One of his generation’s best offensive players was Tracy McGrady. Throughout his 15-year NBA career, the seven-time All-Star averaged 19.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.2 steals, and 0.9 blocks a game. When McGrady was at his best, he would win back-to-back scoring championships in 2003 and 2004, rendering opponents defenseless.
McGrady understood that sometimes all you had to do was keep things simple, even if he had all the attacking tools at his disposal. Because of the excessive dribbling he sees in the game, he believes that today’s players don’t grasp that. McGrady said on an episode of KG certified podcast : “It’s incredible what they are doing,” “The creativity right? It’s incredible. I see a lot of wasted dribbling, though, you’re trying to do these moves when the defense is just sitting on you. You’re trying to be too creative, you’re trying to do too much, whereas sometimes you just gotta keep it simple. “There’s a lot of wasted dribbling, right,” “And where is the originality at? It’s like all these guys are doing the same moves. It seems like they all train with the same trainer. The originality is lost.”
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Although players like Kyrie Irving occasionally display innovation, McGrady dislikes how everyone often repeats the same movements. During this episode, the former Houston Rockets great also gave some insightful advise, saying that if one can learn how to play inside three dribbles, they can play anywhere.
Tracy McGrady Selects College Basketball Over NBA to Watch
McGrady seems to have issues with a number of aspects of the NBA nowadays, not just the excessive dribbling. He admitted earlier this year in an interview with GQ that he only pays careful attention to the NBA during the postseason and doesn’t watch much of the regular season.
McGrady believes that the NBA players take too many bad shots during games and that there are too many three-pointers made by the players as a result. He loves to watch it over the NBA because he doesn’t see much of that at the collegiate level.