As if the team doesn't look to get him the ball....

hackle · Post #9 » by **hackle** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 12:36 pm

Why is tmac always complaining? take some responsibility, be a man! geez, get over it, you make 2 mil+ per year. i'd happily fire your ass if i were the GM.

T-Wack · Post #10 » by **T-Wack** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 2:30 pm

You could tell that he was clearly frustrated last night. That was likely why he was being so passive. He wanted to send Adelman a message. McGrady needs to shoot more than nine times in a game for us to have success, and a large part of making that happen falls on the coach. These past few games, he's been invisible because players keep force feeding the ball to Yao. Our offense has become so stagnant, it's getting to the point where it's unwatchable.

Rick Adelman, you were brought in to implement your offense, yet all you've done is kill our defense, and worsen Van Gundy's awful offense. He got by off the heart of his players last year, but even then, he was disappointing, since he couldn't figure out how to use his players. He was supposed to find a way to get things rolling with this group, but he's done jack ****.

smapor · Post #11 » by **smapor** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 5:54 pm

T-Wack wrote:You could tell that he was clearly frustrated last night. That was likely why he was being so passive. He wanted to send Adelman a message. McGrady needs to shoot more than nine times in a game for us to have success, and a large part of making that happen falls on the coach. These past few games, he's been invisible because players keep force feeding the ball to Yao. Our offense has become so stagnant, it's getting to the point where it's unwatchable.

Rick Adelman, you were brought in to implement your offense, yet all you've done is kill our defense, and worsen Van Gundy's awful offense. He got by off the heart of his players last year, but even then, he was disappointing, since he couldn't figure out how to use his players. He was supposed to find a way to get things rolling with this group, but he's done jack ****.

Ric ain't perfect but you must be watching a different game. Tmac gets the ball and passes it a lot. He could easily take 15-17 shots a game. He doesn't because he will look like a fool if he goes 3-17. No lift, no effort.

This may not be injury related, it may just simply be Tmac wants to move. Reminds of the season he just quit in Orlando.

tmac4real · Post #12 » by **tmac4real** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 5:57 pm

what a bitch. He needs to be traded to like the sonics where he can rot.

bigbreakfast · Post #13 » by **bigbreakfast** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 6:46 pm

T-Wack wrote:You could tell that he was clearly frustrated last night. That was likely why he was being so passive. He wanted to send Adelman a message. McGrady needs to shoot more than nine times in a game for us to have success, and a large part of making that happen falls on the coach. These past few games, he's been invisible because players keep force feeding the ball to Yao. Our offense has become so stagnant, it's getting to the point where it's unwatchable.

Rick Adelman, you were brought in to implement your offense, yet all you've done is kill our defense, and worsen Van Gundy's awful offense. He got by off the heart of his players last year, but even then, he was disappointing, since he couldn't figure out how to use his players. He was supposed to find a way to get things rolling with this group, but he's done jack ****.

Don't even begin to blame tmac's struggles on adelman or anyone else on the team. Players on the team force feed the ball into Yao because, even though he's struggled this season as well and has had a subpar season, he puts effort and heart. tmac's had several games where he's just been terrible on effort, and shooting bad jumpers isn't going to help him out of the slump.

Post #14 » by **TMU** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 7:03 pm

bballmaniac27 wrote:How can you expect your teammates to give you the ball when you're not even making an effort to get the ball? He was basically standing at the 3 point line doing nothing. When he did get the ball he did absolutely nothing with it.

Bingo. I hope McGrady reads this message.

BaYBaller · Post #15 » by **BaYBaller** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 9:23 pm

I found the quotes ridiculous considering it looked like T-Mac thought he was playing a game of hot potatoe out there with the basketball.

teamny1 · Post #16 » by **teamny1** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 9:44 pm

No matter what the offense is, guards can NEVER complain about not getting the ball. They always initiate the offense, and if they have an advantage they can always drive which is the most destructive attack since it breaks down the defense. Only big men can complain about not getting the ball since they rely on the guards to feed them in the post. You never ever hear about elite wings complain about not getting the ball, this is ridiculous.

Most absurd part is T-Mac having the best teammates around him to succeed and he doesn't take the lead to show them how it's done considering he has the most potential to do it and instead sitting back and watching a potential championship team suffer. At Orlando he complains about lack of help and having to do everything. Now he has the help and he's complaining about not being able to do whatever he wants.

It's on Adelman to a certain extent, but if one of your main guys doesn't do what he's supposed to do as a basic basketball player, of course the offense won't run well. Sitting back and sulking instead of communicating is about the worst tactic one can do at this point

NetsForce · Post #17 » by **NetsForce** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 10:17 pm

T-Mac doesn't deserve more touches that's what I find so ridiculous about his comments... The dude is hella inefficient...

Amel · Post #18 » by **Amel** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 11:51 pm

message to TCrack

go f yourself you loser

MaxRider · Post #19 » by **MaxRider** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 11:54 pm

lack of touches?
he's the idiot who's tried to break the double team and turn the ball over
he's so not ready to play i can guard him myself
he needs to realize he's no longer 2003's T-Mac
he's now 2008's Michael Finley with bad shot selection

HTown_TMac · Post #20 » by **HTown_TMac** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 11:57 pm

MaxRider wrote:lack of touches?
he's the idiot who's tried to break the double team and turn the ball over
he's so not ready to play i can guard him myself
he needs to realize he's no longer 2003's T-Mac
he's now 2008's Michael Finley with bad shot selection

Nah not finley.. More like Grant Hill