Yes, “played” is in quotes for a reason… because I don’t care about his 9 assists and his 3 steals. Those are hollow stats to anyone who actually watched the game.

He was moving the ball well, and he made some heads-up plays on defense. Have you considered that your attitudes towards T-Mac have crossed over into the irrational, Dave? It wasn’t a great game from McGrady, but it was a good effort and he made significant contributions to the offense and defense. If you’re pissed off that the Rockets lost last night, don’t blame McGrady; blame Yao and Scola for blowing the inside defense.

McGrady had maybe 8-10 possessions where he was fully engaged. Most of the time he moped around outside the 3 point line. He did not post up at all. He made by my count 4 attempts to take a layup, making 2. Beyond that he played the pick and roll nicely with Landry… but that’s his job. I’m not going to blow sunshine up his ass for doing his job.

On the flip side, T-Mac boxed out on no occasion, he rotated slowly and left Yao exposed. Many of the 13 offensive rebounds by Philly were because Yao/Scola/Landry had to rotate to T-Mac’s guy, leaving open Speights or Young. This is bothersome.

by that I mean T-mac fixed? Other than simply dealing with it the rest of this year.

scola has 0 points

premise of this Houston and houstonians must by shear geographics not like Dallas, but come on! Name one time a Dallas team has stopped a houston team from getting where they wanted to go. Houston had 2-0 lead in that playoff series and due to partially the refs and partially their own failures lost them the series. Dallas is not Utah! and besides that Dalas has never won a championship! I am a Dallas fan but I also like the Houston teams. Yes the Kidd trade was stupid but every franchise has and will make a stupid trade at some point. You all should be happy we made that trade!