BBallFreak wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
Partly because of the way he left Toronto, and partly because of the fact that even in Houston, he hasn't been able to do it.
Comparing Wade and McGrady's success is far from fair, yet you tend to do it in a manner that's irrationale, on top of that you take things out of context.
The matter of the post is...Wade's situation in Miami right now is similar to Orlando's situation with Tracy McGrady. Bottom line is the initial poster is right. He has limited help(very limited), he's banged up(injuries), he's still real young and has a future ahead of him(T-Mac was 25, Wade is idk how old). Both of those **** teams were 1st pick bound(Orlando ultimately nabbed it, who knows for Miami...).
Where in gods name did their success suddenly become a comparision. You're putting up a player that's been in the league(for a decade, yet the franchise player for only 7 or so years) against a player that's been in the league for a few years but a completely different scenario. You had Riley managing one side, and Gabriel one. There's a world of difference.
People aren't going to get at McGrady for being a 2nd round virgin when he's missed 1 in every 3 games he's played so far in becoming a Houston Rocket. How do you expect any consistency to grow from that, a coaching change, several personnel shifts are plenty of obstacles for any team.
T-Mac's time in Orlando was much harder than Wade's in Miami. Significantly harder, T-Mac only had that superb 2nd option Juwan Howard for 1 year of that, the previous 3 years there was the 1 in every 15 games Grant Hill, and Mike Miller(good but not as good as he is right now). T-Mac put up individual numbers of elite class which were the primary reason for thier success( you can say what success? but bottom line is their success was tremendous given thier talent, thier roster, their staff, their entire organization).
Look in Miami, where the roster is better, management is better, talent is better, just the obvious fitting methods are complete ****, and Wade's heading down that same path, but when when you compare the two situations(T-Mac's final year vs. Wade' 2007-2008 campaign) they are similar. But T-Mac was in that situation for 3 years prior to that and worked his way out of it, now Wade's succumb to it.
