Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel "explains" how Tracy McGrady's selfishness paved the way for Magic's future success.
And, to think, all these years I've been erroneously blaming Me-Mac for essentially quitting during the 2003-04 season when the Magic lost 19 consecutive games at one joyless juncture and finished the season with an NBA-worst 21-61 record.
[What does "essentially" quitting mean? Who cares-- attacking a guy's character here with vagaries here!]
Without the Magic's disastrous difficulties of five seasons ago, they would likely still be in a state of utter disrepair.
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Let me try to wrap my mind around this one: If the Magic weren't terrible five years ago, then they would probably STILL be terrible now..... even though (under this logical gem) they *weren't* terrible five years ago?]
Let's be honest, shall we? Without Dwight on the team, the Magic would today be the Bobcats, who took Emeka Okafor with the No. 2 pick in that 2004 draft. Actually, they might be worse than the Bobcats.
[Great point. If not for event X occuring, team A *might* be different.]
If McGrady had been a real leader who refused to give up in 2004 instead of the team captain who abandoned ship and sat out the final 10 games of that season with one of his mysterious ailments, the Magic might be the Grizzlies right now.
[Did I already mention that Bianchi thinks that McGrady is a total pansy? I mean, who gets injured or sick anyways?? Sounds bogus to me too....]
The San Antonio Spurs, coincidentally, were 21-61 the year before Tim Duncan arrived and have won four championships in the years since. Could the Magic conceivably be on a similar path? What better person to ask than....
[...Tim Duncan? The Spurs GM?]
...Magic reserve point guard Tyronn Lue, who was shipped to Houston along with McGrady after the calamitous 2004 season but now is back in Orlando.
[Or him. Done!]
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Thought it was worth making a debut comment to suggest it's also coincidental that the 96-97 Spurs actually went 20-62 (according to basketballreference.com) the year before picking Duncan and had the NBA's 3rd worst record (although to defend his going 21-61=future greatness theory, the Magic also had that record the year before they picked Shaq 1st, but that is a pretty obscure and irrelevant fact to look up).
Aren't the Celtics from that same Duncan year, who mysteriously had late season 8 and 10 game losing streaks to end with the worst record, the poster children for how losing 19 in a row and getting the top pick isn't a cause and effect? (see also Celtics 2 years ago playing Pierce for 47 games to have the worst record to get a top 2 pick and actually getting the 5th pick, and the fact that the NBA's worst team has only gets a 25% chance of picking first, and since 1990 the number worst teams picking 1st has actually been less than 25%).
TGWKT-
Who needs "data" and "facts" when you can just blame things on Tracy McGrady?
The other humorous notion was that McGrady was somehow faking all of those "ailments" for the Magic. Has this dude followed McGrady *at all* since he left Orlando? ALWAYS injured. I guess he's just been faking it for his entire career. A much more plausible conclusion.
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