Basketbawful reader Matt S. sent the following e-mail:
Knee-Mac has logged eight minutes in the preseason. And his legs are already weary. Remember: This is what Tracy said back in late August:
I'm sure this will end well.
"Thought you might enjoy this: Take a look at the reason for McGrady taking the night off. I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands, of fantasy notes, but I have never seen anything quite like it."And here's the money shot:
Knee-Mac has logged eight minutes in the preseason. And his legs are already weary. Remember: This is what Tracy said back in late August:
"There's no question [I get back to being an elite player]. There is no question. Yes, because my body feels good. I'm in great shape. I'm in better shape than I've been in for the last three years. I'm a lot leaner. I'm telling you, a lot of people are going to be shocked. That's all I've got to say."Since then? Eight preseason minutes. But I'm sure it's all just precautionary. Kind of like how you have to cover fragile things in layer after layer of bubblewrap before you can mail them anywhere. Because otherwise they'll break. Easily.
I'm sure this will end well.
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I wonder how pissed Kobe was that Knee-Mac was the highest paid player in the league last year.
"The legs are tired a problem that increasingly affecting the population. Today, a 80% of adults suffer discomfort in the legs tired, whether they are men or women although the latter often suffer from the problem of tired legs most often due to hormonal problems caused by menstruation, menopause and other related venues. The most common causes that often lead to the problem of tired legs are basically about bad habits or insufficient in our lifestyle. The little exercise, sedentary lifestyle, diet, obesity, heredity and periods of hormonal changes in women themselves, are the most frequent reasons."
The person who wrote this needs an editor, but I'd say pretty much describes Knee-Mac.
Also, I read that tired legs is a sign of heart failure. That's too easy, right?
to bring us a continuous stream of entertainment.
And off topic, not even basketball related and a few days late, but still hilarious:
Mesut Özil pushes a ref out of the friggin' way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSY8_s2cTCo
I love this kid.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/tennis/article/879767--maria-sharapova-is-marrying-who?bn=1
On the other hand, Detroit already had a ridiculously unbalanced roster with a bunch of wingmen (shooting guards and small forward types), few bigs, and no bigs who have a decent post offense game. So even if McGrady's legs are fully awake and he can play, it's unclear from whom he should be taking minutes.
Now it's a question of whether he'll ever play 10 games in a season again.
I have a small parcel of sympathy for Knee-Mac. You can shift genetics a little bit, but you can't remove it. It's not his fault that he's not AC Green. Knee-Mac has a fragile body, obviously. Excellent training could mitigate that, but not remove it. That's it for the sympathy, because he could damn well do better than he has. That is true for many NBA players.
Yeah, for three "stars" supposedly in their "prime," they sure are acting old. Now Mike Miller is gone until January, in addition to D-Wade bad leg and LeBurnt's sensitivity to racist tweets that everyone in the league gets.
The haters are getting what they wished for, I guess.
"I thought you better let it go ... it looks like another (NBA player has reached the end of his road)."
He scored 17 points on 0 made shots. 0-1 on 2 point shots, 0-1 on 3 point shots, and 17-20 on free throws. Wow!
WV: horta. The horta was the monster from one of the best original Star Trek episodes.
"Miami Heat forward Mike Miller(notes) has gone down with a thumb injury suffered when it got caught in a teammate's jersey"
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rumors/post/Forward-Miller-injured-Heat-considers-roster-op?urn=nba-279130
http://bit.ly/9fTnbE
Honestly, I never thought Corey Maggette would break a record, but here we are...I don't know what to say really...
Put this in your collective pipe and smoke it.
:)
Sorry to see that Ammo got dropped. They should have traded him for T-Mac.
The Celtics will live to regret this.
Will make sure to return the favor when OSU is inevitably skid-marked in whatever bowl game they end up in.
Oh, T-Mac, just stop predicting shit brotha! Haven't you learned yr lesson yet?
You mean like last year? Oh, wait...
I just saw this Richard Jefferson photo. I'm sure Luke Walton was around there somewhere. Heck, he might be the guy taking the picture (and I just noticed what the guy with the camera is doing with his other hand lol)
http://uploadpic.org/storage/originals/efnd284sdf2fnnujnkd3n82223.jpg
Just going to guess that these guys sent you a link a couple weeks ago after the Wisconsin game. Am I right?
Truth is, I don't really have a dog in this fight. To me, watching the midwest play football is like watching the WNBA. Same game, yet somehow much less interesting. I know, OSU sends players to the NFL. I know what the numbers say. Beanie Wells & Maurice Claret are the bomb. Troy Smith holds a clipboard better than Matt Leinart. Ted Ginn is awesome too. I know. I've heard the rhetoric.
And believe me, even though I lived in Florida when it happened, I was really rooting for you guys... really, but you blew it, and you got punked when it mattered, and you helped to create the legacy of Tim Tebow, and for that, I can never forgive you. For that, you & the entire Buckeye nation should be forced to listen to Tim Tebow read you eye black Bible verses until all yr meaningless little helmet stickers fall off.
Because I hate Tim Tebow like a fat kid hates Herpes.
I'm so ready for the season to start.
all-time... 500 maybe?
"In his prime, far superior to Kobe, though obviously unable to match him in terms of durability."
True... in a 14-second game, I have no doubt TMac would kick Kobe's a$$. If he had the ball to start with. And if kobe was blindfolded.
"Is it really his fault that he couldn't win a playoff series with darrell armstrong as the second best player?"
Houston was THAT bad all along?
"Or that when he finally got a worthy teammate, he was the indestructible Yao?"
But still, those lousy rockets, did put more of a fight in the lakers series without tracy than with him...
"How many playoff series' did Kobe win without Shaq or Pao? How short is your memory?"
How many did jordan win withou pippen?
"T-mac is an alltime great. I always loved watching him play."
I always loved eating ice cream, taht doens't mean I make a meal out of it...
so many comments, and nobody made a "tired vagina" joke...
On a related note, I was checking nba.com for the GM's survey, and saw some amazing notes, like "Vince carter would be the most impact players in 2009/10", and "washington would be the most improved team".
Taking the season spirit, would mr. Bawful consider a poll of the 2010/12 predictions?
Like the worst team, team who will decrease the most, team with most arrests, player with nost "flue like symptoms", team with most "surges"...
http://www.freep.com/article/20101024/SPORTS03/101024009/1051/Pistons-McGrady-impresses-coach-at-practice
Your comments make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I feed on OSU hatred like the a zombie feeding on brains.
"When it matters", is against Michigan. And OSU has not lost "when it mattered" in a long time. Until a team comes up to play a bowl game in Madison, Columbus, or Ann Arbor in the fall, I don't want to hear about how great the SEC is for winning home games.
And IIRC, Tebow was #2 when Florida won. Chris something-or-other was who beat us. And the buffet table on Troy Smith's heisman tour.