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A few days of public conjecture about when Tracy McGrady would return did not seem to draw his teammates' notice. If anything, they seemed to find the notion that the topic could be a distraction to be amusing.
“We haven't talked about it one bit,” Shane Battier said. “The good thing about our team is we don't pay attention to external things. That's how we do it here.”
At least for the veteran Rockets, such issues have become the norm, making them conditioned not to overreact.
“We don't really talk about those things,” Battier said. “We've had so much adversity and so many guys going in and out of the lineup, it's as simple as whoever is in uniform that night and is activated, we expect that guy to come in and play hard and play the right way. I think it's a culture that is our locker room now.”
