The System of Basketball Becomes a God

Chapter 173 Review of McGrady's Career (Don't Subscribe)

Tracy McGrady was selected by the Toronto Raptors with the ninth overall pick in the 1997 draft.But McGrady did not feel hesitant in a foreign land, and at least he had his cousin Carter in Toronto for company.On October 9, 97, McGrady made his NBA debut in Miami, but in only 10 minutes of playing time, McGrady only picked up a defensive rebound.Throughout the rookie season, Tracy McGrady did not get many chances to perform. He played 31 games and won 6 starts. He averaged 64 points, 17 rebounds and 7 assists per game in the season.But in the game against the Nets as a guest, he scored 4.2 points, 1.5 rebounds and 37 blocks in 22 minutes, becoming the brightest moment of his debut season.

But I have to admit that in the Raptors, the core is still Carter. In the shrinking season of 98-99, McGrady only missed one game, but he could only get two starts.While Carter quickly became the leader of the Raptors with his earth-shattering dunks, McGrady focused his energy on defense.The more comprehensive McGrady averaged 9.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.06 steals and 1.35 blocks per game this year.

In the last year of his rookie contract, McGrady began to be valued by the Raptors, but for McGrady, the team is more willing to position him as "Carter's deputy."The combination of this pair of cousins ​​explained in the regular season what is called "Brothers are of the same heart, and their profits break gold". The regular season record broke into the playoffs for the first time.This year, McGrady averaged 99 minutes per game and 00 points per game, second only to his cousin Carter.What's more worth mentioning is that McGrady contributed 1996 blocked shots to the team throughout the year, ranking 50th in the league's blocked shots list, and he is the outside player with the most blocked shots. On April 45, 37, the Raptors entered the playoffs for the first time in history. They faced the New York Knicks in the first round, but McGrady, who made his debut in the playoffs, scored 31.5 points and 15.4 rebounds. He was swept out in straight sets, but that year, Tracy McGrady had already made his debut.

Throughout the first three years of his rookie season, McGrady has been improving and showing the potential to become an All-Star.But the 2000 All-Star Slam Dunk Contest became the epitome of McGrady's Raptors career. In the preliminaries, McGrady scored 50 points with a double-handed dunk. The total score of the preliminaries was 99 points and entered the finals. The final performance was abnormal and only 77 points. After supporting the runner-up.During the three years with the Raptors, McGrady, too, started to take off, but for McGrady, the space under Carter's wings seemed a little narrow.

Magic era: Blue Devils No. 1 forged countless classics and two-time scoring champions but sad in the first round

For the Orlando Magic, they ushered in the best combination after O'Neal + Hardaway in the summer of 00-01, McGrady + Hill. Never thought that these two people have become famous glass men in the NBA.That year, Hill only played 4 games and fell on the injured bench, but McGrady was selected as an All-Star for the first time in his career that year, and won the "Most Improved Player" trophy and second place in the year. The lineup awards are a testament to his growth in Orlando.

接受了战火的洗礼，麦蒂接过了奥兰多魔术队的兵权，在佛罗里达州的海岸边上他开辟了新天地。这个赛季麦蒂场均得到26.8分，比上赛季足足提高了11.2分。季后赛4场比赛麦蒂场均砍下33.8分、6.5个篮板、8.3次助攻、1.8次抢断和1.2次盖帽。这时候人们饶有兴趣地提问：这个刚走出表兄卡特阴影的小伙子，究竟还有多少潜力？
In the 01-02 season, McGrady truly demonstrated his ability to stand at the top of the league.In the 2002 All-Star Game, Jordan was full of praise for McGrady's self-help slam dunk, and his performance this season also made everyone full of praise. On February 2002, 2, Tracy McGrady faced With the 23ers, he scored his first career triple-double with 76 points, 22 rebounds and 11 assists.In that year, Tracy McGrady was selected to the league's best team for the first time, ranked fourth in the annual MVP election, scored 11+ in as many as 60 games, and reached 20+ in 22 games; And Iverson has become the most terrifying scoring weapon of this era.And "Which of the three is the most terrifying scoring weapon" has become a big question mark during this period.

The next two seasons are probably the most talked about by McGrady and his fans, and it is also the only period in Tracy McGrady's career where he can stand shoulder to shoulder with Kobe.In the 02-03 season, Tracy McGrady did not stop killing throughout the entire season, 3 points from the outside, dunks into the interior, ecstasy pull-up jumpers, and blocks and steals on the defensive end. These shots will always be in the minds of Magic and McGrady fans. Lingering.This season, McGrady has 14 consecutive 30+ games and 45 consecutive 20+ games. He averaged 32 points per game, beating Kobe's 30 points per game, and won the scoring title in the 2002-03 season.McGrady was less than 24 years old at the time, and he became the youngest scorer to score more than 1976 points since McAdoo in 32.

In the 2003 playoffs, McGrady was closest to breaking through the first round of the playoffs. In the first four games against the Detroit Pistons, he scored 43 points, 46 points, 29 points and 27 points, and led the team Leading the Pistons 3-1, the promotion is in sight.But helplessly, the Pistons fought their backs in that situation, winning three consecutive cities, and they just kept Tracy McGrady and Hei Ba Miracle out of the first round.

而季后赛的郁闷转化为常规赛期间的疯狂发泄，03-04赛季也铭记了麦蒂最多的经典。04年1月26日，魔术做客骑士，从第一节的5：38到第二节3：19秒，麦蒂竟然神奇的连续投中八记三分，得分王好好地给“小皇帝上了一课”；04年3月10日，麦蒂全场37投20中、罚球26罚17中，砍下了创个人职业生涯最高的62分……

On March 2004, 3, the Magic played against the Heat at home. This was Tracy McGrady's last game for the Magic.Tracy McGrady scored only 24 points and 18 assists in the game. This is also the fifth defeat of the Magic's 4-game losing streak at the end of the season.Tracy McGrady and the Magic, who had been determined to miss the playoffs at the time, did not express much disappointment in this game, because as early as the beginning of that season, McGrady and the Magic had already experienced a painful 8-game losing streak, even though Tracy McGrady ended up winning consecutively. The throne of the scoring champion, and this season's poor record (19 wins and 21 losses) also paved the way for McGrady's departure in the summer.

The rocket era: MM combination is especially difficult to let the rocket take off in 35 seconds and 13 minutes of classic swan song
On June 2004, 6, Tracy McGrady bid farewell to the 29 years of fighting alone in Orlando, and came to the bright next stop in his life-Houston Rockets. In the first season of the Rockets, McGrady and Yao Ming formed a powerful team. The combination played a fantastic record. Under their leadership, the Rockets scored 4 wins and 51 losses, ranked fifth in the Western Conference, and successfully entered the playoffs.In the season he just joined the Rockets, McGrady staged a shocking reversal. On December 31, 5, he scored 2004 points in the last 12 seconds of the game against the Spurs, and scored 9 consecutive hurricanes at the last moment. 35 points, including a successful 13-pointer, and a steal at a critical moment. With only 3 seconds left in the game, McGrady scored the last 3-pointer to help the team successfully complete the big reversal, and finally scored 1.7-81. Narrowly defeating the Spurs, the championship contenders at the time, McGrady let all Chinese fans and Houston fans remember the Rockets' new aid Tracy McGrady that night, and he became the savior of the city in an instant.

McGrady led the team to the playoffs in the first season of joining the Rockets. In the 04-05 playoffs, he averaged 30.7 points, 6.7 assists and 7.4 rebounds per game. After 7 fierce battles, the Mavericks finally had no choice but to disarm their opponents. McGrady led the team to lead the Mavericks 2-0 in the first round of the playoffs this season, but unfortunately the Rockets were slaughtered by the Cowboys in the seventh game. , This night, McGrady lowered his head and experienced the bitterness of coming to the Rockets for the first time.

The 06 All-Star Game was held in Houston, the home court of the Rockets, and Tracy McGrady became the most shining star of the night. Under his own home court, Tracy McGrady scored a game-high 36 points, feasting the eyes of all home fans and proving that he is the one. The greatest star in the city, unfortunately, the West lost to the East 120-122 in the decisive battle. In the end, the All-Star MVP could only be handed over to James, the highest scorer in the East.

But the 05-06 season was a chaotic season. McGrady's back injury made him only 47 appearances.Tracy McGrady's position in the team has also quietly changed. He handed over the No. 24.4 position to Yao Ming, making him better than Yao Ming in the total scoring position.But in the efficiency list, Tracy McGrady still averaged 22 points per game over Yao Ming's 12 points.Under such circumstances, the Rockets drove high and low, and finally achieved the [-]th place in the Western Conference.At this time, McGrady, who was suffering from injuries, had strong support from Alstom, Luther Hyde, Swift, Hayes, etc., but the Rockets' performance let people know the taste of despair.

Both the Rockets and McGrady are determined to make a comeback in the 06-07 season, but the back injury once again blocked McGrady's way forward. Not long after the start of the season, McGrady missed 7 games. Fortunately, Yao Ming ushered in a year of outbreak. Become the number one core of the Rockets, but later because of a foot injury, Yao Ming unfortunately fell down, and at this time McGrady stepped forward and led the team to fifth in the league.In this season, McGrady scored 23+ points in 30 consecutive games, including 40+ points in three games. During this period, the Rockets' record was 19 wins and 4 losses.On December 2006, 12, he became the third youngest player in NBA history to score 9 points and 14000 rebounds. Unfortunately, the team lost to the Jazz 4000-4 in the playoffs. Missed the second round of the playoffs for the sixth time in his career, and McGrady also shed bitter tears after the game. McGrady blamed himself. He said that the responsibility for the Rockets' loss was entirely on him.

In the 07-08 season, the Rockets played an incredible 22 consecutive victories. Although Yao Ming missed as many as 22 games in these 16 games, the brave Rockets finally broke into the playoffs again, and this time the opponent was still The old enemy Jazz, in the absence of Yao Ming, McGrady led the team to fight alone. Although McGrady scored a game-high 40 points and 10 rebounds in the sixth game, he still won 91-113 again Losing to the Jazz, the Rockets lost the series 2-4.

In the 08-09 season, the knee injury could not even keep McGrady for half a season. On February 09, 2, McGrady announced that he would undergo minimally invasive knee surgery. This season, his statistics stayed at 18 points, 15.6 rebounds and 4.4 assists. Since the 5.0th game of this season, Tracy McGrady has never put on the Rockets jersey to fight for the Rockets. The tenacious Rockets finally broke through the first round this season, but this honor does not belong to Tracy McGrady. He still stays in the first round. Tracy McGrady, who could not cross the injury threshold, could not overcome the pain caused by the knee injury after all.

Despite undergoing summer surgery and a break at the beginning of the season, McGrady still did not get the explosion he expected this season, 7 minutes 44 seconds, 7 minutes 35 seconds, 7 minutes 23 seconds, 7 minutes 43 seconds, 7 minutes 50 seconds , 7 minutes and 30 seconds.After his comeback, Tracy McGrady played less than 6 minutes in 8 consecutive games, and after these 6 games, the conflict between Tracy McGrady and the Rockets broke out again.The Rockets' desire to trade Tracy McGrady fully surfaced, and McGrady was suspended indefinitely, waiting for the arrival of the trade.

On the day of the trade deadline in 2010, Morey's phone kept ringing. In the end, the Rockets, the Kings and the Knicks reached a three-way deal. Tracy McGrady joined the Knicks. The Rockets got Kevin Martin, Jordan Hill, Jared- Jeffries, the king's center Hilton Armstrong and the 2012 draft pick (the top five are protected). In addition, the Rockets and the Knicks exchanged the 2011 draft pick (the Knicks' 2011 No. [-] pick is protected).Kings get Carl Landry, Larry Hughes and Joey Dorsey.The Knicks also get Rodriguez from the Kings.Thus, Tracy McGrady's years in the Rockets teamed up with Yao Ming came to an abrupt end.

New York period: the team won 80% of the time when the team won the truce
On February 2010, 2, McGrady was sent to the Knicks in a three-team trade.In this regard, Tracy McGrady patted his chest and promised: "I will definitely be able to return the king."It's a pity that the New York fans, who were full of joy and thought that the savior had come, were soon poured cold water on their heads. McGrady is a superstar, but it's a pity that he has already passed away.Joining New York played a total of 19 games, and the Knicks only won a poor 24 games in total.

At the same time, McGrady's performance is indeed ordinary, and the data of 9.4 points per game is difficult to be linked to the four words of superstar anyway.The Knicks had a brilliant record when Tracy McGrady was on truce. After joining the Knicks, they missed a total of 5 games, and New York won 4 of them.

McGrady, who later became a free agent, signed a veteran contract with the Pistons and officially bid farewell to his status as an All-Star player.After that, McGrady chose the Eagles again. Unfortunately, in the playoffs with the Celtics, he fell on the threshold of the first round of the playoffs again.Joining the Spurs this year, Tracy McGrady finally broke through the curse of the first round, but the god of fate still did not favor T-MAC enough. The Spurs lost 3-4 to the Heat, which also made McGrady lose the last chance to wear the championship ring.

Then I chose to retire!
(End of this chapter)