Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 453 - 150: Demons Dancing in Chaos Dallas, Messiah Losing Control (10,000 Words Updated in a Single Day, Begging for Subscription)_3
Currently ranked tenth in the West, they are unlikely to make the playoffs in the wild West, nor can they tank better than the Timberwolves, Kings, and other teams.
This limbo situation has led the Rockets to desperately want to trade Tracy McGrady.
Although this season, McGrady’s true shooting percentage is only 49%, on nights when he unexpectedly explodes, the Rockets often win unexpectedly.
However, trading McGrady in the short term is no easy feat for the Rockets.
With McGrady’s current salary close to 20 million US Dollars...
And given that McGrady’s overall condition is a far cry from his former prowess...
The Rockets might even have to swallow a loss-making deal to offload McGrady, whose contract expires in the summer of 2010.
McGrady’s current trade value, far below the Rockets management’s expectations, is related to him no longer having the halo of that 22-game winning streak in his career.
Along with McGrady’s increasingly inefficient scoring each year...
Now, the once-famous "T-Mac" has apparently become a financial burden for the team.
At not yet 29 years old, McGrady’s current situation is quite poignant.
But Qin Yue, who urgently needs a win to vent the frustrations of the previous game, showed no mercy. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
On the court, McGrady, assigned by the team’s head coach Tom Thibodeau to guard Qin Yue for the entire game, had a night beyond verbal description.
Even though...
The reason for McGrady’s matchup against Qin Yue, arranged by Thibodeau who took over the Rockets under the recommendation of former coach Jeff Van Gundy, was that...
Bargnani is not good at defense, and McGrady is more suitable for a matchup with Qin Yue.
Yet considering Thibodeau’s notorious behavior of overusing key players year after year...
In the game, McGrady, unable to avoid it, gritted his teeth and endured a whole night against the tall and imposing Qin Yue.
Fortunately, Qin Yue released the emotionally exhausted McGrady after just three quarters.
After the game, during the handshake session, Bargnani, who shares the same agent with Qin Yue, revealed to Qin Yue: "You wouldn’t believe it; during halftime, to get someone else to guard you, ’T-Mac’ was almost on his knees to the coach."
Unlike Yao Ming, who was always broad-minded and tolerant of McGrady in Houston.
Because in this life, Bargnani also bore the halo of being the "second coming of Qin Yue" before the draft...
So this inevitably proud Italian top pick, after gaining the favor of the Rockets management, was destined to have conflicts with McGrady.
Bargnani very much disliked how McGrady, when spacing out for pick-and-rolls, always chose those inefficient long two-pointers for forced shots.
Even though McGrady occasionally delivered him some brilliant assists...
But in Bargnani’s view, it was nothing more than McGrady giving him, this sycophantic little bulldog, what amounts to a master’s reward.
Bargnani could not tolerate the inefficient McGrady hogging so much ball control on the court.
Especially after Qin Yue proved the feasibility of a ball-dominant offensive play...
Under the instigation of his agent Jeff Schwartz, Bargnani also wanted to gain more ball control on the court like Qin Yue.
Bargnani comes from the European League, where from a young age he learned from outstanding predecessors how to facilitate and break through zone defense, believing he could do better in games than McGrady.
Obviously, the emergence of Qin Yue, and having the same agent as Bargnani, led this charming Italian youngster to boldly walk an unprecedented path.
And McGrady?
From his former high-spirited self to now being even looked down upon by Bargnani...
In Qin Yue’s view, if even the second-year pro Bargnani can’t be suppressed...
It can only prove that McGrady has reached the final stop of his career.
Qin Yue finds it really hard to assess the career of this former two-time scoring champion and one of the four prominent scorers, known for the "35 seconds 13 points" miracle, which is hard to summarize in a few words.
But as far as McGrady’s fragile heart is concerned...
Qin Yue always feels that McGrady overestimated his talents and abilities.
Historically, McGrady’s experience of being carried by Yao Ming through the first round of the playoffs isn’t deceiving.
Among the other three of the four great guards, he is only fit to be beneath the table.
Leading the team to a big win over the Rockets.
Heading to San Antonio on a back-to-back.
On the court, with the speed of a whirlwind, Qin Yue scored 49 points in that night’s game, leading the team to a 40-point victory on the road, collecting the first debt from the Gregg Popovich-led Spurs.
And then, a day later, with the calmness of a forest, Qin Yue once again led the Warriors to calmly and assuredly defeat the Clippers, who were forced to tank the season due to "Captain" Brand’s season-ending injury.
Then, in the Warriors’ and Supersonic’s matchup, Qin Yue exploded for 45 points...
In the Warriors’ extremely difficult regular season finale, Qin Yue’s performance, which can be described as frenzied, entered a climactic phase.
"He has scored ’40+’ in five consecutive games! I don’t know his limit; I don’t know when he’ll stop; he seems to never tire... There is no doubt, we are witnessing the greatest scoring performance in NBA history!"
On TNT TV Station, Charles Barkley commented on Qin Yue, who recently appears to be in a near-mad state.
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