How Good Were The Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming Houston Rockets 

+William Z But if it were the modern nba with star players such as KD or LeBron they would’ve been scrutinized to death by the media.

William Z I almost cried real talk

It’s sad... I don’t why though

that's where it all hits him.. I shoulda stayed in Toronto with vince

William Z no lie I’ve never seen that

Wesley Joyner right than came to coach my Lakers

tru dat.

If the Lakers had gotten Tmac with Shaq kobe not one not two not 3....

You don't think Pat Garrity and John Amaechi are blue chip talents??

​@@mkratos17bro that wouldn't even been fair

That's not true if doc says yes there's no gurentee time signs there

@@smittywerbenjagermanjensen4737 stop ruining my life 😢

That was never a guarantee considering he always said he wanted to be with the spurs he only thought about leaving because of pop but once they had their heart to heart he knew the spurs was his team

T Mac is my favorite player and ever since I found out about this I've hated doc rivers ever since

Jordan general tso Doc rivers a dummy. Clippers could’ve Chris Paul, DJ, Blake, and Carmelo years ago. It was Austin rivers and some picks for Melo. But Doc said no cause he wanted his weak ass son on the team

Esteban Aguayo Charles would not and could not beat Jordan

- I don't think Barkley "should" have won but he was great enough he "could" have won -- but yeah, Jordan is the Goat and messed up everyone (Malone-Stockton, Barkley, Ewing, Reggie, etc). McGrady had Grant Hill who was injured and Yao who didn't last. So sad, but Tmac had a legit chance of winning.

Definitely At least they made millions and are in the hall of Fame

@@justinhunt4767 yea, Though Chuck undoubtedly had the better career and arguably a lot better player. Though as a rockets fan I love Tmac as well. But hey they are still Millionaires and Great players people idolize in HOF.

Unfortunately it seemed like either he, Yao or both of them were injured in the playoffs.

T mac 6'8

Facts even without Tracy

@@Watchingvideoslikeu yao was the key

We would have won if Yao didn’t get hurt and played in game 7 for sure

Nope not even close

well with ming but without t mac I think they make the west finals but with t mac they could of won it all...@@Watchingvideoslikeu

Same for me, well, Bucks instead.

Fing injurys

Facts bro if Yao wasn’t hurt T Mac was & vice versa

in 07 in particular 2 events cost them a chance at the west finals, trading rudy gay and stromile swift for shane battier hurt their depth imo and then losing bonzi wells so early on hurt their bench...they were a top 3 defense holding teams to 92 ppg but what they didnt have was bench scoring...a lot of their bench scoring came from guys playing heavy minutes due to yao ming missing 34 games that season and t mac missing 11...they really had no bench once bonzi got hurt...their scorers were alston t mac ming battier juwan and a bunch of trash on the team...sure battier made them so good on defense but they lost bonzi so they needed gay and swifts depth sicne both were starter quality..oh well..

i was ranked 8th in the world head to head on 2k7 my team Houston Rockets

@Ralph Lau thnx dood 😊

You are right. I traded T Mac into lots if my Franchise mode teams in 2K6 for sure. He is basically just taller Kobe in the game 😂😂😂

i'll say hakeem olajuwon wasn't as elite as oscar robertson

As a life long rockets fan I agree. Artest gave them a toughness they didn't have. Shane battier gave them the heart. If only yao and tmac could stay healthy

That Rockets team when healthy was THE best team in the league. Even after Yao went down, Aaron fucking Brooks went off and they won game 6 in Htown. They got waxed in game 7 back in LA, but with a healthy Yao and Tmac, I think they win that series in 5 or 6. Kobe got his, but there really wasn't too much else to that Lakers squad. They went on to destroy Denver in the WCF. Yao in today's NBA would be even more effective, like Marc Gasol on steroids. He was a good shooter, and was capable of hitting 3s. He wasn't that athletic, but was a solid defender and had footwork to rival the Dream. I can imagine how god like him running the pick-and-roll with Harden and CP3 would be today.

When they were healthy they still lost to the Lakers. Just stop it.

@@nahor88 different series and if you look at that series it was very weird every game was decided by 8 points or more and the 4 games la won they won by a average of 24 points aaron brooks woulnt have been able to put up as many shots with t mac in there lineups

They wouldn’t have won shit

true...people forget t mac ming scola artest battier brooks lowry hayes wafer dikembe and landry were on that team..that was a loaded team if healthy...they were the best team under adleman….

Wow

Why stop there? Imagine Hakeem, harden, moses malone, drexler, elvin hayes and calvin murphy 🙄

very similar situations too

Bro that was like 3 years ago.... G o watch highlights or something

Lob city is dead

They had potential but if they just gave the helm to Felton they would have definitely won a championship

That was less than 2 years ago.... Do you have short term memory

JUAN ENRIQUE ESCOBER that was a constant theme that the PG’s were too young and not tall enough to give Yao a proper entry pass. They were good scoring guards, but that’s also why Rafer didn’t last in Orlando. Aaron was a gunner and Lowry was just too young. PG fundamentals we’re really lacking on that team and in the league in general. There’s a reason even Shaq brought Brian Shaw from Orlando when he went to the Lakers.

Tmac koulda Juss threw Yao an entry pass u don't need a pg to do that

MALIK anderson Which he did, which made the offense predictable as hell pretty much putting your two best players on the same floor at around the same spot and making them easier to defend. You would want to have them working on Opposite sides of the floor so when they potentially double Yao or T-Mac, good ball movement would open up the entire floor for easy shot for either player or the whole team.

@JUAN ENRIQUE ESCOBER Alston was average. Brooks... and Lowry wasn't that good yet in Houston. Def not the good but choke artist Lowry we know now 👌

@@mr.anderson1562 yeah he can. But now the entire offense is shifted. And everyone realized only 2 people are scorers... one needs to be fed. The other double or triple him. The rest of Houston was.. sub par

yep...2000 spurs lose derek anderson….so they lose in round 1 to the suns without him as a defending champion...2003 west finals dirk gets hurt missed game 5 and 6....mavs lose spurs win title..2004 sam cassell gets hurt t wolves lose to underdog lakers in west finals in 6 cause they have no pg with backup troy hudson also hurt....2005 ron artest gets suspended ruining the pacers season d wade and joe johnson miss a game each in the conference finals and are hurt spurs betat pistons in game 7 of the finals plus the sonics take the spurs to 6 without lewis or vladmir 2 of their better scorers and lose game 6 barley.......2006 amare is out of the playoffs..2007 kenyon martin missed the season for a good nuggets team larry hughes gets hurt ...2008 lakers lose Bynum and ariza is too hurt to play he first 2 games of the finals and wasn't himself....2009 rockets injuries to ming t mac cost them a shot at the west finals vs Denver kg goes down ruining bostons season lakers win title....2010 perkins going out hurt the Celtics in game 7 finals....2011 manu has an elbow injury costing the 1 seed spurs to go down to a 8 seed mavs get to finals ..2012 derrick rose goes down..2013 westbrook is out of the 2nd round...2014 ibaka misses the first 2 games and wasn't himself in west finals spurs win title...2015 conley gets hurt as does Dwight and then irving and love so warriors win title and then 2018 cp3 gets hurt...the nba title is decided a lot by injuries..i could keep going but I will stop...

alston head hayes howard dikembe t mac ming all shot horrible...and bonzi wells being hurt and out most of the year didn't help..he was suppose to be their 6th man who could score a few points in a hurry for their top defense to hold teams off..

he should of stayed in Toronto...or Orlando..him and vince or dwight would of been a better duo out east than the passive injured soft ming out west...hes an idiot always wanting to leave when his teams getting good...he left Toronto in 2000 they made the 2nd round in 2001..he leaved Orlando in 04 after they draft d howard who will lead them to the 09 and 10 east finals without t mac..he is the guy who wasted a decade of high level skill while high school rivals leBron and kobe dominated the 2000's and he just was trash honestly...he had a huge ego

Facts

Yao needed a Steve Nash type PG not a Tracy Mcgrady small forward. Pick and Pops and Pick and Rolls with Yao would be deadly.

Yup Mcgrady after all those surgeries and rehab in 05/06 he was never the same

Yao was still playing for China took a toll and his body too

He would have never developed into a superstar

They would have been even worse then the rockets those raptor teams were ass

t mac+ vince from 01-08 out east would be scary to deal with for 7 games...smdh...

what are you talking about, the year t mac left was 2000 and the next season the rapts made the 2nd round taking finalist philly to 7 without him...could you imagine vince+t mac from 2001-2008 together?...a few finals at least maybe a shiny 2004 ring when both were at their peak at the same time on 2 shitty east teams that didn't make the playoffs that led to both being traded that summer out of anger with the franchise for mismanagement and tanking for the future @@smittywerbenjagermanjensen4737

He became Tmac at Orlando. Became better than Vince. So he made the right decision

how about the 1960's royals led by oscar robertson

And Tmac

yao ming probably would've been an average player even if he had not dealt with injuries

​@@youtuber3328 you don't know shit nigga. go play jackstone instead

Tracy McGrady underperformed in 2005 Playoffs. In the 4 Losses vs Dallas Mavericks: Tracy McGrady: 29pts on 40%FG, 3FG% of 25%3FG, 79%FT

T-Mac's age??? What grade he wasn't even 30 when he was with the Rockets

@@LegendOfWinningNBA You're right, I was more so just referring to his relatively fast decline performance-wise. I should have worded it better.

i'll say hakeem olajuwon wasn't as elite as larry bird and bill russell

the 76ers warriors and celtics had the prime versions of wilt chamberlain and bill russell

the goats are wilt chamberlain and bill russell

michael jordan wasn't quite as legendary as kareem abdul-jabbar oscar robertson wilt chamberlain and bill russell

my all-time favorite male athletes/jocks ever are #1 tied wilt chamberlain and bill russell #2 kareem abdul-jabbar and #3 hakeem olajuwon

They werent in LA and they didnt sell as much as the Lakers did.

i'll say that the royals had the prime version of oscar robertson and the lakers had the post prime version of wilt chamberlain

Not even close...try again

If Yao played in today's era he definately would have a 3 point shot given the fact he was already a great jump shooter

@@jokerofmorocco big time and at 7'5 it would have been unguardable

Yao is Boban

That is the dumbest comparison

Yao wasn’t very athletic unlike Porzingis.

That's common sense. He was at his prime and the injuries hadn't piled up on him back then

except the rapts made a conference finals lol