In all honesty, it’s surprising that the game was this close.

The Bobcats were on the road in the 2nd game of a back to back after having to scratch and claw in last night’s brutal overtime matchup against the Bucks.
The Bulls out-rebounded the Bobcats 56-34.
Stephen Jackson was held to only 8 points, and sat out the entire 4th quarter with a painful hamstring.

So how did the Bobcats manage to even be in the game? They managed to make this game interesting by having an absolutely ridiculous 8 minute stretch of …

Just a few days ago, we saw the Charlotte Bobcats play horrible basketball in Washington, D.C. but somehow come out with an overtime win over the Wizards, 95-86. There would be no overtime tonight, as the ‘Cats survived multiple attempts at a comeback by the Washington Wizards to win 107-96. The Bobcats earned their franchise-record 38th win, and are for the first time ever four games over .500%. The Wizards, however, set their own franchise record with their 14th consecutive loss. While it wasn’t pretty, it’s a win, and that means the magic number to make the playoffs is down to 7.

The Bobcats have traded for troubled but talented power forward Tyrus Thomas of the Bulls in exchange for Flip Murray, Acie Law, and a future draft pick.

The mantra in our forums that we as Bobcats fans have is ILBIT ( for those unaware that means In Larry Brown I Trust ) but when you are in an end of game situation where you need to knock down a 3 to send the game into overtime, why on earth don’t you have Augustin or Radmanovic on the court? Can someone give me an answer to that?
Looking at the box score, one thing leaps out at you. The backcourt shooting, it was painfully bad with Felton shooting 5-17, …

The playoffs back in those years between local NBA franchises were kind of fun.  The Hornets basically left town in 01-02, but that was my freshman year in college and anything cheap and different was awesome.  We got in to 3 Playoff games that year for $5 each, sure we were sitting in the top of the cavernous old arena but it was fun (covered sections and all), one of our favorite local bands, Weekend Excusion, would play pre-game in the parking lot and like I said, $5!!!  They won …

Anyone who played Madden ‘96 remembers 2 comments from John Madden “Hey…Heck of a Play” and “Gotta watch the snap.”  When the Bobcats won tonight all I could think was “Hey, heck of a game.”  Solid win, top to bottom.  As Larry Brown said post-game, “we’re playing at a very high level right now.”  The Bobcats got out to a pretty good lead to end the first quarter and really didn’t look back.  It got so good that Alexis Ajinca got in the game.  Lex the legs even got a …

This is going to either be a hump the ‘Cats had to get over, or a disappointment.  One or the other.  If the Bobcats win tonight as they did Dec 16 at home, against Chicago, in Overtime!, they will break the 4 straight win plateau that has plagued them for a year.  They won 5 straight starting exactly a year ago yesterday.  Since then it’s been 3 to top out the streak.  I haven’t been to a game in weeks and I am just itching to see some live NBA …

I’m on my way out the door to inhabit my cubicle for 8 hours at [insert giant financial corporate behemoth here], but before I hit the door I had to post a few links recapping the Bobcats’ overtime win against the Bulls last night
The video: Derrick Rose gets his shot blocked by Emeka Okafor in crunch time… twice.

 
Rufus on Fire:  DJ pwns Derrick Rose
Queen City Hoops:  Bobcats / Bulls recap
Bobcats Baseline: Baseline Observations - Bobcats / Bulls recap
 
BobcatsPlanet Game Thread  
 
Blogabull: Charlotte 110 - Bulls 101(OT): numbing
apparently the …

How many times are we going to see the Bobcats take a large 3rd quarter lead and then fail miserably down the stretch?  At least one more time, apparently, because they did it again against the Bulls on Wednesday.  Do you realize that with that loss, we now account for a quarter of Chicago’s wins this season?  Suffering through a 3rd straight Cats-Bulls game with that crack Chicago announce team just made it all the better.  Here’s a sampling of Red Kerr’s “commentary”: “Ohhh!  Awww, that’s a foul, ref!  C’mon, …

If I get sent to hell, the best way to punish me would be to have Red Kerr provide the color commentary of my descent, wherein he’d probably complain the whole time that I haven’t been stuck with enough pitchforks.  This would be a fitting fate for me, because no matter how painful losing to the Bulls is, Kerr makes it worse.  In fact, Kerr makes everything worse; there’s nothing Kerr can’t worsen by simply opening his mouth—it’s almost impressive, really.  Kerr could exacerbate a nuclear holocaust if he were …

Excellent analysis below on the causes behind the Bobcats 5 game losing streak in general and last night’s Bulls loss in particular by DNBMan

Wallace, Carroll, Felton, Richardson, and Dudley are all solid NBA
players. You could make arguments for other guys on the team being
successful in certain situations. (I still think Brezec could be a good
C somewhere, hopefully here.)
The problem is Vincent hasn’t
figured out how to run them together, which is important because all of
our guys have a significant flaw that makes them unable to simply go
out and ball. We …

Tonight at 8:30pm the Charlotte Bobcats(6-8) will be facing off against the Chicago Bulls(3-10). How a team as talented and deep as the Bulls can start the season losing 10 of their first 13 games is a mystery to me. Here a ffew theories that I’ll throw out there:

  Age has finally caught up with Ben Wallace. Looking at the numbers, his pulling down a modest 7.5 rebounds per game which is 3 under last years rate, and hes shooting 37.1% from the field which is mind boggling because for …

The Bobcats traveled to Chicago on Friday the 13th and got carved up worse than a post-coital teen at Camp Crystal Lake. Throwing up more D than Rich Boy, the Bulls held us to 81 points on 40% shooting from the field (and even then only if you round up) while out-rebounding us 42-29. And I didn’t keep count, but that had to have been a record number of air balls and shot-clock violations on our part. Pick your cliché: the Bulls were swarming, stifling, suffocating, etc. Man, why couldn’t …

Before I get to the game, I should acknowledge that the Bobcats conducted a rare personnel move on Tuesday, at last parting ways with Melvin Ely.  I’m really not sure what went wrong with Ely, as I was encouraged by his performance substituting for Emeka Okafor last year during Emeka’s extended injury absence.  But Charlotte management soured on him in the off-season with about as much explanation as a moody girlfriend, and things just never improved.  So farewell, Mel, we hardly knew ye.  At least we hooked him up by …

One night after shocking the Utah Jazz, the Bobcats looked to make it two in a row in Chicago and, well…hey, how about that Jazz victory, huh? That was really something, wasn’t it? Too bad I can’t just write a follow-up on it.
It was sort of close after the first quarter, with the Bulls up 24-19. But when the game finally ended, you could pretty much sum things up by saying that during the last 36 minutes, the Bulls went on a 91-57 run. This was the kind …