费根博客：麦迪的进展 - 参加5对5的练习赛 (9/248)

麦迪归来？还没，不过快了

这个场景，如果在实际的训练中，就是相当令人满意的了。

在这些做训练的球员下周放假前的最后的健身练习中，大个子在球场的一端进行测试，后卫们则在进行投篮训练。这个训练的最后一项是新型的“实用的”训练，由力量和身体调节指导达里尔·埃托奥引进的。（下周相关报道会更多）

这时看到任何与篮球相关的消息都是令人高兴地，从查克·海耶斯戏剧性的提高的罚球的命中率，到训练结束后的蔡司·巴丁格和乔伊·多西的垂直起跳比赛。（从我的高度上来看，乔伊·多西在篮板上的摸高比较高一些）

姚明，带着一个大的夸张的护具，拄着一个T字形拐杖走路，他曾开玩笑的说，等他康复了要把这两样东西放到eBay上去卖掉。在做完早晨的训练后，他好像很享受检查训练成果的过程。他并没有在指定的时间内完成他习惯的投篮练习，在轮椅上完成的，但是他听起来好像完成了他在训练中最需要提高的部分，这是一个在复出道路上避免发疯的方法。

对于训练和接下来的练习比赛，没有太多可报道的。如果我们知道了麦迪能走路了，并且参加了一个5对5的练习比赛，就像在二月的时候没有做微创手术一样，情况就大不相同了。

这件事的确发生了，但是不在丰田中心，而是前一天在芝加哥。并且在同一天，达瑞尔·莫雷到了芝加哥检查了麦迪的状态。

莫雷对此保持谨慎的态度，不对麦迪期望过高，让他复出过早。但是当他在发布会上谈起麦迪的现状时，他说，“我差不多可以这么说，非常好”

“他比预期的要恢复的快，”莫雷说。“他已经在打球了，我认为当初没有人能预测到他现在已经能打球了。他还有很长的路要走。他需要摆脱颓势。”

当然了，颓势并不意味着损伤。当火箭在这个夏天被迫的降低期望时，他们并不指望麦迪在新赛季里能贡献什么力量，但是一点也不考虑这位NBA顶薪球员的潜在的影响，是一点也不可能的。即使他现在只准备好了尝试一些全场的5对5比赛，他看起来也能赶上一个月后的训练营。

然而，莫雷开玩笑说，这是观看多西肆虐丰田中心的篮筐或者泰勒突破得分的一年。但他还是去了芝加哥检查一下麦迪是否能打球了。

莫雷或许不会让自己对新赛季期望过高，然而这只火箭队不该只作一个培养年轻人能力的活跃队伍。麦迪的表现，或者是代替他的人的表现，决定了下个赛季火箭能否走得更远。

目前，一切照原样发展。麦迪在照着他的训练师蒂姆·格罗夫说的做。多西，泰勒，巴丁格，海耶斯，还有偶尔出现的阿隆·布鲁克斯和卡尔·兰德里，他们在丰田中心进行了挥汗如雨的训练。莫雷也在积极地联系各方，希望能够引援来完善球员名单，来让季后赛成为一个可以实现的目标。

最后，训练营1个月后到来了，X因素将会重现球场。

原文链接：http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2009/08/mac_is_back_no_but_hes_closer.html

翻译人：soxety ，moderato

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August 28, 2009
T-Mac is back? No, but he's closer
The scene, if not the actual drills, was pretty much what you would expect.

In the final workout before the summer workout guys were given next week off, the bigs were on one end doing testing with the guards going through shooting drills. The workout ended with the new "functional" drills Strength and Conditioning Director Darryl Eto has brought to the team. (Much more on that next week.)

It was good to see anything hoops related at this point, from Chuck Hayes' dramatically improved free throw to a post-workout vertical leap competition between Chase Budinger and Joey Dorsey. (From my vantage point, I'd say Dorsey tapped higher on the backboard).

Yao Ming, wearing a ridiculously large cast and walking with crutches that he joked he would eventually put on eBay, went through his morning workout, then seemed to enjoy checking out practice for a few minutes. He did not get done in time for his customary post-practice shooting, done while sitting in a chair, but he sounded as if he achieved what he needed most from the workout, a way to avoid going crazy in his long road back.

There was not much to report from the workouts or the pickup game that followed. It was not as if Tracy McGrady walked in and played in a five-on-five, pick up game as if he never had that microfracture surgery back in February.

That happened the day before in Chicago, rather than in Toyota Center, and on a day that Daryl Morey was in town to check on his progress.

Morey seemed determined to be cautious about expecting too much, too soon, but when pressed about how he thought McGrady looked, he said, "More or less, I would have to say, very good.

"He's way, way ahead of schedule," Morey said. "He's already playing. I don't think anyone could have predicted he would be playing now. He still has a long way to go. There is a lot of rust to shake off."

OK sure, but rust is not damage. While the Rockets have spent the summer forced to dramatically reduce expectations while refusing to assume anything about what McGrady might be able to contribute, it has been impossible to not at least consider the potential impact of the NBA's top-paid player. If he is ready to even just try a few full-court five-on-fives, he would seem on pace from training camp in a month.

"It would seem that way," Morey said. "That's not where the doctors are. It's a slow process. I don't expect to see him ready for Day 1 of training camp."

Still, as entertaining as it is this time of year to see Dorsey bend Toyota Center rims or Jermaine Taylor finish breaks, Morey went to Chicago and checked out McGrady actually playing basketball.

Morey might not allow himself to expect more, but the Rockets really don't want to be just a feisty team that somehow exceeds the abilities of its roster. The play of McGrady - or someone that could get for him - could determine if they can be more.

For now little has changed. McGrady does whatever Tim Grover tells him in Chicago. Dorsey, Taylor, Budinger and Hayes, with occasional Houston appearances from Aaron Brooks and Carl Landry, sweat through workouts in Toyota Center. Morey works the phones, hoping to upgrade a roster of players that considers just making the playoffs a worthwhile goal.

Still, training camp is in a month and the X-factor is playing basketball again.