Perhaps the most striking element of the Tracy McGrady Debate has been a revisionist tendency exhibited by his detractors.

There exists a notion that, to the convenient omission of his obvious physical decline, McGrady’s most recent struggles are simply the latest proof of an allegedly inherent incompatibility with ‘winning basketball.’

This assertion is then oft punctuated by an absurd causal reductionist claim attributing the team’s first playoff victory last May to Tracy’s mere absence from the lineup.

It is true that McGrady has not been good for some time.  And for his egotism and total lack of verbal discretion, perhaps he does deserve his current plight.

But it’s just odd that some feel a need to revise the past for validation of their beliefs in the present.

I never thought that so easily would go forgotten the Jordanesque performance he put on against Dallas or the leadership he exhibited during ‘The Streak.” I guess I’m far too trusting.

The exception I take is not out of affinity for the player; it’s in affinity for established fact.

It’s just funny.  I don’t know how it’s so difficult to say, “He was good then and now he isn’t.”