The Truth About Tracy McGrady & Yao Ming In Houston
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming were a great duo in mid to late 2000s. The Houston Rockets were struggling before Yao and T-Mac brought them back into the playoff conversation, as they led the team to multiple 50+ win seasons. In this video, I talk about the entire era in detail and what went wrong in each season. Hope you enjoy!
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You're not giving Yao the proper respect for that 7 game series vs the Lakers. He was the reason they pushed that to 7 games and I'm convinced that had he not gotten injured midway through that series that the Rockets could have won that series.
that was also one of the series the refs rigged for the Lakers.
the kings, rockets, and i think it was either Memphis, nuggets.
@@wuzi7049 damn
that come back after the injury on Yao tho, my memory is still fresh on that! feels kind like return of the king
Not overrated
Wuzi Mu
The Lakers played the Jazz, Rockets, and Nuggets that year, 09. Not the Kings and not Memphis. Are you confusing this year with 02? That's the big Donahue fixed year. Never heard anything about this year. Mentioning the Kings and Memphis, I think your a bit confused.
Yao is probably the most underrated best player the NBA probably ever had. He was one of the very few players who could go toe to toe with Shaq and not get embarrassed
Too bad his toes and feet were what let him down and ultimately spelled the premature end of his career.
Underrated???? He was the no 1 draft pick for a reason
I'm a fan living in China. I was in college when their era started. No matter what happened, Yao, T-mac, and the rest of the team, thank you all for all those years. The excitement, the disappointment, the anticipation, the letting-down, the glory(if there was any), and the heartbreaks. Thank you! And.....13 in 32!!! BROWN LOST IT! HERE'S MCGRADY! FOR THE WIN! YES!!! This will live on till the end of time.
Yao’s behind the back crossover in transition is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen on an NBA court 4:47
Sounds weird but they probably should've just rested McGrady and Yao for a season so they would recover and play a full season together
And Yao has to play for the national team every summer, it definitely hurts
he was the workforce of Chinese team too
So basically the Houston franchise should have just paid Yao and T-Mac 15-20 million per season to not play?...
Ahmad2423 did you watch the video? They were.
if they did they could have tanked into picking another star player too
Poor T-Mac. When he finally got a taste of playoff success with my Spurs, Ray Allen kept him from getting a ring. lol
aj urameshi It's not the same being a role player or on the bench vs leading the way, though.
@@dontdoittoyoself6786 I know lol I'm just saying that the poor guy wasn't even lucky enough to at least get a consolation ring.
He's said in interviews he had to pretend to be happy when it looked like they were going to win, before the Allen 3
@@MHBULLSFAN always box out for the defensive rebound and ALWAYS MAKE YOUR FREE THROWS
TMac and Yao playing together in Houston was my college memory that I’ll cherish my whole life. After watching almost every game, I strongly believe that they would have won at least one, likely two rings.
Starting off the year on a great video. 2007 Jazz should be put in 2K as a Classic team
Knowing 2k it would probably have like 7 players missing
Yeah Utah jazz they had Deren William's on his prime with boozer shit was always loud
Damn i miss that Memo Okur
Boozie always sucked ass and smelled like it too. He was lucky he had fresh taper Williams to dish out the passes to him
Seth Kasso II
Damn, when tracy said *idk man, I tried*, I felt that
T-Mac is my favorite player of all time. He and Yao was such a fun duo to watch. Thanks for this great vid! ❤
Pijus Mikuckas Great team to use in NBA 2k.
Yea my fav too bro!
Dontdoittoyoself with kevin Garnett as pf and
as a rockets fan, at the time the trade occured i thought we would atleast make it to the finals
Same here bro
Facts, sportscenter billing the trade as the next coming of Kobe and Shaq didn't help either
htown brotha
Same here
In 2004-05 Playoff series vs Mavs series turned around in favor of Mavs after 0-2 deficit bacause Mavs owner Mark Cuban made a call into League's office complaning that Yao didn't receive enough foul calls, so starting from Game 3 refs put Yao into foul trouble. Rockets coach Jeff van Gundy revealed that much later and talked about it on ESPN that it was illegal for team owner to intervene and influence results.
Other reason for Rockets not to advance into 2nd round in these series was betting scandal with corrupted referee Tim Donaghy who was at charge of decisive games in these series. Later it was revealed and approved by the Court that Donaghy influenced results of these games. He constantly put Yao into foul trouble starting from Game 3 of these series.
Lol yep, that's what happened. Cuban's call resulted in the Rockets being blown out in game 7 by 40. Adorable.
Absolutely!!! Tim Donaghy blatantly tells how he rigged those games
@@josephjohnroe3678 without the scandal it would never got to game 7.
Yeah but karma got mark cuban that year in the finals against the heat. The refs screwed the mavs that series
Damn, that 2009 playoff run was so much fun to watch. I love McGrady's playstyle, and he became more of a passer later in his career, but dang it was very sad to see that he was not involved in that 2009 playoff run
They couldve had a very tall starting 5 with him handling the ball
G: Tracy Mcgrady
G: Shane Battier
F: Ron Artest
F: Luis Scola
C: Yao Ming
Peter Griffin I think Tmac needed a great pg to take the ball carrying load of him and help him find his spots and play more off ball. He wasn’t a Lebron or bird who could carry teams. He was a offensive weapon who do a lot of other things but you should try to get him to just score
One of the most talented and most lethal scorer alongside with Mamba
Better than Wade, but no rings so overlooked....
7:46 Nice move. Scola was a very good player
Scola was very nice. Almost nobody remembers him already.
NDG he’s playing in China, second season this year
@@feis.5002 damn lol how old is he? 39? 50?
@@LeeGHThomas 38 yrs old!
Bro it pisses me off when I hop on Facebook or Instagram and there's a bunch of children born after 2000 slander Yao Ming. He only had one equal, and that was an all time great in Shaq. He was truly dominant when healthy.
@@nudenotnakedartist1333 the bullshit I always hear is "he never averaged 10 rebounds per game for a season" as if he didn't literally average 9.5 for his career. Saying he was "soft" and "just tall", as if he didnt shoot 85% from the line his whole career, 60+% from outside the paint and averaged 2 blocks per game for his entire career. Talking about playoff appearances and total wins as if those aren't team accolades. As a rockets fan I was there for ALLLLL of the battles versus Duncan and Shaq. He could dominate both in the paint as well as being every bit as versatile of as scorer as Timmy was. His career was plagued with poor supporting casts and injuries once he was truly in form to carry a team himself. Despite being my favorite players growing up, Stevie Franchise, TMac and Rafer Alston are all considered to be pretty mediocre in the light of modern advanced analytics, while Yao is the exact opposite as one of the most efficient 5s ever. And of course by the time better role players came around like Battier and Scola, Yao wasn't even capable of making it to the post season healthy. It's a damn shame how disrespected certain all-time ballers get because they played before the youtube mixtape era. Steve Nash, Abdul-Rauf, AK47, Tony Kukoc, and shit people are already forgetting how good Dirk was and he won a championship in the decade WE ARE STILL IN. I could go on all day but I'll spare you lol.
I personally think Tmac and yao would’ve won a ring together if they weren’t always injured. Their duo was basically if kobe and shaq were always injured.
People still use Facebook & Instagram?? Wow...
@@Johnny-hn9ts yeah, literally MILLIONS of people. More than TH-cam. So shut the fuck up and keep your idiotic comments to yourself.
Johnny IG is still popular as shit, Facebook is more for older people tho
I saw that postgame presser live too. One of the most heartbreaking moments in my sports watching life
Great video Andy!
Its really tough to compare this duo with what ifs. First of all, we had major outsiders winning titles and going finals. Just look at Portland Trailblazers in 2003/2004 season.
These guys out of nowhere contested The Lakers which was A Super team during early-mid 2000s. The Spurs... another great team, Minnesota Timberwolves, The Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings...
An Era full with great talents and amazing potential. Look at Vince and Dirk, still playing still important players. The Era was difficult for all superstars so yeah they were Hall of Famers for sure but no rings. Thats alright though, we know their value.
The 2009 playoff was their best chance to win the championship. If Yao wasn't injured in the middle of the 7-game series against the Lakers, they could've won that conference semi-final. After passing the Lakers, Denver and Orlando were much easier to deal with.
Throughout the entire YT era, the Rockets were lack of a decent PG. Mike James, Bob Sura, Rafer Alston, and Aron Brooks. None of them was playoff starter quality TBH. Kyle Lowry didn't join them until the last year of the era. Moreover, his Rockets years were nowhere near his prime time in Toronto.
Do a vid on that Jazz team.
D Will was as good as CP3.
AK47 really showed out vs the Rockets.
Even Mehmet Okur shooting 3s
Then the eventually break up leading to Jerry Sloan retiring
wasn't that video already made?
that game 7... was the one fixed my Tim Donahue. So... yeah... but for real. This era was fun for me but the struggled made it tough. I was at the game 7 loss to Utah and that was depressing but was at the game 6 against Portland and that was exciting. Im used to this though. As a Rockets fan, you have to be use to the ups and downs. Been this way for decades, even today.
Harden will need to do better than flop for calls and count on refs to ignore him travelling to carry in the playoffs
T.Mac / Yao Ming Are Living Legends
Does anyone else just love that background music at the beginning of these videos
this duo is the reason i slowly started to watch NBA. #legends
Do Chicago bulls timeline after Michel Jordan era
Good idea hit up my homie tweeks he got the Lean
Ok here goes garbage followed by a motorcycle accident, followed by garbage, followed by brilliance and a mvp season ending in current garbage.
Nick Deavers That sums it up lol
They are the reason why i am a solid houston rockets fan until now win or lose
T-Mac was my childhood hero. He was my idol growing up. T-Mac to the rack.
Yesterday the first player from Japan was drafted in the nba. It’s great to see a sport expand like this
hmm, as a rockets fan, i gotta say that the real reason why we lost to mavs was the unfair calls on yao, 'tim-donaghy', anyone remember him?
We must never forget that Jeff Van Gundys coaching style was horribly predictable and he had a say in what players come to the team
Yet he single handedly kept the Knicks relevant in the MJ ERA and took that old washed up Knicks team to the Finals in '99 But with two Stars in their prime now his style is predictable and bad for the team...SMGDH
@@AHMAD-2324 doesn't mean shit. Phil Jackson sucked ass with the Knicks and the dude is considered the greatest coach ever. Coaching methods DO go out of style and if you don't adapt you're going to drown.
@@LeeGHThomas Phil Jackson ain't no greatest Coach of all time wtf 😂
@@boltunes2771 boi if you don't shut your dumb fuckin ass up
In a few years there’s gonna be a video on this but with harden and cp3 being unable to deliver (except for last year)
:(
Xavier Buchanan HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM
@Vitor Hara lol，gsw got lucky again. houston would beat gs if paul not injury. GS might be the luckiest team in the history
Bruh I didn’t Know I posted that. *Now Westbrook n harden being unable to deliver as usual*
T-Mac is one of my favorite player of all time, he is the reason why i watched NBA in that era
If only they were never consistently injured
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@@bboys.7956 Fuck off
*Constantly
@Lakers fan Maybe Yao, but T-Mac nah. He was good, but he wasn't efficient, would've most likely slowed down the Rockets instead.
They would have beat the Lakers in 2009 and won the championship if they didn't get hurt
Htown Rockets I agree Yao was playing out his mind the series and the lakers had no answer for him... people forget how unstoppable Yao was that season n he was playing his best basketball until he broke his foot
They would have lost in the finals tho
@@isaiaharmand9901 No way since they would easily destroy Orlando since Yao outplayed Dwight in almost every matchup
@@jokerofmorocco that doesn't mean Houston would win and I don't even think they would have made it too the finals even if they defeated the lakers that year
tbh I do think is possible they lose to a Western Conference team even after beatign the Lakers but they would definately beat the Magic
this should've been a great duo, t-mac a 6'9 sg and yao ming a 7'6 c with great post moves , best ft prcnt in their team and solid mid range shot
Yao and Mac still two of my favorite players.. I dominate with the All time Rockets in 2k..
They are the reason why I am rockets fan until now
Andy is a better content creator than LOW so I'll watch gladly.
Disclaimer; I like LOW but I just like Andy Better and will watch all his content
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@@Jimmy58261 legend of winning
Legend of Winning dissed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for "not getting" "current player culture" of "showing off your new car on Instagram and being active on Twitter" and called him an "out of touch old man". You damn right I'm not going to watch another Legend of Winning video after that.
Adrian Arshad glad you posted this. I didn't know who he was but I'll definitely never watch after that. That statement says he has no idea what Kareem meant what he went through and what he stood for. Kareem was essentially criticizing these young black athletes who care more about themselves and their money than their education and communities like they did in his generation. He is among the few who has the cache to criticize on that basis and he was absolutely right.
Yao had such amazing touch for a big man.
I've been watching Andy since he showed his face and talked about his work out plan
You didn't mention the 22-game W streak in 07-08. Also imo the 09 playoff was the biggest what-if of this Rockets team. Artest was at his best. But Mutombo got injured in the first round, then Yao in G1 against the Lakers. If at least Yao stayed healthy, this Rockets could beat Lakers in 6 imo. But then Kobe's storyline would be completely different
Hey Andy you could do a video talking about the whole 70s era of nba basketball because it's the most unknown period of nba basketball and there were a lot off interesting things that happened in that era.
I would love to see a video on the Milwaukee Bucks with Sam Cassell, Ray Allen, Glenn Robinson and George Karl.
Really good video, with all infos and facts. Still feel bad for them
7:34 and Wafer! this dude was a highlight man!
Hey Andy what happened to your Info show channel? Those videos were so good I hope you post more on that channel!! Great rockets vid tho 👍🏼
The truth about them is that after Yao came into his own and was ready to dominate the league, he and Tracy were never completely healthy together at the same time. If they had both been healthy together, they win at least one ring if not two, possibly more. During the Dallas series, I would agree that losing Juan Howard to injury was very costly and probably the difference.
Great vid -- as always. Also, Happy New Year to everyone.
That interview got me feeling something
What is that playing in the background of all your videos, Andy! I enjoy hearing that sad lonely trumpet play it's tune... Did you sample it from something else? What is the name of the track?
Cheers, and happy New Year, to you!
Poor T-Mac. You can't say the guy didn't WANT to win. He wasn't just all about his own stats and money. Even in interviews now you can see how much it hurts him.
Dude just had the worst luck. I remember even at the tail end of his career, he joined the Spurs and I was happy that he was gonna finally win a ring but the Spurs lost to Miami
12:01 AM in the PH i love your vids andy
Happy New Year Andy Hoops.
1st video of the year👍🏽👍🏽
That interview where McGrady cried was the 7 game series vs the jazz the year before.
Love your content. Good luck in New Year!
luis scola was very underated
Beyond their stellar playing ability, they did a lot for Asian-Black relations and I’ll always have love for T-Mac because of that. We’re brothers in rice.
Big ups Andy Hoops 👌🏿💯
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This bout to be a banger.
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I started watching the Rockets in 09-10. If that team could've been at full strength, I believe that could have went all the way!
it is so sad that these 2 great players series were ruined by injuries
Collab video with MDJ plz. Yall are both so knowledgeable
I remember those years between Rockets and Jazz, Okur shoots three and Yao cant guard him on the perimeter because he is too slow.
It's not the team, it was the coaching system, and the player management that let them down. People don't understand how important that is. You can't just get stars and say go to work. You need a system that makes everyone play at their best
so underachived duo
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The main problem were the injuries and the western conference itself at that time, as you already said. It was ridiculously hard to be champions in the west, and no team had the playoffs seed secured beforehand, so I would never say they completely fail; they just fail to win a championship. And we'll never know what would happen in 2009 if t-mac and yao weren't injured. Artest alone almost beat the Lakers, so...
Two of my favorites player ever. It's a shame that injuries got the best of them which is why this era didn't result to a championship although I'm not sure if they can actually win it all consider the fact the Western Conference was really tough with teams like San Antonio, Dallas and Phoenix were legit title contenders.
Happy new year andy
Yao was a beast and McGrady was sooo sad i feel bad
Do something about Hasheem Thabeet. Where is he now? Former 2nd overall pick
Im so lonely about tmac that he cant get past rd 1 yet he's one of the talented players of the 2000s but i respect tmac's effort it was yao and tmac who are injury prone
Got an ad that was about rockets on a video about Houston Rockets players
Side note. This probably the third video where you brought up AK-47 as an underrated defender lol. Not saying he was but just something I caught from watching your videos.
These two are one of the biggest reasons that I approve of load management.
As a big Yao fan and a Chinese myself, I have to say this video is sugarcoating Yao too much. Andy does not mention Yao’s defensive limitation against opposite center with 3s. Okur of Utah, Lafrentz of Mavericks and sometimes Troy Murphy of Golden state all have given him serious headaches and weakened Rocket’s defense as a whole, this costed them many games and even series. He did have higher efficiency than Tmac on stats, but his stamina problem in 4th drastically decreases his performance, therefore Tmac was and always supposed to be the offense starter. Back then, even among craziest Chinese Yao fans, this “Tmac taking too much offensive proportion from Yao” theory never stood.
Yaaaaay YAO MING VIDEO
When two channels make videos about the same topics this is bound to happen
T-Mac press conference was after 2007 playoffs, not 2008.
Actually a Rockets Jazz rivalry video would be good. It is like the Rockets constantly had beef with the Jazz.
Love your videos
And to think that now Houston has a 2-superstar combo where one is very injury prone... Here we go again Houston.
Back when tanking is not choice and just pure competition. Basically, they could have rested both Yao and Tmac for a season and tank to get a high draft prospect, and get back next season. The problem was, tanking was not a choice back then.
#Respect
You forgot to mention. This team in 2008 also won 22 straight games. The 2nd longest winning streak in NBA history during that time.
Ture, the competition from the western conference was ridiculous.
That T-Mac press conference happened in 2007 after losing game 7 at home to Utah
what we learned from the video its all about playing as team not the individuals.
T-Mac's wonky eye in FULL effect for this video
Man runnin through the video "LET'S GO MAVS "
Yao hands down woulda been an all time great center if it weren’t for injuries
Cuttino Mobley, there's a name i haven't heard in a while.
Its always tough to see T-Mac's emotional press conference.
As a T-Mac fan, i remember that i really hated watching 2007 playoffs against Utah Jazz. In that series, Matt Harpring who's not even an average player literally had locked T-mac defensively.
If they didn't get injured, they'd have a lot more success? You can't know if you are talking about T-Mac. He was just an unlucky man. Back in time with Magic, i can understand his failure at first round in 2004 against Pistons but Magic couldn't pass the first round even against New Orleans Hornets before then.
kayser911 it’s funny because Harpring was another guy who got a lot of injuries.
It should have been Yao scoring 26-28 points a game and T-Mac scoring 20-22 a game instead of vice versa. That could have made all the difference. T-Mac was an inefficient volume scorer (not saying that teams can't benefit from such a guy, it really helps to have that consistent scorer who can get his own shot and bail out the offense), Yao was a very efficient scorer who should have scored more.
this is what truly led to the harden era, even tho tmac and yao ming had nothing to do with him going to houston, it was a match made in heaven
This is similar to the Celtics last year. Both kyrie and haywayd were out injured and the rest team stepped up and played well. This season the celtics are bit up and down
They were amazing,so sad they never won a chip,they definitely deserved it
Andy please talk about Johnie Flynn or Mehmet Okur
Great team