Hope you guys are over the 0-2 start…I know I’m not.  Last Night’s loss to the Pacers is a tough one to swallow.  Being up by 10 or 9 throughout much of the 2nd and 3rd quarters only to let it fall apart in the fourth quarter is troubling.  Danny Granger led scoring with 33 points but he was playing with 5 fouls much of the 4th quarter, fouling out with 44 seconds left in the game.  The killers in this game were Josh McRoberts and TyTy Hansbrough.  Combining for only20 points, they made the runs that kept and put the Pacers within and beyond striking distance.  No one blocked out on McRoberts while he had a string of putbacks through the 3rd quarter.  The Bobcats were up 8 and the Pacers were MISSING shots, “who’s on the white kid from Duke that’s played in 84 total games over 3 years and averages 2.5 rebounds and 3.3 points?”  ”Don’t worry about it, he won’t”  Wait but he did and the Pacers all of a sudden have life.

Next on our list of unimpressive honky ass white boys, Ty Ty Hansbrough!  Didn’t do much, didn’t enter the game until the 7:42 mark in the 2nd quarter.  8 points for his tenacity in the 2nd and a timely 4 more to end the game in the final minute.  I actually saw a headline “Hansbrough beats Bobcats.”  How can captain vertigo singlehandedly beat a playoff team?  Better figure it out quick Larry cause tonight, a team most people say was greatly improved this offseason looks to duplicate the feat.

Mille-wau-kay, obviously an evil place if they can elect 3 Socialist Mayors, got a kid with a goofy haircut or 4.  Bogut is from Australia, which I don’t like.  Let’s go over this “much improved” comment.  ESPN’s pre-season breakdown has many saying they will be 5th seed entering the playoffs.  Adande calls them “The league’s most useful roster.”  To me, hanging Corey Maggette, Drew Gooden and John Salmons as massive improvements and “the most useful” is a bit inaccurate.  They have yet to gel in the cheese state and I’m not fully impressed.

This post is written with a heavy heart.  I will not be in attendance for Friday night’s home opener versus Indiana.  I moved up north of Raleigh and gave up my season tickets.  I think this is the first home opener I’ve missed since I broke my leg back in ’07.  A season which yielded some good seats because of the crutches.  Anyway, enough about me, let’s start bashing people from the Middle!

Speaking of the Middle, great show.  I want to see Patricia Heaton with little to no clothes on for some reason.  Plus the Janitor from Scrubs is the Dad, can’t beat that.  Anyway, assuming their characters a Pacers fans, I look forward to Brick, Sue and Axel crying themselves to sleep on Patricia’s bosom Friday night.

Indiana comes into the game off a loss to the Spurs Wednesday night.  Led in scoring by Roy Hibbert, who knew?  I thought Ol’ Roy (actually entering only his 3rd season) didn’t have a bit of lift and had a bit of a time lumbering up and down the court.  Good for him.  Trouble for the Bobcats is, if the Spurs had issues containing him using Dejuan Blair (undersized), Timmay Duncan (old and not really a center), and Matt Bonner/Antonio McDyess off the bench, what are the Bobcats’ bigs going to do with him.  We can only hope I was right and he’s one of those old, young guys with minimal lift and a hard time getting from offense to defense and back.

Pondering the Bobcats loss

Lets ponder last night’s game for a few moments.

The Charlotte Bobcats lost last night to the Dallas Mavericks 101-86 and in that loss there were a few things that were well worth some deeper thought.

We allowed the 53 year old Jason Kidd  to abuse our defense all night and dish out 18 assists? To quote The Miz “really… Really”? I understand that Jason Kidd is Jason Kidd but dammit this is not 1992. We should not allow a guy as elderly as Kidd to run wild on us the way that he did. In drastic contrast to Kidd’s numbers, Our point guards had a combined 8 points and 8 assists and shot 2-12 from the field…. I wonder how Devin Harris is doing today?

Ahh, it is upon us!  The tip-off to the 2010-2011 NBA Regular Season!  This is an exciting time to be a fan, probably the only few weeks all the “major” sports are running.  Baseball wrapping up whatever it is before the pitchers and catchers are called in for training in 3 weeks, NASCAR wrapping things up with the Chase for the Cup and Jock.  NFL in full swing with Brett Favre drama, does that ever actually end?  Hockey, College Football, MLS, it’s all happening but what we all really love, the sport with probably the most drama, NBA basketball tips off for 6 teams on Tuesday night.  Watching Boston and Miami as I type…meaningful basketball!  Love it.

The Bobcats open their campaign on the road against the only team they have yet to beat:  The Dallas Mavericks.  So many easy, lame jokes can be made about them, most of which have something to do with the republican presidential nominees last go-round and their bombastic owner Mark Cuban.  Talk about more money than sense…dude wanted to buy the Rangers!  What’s that?  Umm, This just in to BigCat, the Rangers are in the World Series…Congrats to them.

The first thing I’ve read about this game opens like this:  ”Despite posting at least 50 wins in each of the last 10 seasons, the Dallas Mavericks are still trying to secure the franchise’s first NBA title.”  HA!  50 wins is pretty substantial but 4 of those 10 years they were bounced in the first round.  I feel bad for anybody who can’t make it out of the fir…What’s that?  Umm, this just in…YOUR Charlotte Bobcats made their first playoff appearance last year and were summarilly bounced by Orlando.  Win some lose some, either way I don’t like Dallas.

If this is your first time reading one of my posts, let me give you a rundown of things I don’t like:  Bill Simmons, Charlotte Observer Sports Department, LeBron James, frontrunner fans which includes but is not limited to:  (formerly) Cleveland Fans, Orlando Fans, Heat Fans (seriously, unless you have a Rony Seikaly jersey don’t mention it to me), Boston Fans, People who think Kobe is as good as MJ, Boston Fans, away team’s fans standing up and popping jerseys, Boston Fans (especially Bill Simmons), Loud-Mouth Owners and finally, fans of the Boston Celtics.

I just got a phone call from Anthony Donohue, host of TKB Radio on TheKnicksBlog.com. He’s been chatting it up with a producer from 60 Minutes who was friends with Michael Jordan back during his UNC days. Apparently, while at a workout/mini-camp with Charles Barkley, Chris Mullin, etc. in the early 80′s, MJ gave this friend, named Dragen, a guarantee about John Stockton. Stockton, who at the time was a no-name, impressed MJ so much that he said “[Stockton] will be a hall of famer. Mark my words, he’ll be in the Hall of Fame.” Wonder where that eye for talent has been since 2006?