Tracy McGrady (May 24, 1979-), known to fans as Maddie and Maddie. Born in Bartow, Florida, USA, he is an American professional basketball player who plays as a shooting guard/small forward and plays for the CBA Qingdao Double Stars. McGrady has a well-rounded and flowing style of play, can play three positions in the backcourt, and at his peak was one of the best scorers in the NBA, two consecutive scoring titles in '03 and '04, and played for the Houston Rockets with Chinese star Yao Ming. McGrady is joining the Spurs for the 2013 NBA playoffs.

Title: Tracy McGrady

Foreign name: Tracy McGrady

Alias: Maddie, T-Mac, Pumpkin Head

Nationality: American

Place of Birth: Barto, Florida, USA

Date of birth: 24 May 1979

Graduated from: Mont Zion Christian College

Height: 2.03 m / 6 ft 8 in

Weight: 101.2 kg / 223 lbs

Sport: Basketball

Athletic team: Spurs

Major Award: NBA Most Improved Player (2001)

2-time NBA All-NBA Team (2002, 2003)

7-time NBA All-Star

2-time NBA Regular Season Scoring Champion (2003, 2004)

Jersey numbers: No. 1, No. 3

NBA Draft: Drafted by the Raptors at No. 9 in the first round in 1997

Full name in Chinese: Tracy Lamar McGrady Jr

Full name in English: Tracy Lamar McGrady, Jr.

Biography

[Draft]: In 1997, he was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the ninth place in the first round

[Height]: Rookie data 6 feet 7 inches (201cm), official data 6 feet 8 inches (203cm), actual height 6 feet 9 inches (206cm).

[Blood type]: AB

[Zodiac sign]: Gemini

[Weight]: Rookie data 205 pounds (93kg) now weighs 225 pounds (105.2kg)

[Bench press]: 120 kg, when you first enter the NBA, you can't push 185 pounds/84 kg, and you can push 13-35 times

[Arm span]: Rookie body measurement 7 feet 2 inches (218cm), now arm span about 7 feet 3 inches (221cm)

[Bounce]: Rookie physical test running jump 44.2 inches (109cm)

[Speed]: 40 yards/36.6m sprint in less than 4.4 seconds

[Team]: Toronto Raptors (1997-2000) - > Orlando Magic (2000-2004) - > Houston Rockets (2004-2010) - > New York Knicks (2010) - > Detroit Pistons (2010-2011) - > Atlanta Hawks (2011-2012) - > Qingdao Double Stars (CBA) - >San Antonio Spurs (2013)

[Number]: No. 1, No. 3, No. 6 (Dream Team), No. 9 (Qingdao Double Star)

[Position]: G-F (a typical swingman swingman, played all 5 positions in high school, can swing at the 1-4 position after entering the NBA, the most played position is SG, the most efficient and his favorite position is small forward, after transferring to the Pistons, he was used by the coach as an experienced PG.) Maddie is one of the most versatile players the NBA has ever seen

[Injury]: History of long-term back injury caused by congenital mild scoliosis: shoulder, hip, knee, ankle, elbow, hand, finger, foot, toe, quadriceps, pleurisy, concussion, back, waist.

[Idol]: Anfernee Hardaway,

【Favorite Country】China

He is known as the most talented player in basketball history. Maddie was already familiar to the majority of Chinese fans when he was with the Magic, and reached the peak of the Rockets.

Athletic career

All-Star Experience

・1998 New York, Rookie Challenge, 19 points in 10 minutes played;

・In 2000, Oakland, participated in the slam dunk contest, scored 50 points with a turn and two hands, and entered the final with 99 points, and only 77 points in the final, winning the third place after Vince Carter and Francis (SF3);

・In 2001, Washington, D.C., teamed up with NykeshaSales of the Orlando Miracles during All-Star Weekend to participate in AOL's 2ball tournament and finished sixth, making his first All-Star start, scoring 2 points, 1 rebound, 2 steals and 1 block on 1-of-4 shooting in 21 minutes, and blocking Kobe's step-back jumper in the game;

・In 2002, Philadelphia played 23 minutes off the bench and scored a game-high 24 points on 9-of-15 shooting from the bench with 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, and performed a dazzling performance in the Eastern Army, which did not play well overall, and performed a self-created dunk in the second quarter through defenders such as Nash and Dirk Nowitzki, which was praised by the NBA official website as "one of the most wonderful dunks in All-Star history", Jordan commented: "I remembered what I used to be, and it was a wonderful thing to see such a performance";

・ In 2003, Atlanta, played 36 minutes, scored the second highest 29 points in the East on 10-of-17 shooting, and 5 rebounds and 2 assists (including 17 points in the third quarter), as the king of the Eastern Ticket, he took the initiative to give up the starter to Jordan in the last All-Star Game before the game, and even almost prepared to deliberately drop his jersey in the locker room to "force him to comply", and staged a selfless story with AI (Carter conceded before the final game), because he started with Jordan and became one of Jordan's farewell performances, which is regarded as his best All-Star memory;

・In Los Angeles in 2004, he scored 23 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists on 10-of-11 shooting in 23 minutes, appeared on stage wearing sneakers of different colors, spoofed Iverson in the locker room before the game (stealing the belt of his All-Star uniform), and donated $13,000 to the Children's Hospital of Florida after the game;

・In 2005, Denver started the West for the first time, playing 24 minutes and scoring 18 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks on 8-of-13 shooting;

・In 2006, Houston teamed up with Sheryl Swoopes of the Glider and Houston Comets to participate in the mixed shooting contest and finished third; in the All-Star Game, he scored 36 points, 12 assists and 1 steal on 15-of-26 shooting in 27 minutes in the All-Star Game, and the only time he had the intention to win the MVP was also helped by the West, but missed the winning goal and caused the team to lose, and the MVP was won by LeBron James of the East, with 36 points for the fifth place in history;

・In Las Vegas in 2007, he scored 18 points, 3 rebounds, 11 assists and 3 steals on 6-of-8 shooting in 18 minutes, a game-high 11 assists.

Classic matches

01/26/04, against the Cavaliers T-MAC played 25 minutes and scored 36 points (34 points in the half), and left the court with an ankle twist in a fast-break layup in the third quarter. But he was on a hot 8-of-8 shooting from beyond the three-point line, tying the NBA's half-court three-point record at the time. [2]

2/20/04, against the Nuggets, became the second youngest player in NBA history to score 10,000 points.

1/10/04, against the Wizards, he scored 1,606 free throws in the Magic, setting a new all-time record for the Magic team (the previous record for the Magic was O'Neal's 1,602 points).

3/10/04, against the Wizards, he scored 20-of-37 from the field, 17-of-26 free throws, scored 62 points in a single game, and also had a team-high 10 rebounds and 5 assists, becoming the fourth player to score 60+ in the past 12 years.

12/9/04, against the Spurs, he scored 13 points (four three-pointers and one free throw) in the last 35.4 seconds of the fourth quarter to help the Rockets win 81-80 at home over the Spurs. It's called the "Maddie Moment".

4/19/05, against the Clippers, 16 points, 10 assists and 5 rebounds, scored his 2,000th point in a single season, becoming the fourth player in the history of the Rockets to score more than 2,000 points in a single season.

1/22/06, against the Pistons, he scored 43 points in the game, the first player since 2001 to score more than 40 points in Auburn Hills.

On 1/23/06, against the Bucks, one person scored 18 points in the fourth quarter (14 points in a row set a record for consecutive scoring this season), while the Bucks only scored 9 points in the quarter.

On 12/30/06, against the Hawks, he scored his 14,000th point in the NBA, becoming the third youngest player in NBA history to score 14,000 points and 4,000 rebounds (the first two being Chamberlain and McAdoo).

On 3/21/07, against the Pacers, he became the third-youngest player in NBA history to score 15,000 points.

1/16/07, against the Jazz, he scored 44 points in the game and 30 points in the first half, becoming the fourth player in the history of the Rockets to score more than 30 points in the half. He scored 22 points in the second quarter, the second-highest score in a single quarter in Rockets history (behind Maxwell's record of 30 points in a single quarter set in 1991)

5/1/07, against the Jazz, Maddy 26 points and 16 assists, Yao Ming 21 points and 15 boards, in NBA history, the same team has two players in a single playoff game with 20-15 data, dating back 11 years (4/28/96, Charles Barkley 30 points and 20 boards, Kevin Johnson 21 points and 16 assists)

3/8/08, against the Hornets, Maddie played the whole game, contributing 41 points in the whole game, helping the Rockets defeat the Hornets and win 18 in a row.

6/12/07, against the Grizzlies, Maddy contributed his first triple-double after joining the Rockets, with 17 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds, and finally the Rockets beat the Grizzlies 105-92.

4/25/05, the second game of the playoffs away to the Mavericks, the classic battle of the Passion Rockets that year. The Rockets shot 54.8% from the field and 50% from three-point range, the Mavericks shot 50% from the field and 66.7% from three-point range, the Mavericks rebounded 41-29, Yao Ming scored 33 points on 13-of-14 shooting, Maddy had 28 points, 8 rebounds, 10 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks, and exploded Bradley and a 2.2-second shot.

In the 07-08 season, after Yao Ming's injury, the Rocket's longest winning streak of 22 was created!

Flashing moments

On February 21, 2003, in the face of the transfer of his best friend Mike Miller by the Magic, T-MAC, who was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, scored 52 points in less than three quarters against the former Dynasty Bulls, and never played again in the latter part of the third quarter and the entire fourth quarter (33 minutes), and Doug Rivers (DocRivers), who was the Magic coach at the time, commented with embarrassment: If T-MAC still has friends, we will trade them out one by one.

On March 9, 2003, T-MAC continued its crazy performance and single-handedly slashed the Nuggets in only half time, scoring 43 points in 31 minutes, which is not too unusual, but 27 points in the first half and 25 points in the second quarter broke Brooks Thompson and Shaquille O' Neal's team record is also the craziest half-time scoring show in the NBA's 10-year history, and the dialogue between the two veterans in the locker room at the end of the first half is intriguing, Darrell Armstrong said: I was stupid when I entered the locker room, and the Nuggets scored five fewer points than T-MAC in the half. Chris Whitney, who once stood side by side with God in the Wizards, said: I have watched a lot of 22 points and 24 points in 18 minutes, but such an amazing performance by Nagasaka Slope is incredible. In March 2003, Maddie scored more than 30 points in 14 consecutive games, averaging 37 points per game and shooting 50% from the field.

On January 26, 2004, the Magic lost 98-99 to the Cavaliers, and T-MAC scored 36 points in 25 minutes (34 points in the half) and left the court with a sprained ankle in a fast-break layup in the third quarter. But he was on a hot 8-of-8 shooting from beyond the three-point line, tying the NBA's half-court three-point record at the time. The little emperor LeBron James, who returned from injury, said after the game: Fortunately, he is down, or maybe it will be another 50-point game, even if he is pressed in the face, this must be the most terrible shooting performance I have ever seen.

On March 10, 2004, he scored 62 points in a single game, becoming the second 60-point club member after Shaquille O'Neal. In the first 18 minutes of the opening game, T-MAC scored 24 points and the Wizards scored 23 points as a team. In the fourth quarter, T-MAC, who was physically exhausted, missed 9 free throws on 1-of-11 shooting. At the end of the game, T-MAC pointed to the sky and left with a gloomy face. GArenas, who also scored a new season high, said: "I tried to keep up with him all the time, but I was shot.

Maddie moments

On December 10, 2004, Toyota Center Court, Houston, before Maddy completed a top-of-the-circle three-pointer, the Rockets trailed by eight points 68-76 with only 35 seconds left in the game, and everyone thought the Rockets had given up, but Maddie didn't think so, and he blew the horn of a comeback with a goal. The 16,170 Houston fans in the stadium had the privilege of witnessing history. Maddie scored a "four-pointer" and then a three-pointer pierced the Spurs' basket.The score of 78-80 confused the Spurs, and one second before the end, Maddie jumped from the left side of the circle and shot against defender Brent Barry. 81 to 80!! Incredible reversal! plus a milestone of 35.13 seconds!

Since then, the NBA has had a new term, called "Maddie Moment"!

Technical features:

At his peak, Maddie was one of the best swingmen in the league, winning two points titles in the 02-03 and 03-04 seasons (32.09 points per game in '02-03 and 28.03 points per game in '03-04). He is highly talented, accurate in his mid-range shots, sharp in his breakthroughs, and most famous for his whimsical imagination as he glides through the air, and his dunks are sometimes as earth-shattering as thunderbolts, and sometimes as flexible and graceful as catkins. With a pair of long arms, excellent air, amazing explosiveness and determination to break into the restricted area, Maddy was the biggest headache for NBA teams in the early part of his career.

Comprehensive evaluation

One of the best scorers in NBA history, but his short peak period due to injuries has made his place in history disputed. McGrady was a talented player both physically and mentally as a youngster, but after an injury affected the loss of his physical advantage, he transitioned into playmaking defender. T-MAC, who takes "playing beautifully" and "winning the game for his own team" as the first rule in his life, has a high basketball IQ, and his ability to respond is at the top level of the league, and he knows how to use and distribute physical strength reasonably and assist teammates to do his job well. On the basketball court, he has a strong ability to create according to specific situations, and his self-throwing and self-dunking self-service slam dunk has become his ALLSTARGAME repertoire.

offensive

Whether it's changing direction on the dribble, turning and gliding in the air, or changing the pace reasonably when attacking, he knows how to read the opponent's defensive level and rarely makes mistakes. In other words, unless he doesn't feel good, few people can prevent him from dying. 1VS1KILLER, T-MAC HAS EXCELLENT LEG REFLEXES AND EXPLOSIVENESS, AND THE FIRST STEP OF THE BREAKTHROUGH IS EXTREMELY FAST AND LARGE, AND MANY CRITICS CONSIDER IT TO BE THE FASTEST EXPOSIVEFIRSTSTEP AFTER FORMER MAGIC TEAMMATE GRANTHILL (THERE ARE ALSO PLAYERS IN THE PRIME OF Sprewell, Wade and other players who have received similar evaluations in this regard). However, in recent years, he has been affected by an ankle injury and has rarely shown himself in competitions. Rely on a natural sense of rhythm and big strides to get rid of your opponents. The ball has a wide field of vision, dares to pass and can pass, especially relying on height to make long, horizontal and delicate passes across half the court. But there are also ultra-low-level mistakes. Overall, his passing standards are above average PG. He can be used as the direct initiator of the offense, or as the first commander of the offense, and the judgment of the change of the high and low positions needs to be strengthened, and there is still room for improvement in his passing methods in the future. An excellent jumper and an excellent breakout, he is known as the grandmaster of the dry pull-up jump shot. The means of scoring are mostly concentrated with jumpers from the 17-foot range. The low back strength is not good enough. The area of breakthrough is concentrated with the bottom line and a 45-degree angle, and the front of the top of the arc of the penalty area changes direction sharply and breaks less. The baseline is the corridor to break through, and the trick to fame is to rely on explosiveness and flexibility to get away from opponents in the corner of the baseline (in the 2001 playoffs against the Bucks). During his years in Orlando, T-MAC also greatly developed his ability from the outside, but it also caused about one-third of his shots to be outside the three-point line. Due to his impressive wingspan at the same position, it was as news that he could block T-MAC's shot from the outside as if KG didn't get a double-double. Due to the impact of injuries, relying too much on projection in the offense, and not getting into the interior to earn fouls very often, DRAWFOUL has also become the only flaw of T-MAC in the offense. Facing T-MAC, which has a variety of offensive means and no dead ends, if placed in the SG position, it can be said to be one of the highest scoring guards in NBA history.

defend

T-MAC started out doing the dirty work defensively and became the only guard player in the league's top 20 in blocks and frontcourt rebounds in the '98-99 season. His defensive talent comes from his long arm span and excellent air superiority, 1-on-1 situations, few people can bargain in front of him, the grasp of space and the understanding of the ball have made him a master of blocking among defenders, but after moving to Orlando, due to the team's more offensive tasks, he has slackened in defensive awareness and his mentality has changed. T-MAC is also not a perfect frontal perimeter defender, with a high center of gravity and lack of concentration that makes it difficult to defend at the front, but for low post and back-to-back defenses, he can sometimes go up to the top as a PF. Overall, Mcgrady's defense is greatly influenced by his level of psychological excitement and concentration. Not a good full-time defender. However, as a very well-rounded core player, his sense of rotation has been strengthened, and he has also begun to remind his teammates in time in defense. Players who can use their long arms to interfere well with the baseline rarely have gambling performances on the front. However, after the knee injury, due to the decline in motor function, the ability to defend has decreased, and it is difficult to recover the former style.